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William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops

King of Freaks Stuart Maconie presents two hours of weird and wonderful music. The week's featured album, The Disintegration Loops, has a little story behind it...

King of Freaks, Stuart Maconie presents two hours of weird and wonderful music. This week's featured album, The Disintegration Loops, has a little story behind it...

In 2001 American composer William Basinski dug out some old tapes that he had recorded back in the early 80s. The tapes were old and were beginning to disintegrate as he played them back. Where most people would have stopped and thrown them away, Basinski hit record.

Beautiful yet melancholic the tapes took on a whole new life and it's these recordings that make up the eerie and decaying sounds of The Disintegration Loops.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 19 Feb 2012 18:00

Music Played

  • Fairfax High School Marimba Band

    Popcorn

  • Hudson Mohawke

    Thunder Bay

  • William Basinski

    The Disintegration Loops

  • Manogurgeil

    Alue

  • Crippled Black Phoenix

    Burnt Reynolds

  • Robert Mellin

    Adrift

  • William Basinski

    The Disintegration Loops

  • Joanna Newsom

    You And Me, Bess

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Agnus Dei

  • Braids

    Lemonade

  • Hatfield and the North

    Under Dub

  • Sunn O)))

    Big Church

  • David McCallum

    Communication

  • Peter Hammill

    The Unconscious Life

  • William Basinski

    The Disintegration Loops

  • Squarepusher

    The Glass Road

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Feb 2012 18:00