William Basinski Disintegration Loops Vinyl

Limited edition box set of 2000 copies containing all four historic volumes of the disintegration loops plus a pair of live orchestral performances from the metropolitan museum of art and the 54th venice biennale both previously unreleased issued to mark the 10 year anniversary of the original release and its induction into the 9 11.

William basinski disintegration loops vinyl.

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

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. Having been held back till last the anticipation surrounding this release could cripple a lesser man. In the early part of the last decade william basinski s the disintegration loops was the sort of music you passed around. The disintegration loops is a series of four albums by american avant garde composer william basinski released in 2002 and 2003.

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. For all those wondering where the reissue of basinski s first instalment of the disintegration loops series was your wait is over. The audio was remastered in 2012 from the original master tapes and the artwork is. The completion of the recording coincided with the 9 11 attacks.

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. 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. Once you heard it you wanted to tell somebody about it.