Artist	Song
Edo de Waart & San Francisco Symphony	Two Fanfares for Orchestra: II. Short Ride in a Fast Machine
from Adams, John: The Chairman Dances (2005)
Laurie Anderson	Born, Never Asked
from Big Science (2007)
Four Tet	Circling
from There Is Love In You (2010)
DJ Spooky	Machinic Phylum
from Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1996)
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp	China-Yellow Leader
from I Advance Masked (2007)
Alex Sopp, Seth Baer, Michael Clayville, Nico Sirota, Nadia Sirota, Logan Coale, Young People's Chorus of New York, Francisco Nuñez, Valgier Sigurosson & Ben Frost	I Drink The Air Before Me: Fire Down Below
from I Drink The Air Before Me (2010)
Nobukazu Takemura	Assembler Mix (after G.F. Handel's Messiah)
from Messiah Remix (2011)
Clogs	I Used to Do
from The Creatures In the Garden of Lady Walton (2010)
Paul Dresher	Night Songs / Channels Passing
from Portraits (1986)
The Sea and Cake	The Moonlight Butterfly
from The Moonlight Butterfly (2011)
Kronos Quartet & Ron Carter	Off Minor / Epistrophy
from Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk (2004)
Alarm Will Sound	"Agnus Dei II" from Missa L'homme Armé Super Voces Musicales
from a/rhythmia (2009)
David Byrne	Cloud Chamber
from The Catherine Wheel (The Complete Score from the Broadway Production) (2008)
Mikel Rouse	Prelude: We Deliver
from Dennis Cleveland (Remastered) (2005)
Maya Beiser	Memories
from Beiser, Maya: Provenance (2010)
Scott Johnson	But, Uh
from John Somebody (2004)
Robert Black & Gamelan Galak Tika	Amok!: III.
from Evan Ziporyn: Gamelan Galak Tika (2000)
Kronos Quartet	White Man Sleeps I
from Pieces of Africa (2005)
The Junkman (Donald Knaack)	Mishmash Music
from Junk Music (2006)
Volker Hemken	The Low Quartet
from Hemken, Volker: Bass Clarinet Music (2002)
Brad Lubman & Ensemble Resonanz	Cruel Sister: Part II
from Cruel Sister (2011)
David Van Tieghem	Smack Dab
from Thrown for a Loop (2009)
Double Edge, Nurit Tilles & Edmund Niemann	Phantom Waltz
from Double Edge - U.S. Choice (2007)
Sufjan Stevens	Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals As I Run
from Illinois (2005)
Brian Eno	French Catalogues
from Discreet Music (1995)

Comment:

For a man widely considered a godfather of minimalism, Steve Reich has had a reach that's anything but minimal. Armed with nothing more than a double-tracked violin, his fellow Mills College alumnus Laurie Anderson wraps the icy heart of "Born, Never Asked" in a cloak of warmth and emotion, detaching it from detachment, despite its flirtation with darkness. Brian Eno sets Pachelbel's "Canon in D" on the sampling block, employing Reichian tape manipulation to layer, cut, paste, reshape, and rearrange one of the Baroque era's most celebrated compositions into his neo-ambient "French Catalogues." And The Sea and Cake conjure up a bright and bubbly synth-slathered sound — technically speaking, a kaleidoscope of contrapuntal ostinati — in the title track to their album The Moonlight Butterfly. From David Byrne to DJ Spooky to Sufjan Stevens, it seems like some of our favorite artists — and by no means all of them from the classical world — have plugged into Reich's melding of melody and minimalism.

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