William Basinski - Disintegration Loops

Marina, he has other stuff too. I really love "el camino real" and "melancholia"

Vivian & Ondine and 92982 are pretty amazing too.

  On 8/8/2012 at 5:30 PM, Alcofribas said:

Marina, he has other stuff too. I really love "el camino real" and "melancholia"

Thanks for the recommendation, will check them out. As I know myself, I maybe have a different opinion about him now………

post again after you check out some of his other stuff.

  On 8/6/2012 at 11:32 PM, mcbpete said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga4ITT73BJU

I did like 92982 quite a bit, or at least the 2nd track, but I haven't had the patience to sit through the disintegration loops haha.

  On 8/6/2012 at 11:32 PM, mcbpete said:

Great stuff. I'm sure you and I discussed this back along but wasn't there some indications maybe two years ago that this might get a commercial release? I seem to recall some ghastly proposed cover art.

I think this stuff works pretty well but I didn't care so much for it when it first surfaced on the Internet. The footage is twenty years old now.

Yeah, the cover art had 4 basinski heads iirc

  On 8/9/2012 at 2:48 AM, Alcofribas said:

Yeah, the cover art had 4 basinski heads iirc

He is such a beautiful man.

that's quite possibly the lamest cover i've ever seen

great music but you'd have to be a moron or a wanker to buy this.

FUUUUUUUUUUU, his screams in that 'Hymns...' video just kill me... I fucking love it! Screw this DL reissue and put out Hymns of Oblivion already!!!

What's on the 5th CD!? Any info on that?

I think it's a live recording of a small ensemble performing some of the Disintegration Loops.

It's fine, it's only £300 (WITH FREE SHIPPING!) in the UK .... ( http://boomkat.com/v...-deluxe-box-set ). Erm

After checking back some of his stuff I must say, I have changed my mind- some of his music is nice and nocturnal, while others could be from Akira Rabelais as well. Nevertheless, I'm not a rich man, so this box set will pass along without me.

92982 & The River work well for me. Thanks for spotting that topic again on me :)

The River might be my favourite release by him, It's certainly the most visual. I can completely imagine waking up in the middle of a humid summer night looking out from a dingy tower block flat onto a busy cityscape flowing past below as a light drizzle start to envelop the place. Or is that just me.

Listening to El Camino Real right now... fucking mind-blowing. Definitely my favorite Basinski piece.

  On 8/12/2012 at 1:52 AM, Npoess said:

Listening to El Camino Real right now... fucking mind-blowing. Definitely my favorite Basinski piece.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSfNyaXvNwI

One of his very best...

i find most of his work stupidly long and repetitive, but there's no doubt his sounds are glorious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A7AZeTjVrg

I just found a very interesting radio interview with Basinski wherein he talks about the process behind the creation of this series; follow the link... http://www.wnyc.org/...k Public Radio)

Just discovered him tonight while youtubing live aphex.. I heard his Watermusic release, and couldn't help but purchase it. Beautifully tranquil, emotional and magical. Enjoying it through my AKGs atm

So did anyone here go to the live performance of Disintegration Loops 1 last night at the South Bank. Originally I was very confused as I thought - "I don't recognise the album starting like this at all - what on earth have they done to the track ?!" but soon worked out they performed dlp 2.1 before dlp 1.1.

It was pretty good - I was really impressed with some of the complex rhythms they had to play to emulate the rhythm created by gaps in the degraded part of the tape loop, plus I had a crush on one of the Cello players which kept me further entertained. Something seemed a little off with the rhythm played by the brass section when recreating dlp 1.1 - the version on the album always seemed so slothfully laid back but the recreated version had this more upbeat stabby nature which I felt changed the atmosphere of the track quite considerably. Perhaps it's me just being picky - but I guess in a performance with this much repetition your brain starts to pick up on bits like that. But don't get me wrong I enjoyed it all the same. Not quite sure what the reverential silence (about 5 minutes) at the end of the performance was about though ?! Basinski looked bloody dapper though in his suit when he came on stage at the end !

  On 8/13/2012 at 11:10 PM, mcbpete said:

So did anyone here go to the live performance of Disintegration Loops 1 last night at the South Bank. Originally I was very confused as I thought - "I don't recognise the album starting like this at all - what on earth have they done to the track ?!" but soon worked out they performed dlp 2.1 before dlp 1.1.

 

It was pretty good - I was really impressed with some of the complex rhythms they had to play to emulate the rhythm created by gaps in the degraded part of the tape loop, plus I had a crush on one of the Cello players which kept me further entertained. Something seemed a little off with the rhythm played by the brass section when recreating dlp 1.1 - the version on the album always seemed so slothfully laid back but the recreated version had this more upbeat stabby nature which I felt changed the atmosphere of the track quite considerably. Perhaps it's me just being picky - but I guess in a performance with this much repetition your brain starts to pick up on bits like that. But don't get me wrong I enjoyed it all the same. Not quite sure what the reverential silence (about 5 minutes) at the end of the performance was about though ?! Basinski looked bloody dapper though in his suit when he came on stage at the end !

Sounds great; I wish I could've seen it. I'm sure he looked splendid as well; I have an unabashed man-crush on him.