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City Lights Music Festival and its comparison to a loop fest

Hello, everybody! I know it's kind of too late, but I want to post about 
the City Lights 
Music Festival for future reference. This year, it was yesterday and 
today. I was there yesterday, and I 
have recordings. Remember when I said that a Grand Rapids, Michigan loop 
fest would be amazing? 
Well, it's not really touted as a loop fest, but the City Lights Music 
Festival (touted as an 
electronic music festival) has a lot of qualities that a loop fest has. 
There's something many 
people don't realize; you say the biggest city in Michigan is Detroit, and 
that's right! But Grand 
Rapids is the SECOND biggest. It's a growing city, and we hope more events 
can take place 
there; maybe a real loop fest! Who knows? But the City Lights Music 
Festival frequently 
made use of something that is very similar to live looping. Most of the 
samples that the festival DJ'S 
used were prerecorded, but if the DJ'S just put on the music and left it 
alone, the sample would just 
play. But the DJ'S kept hitting repeat buttons on specific parts of the 
samples, making it 
"live" looping, so to speak. I don't have my recording of the CLMF online, 
but you can find out more about 
it here:
http://www.citylightsmusicfestival.com
Tyler Z