Description:	CD on 2062
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Minimal Composition
	Label:	2062
	Price:	£13.19
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5
...according to our Ant on 24 April 2009.

It's amazing to think that William Basinski's '92982' was recorded in 1982 as it's the sort of thing that could come out on Kranky these days. Actually we're reminded of stuff like Tim Hecker, The Caretaker etc. This music features ultra soothing ambience and floating melodies. So much so that Phil just did his best gay voice and declared "I feel like I'm floating on a fucking cloud". I'm not sure how the sounds on here have been created but they have a timeless ghostly quality to them. A bit of a visionary this chap and well ahead of his time. '92982.4' is a treated piano smothered an strange frequiencies and low end rumbling. Quite a weird track. A pretty excellent album that's stood the test of time. Out on 2062. All these numbers are confusing me, like those Martyn records.

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Sound clips for 92982 by William Basinski: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, 2062, 2062.0901CD, £13.19.

What their label says...

62 min.  4 tracks. Something from a long time ago…in Brooklyn, 351 jay street…A fruitful evening in the studio…Home at last after a day of work at the answering service…answering phones for calvin klein, bianca jagger, steve rubell, and all the other somebody people…in our space station: home in my studio experimenting live.  James is in the adjacent studio painting masterpieces Roger is in the front, gluing old shoes on canvas and painting them orange… I’m clicking the old norelcos back and forth between channels…all the windows are open. The sound is spreading all over downtown brooklyn mixing with the helicopters, sirens, pot smoke and fireworks… It’s crunchy, it’s distorted…it’s basinski archive circa 1982.  The third track some of you may recognize: a shorter version was included as variation #8 on Variations: A movement in chrome primitive.  So, this night in the studio spawned a direction I would follow for some time.  As I love this document of that night, I thought you might like to put what came later into context, so I’m releasing this archival recording. The last track is a newly recorded reprise of the first track that I recorded with the original loop in February 2009 in los angeles. Something new later this year…Vivian & Ondine.  I’ve been touring this piece this year so some of you may have heard different versions of it on the road. William Basinski,  3.3.09