William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I.txt
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: The Disintegration Loops I
Artist: William Basinski
Year: 2002
Genre / Style: Electronic / New Age / Modern Classical / Minimal / Experimental
DESCRIPTION
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This is clearly one of the best musical illustrations about life, death and the afterlife. And it was clearly by accident.
To quickly summarize the story: William Basinski was archiving tapes to digital but his archiving process was destroying already ancient tapes and he ended up recording the death of his self-made ambient loops. To add more to this, he ended up listening to the playbacks on 11 September 2001 and it became for him a personal soundtrack for the tragic events unfolding before his very eyes in New York City. Whether you see this as a 9/11 soundtrack, this is without a doubt a moving piece of work ... all four discs to be precise.
The loops themselves are quite beautiful and very much follows the tradition of ambient music a la Brian Eno's Discreet Music and Ambient 1/Music for Airports. Interestingly enough, not only it follows it in terms of theory and sound choice, but also it utilizes a simple set up where the insignator is no longer in control of the output. All Basinski did was push play and record and the machinery did its magic. The process is interestingly very organic. Of course this is due to capturing the disintegration of organic material containing musical information. This is part of its charm. The other part is the loops themselves: using washes of pads and percussion and brass emulators there is a melancholic beauty that permeates the loops. Basinski intended it to evoke pastoral landscapes. But the fun is letting the imagination of the listener take hold ... and this leads into why this release is in the end amazing.
As stated earlier, I see it as an illustration of life, death and the afterlife. Each of us has a life with our own sounds and melodies emitting throughout our time and walk on earth (i.e. the loops). Each of us are subjected to a drawn-out bodily deterioration (i.e. loops disintegrating). But in spite of the process where we seem to disappear, it is the hope that there is an eternal memory and the loops will continue to reverberate, long after we are gone. This is our hope and our prayer at times ... and I think this music is a sign that it very well be the course of nature. - djproject on September 15, 2006
https://www.discogs.com/William-Basinski-The-Disintegration-Loops/release/75994
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 2
Total Duration: 1:14:28
Total Size: 244 MBs (including scans, m3u, cue, log, spectrums, and txt)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
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Encoded At: lossless, FLAC / 44.1 KHz
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TXT Created: 15 September 2018
Tracklist
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01) d|p 1.1
02) d|p 2.1
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