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William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I

Here is that, btw. [video=youtube;2jTg-q6Drt0]

New stuff from Mike Paradinas! What with this week's Boards video, it's a good time for nostalgic fans of 90s electronica http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sva2CQHgsuc

Thanks man, I'll definitely give those a listen.

Yes mate!

This beautiful record. Can't believe it's been 15 years. I wonder if he'll ever put out another?

The more interesting stat which was being quoted in the press recently is that since Wenger last won a trophy, every other league club has changed its manager.

And yet probably the second most successful team in recent years, Chelsea, has become synonymous with managerial instability. It takes more than one example to make a rule.

Rumours in the press linking Arry with the Brighton job. Surely he's going to stay and sort out the mess? Isn't he?

Is it OK to laugh at TDD now?

What a horrible thing to happen. My prayers are with Chappers and those close to him in a suffering I can only imagine. RIP little one.

Broad came out and handed them their arses. Broad 7-44, NZ all out for 68. Incredible. As NS says, England were mediocre until then, but a sensational performance from Broad and some top class work in the field has completely stood the test on its head.

What an exhibition of bowling. An absolute joy to have watched.

Not necessarily this gig, but early-70s vintage electric Miles...

Wow, good thread idea man! I'm going to take this to mean records that either opened my eyes to a new type of music, or a new way of listening. And they're all going to be records I first heard in my youth. I don't know if this is the case for everybody, but I tend to find people are more musically conservative when they're young, but some people become more broad minded as they go on. That was certainly the case for me, where now (in my late 30s) I'm hungry for new music from anywhere, all the time, in pretty much any style. So these days records are opening my mind to new types of music every few days but aren't going to be influential in quite the same fundamental, youth-quaking way. Anyhow... Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel, which was the only decent record my parents owned and was the first music I remember hearing which could be described as music that tried to be beautiful. Ride The Lightning - Metallica, the first record I had that I was fairly certain my parents wouldn't like and was therefore exclusively mine. Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb and Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin, as the Orb sample said, "I've been waiting for music like this all my life". No need for melody, it just goes where it goes... Tri Repetae - Autechre, the first time I had to sit down and work out what was going on, whether this counted as music, how I was supposed to engage with it. Listening to it now, in the light of what I've listened to since, it doesn't sound difficult at all, but at the time it was mind-blowing. Neu! - Neu!, particularly the opening track Hallogallo. It goes on for ages! And pretty much nothing happens! And yet it remains engaging every time I play it! It would be my desert island disc and I could play it indefinitely. Completely changed how I go about making music. There's a few then.

Very sad news. A very nice man indeed. RIP.

Oh my gosh!

I thought it was both hilarious and brilliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc5lwpnoOmQ

Everyone's got time in their life for a day-long mixtape, yeah?

I think it might have been me

Thanks HS, I'll have a listen.

Oh really? I will have to check that out.

Just enjoyed a relaxing lunch break in the company of a pint and Terry Riley's Reed Streams. There's so much to explore with Riley, but I think the stuff I like best is the early repetition and echo experiments, like this and Music for The Gift. Although I really love Shri Camel too. I also listened to Miles's In A Silent Way. It was a relaxing lunch break.