Thursday, December 9, 2010

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops (2002-2003)


Melancholic compositions, dreamy loops, hazy drones, broken sounds, ambient moans... These all describe William Basinksi's beautiful Disintegration Loop series. The entire set lasts about 4 hours so don't expect a complete listening in just one sitting. Additionally, this is the kind of music that can be revisited over and over again because I promise you, it will sound a bit different on every single listen. You can hear the "tape-to-digital-transfer" process as each track slowly begins to dissipate and expire by the 3/4 mark.

9 comments:

OldaBrotha said...

WOW! Thanks

Lknapp2 said...

IV is broken. It's only 8mb, hope this gets fixed cause I'd love to hear all of it!

ill! said...

here's my copy of part IV; unfortunately it's at 128k.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4662xe4u0kwdfgp

Freakazoid said...

I'm just surprised this wasn't already on here! :-)

icastico said...

in a similar vein...

http://azwarm.bandcamp.com/album/a-mornings-work

Kurt said...

Gives art wank a bad name, skip it.

Clock King said...

Loop IV isn't packed right. here's a proper link http://www.mediafire.com/?da0auv921vfdq2a

bandwagonmelodies said...

Isn't 'art wank' already a bad name, Kurt?'

Daniel Cecil said...

Wowowow. Cheeeeerrrsss.