help me find something like WILLIAM BASINSKI

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i'm trying to find music like basinski's magnificent "melancholia" lp. anyone wanna drop a suggestion? i'm quite ignorant of anything related.

cheers~

― jason barton, Friday, 12 September 2003 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The closest thing I can think of would be, oddly, Gas' Köenigsforst...odd because it's got beats to it but still uses a blurred, distorted sort of orchestral sound.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks. i'll try it.

― jason barton, Friday, 12 September 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Have you heard Basinski's The River? It's wonderful.

― Michael Heumann, Saturday, 6 December 2003 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

That is correct.

Jason, if you're still there, go look for Brian Eno / Harold Budd : The Pearl and Tangerine Dream : Zeit.

― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Sunday, 4 January 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Just got the Disintegration loops (3) and although I can see the potential greatness of it, I'm not sure how that stuff should be listened to. When focusing too much I eventually get a bit bored, while as background stuff the variations get kind of lost
So I'm curious to hear how other people have been appreciating this.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

these all set a similar tone - between Aphex's SAWII and Satie's 3 Gymnopédies and 3 Gnossiennes?

Budd/Eno, yes
Jonathan Coleclough - Period
Robert Haigh's s/t and Sema LPs (Waltz in Plain C, Valentine Out of Season, Music from the Antechamber, Three Seasons Only, Juliet of the Spirits)
Current 93 - Music for the Horse Hospital
Colin Potter - See
Henry Warwick - Keraunograph

i don't know about Gas, tho. too grandiose.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i always think of Gavin Bryars, but nothing quite matches Basinski's emotional peaks.

― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

reminded me of 'i am sitting in a room' in the way that distortion slowly, gradually take over.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 20 June 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

steve reich's tape-loop stuff? terry riley's?

― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 20 June 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

any tape decay on that stuff? (have heard riley and reich's accoustic works so far).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 20 June 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

um, i'm not sure what tape decay is.. reich's two famous tape pieces (well, I'VE heard of them) are using two loops of the same vocal sample which phase in and out of time with each other. 'come out' and 'it's gonna rain'. the riley piece i was thinking of was the thing of him manipulating a chet baker recording on tape recorders: 'music for the gift'?

these three are all soulseekable, more or less. i dunno, when a friend played me basinski before they're what i thought of first.

― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 20 June 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Sorry if this is an irritating revive, but I NEED more shit that sounds like his works. I now have all of it (well, most) and am craving more. Help!

― SourPatchCorpse, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

TU M', Monochromes?

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

It does not sound exactly like William Basinski but I feel like if someone likes WB they should also like Woob's "Woob 1194"

― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.touchmusic.org.uk

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

philip jeck

― am0n, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

Stars of the Lid?

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

The Caretaker.

― anagram, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:16 (fifteen years ago)

i always think of Gavin Bryars, but nothing quite matches Basinski's emotional peaks.

up to the comma, totally otm. after the comma, i respectfully disagree (bryars is just as good in this respect imo (but both are great)).

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:16 (fifteen years ago)

I can never get enough of recommending the Eyvind Kang and the Neti-Neti Band's album "Live Low to the Earth in the Iron Age" and I will do it again itt. Not so much like Basinski, but beautiful and slow and worth picking up.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)

like what about a buddha machine

― 69, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.intermorphic.com/

― guammls (QE II), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)

Last year's Gathering Blue, by Aidan Baker, hit me like Basinski often does. Sadly overlooked, for the most part.

― winnebago taco, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)

cosign, one of my favorites of the decade

Virgin Prunes "Red Nettle", but not their other stuff.

― sleeve, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 04:22 (fifteen years ago)

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