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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

chung said...: nice one love that addis abbaba
i know your opiate days are past you but perhaps you might get down with my favorite 21st century minimalist recordings if your curious

check out

william basinski

In August and September 2001, he set to work on what would become his most recognizable piece, the four-volume epic, The Disintegration Loops. The recordings are based on old tapeloops which had degraded in quality. While attempting to salvage the recordings in a digital format, the tapes slowly crumbled and left a timestamp history of their demise

check out the first one for starters; 6:54 PM