Sparkle Division - To Feel EmbracedA vibrant electronic fusion of lounge, jazz, and disco is maybe not the first (or fifth) thing you would expect to hear from one of the worlds most renowned modern composers and ambient tape loop pioneers, but upon first listen, it makes so much sense that one wonders why it didnt happen sooner. After years of producing and mentoring slews of young artists in 1990s Williamsburg, Brooklyn, William Basinski moved to Los Angeles. There he hired a young

set up in a Victorian house one block from the Mississippi River and worked within these limitations

Exhausted with the toxic concept of nostalgia

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America - Tin Man

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it may help to know that the recordings of the first album were made some years back with no expectation of making an album

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which is concerned with the downfall of man and the death of the planet

Birth Control were known for a progressive hard rock sound which fused elements of jazz

It is playful but darkly so

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