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Best known as the founding member and guitarist of
Loop,
Robert Hampson's later body of work moved away from shoegaze and into experimental territories. After
Loop's third and final album, they disbanded in 1990 and
Hampson briefly filled a vacancy in
Godflesh -- touring and contributing to their 1992 album
Pure. After a short stint, he grew tired of life on the road and left to form
Main with fellow
Loop member Scott Dawson. As
Main became continually more inherently electronic and acoustic than the distortion-heavy
Loop, the duo evolved into a solo project for
Hampson, as he eventually set down the guitar altogether and became infatuated with field recording and abstract sounds. After the departure of Scott Dawson in the summer of 1996,
Hampson continued to work on
Main alone, alternating between that project and collaborations with
Jim O'Rourke for the Indicate album Whelm and the
Organum albums Sphyx and Veil of Tears. In 2009,
Hampson released the three-song, 50-minute long
Vector album under his own name for Touch Records, which immediately proved to be one of the most sprawling, ambient works of his career. ~ Jason Lymangrover