In 2013 I bought a loop station. Seven years later it's been completely full for like two years and I've been meaning to do something about that, so finally I decided to just clear every last thing off it and start fresh.

But, what to do with the loops? As I said in a recent tweet, "Browsing through 5-10 years of RC-30 loops is like walking through a cemetery of great ideas that never got a fair shake". Most loops will never get to become something more substantial, no matter how groovy they are, so I wanted to come up with a way to take the best ones and memorialize them, for posterity.

Soundcloud is the perfect place for that, I think, due to its casual side as a platform.

I went through all 100 loops, roughly normalized the volumes of the different channels (which vary WILDY. loop making is not a precise science. ...for me anyway) and then, in the case of two-channel loops, hard panned them left and right. That way, both channels can stand, pure as the day they were jammed, in a single file, should some intrepid soul be struck with inspiration and want to use them for their own work (I'm not holding my breath).

I like all these loops for one reason or another, and many of them are dear to my heart. I hope that someone else can find some value there as well. But if not, c'est la vie. My art is for me.

Plus, I wanted to fill out my soundcloud offerings just in case I create some Content that goes Virus.

PS naming riffs is fr*ckin hard. Lotta inside baseball in these names that I'm sure any music person could appreciate, conceptually.

PPS 094 is a boss default, but it's just too d*nged SMEWTHE to leave out. Though it DID help to inspire a certain Apparus song which will remain nameless.

015A+B OG 7/4

011A+B Vaguely Spanish Melody

009A+B

008A+B Tapestries

007A+B Say It Don't Be

003A+B

001A+B

On Saturday July 6th, 2019 at around 8 p.m., I was in my living room listening to the rain when I decided to make a recording through the screen of my back door. As I was standing there watching the seconds tick by and enjoying the gentle patter, there sounded the loudest thunder clap I've ever heard in my life. It was like a cannon going off next to my ear, and the windows rattled. The fact that I was recording was the purest happy coincidence, and I'll always be amazed by it.

N.B. pic unrelated, ©2014 John Ludas

Colossal Thunder (LOUD)

Apparus - Infernal Monologue (Practice)

Apparus - Infernal Monologue (Faster Version)(Practice)

Jaaludes