Sunday, 17 February 2008

2006_06_01_archive



THE FIRST REMIX?

Excellent new weird-music blog Dinosaur Gardens (contributers include

Mr Evolution Control Committee, and the guy from the great local

(L.A.) Space Age theremin-a-go-go combo Seksu Roba) posted a 1968

recording by the father of Minimalist composition, Terry Riley, that

just might be considered the first remix of a pop song: "...the

proprietor of a local discotheque asked Riley to compose a piece to be

played in his club, and Riley obliged -- but with a version of Harvey

Averne's "You're No Good", a single off Averne's 1968 Atlantic LP Viva

Soul..."

The result is 12 minutes of tape-looped lunacy, with sine-wave and


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