Loop Guru is a worldbeat group consisting of bassist/guitarist Salman Gita (born Sam Dodson) and programmer Jamuud (born David Muddyman). They first met around 1980 and initially played together in The Transmitters and released their debut single as Loop Guru, "Shrine", in 1992. The band's music is a melange of Asian and Western music, infusing Western dance beats with the rich textures and sounds of Indonesian gamelan and traditional Indian music. Heavy emphasis is placed on electronic samples of traditional instruments, voices, and miscellaneous sounds.
Loop Guru's main exuberant oeuvre of lively rhythms and effusive sounds is occasionally punctuated by more contemplative albums (e.g., The Third Chamber) that are reminiscent and influenced by ambient music and similar to musical artists such as Brian Eno and Jon Hassell. Past and present guest musicians and collaborators include Natacha Atlas, Sussan Deyhim, Mad Jym, Count Dubulah (also known as Nick Page, Psycho Karaoke and Dub Colossus) and Cat von Trapp.
Their single "Paradigm Shuffle", one of their more popular releases, was built around "I Have a Dream", Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 speech.
Muddyman died on 27 March 2022.
Actually I'm not surprised at all. Not because I don't like the song but nearly all World-music (which is in fact a stupid name) gets low average ratings here.
You and me both!
I gave it a boost with a 7, interesting stuff. Not the typical everyday beat. Not for the Dolly Parton's fan
Actually I'm not surprised at all. Not because I don't like the song but nearly all World-music (which is in fact a stupid name) gets low average ratings here.
Isn't it though? And it got me to wondering, where did the name come from....and Wiki has an answer:
The term has been credited to ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown, who coined it in the early 1960s at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he developed undergraduate through doctoral programs in the discipline. To enhance the learning process (John Hill), he invited more than a dozen visiting performers from Africa and Asia and began a world music concert series.[8][9] The term became current in the 1980s as a marketing/classificatory device in the media and the music industry.[10] There are several conflicting definitions for world music. One is that it consists of "all the music in the world", though such a broad definition renders the term virtually meaningless.
So....it in fact became popular as a marketing ploy to get us Westerners to accept foreign sounding music....huh...yeah...I'm not a fan of the term...though I REALLY enjoy the music, though I'm sticking w/ my 6 rating on this one (still above the 5.1 average) Long Live RP and ALL music, even extraterrestrial-music!!
Tracks like this are why I listen to Radio Paradise.
Tracks like this is why I use PSD
Actually I'm not surprised at all. Not because I don't like the song but nearly all World-music (which is in fact a stupid name) gets low average ratings here.
I know, right?