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Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

This episode of PTR finds us experiencing in full Part 1 of William Basinki’s monumental and historical Disintegration Loops. These 4 albums are comprised of tape loop recordings played for extended time, with noise and cracks increasing as the tape deteriorated. Basinski discovered the effect while attempting to transfer his earlier recordings to digital format.

The completion of the recording coincided with the 9/11 attacks, which Basinski witnessed from his rooftop in Brooklyn; the cover art features his own video still of the New York City skyline in the aftermath of the World Trade Center’s collapse. He dedicated the music to the victims of the attacks. 

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

Yotam The Unholy - Antenna Radio
Day Job - Post Collapse 
Ghost Food + Lauren Jones - Beaver Moon 
Dor - War of the Worlds 
Orua - Forca Contra a Favor 
STUFF - Slug 
frown lines - note57 
Being Dead - Boxes On the Ground
Broadcast - Message From Home
Tom Waits - Missing My Son 
Tracey Ullman - They Don’t Know 
Negativland - Over The Hiccups 
Strange Nursery - To Whom The Unit Is Attached 
Belbury Poly - Widdershins 

HOUR 2 : feature - The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski

William Basinski - dlp 1.1.

Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 268 : The Disintegration Loops by William Basinksi

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