forgot how good this track is. 2.5 minutes of perfection
I have the CD and a magnifying glass 
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Yeah, Musique Concrete will never be my thing though. No, this is my idea of proper tape loops:
I made my own modest attempts with Rack, e.g. here.
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There will be a BEAT (Belew, Levin, Vai, Carey) live album in September. Recorded at their LA show. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain.
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There’s quit a bit of “true avant garde” out there, where the result is of less interest than the process. Especially when the result is presented without context.
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"Beauty in the Beast: by Wendy Carlos
Just got the CD used for a reasonable price. Some really far out stuff! Among other things she exprimented with scales with 19 notes per octave. Actually it sounds less weird than I expected, I guess with some more listening I could get used to it.
I can’t seem to find any Youtube videos with music from the album, but here is one explaining the “Broken Scales”.
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Tape loops enabled musicians to experiment with recorded sounds: copy/paste/overdub/phase/detune/slowdown/speedup/reverse/loop. Also exploring the properties of sound and the bounderies of the definition of music
One of the most well known more musical proponents using tapeloops/techniques is the original Dr. Who Theme, composed by Ron Grainer, realized by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Doctor Who (1963) - Original Theme music video
But there’s definitively something intruiging happening somewhere between order and chaos.
Like Holger Czukay’s contributions to the fabulous David Sylvian albums below. Holger Czukay was a member of pioneering Krautrock band Can and a student of musique concrete and electronic music pioneer Karl Heinz Stockhausen.
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay / Plight & Premonition (1988)
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay / Flux & Mutability (1989)
Here you can see and hear them in action in the studio, creating Brilliant Trees in 1983, where Holger Czukay is working his IBM Dictation Machines (and guitar).
DAVID SYLVIAN Brilliant Trees the Berlin Sessions (1983)
Or the exploration of machine noise by the likes of Hainbach, building on early experimental electronic music techniques.
Here’s Anthony Marinelli (of Thriller synths fame) visiting Hainbach in his studio, exploring the bounderies between order and chaos.
Making Nuclear Music with Hainbach
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For those who can’t get enough of slow flowing ambient textures, either fully awake, half awake, meditating or even sleeping: check out this free 24/7 streaming internet radio station:
Ambient Sleeping Pill – Internet Radio for Sleep, Meditation & Relaxation
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Astounding acceleration.,., Magma
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