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| Glasscuts, Philip Glass Remixed | 
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| Creators: Philip Glass, Dennis Russell, Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Riesman, Philip Glass Ensemble, Rascher Saxophone Quartet, The Western Wind, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Paul Barnes
Label: Orange Mountain Music
Category: Music
List Price: $17.99
Buy New: $11.95
You Save: $6.04 (34%)
Buy New/Used/Collectible from $8.75
Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 183900
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 801837002324
EAN: 0801837002324
ASIN: B0009Y8I0G
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Another Look at Harmony | | • | Piano Etude No.2 | | • | Saxophone Concerto | | • | Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra | | • | Etude No.1 | | • | Houston Skyline | | • | Dance from Act II, Scene III of Akhnaten | | • | Etude No.5 | | • | Channels and Winds | | • | Why Are We Here? | | • | Thin Blue Line | | • | Saxophone Concerto | | • | 2nd Perception of Light, Moon, Mist and Rainbow |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
It has been said that Philip Glass is the ?Godfather of Trance? and evidence of that is found in the remixes that a number of young producers/musicians began sending to Orange Mountain Music as early as 2002. These unsolicitated mixes became the genesis for Glasscuts, Philip Glass Remixed (release date Sept 2005). This CD presents a very diverse program without any one dominant style. The artists are Androoval from Uruguay, Robert Bell from Australia, Brian Bender from the US, Hector Castillo from Venezuela, Taylor Dupree from the US, Sebastian Escofet from Argentina, impLOG, from the US, Woody McBride DJ ESP from the US, Marcos Romero from Uruguay, Kate Simko from the US, Dietrich Schoenemann from the US, Luciano Supervielle from Uruguay and Dave Wesley from the US. We invite you to immerse yourself in Glasscuts, Philip Glass Remixed with open ears to experience a Glass that is reminiscent of the past, but with an adventurous contemporary twist.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 One of the Best Electronic Albums of the Year November 20, 2007
The nature of Philip Glass' work is that it spans the divide between high and low art through the fragmentation of more traditional classical structures. This fragmentation is rebuilt using a framework that at times very closely resembles rock, techno, and other forms of pop music.
It is precisely because of this that Glass' composition lends itself perfectly to both the idea and act of remixing. Because his music is essentially remixing more classical elements to a more pop form, his own music has already "sampled", and this is one logical extension of his work.
This album includes many skillfully remixed tracks which do more than add a drum beat beneath samples of Glass. They enhance the expectation, tension, and release that each piece already has.
 This is just awful - I was suckered by the excellence Reich Remixed July 22, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just assumed that this would be as equally wonderful, and that Glass' music would be even more translatable into the "trance" genre, or whatever the kids are calling it nowadays.
Sadly, it seems that this was done by junior high kids with a computer and Acid Foundry or whatever that cheap software is.
No creativity, and, oddly enough, not even any real sense of Glass' music still being in the "remix".
I am a huge fan of Glass; I am not a fan of this kind of music, but since I am also a fan of Reich and since, to my total surprise, I am quite enthralled by the Reich Remixed CD, I figured I really needed to give this CD a shot.
What a waste. This is totally amateur, but without the occasional genius that some amateur can manage. Strictly, totally, and banal amateur yuckiness.
a huge letdown... December 21, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Yeah, it's fun and easy to beat up on remix albums since there are so many mediocre and terrible ones out there... but, wait: here's a great idea... let's give the pioneering, repetitive, trance-like minimalist music of Philip Glass the remix treatment... after all, Reich: Remixed was fabulous... surely the same kind of creativity can be unleashed in this project... But alas, something went terribly wrong here... these are mostly unbearably monotonous, grating, overlong, amateurish productions by remixers who don't seem to even GET (or enjoy?) Glass' music. A real missed opportunity and a huge letdown... ick...
The Ever Recyclable Glass November 20, 2005
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is just another insipid release from the Orange Mountain label, which keeps putting out anything with the Philip Glass
name on it - even if it is flagrant garbage. Several releases have been issued which about 90% have the same old songs, just performed by different people. In fact, Philip Glass has become more banal and bovine in the last few years because he knows anything with his name on it will sell to the trendy modernistic music crowd. Overall, I believe it is time to stop
recycling Glass.
Pop music with only a hint of Philip Glass October 28, 2005
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
This music should be categorized under the "popular music" category, not "classical". All the pieces have an incessant drum beat typical of popular music. This is unlike any other Philip Glass CD that I have and I have about a dozen of them. Where can I get rid of this?
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