William Basinski Disintegration Loops Vinyl

The disintegration loops by william basinski released 02 september 2014 1.

William basinski disintegration loops vinyl.

Dlp 2 1 for those who missed out on the now legendary highly sought after and highly sold out box sets we are now offering the four volumes of the disintegration loops suite as separate individually packaged albums. In the early part of the last decade william basinski s the disintegration loops was the sort of music you passed around. All the original recordings on vinyl all the remastered recordings on cd and an orchestral version too. Having been held back till last the anticipation surrounding this release could cripple a lesser man.

The completion of the recording coincided with the 9 11 attacks. Wow so this really is something i m sure you are familiar with william basinski s by now legendary the disintegration loops but have you experienced it five cds one dvd and a 150 page book in a super fancy boxset courtesy of temporary residence yeah just what i thought. William basinski created his ambient and much storied record the disintegration loops by feeding his compositions on loop through a tape head until a myriad sounds were made in its place. But basinski more than matches the task.

Once you heard it you wanted to tell somebody about it. With the back story of their inception now well documented detailed in the liner notes basinski seems to have. The recordings consist of tape loops that gradually deteriorated each time they passed the tape head the unexpected result of basinski s attempt to transfer his earlier recordings to digital format. They are shaped by the inevitable passage of time and the indisputable collapsing of.

The disintegration loops is a series of four albums by american avant garde composer william basinski released in 2002 and 2003. The record s completion coincided with the 9 11 bombings a sight which is recreated on the record s cover. The master of the tape loop returns with lamentations yet another collection of eroded drone for low light dreamers captured and constructed from tape loops and studies from basinski s archives dating back to 1979 lamentations is over forty years of mournful sighs meticulously crafted into songs. The audio was remastered in 2012 from the original master tapes and the artwork is.