 In turn, El-Dabh's music influenced Frank Zappa's use of tape loops in the mid-1960s .Terry Riley is a seminal composer and performer of loop- and ostinato-based music who began using tape loops in 1960.For his 1963 piece "Music for The Gift" he devised a hardware looper that he named the Time Lag Accumulator, consisting of two tape recorders linked together, which he used to loop and manipulate trumpet player Chet Baker and his band.