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The LA Beat Scene emerged in the early 2000s as a loose community of producers pushing instrumental hip-hop into new territory. Built around live nights like Kutmah's Sketchbook, and later Low End Theory, it created space for new kinds of sampling, strange drum programming and a DIY approach to sharing music. This mix brings together artists central to the scene’s development - Flying Lotus, Ras G, Teebs, Samiyam, Knxwledge, and others who shaped its sound from bedrooms, basements and backrooms across LA.
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US composer Basinski is most well known for his work "The Disintegration Tapes", a series of fractured minimalist compositions, the recording of which coincided with the September 11th, 2001 attacks in New York. The tapes' sound – drifting abstraction at once chillingly distant and claustrophobically intimate – are a constant emotional motif of his wider work, which spans musique concrete, ambient, and minimalist tape plundering.
US composer Basinski is most well known for his work "The Disintegration Tapes", a series of fractured minimalist compositions, the recording of which coincided with the September 11th, 2001 attacks in New York. The tapes' sound – drifting abstraction at once chillingly distant and claustrophobically intimate – are a constant emotional motif of his wider work, which spans musique concrete, ambient, and minimalist tape plundering.