Loops: Why?

But they're just fools, trying to catch up with what hip hop was doing ten years ago...or more.

As to why anyone would want to do it...early hip hop djs needed to provide a continuous beat for people to rap over so they repeated drum breaks off vinyl (by using two turntables playing two copies of the same record - cueing up one while the other was playing). The invention of the sampler made this process a lot simpler but the result was the same.

Music has always had loops in it - there's no conceptual difference between a sampled loop and a drummer playing a repetitive pattern throughout the song. Of course it sounds different because the drummer puts in tiny variations - both voluntary & involuntary.

Is it boring? Layered one or two bar loops are pretty old hat now...only silly rock bands think they're cool. It's moved on to re-sequencing snippets of loops now to create your own patterns.

But another thought..."why are people seemingly unable to listen to music without 'loops' in it anymore?". A pattern-based mentality (whether sampled or otherwise) *has* seeped into the general consciousness via the methods used to make music - computers, drum machines which encourage the user to cut and paste 2, 4, or 8 bar patterns of *everything* (eg singer having trouble with that chorus? just paste in chorus 1 to chorus 2).

Anyway, are most of these bands from the Beatles lineage? If so, there's your answer. Tomorrow Never Knows actually does still sound quite futuristic if you look at it from that perspective.

imo, the shortest loop is 2 frames
any object in a 2 frame loop appears to vibrate like electricity when viewed from appropriate distance and with sufficient framerate

what is the longest loop?

life iirc

john jacob jinglheimer schmidt

same vibrating electricity put through paulstretch

Whenever I go out, the people always shout.

https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/tower-7-26655

the "why?" part is operative here. this loop makes me sad. it's much "better" than anything i've made. but i look at it and from the perspective of the future and it makes me so fucking sad

I love loops.

RRR 100.
RRR 500.
RRR 1000.

I think RRR 1000 exceeded the limit of possible loops, since even Ron admits that his stylus skips on it.

gonna respect the original intention of the thread here

and say that i do think a lot of 90s guitar music was blighted by overuse of fussy little drum loops

and say that i do think a lot of 90s guitar music was blighted by overuse of fussy little drum loops

― lemmy incaution (emsworth)

The kind of guitar music that did that would have been shit whatever so

I know we're goofing on this thread but this was a tiresome rock trope at the time. Nearly EVERYONE did this for at least a cycle before "it was time to get back to basics, just four guys in a room, rocking out."