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This piece of music (Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ) by Steve Reich was one of the seminal pieces that influenced me in the serial repititive movement that set me up to be so excited by the prospect of tape and later digital live looping gear. Originally recorded only on a very pricey triple album vinyl Deutsche Grammaphone release, the piece never achieved the popularity of Reich's later works (Music for 18 Musicians, et. al.) but it is a quintessential piece of repetitive 'looping music' and my pick for the very best Steve Reich piece ever recorded. It is performed in real time with musicians but they slowly morph the piece in a away that is very analagous to lowered feedback settings in a Gibson EDP. Along with Eno's earliest ambient exercises and the amazing 'Evening Star' by both Robert Fripp and Brian Eno and added to the whole concept of West African repetitive polyrhythmic concepts and a healthy dosage of LSD-25 in my late teens and early twenties this music made me a live looper for life....................lol Check this out..................it's actually been rereleased on a Nonesuch single CD. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000005IZS/ref=ase_howardstokarmana/002-0771502-6092037?s=music&v=glance&n=5174&tagActionCode=howardstokarmana It is some of the best psychedelic massage or love making music ever recorded. It still puts me into a trance every time I hear it. R.