congregation didn’t notice or don’t care really email. There was a massive underground, great way to help other worship leaders. When
(at least as much as I do). I’ve been using tracks black-market movement of worship leaders you purchase a community track from us, you
for a long time, and to be honest, there are still sharing tracks they created with each other. The financially support another local worship leader
times when things go wrong, but with where only problem was that it wasn’t legal because – which I think is very unique and special about
technology is these days, is goes right much the tracks weren’t licensed. Music publishers, Loop.
more often than it goes wrong. The benefits songwriters and artists weren’t getting paid for of using tracks outweighs any moment where their work. Worship leaders weren’t purposely things may not go as planned. doing something illegal, they just didn’t know [WM] What was or is your heart and vision
that they needed to be licensed even if they behind Loop Community?
were giving them away for free. I find that most
[WM] LoopCommunity.com started in 2009. people really want to do the right thing, they [Matt] We’re all about community and
Why did you start it? just need to be given a system and direction creativity. We believe that every worship leader
in how to do it properly. I decided to start has been given a unique sound and voice that
[Matt] It’s hard to believe, but in those days, LoopCommunity.com to be a platform where needs to be heard. Worship leaders today can
there weren’t any places (that I knew of) to worship leaders could legally upload and share feel a very strange pressure to sound and look
legally download and share tracks for worship. their tracks with each other. Every track that we just like the artist. Unfortunately, that means
Worship leaders were creating and producing have on our site is licensed so that the artists we turn into karaoke song leaders, which can
their own tracks for songs and then sharing and songwriters are supported and can keep then trickle down to a performance-based,
them with others over website forums and writing great music for the church. It’s also a worship spectator sport. This isn’t what most
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