http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6438792&variant=artist-playlists&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fplaylists.rssWilliam Basinski started working away at his singular sound in 1978, but it was nearly a quarter of a century before the world began to notice. Trained as a jazz saxophonist, he turned toward tape composition in the late '70s, applying lessons learned from Steve Reich and Terry Riley to a series of ambient sketches pieced together using reel-to-reel technology. His 1983 composition <I>Shortwave Music</I>, a collage made from snippets of shortwave radio broadcasts, marked his debut release in 1998, when Carsten Nicolai picked it up for his Raster-Noton label. Basinski's breakout moment came with the first volume of <I>The Disintegration Loops</I>, an exhumation of reel-to-reel archives in which the crumbling magnetic tape became an integral part of the project's corroded, dissipating sound world. His recordings, prolific since then, don't vary much: you can expect plangent acoustic samples stretched to the point of disintegration; his "melodies" are but a blurry wash of mantra-like loops. But this is no aural wallpaper. His music has the melancholic feel of grave rubbings, with traces of the distant past lingering in the very ink and cloth. - Philip SherburneMinimal/Glitchen720Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:22:27 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6438792&variant=artist-playlists&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fplaylists.rss William Basinski started working away at his singular sound in 1978, but it was nearly a quarter of a century before the world began to notice. Trained as a jazz saxophonist, he turned toward tape composition in the late '70s, applying lessons learned from Steve Reich and Terry Riley to a series of ambient sketches pieced together using reel-to-reel technology. His 1983 composition <I>Shortwave Music</I>, a collage made from snippets of shortwave radio broadcasts, marked his debut release in 1998, when Carsten Nicolai picked it up for his Raster-Noton label. Basinski's breakout moment came with the first volume of <I>The Disintegration Loops</I>, an exhumation of reel-to-reel archives in which the crumbling magnetic tape became an integral part of the project's corroded, dissipating sound world. His recordings, prolific since then, don't vary much: you can expect plangent acoustic samples stretched to the point of disintegration; his "melodies" are but a blurry wash of mantra-like loops. But this is no aural wallpaper. His music has the melancholic feel of grave rubbings, with traces of the distant past lingering in the very ink and cloth. - Philip Sherburne http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=ply.31218251&variant=play&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fplaylists.rss Electronica/Dance Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:29:58 -0800 Playlists Featuring William Basinski on Rhapsody Online 31218251 ply.31218251 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=ply.31218251&variant=play&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fplaylists.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=ply.30344706&variant=play&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fplaylists.rss Rock/Pop Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:53:21 -0700 Playlists Featuring William Basinski on Rhapsody Online 30344706 ply.30344706 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=ply.30344706&variant=play&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fplaylists.rss