Bands/artists who loop creatively?

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Bands/artists who loop creatively?

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I've been getting into the more creative side of looping. Not so much building up walls of one-man-band, but repeating patterns and drones, background kind of stuff in the key of the song. I have a RC20XL, going straight from overdub to reverse playback yields some interesting results. Might pick up a Ditto x2 to add 1/2 speed to the mix.

I've heard Nels Cline do this sort of thing with an EHX 16 second delay. Who are some other artists using looping as something other than the one-man-band thing? I'd love to hear some more expiramental looping!
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Minus the Bear absolutely nails creative looping. Menos El Oso is just DL4 domination.

Adebisi Shank does some gnar looping as well.

Battles, obv.

Animal Collective sorta does that? But they trigger loops. Someone will kill me for outing myself as a Williamsburg hipster wannabe.
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Tera melos.
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ThurberMingus wrote:Battles, obv.
those guys fucking rule. :rock:
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Dudes, EL TEN ELEVEN.
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Caspian did some cool looping stuff in their kexp set not too long ago. :thumb:
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Saw Lichens do an entire live set with a mic and an RC-20
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Inconuucl wrote:Tera melos.
Yup. Nick is insane with the DL4, especially live.
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D.o.S. wrote:Saw Lichens do an entire live set with a mic and an RC-20
Same. Was mental.

Also Nadja are great at this.
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Warren Ellis (Bad Seeds/Grinderman/Dirty Three) uses alot of loops. Not so much live-looping, but makes cool loops wich he triggers live.
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Eric! wrote:Dudes, EL TEN ELEVEN.
this this this over and over and over again.
D.o.S. wrote:Saw Lichens do an entire live set with a mic and an RC-20
lichens is life changing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMjJ2oMXI8[/youtube]

russian circles is absurdly impressive with looping live too.
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bewatersound wrote:
Eric! wrote:Dudes, EL TEN ELEVEN.
this this this over and over and over again.
Yaaasssss.

Chelsea Wolfe also does some incredible sounding vocal looping live, or at least she did when I saw her a few years ago.
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Nick Zinner from the yeah yeah yeahs does a lot of stuff with loop pedals
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Mylets does a lot of really crazy looping and stuff, although a lot of friends (myself included) really can't get into his actual music. I respect what he does though.

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Mylets has nothing on dubfx as far as one Dude and a looper artists go.
http://youtu.be/OEPEleJVjOo

I'm on mobile so I can't do a proper link. :facepalm:
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