On Time Out Of Time - William Basinski: Review
William Basinski is an experimental, avant-garde music composer who has released a plethora of solo projects and collaborations surrounding ambient and experimental soundscapes. He is most well known for The Disintegration Tapes I-IV, a brilliant series of lopped ambient tracks that are deteriorating as they loop. This creates the brilliant artificial feeling of slowly slipping away and losing control that was otherwise untapped in electronic and ambient music. Review By Lavender: If you know me there is a good chance you've had to physically stop me from telling you everything I know about The Disintegration Loops . Basinski's masterpiece series are among my favorite experimental music pieces of all time. The physical destruction of the tapes, the album cover and its relationship to 9/11, its brilliant anniversary release, the unknown origin of the original tapes. Everything surrounding the tapes is brilliant and helps make them what they are, but listening t...