THE CARETAKER - Persistent Repetition of Phrases LP Hip-Hop Deconstructed or reconstructed in an

Deconstructed or reconstructed in an industrial

On many of these sides

On ‘There Is No Desire’ it feels like the band has let something unlatch inside them

and percussion) were recorded by Ryan at his home in Alexandria (and in the case of “Before

Usually this maneuver is out of necessity

THE CARETAKER - Persistent Repetition of Phrases LP Hip-Hop Deconstructed or reconstructed in anOriginally released in 2008. Although this album invites aesthetic comparisons to works by the likes of Philip Jeck, William Basinski, and Janek Schaefer draped as it is in an obfuscating, soupy crackle theres a very specific conceptual agenda at work here. Part of the success of Persistent Repetition of Phrases comes from the attention it pays to the function of the loop, not only as a narrative ordering system in modern music, but as a means by