Monday, August 24, 2009

Played This Game Once Before


Terry Riley - Your No Good (from Your No Good/Poppy No Good 1967/2004)

An important and rather slept on piece of music thats essential for fans of edits. A crate digger classic Latin Soul record, or rather two of them slowly distancing themselves from one another creating primitive tape echo that eventually falls in on itself. The drifting away Harvey Avern Dozen bands are born Siamese twins in the belly of a Moog and are killed off in the end in a storm of white noise. I guess a lot of people still get off to In C and Music for 18 Musicians but No Good confuses me more than all that minimal synth jargon and therefore is better to these ears.

3 comments:

paul j. said...

i love this period of terry riley; could listen to this sort of stuff all day long...

Dave Quam said...

yeah he made some great music, probably my favorite minimalist dude

Bowly said...

Such an amazing piece. One of my favourite from him