I did say I was not going to post again (at least for some time), and here I am. Apologizing was kind of necessary.

You inflicted that upon yourself without anyone asking, hence the only one you owe an apology to is thyself good ol' chap

Playing myself is my speciality.

Album Rating: 5.0

bump

Album Rating: 3.0

Nice loops bro

Album Rating: 4.0

I can't think of many other albums that have made me go from "This is hot garbage" to "f me this is amazing."

are you supposed to go to dlp 1.2 and dlp 1.3 off of IV after listening to dlp 1.1?

Album Rating: 5.0

i don't think so. obviously you can listen however you want, but i think its best to experience the albums as released. so that when you get to 1.2/3 its like the return of an old friend, its melody reborn and seemingly eternal. it also makes the whole collection a sort of loop in and of itself.

yaya that's what I was thinkin too. it was definitely a nice culminating finish

Album Rating: 4.5

I fuckin love the loops, ungggg

Album Rating: 4.0

Thank God for 9/11 or ambient would still be stuck in the Airport

interesting take

Album Rating: 4.5

Thank God for 9/11 [2]

was always hating on this and then came to sort of begrudgingly like it and then saw the chris ott/shallow rewards video about pitchfork giving its reissue a 10 and then tbqh I started to hate it again lol. d|p 6 is my favorite, but I suppose the first one on the first disc is pretty strong too, a weird mix of emotions brought out by that little motif

it genuinely upsets me that they performed this album live with strings and shit at the fucking museum of modern art on the ANNIVERSARY of the 9/11 ATTACKS because this guy conned people into thinking there was a genuine fucking connection because he played, didnt make, played, the album on his williamsburg loft rooftop while the attacks happened. and he stuck it on the cover of his tape loop music album. con man

Album Rating: 3.0

Imagine saying something so terrible for one of the most overrated ambient albums of all time.

Album Rating: 3.0

chris ott's video on this is legendary yeah

the disintegration aspect is cool and easily metaphorizable and I really like the cowboy-at-dusk vibes of d|p 6 and wouldnt begrudge anyone who finds personal meaning in the sonic indexing of the process of deterioration and its fine and whatever but UghHhHHh pitchfork and this guy are in a fifteen-year process of colluding with each other to piss me off

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7 years ago
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God that was tedious to watch. While I don't disagree with him, he exhibits that whole wanky-art-critic-rhetoric thing that he then goes onto bash William Basinski for using in his own artwork. As much as I love music, the culture that surrounds it often makes me very sick and tired.



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7 years ago
I agree. He did have an annoying superior attitude, but I still think it is a bit ridiculous that Basinski thought it was beyond coincidence that the 9/11 attacks happened the morning he finished the loops.

it's just good ambient yknow