William Basinski Disintegration Loops Vinyl

The disintegration loops is a series of four albums by american avant garde composer william basinski released in 2002 and 2003.

William basinski disintegration loops vinyl.

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. The disintegration loops by william basinski released 02 september 2014 1. For all those wondering where the reissue of basinski s first instalment of the disintegration loops series was your wait is over. I first came across the name william basinski and his disintegration loops a couple of years ago but only very recently bought this box set having heard the loops many times and struggling to understand whether this is divine music or pretentious nonsense masquerading as profound art.

In the early part of the last decade william basinski s the disintegration loops was the sort of music you passed around. The audio was remastered in 2012 from the original master tapes and the artwork is. Having been held back till last the anticipation surrounding this release could cripple a lesser man. But basinski more than matches the task.

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. 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. They are shaped by the inevitable passage of time and the indisputable collapsing of. All the original recordings on vinyl all the remastered recordings on cd and an orchestral version too.

The completion of the recording coincided with the 9 11 attacks. 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. 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.