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		pram 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airport... That isn't true. The "loop tape" was already like 20 years old IIRC, it was already disintegrated by 9/11

olelele 21 days ago [–]

This. He was digitizing older works on tapes where the ferrous material starts breaking away from the plastic, literally disintegrating the sound. It's what happens to old tape.

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