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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