"The Disintegration Loop" - William Basinski

[TheEllekiva]

you *verb* into heaven thinking... "So...where's the ambient music?"... Oh.

[TehWinnerz]

if anyone listens to this but not the full hour long version they are seriously missing out (and missing out on the whole point of this recording)

[shauno5166]

who would have thought that one sound repeated over again could sound so good

[firetruckgreen]

Reminds me of Twin Peaks.

[Crystalflurry]

Sounds like a dream who never ends....

[SOADafi]

the song still hits just as hard 10 years later...

[GabrYX20]

10 years later...

[indieclock]

had to listen to this again on Sunday morning, 9/11/11.

[THEKINGSWOOSH]

Just listened to this in my Seminar yesterday...sounds like norwejian fjord in winter.

[makingofasoul]

i hope my neighbours like minimal ambient drone xD

[0perat0r]

amazing

[atomjazz]

The Caretaker 

[OniLunchbox]

This track led me to burp uncontrollably.

[marcusaureliooze]

I don't get it. It's just the same 5 seconds on loop for 10 minutes.

[luluberyllium]

@marcusaureliooze I have found in my own experience with loops of particular samples of music that when one small piece is repeated, something new is revealed. This doesn't happen every time, or to the same degree, but serendipitously, one is 'set free' from the confines of its structure and you'll hear it if you just stop listening for something.

[seanjohnam]

@marcusaureliooze yes but you notice all the differences when you listen to the the whole track - which is an hour long

[JacanaProductions]

Saw him two weeks ago here in Colorado at CU, fantastic live performance!

[False567]

What is the source of this upload? I have the CD with Dlp 1.1, but mine sounds completely shifted to the right channel/speaker whereas this sounds even in both left and right sides.

[deplanetiser]

beautiful.

[SalamiShipoopiStudio]

Chills.

[rmstnr]

Tim Hecker is similar at times

[DF13NatalRN]

Subterraneamente linda!

[hellothorns]

I was so sad when it ended.

[otacon451]

i lost my mind to this

[kinzeUK]

I for one am gobsmacked. And yet again what an amazing example of 'accidents' happening either in the studio or to equipment that inadvertently yields such an amazing result which may never have been discovered were it not for such things.

[8uiop1]

this is the creepiest music ever, yet something about it makes me feel happy

[lukepleaseshutup]

@8uiop1 Think of it as sigh.

[8uiop1]

@lukepleaseshutup wow, that actually pretty much perfectly describes it

[mpafos32]

I listen this entire 63 minutes epos and it feels like only passed some seconds

this my friends is magic

[otacon451]

@mpafos32 a coward's death! ;D

[mpafos32]

@otacon451 i can't understand your comment...feel free to respond with something relevant

[otacon451]

@mpafos32 death is more perfect than life; ambient music is a close second.

[mpafos32]

@otacon451 only the dream is perfect! it's the most powerfull moment between life and death

[Zooksification]

Soooo creepy. It just goes so perfect with all the imagery of 9/11. I can't help but think back on that day. Seriously, all those gone -- forever in our hearts. R.I.P.

[ofarevolution441]

i just listened to all 63 minutes of this.

i didn't really notice much of anything for the first 10 or so minutes, but then it kind of started becoming gradually apparent. the end result is so beautifully fractured.

[giannipoopoopants]

Sounds more like a church down the road from a steel factory if you ask me.

[Thomosexual]

Beautiful!

[spaydar]

I recommend the earlier and arguably richer, albeit less conceptually pure, music of Zoviet France, particularly the album "A Flock of Rotations"



[domtuck]

I feel like I'm falling in to a fantastic depression, a paradox it is! Stunning!

[nomadalpha]

i tried the vuvuzela button... it breaks the mood...

[EtherialMoon]

anyone who likes this should check out Auburn Lull, Chihei Hatakeyama and Brian Eno.

[papouville]

I can sing along with the vuvuzela button! :D

[MethedoneKitty]

cheers guys. have really been getting into the hauntology thing of late, stunning idea and collection of art/music

[Nezmundo00]

We're all dying in slow motion. It is good to stand back and be aware of this. This music is beautiful.

[scragnoth07]

my favourite work of basinski. actual time of this piece is 63 minutes, if you can resist :)

[MethedoneKitty]

thanks everyone!!

[flashmob3]

it just sounds really nice

[faraz1729]

(2 of 2)

Although I wouldn't call it similar as a whole, sometimes M83 do things that have a slow gradual flow (Digital Shades, Vol. 1).

As for the idea behind this, aleatoric music would be a good genre to explore. It is very diverse but you can find very interesting concepts there.

[MethedoneKitty]

anyone know any other similar artists? i mean in terms of the sound and/or as well as the idea

[stationnumbers]

@MethedoneKitty It's so hard to find similar artists, but if you like Basinski, probably you could be interested to David Toop and Richard Fennesz (collaborated also with Ryuichi Sakamoto), and in some way also to Blind Cave Salamander (also if they are "post-rock").

[GabrYX20]

@stationnumbers bvdub also as a similar sound...

[stationnumbers]

@GabrYX20 Oh thank you, I'll check something about.

[faraz1729]

(1 of 2)

It's hard to find something similar to exactly what Basinski does. Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) did some similar things with his ambient pieces. I highly recommend the track "Stone in Focus." You can find it here on YouTube.

Also, Brian Eno, when he was pioneering ambient music did some amazing work (see his series of ambient albums, especially Music for Airports).

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[faraz1729]

Oh and I forgot another great group: Stars of the Lid. They make gorgeous, oneiric ambient drone music. I think that can have a lot in common with the sound aspect with this.

[imagecrisis]

@MethedoneKitty Have a listen to: Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 2. Some tracks have a similar emotion.

[justmightbeokay]

@MethedoneKitty The Caretaker, Indignant Senility.. Some of Burial's work would fit the bill too

[justmightbeokay]

@MethedoneKitty The Caretaker, Indignant Senility and also some of Burial's work would fit the bill.. is 'hauntology' a music genre?

[zdenja86]

@MethedoneKitty try Philip Jeck, he works with a very similar sound, old vinyl loops and the gloomy, melancholic atmosphere.

[baliasuncrest27]

@MethedoneKitty

Look at A.S.A.P. (As Slow as possible) from John Cage. The work is played in germany in a church (organ), it started in 2001 by two years of silence and will last until 2640!!!

[MethedoneKitty]

@baliasuncrest27 wow!!!!! increidble! will change note on july 5th, then not again for another 8 months! haha x

[rskrzyz]

@MethedoneKitty u found Tim Hecker yet?

[rskrzyz]

@MethedoneKitty Tim Hecker!

[MethedoneKitty]

@rskrzyz wow, awsome! youtube.com/watch?v=pE37ihb8ot­8

<3!

[egonkey]

@MethedoneKitty

Gas • Pop (Mille-Plateaux)

Look for: Gas - Untitled #5 on youtube.

You also might like White Rainbow • Prism Of Eternal Now (LP Marriage Records, CD Kranky)

Check : White Rainbow - Middle on youtube

And two particular records by James Ferraro “Clear” and ”Discovery” (LP on Holy Mountain and CDR on New Age Tapes)

[MethedoneKitty]

@egonkey fantatsic, going to go on a hunt for those. thanks!!!!!!

[egonkey]

@MethedoneKitty

This also might be worth checking

Emeralds • Untitled (Hanson Records)

[fullmetalchamploo]

@MethedoneKitty

i would suggest listening to an artist named Tim Hecker, he does similar ambient music. Start off with his Radio Amor and Harmony in Ultraviolet albums, those are genius

[rarndaraki]

@MethedoneKitty biosphere

[patallison1985]

@MethedoneKitty visit touch records. philip jeck in particular. tonnes of very beautiful stuff for you to discover on that label

[TheNearDistance]

@MethedoneKitty stars of the lid/eluvium,

[CarnisVale]

@MethedoneKitty Probably the closest I've heard to this is Brian Eno's ambient works. Bicycle Sighs is also somewhat similar.

[gdyby]

@MethedoneKitty I think Celer would be an appropriate recommandation, but in my humble opinion their music is a class higher than Basinki's.

[SamizdatLiverpool]

@MethedoneKitty

Phillip Jeck

[andrawmedarawfoods]

@MethedoneKitty

If you like this you will probably like Mount Kimbie

[CarnisVale]

@MethedoneKitty Narshe does some similar work.

[mrc2theb]

@MethedoneKitty try 'Gas'

[meatskunk]

@MethedoneKitty

Thomas Koner, Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster, Mika Vainio, Terry Riley, Brian Eno...

...or the video game Ico *__*

[Kinshasa9200]

@MethedoneKitty this reminds a lot of Gas, minus the 4-4 beat. Search for Nah Und Fern; i'm sure you'd like it.

[WillT23]

@MethedoneKitty search gas/wolfgang voigt.

[drbenway23]

@MethedoneKitty Jacaszek

[MrHollyWuddy]

@MethedoneKitty Try Johann Johannsson - Forlandia, the album has an interesting background story. Perhaps you will also like Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic ;)

[MrHollyWuddy]

@MethedoneKitty Try Johann Johannsson - Forlandia, the album has an interesting background story. Perhaps you will also like Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic ;)

[otiliya]

@MethedoneKitty "Gas" 4cd compilation by Volfgang Voigt maybe?

[KeithMMeldrum]

@MethedoneKitty sons of magdalene

[HomerShipman]

@MethedoneKitty: the caretaker, indignany senility

[AngelVampiro]

@MethedoneKitty Sorry friend but William Basinski is just IT. Melancholy is his last name. Try to get deep into his music. After that, you won't want to listen to anything else. Now I own all of his productions, bought it directly from him. Nice person to talk to. He is unique =)

[FDVCE]

@MethedoneKitty philip jeck



[crimsoncitizen]

@MethedoneKitty Spirit Spine's album "Glossolalia" is a little bit similar in mood

[patchstitch]

@MethedoneKitty oneohtrix point never , check him out, you should like it

[lostraven]

@MethedoneKitty Great places to find music similar to this include Webbed Hand Records and the now defunct Monotonik. If you search Google for each term, it'll be the first term. Webbed Hand is pretty straightforward to use. At Monotonik, click the website image at the top, then look for the "click here for full list of monotonik+m211+othersublabel MP3s" link sorta' near the top. (The print is very small.)

[aveclaudenum]

@MethedoneKitty If you like this, you need to listen to Stars of the Lid, Brian Eno, Brian McBride, Labradford...

[f4keID]

@MethedoneKitty tim hecker?

[stationnumbers]

@f4keID I agree, he's great! Another canadian musician inspirated by Basinki is Kyle Bobby Dunn...I think he's so interesting.

[droan999]

@MethedoneKitty know its an old comment, but for an interesting listen check out clouddead instrumentals off of the anticon label.

[FreakStyler]

@MethedoneKitty The Caretaker

[leeho98]

@FreakStyler The Caretaker

[isledemort]

@MethedoneKitty - not to blow my trumpet, but you might like some of my stuff (that i've recently uploaded). I will be putting up lots more, too. I have tracks that go for up to 45 minutes. And btw i'm on 65mg :)

[regulargeye2009]

I've used this as the sound-track to a slow-motion film of my considerable erection deflating after an orgasm. will post soon....it's beautiful....like some of the battle scenes from 300 but with a penis.

[theproducegarden]

i am drowning

[11rally2]

It's like an old stuck grammophone... that try to tell us something from the past by its loop..

What is this old grammophone?

Every one had it in our mind, have a so far loop... but often we stop up our ears to don't listen.

[drdrBAR]

((((((((((no) wonder)))))))))

this is the only youtube video i've seen with

all +POSITIVE+ comments.

[faraz1729]

Otic psychotropism.

[Newworld444]

I understand the apocalyptic tone to this music.

It makes me think of a dying bureaucratic society.

A death that isn't violent, but purely melancholic. Slow, gradual, decay.

[agentoranges]

existential longing embodied in a 7 second loop. i love basinski.

[Solablueangel]

I very much like your essay in the sidebar. Amazing work of art. My gratitude to you for sharing this mystical experience.

Sincerely, Sola

[stationnumbers]

Thanks, you're very kind. Of all the reviews about this work of Basinski, I believe that this, written for the site Pitchfork is the finest...also if I don't rememb the name who made it:-).

[TeeneNY]

@stationnumbers yeah, I generally have beef with Pitchfork and their pretentious hipster-esque reviews, but they knocked it out of the park with this one. I don't really think it could have been said much better.

[bao1997]

@stationnumbers im sorry if this sounds ignorant but what is thus video really about?

like is it for clasical music interest or...???

and your essay thing?

because im curious(:

again,sorry if it sounds ignorant :/

[peterathepantera]

i can play this song on my guitar with an e-bow, but it still has got nothing close to the original

[mtronic]

oh my god my hart

[Kelavmeister]

This makes my mind just melt everytime I hear it...

[snoopy98747]

a relaxing song ............

vitalising mind & soulll.

like dissolving in dreams

[isolatedoddball]

It's a beautiful track, alright. Ethereal, dreamlike, and warm.

[TEKM0SIS]

This music is like quicksand

[23121985]

Beautiful!