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Last broadcast on Sun, 19 Feb 2012, 18:00 on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Synopsis
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.
Music played
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Fairfax High School Marimba Band — Popcorn
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Hudson Mohawke
— Thunder Bay -
William Basinski — The Disintegration Loops
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Manogurgeil — Alue
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Crippled Black Phoenix — Burnt Reynolds
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Robert Mellin — Adrift
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William Basinski — The Disintegration Loops
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Joanna Newsom
— You And Me, Bess -
Arvo Pärt
— Agnus Dei -
Braids — Lemonade
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Hatfield and the North — Under Dub
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Sunn O))) — Big Church
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David McCallum — Communication
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Peter Hammill
— The Unconscious Life -
William Basinski — The Disintegration Loops
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Squarepusher
— The Glass Road
Broadcast
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Sun 19 Feb 201218:00
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