Mar 16, 2010

William Basinski

all rips in v0 (except 1)
available in flac on request

Shortwavemusic [1998]


Watermusic (mp3 192 CBR) [2001]

The River [2002]

Melancholia [2003]












Variations: A Movement In Chrome Primitive [2004]

The Garden of Brokenness [2005]

Variations for Piano & Tape [2006]

El Camino Real [2007]

The River (Alternative Mix) [2008]

22 comments:

entica said...

EPIC! Thanks for this.

slsk does indeed suck. tT is building up quite an awesome little ambient community - check it out.

Anonymous said...

tT?

Anonymous said...

tT?

Kingswood said...

as you posted as Anonymous you will never know what tT is sorry but you are missing out i assure you

Kingsy

Grimble Grumble said...

Your blog is amazing. One of the best sources for amibent/minimalist music out there.
I'd say keep up the good work, but I know you will anyway.

Unknown said...

great upload! Have you got Basinski's 'Silent Night'? I can't find it anywhere

5:4 said...

Ah! You're back - such good news :)

FLAC would be really great if that's ok?

thanks!

DC said...

thanks for these! what a resource :) I definitely want two of them, but which are the best? I own "Melancholia" and liked it but wasn't blown away. some parts are a bit too minimalist for me. I do love minimalism tho.

[u]So, Any Basinki Suggestions?[/u]

Which two would I enjoy most? I listen to artists like Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Arvo Part, Stars of the Lid, Tim Hecker, Stockhausen (not the crazy noise pieces), John Cage, Wim Mertens (the “Damien” album only so far), David Borden, Deuter, Biosphere, and others. I’m also into baroque/classical/romantic classical (Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Paganini, etc.) and [i]some[/i] recent atonal classical (Bartok, Schnittke, Ligeti, etc.). also some rock-based ambient bands.

so anyway: [i]what Basinki would I like best and/or which ones do other people (like YOU) like best?[/i]
thanks everyone :)

DC said...

^ ugh, HTML tag fail :-(

s said...

@Marcin, I haven't been able to find that one as well, but if I do I'll make sure to up it for you.

@5:4, are there any particular releases you were thinking of? many of these would be hard to upload on mediafire because they are so large.

@DC, I'm partial to Variations for Piano & Tape, The Garden of Brokenness, as well as El Camino Real. They each have their own sound to them, but if you haven't heard the Disintegration Loop series or Vivian & Ondine you should grab those first

Anonymous said...

Thanks for these! I don't know if you're all recovered from your HD failure(s), but I saw Irezumi on your list from a while back, and I'd still like to hear that one, if possible

5:4 said...

Hi, well perhaps we could start with FLACs of "Watermusic" & "Melancholia"?

Thanks again :)

s said...

alright, I upped the irezumi as well as melancholia. I searched and found out I do not have watermusic in flac, I apologize.

Kingswood said...

if you require FLACS of Basinski you can email me, just identify yourself and i will gladly help out.

Hope you dont mind s?

Anonymous said...

sorry my email is simdun@adam.com.au

s said...

no that's perfect, thanks buddy!

LeeBx said...

i'd like to know what tT is all about!

COLONY said...

Great work. The flac versions of the albums would really be very very much appreciated :)

in the meantime, here's some music i do in my spare time

http://www.myspace.com/colonyspace

RudeBoy Noah said...

tT is Torrentech an electronic music bittorrent tracker

sleepwalker said...

Just found this blog - do you have Variations for Tape etc. in FLAC? Would be massively appreciated.

patricio said...

hey! great blog! awesome to find basinski here! is it possible to get the FLAC files?
specially for the variations, the ones for piano & tape, and the chromes primitive.
i'll hugely appreciated!
Thanx!

sputnik707 said...

Thank you, look forward to expolring stuff via this blog.