September 23rd is the first release in William Basinskis new Arcadia Archive series. Recorded in September 1982 in his first loft in the pre-gentrified DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, September 23rd is a recently unearthed early entry in what has become a hugely inspirational and influential catalog.

Built from a piano piece that Basinski composed in high school in the mid-1970s, September 23rd quickly evolved into a vastly different work. As Basinski explains: The original piano recordings were made on on a piano belonging to my downstairs neighbor, John Epperson later known more famously as world-renowned drag artist, Lypsinka at 351 Jay Street aka Casa Degli Artisti, our first loft in New York. It was recoded with a little portable (probably Radio Shack) cassette deck sitting on the piano as I improvised a piece I had been working on since high school. It was pretty terrible, but when I did the John Giorno/William Burroughs cut-up technique, suddenly I had something to put through the Frippertronics loop and feedback loop tape delay system and boy did I get results. A very prolific time for a young, wacked-out queen in NYC.

…OUT 11 OCTOBER 2024!

PLEASE NOTE:>>>If you would like your pre-orders (with different release dates) shipped separatelyplease order them separately.If not, we will happily ship all your items, when the last title is released!xo-tLc

September 23rd is the first release in William Basinskis new Arcadia Archive series. Recorded in September 1982 in his first loft in the pre-gentrified DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, September 23rd is a recently unearthed early entry in what has become a hugely inspirational and influential catalog.

Built from a piano piece that Basinski composed in high school in the mid-1970s, September 23rd quickly evolved into a vastly different work. As Basinski explains: The original piano recordings were made on on a piano belonging to my downstairs neighbor, John Epperson later known more famously as world-renowned drag artist, Lypsinka at 351 Jay Street aka Casa Degli Artisti, our first loft in New York. It was recoded with a little portable (probably Radio Shack) cassette deck sitting on the piano as I improvised a piece I had been working on since high school. It was pretty terrible, but when I did the John Giorno/William Burroughs cut-up technique, suddenly I had something to put through the Frippertronics loop and feedback loop tape delay system and boy did I get results. A very prolific time for a young, wacked-out queen in NYC.

…OUT 11 OCTOBER 2024!

PLEASE NOTE:>>>If you would like your pre-orders (with different release dates) shipped separatelyplease order them separately.If not, we will happily ship all your items, when the last title is released!xo-tLc