Rework: Philip Glass Remixed cover

Rework: Philip Glass Remixed

Composer
Released

Perhaps the most famous and popular of the first-generation minimalist composers, Philip Glass created music that is particularly well suited to dance music adaptation. He favored straightforward eighth- and sixteenth-note rhythms and hypnotically repetitive arpeggios, making his music particularly attractive to artists working in house and techno genres. You’ll hear some of that on this collection of “remixes” of Glass’s work, which includes contributions from Memory Tapes, Tyondai Braxton, My Great Ghost, and even Beck – but you’ll also find less propulsive and more abstract treatments from Nosaj Thing (with what sounds like an extract from Einstein on the Beach) and Peter Broderick, and to be honest, Tobin’s take on “Warda’s Whorehouse” is downright rockish.

Rick Anderson

Recommended by

Suggestions
Rabot cover

Rabot

Havenaire
Music with Changing Parts cover

Music with Changing Parts

Salt Lake Electric Ensemble
Elephantine cover

Elephantine

Maurice Louca
Music For Listening cover

Music For Listening

Michael Scott Dawson
Figures cover

Figures

Aksak Maboul
Late Riser cover

Late Riser

The Abramson Singers
Lucus cover

Lucus

Time Is A Blind Guide, Thomas Strønen