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The Grandfather Paradox: An Imprudent Journey Through 50 Years of Minimalistic Music explores the history of minimalist music in mix CD format.

Although taking the name from the Rene Barjavel's proposed paradox which refutes the possibility of time travel: positing that a time traveler could theoretically go back in time, kill hir grandfather & therefore negate hir own existence, this paradox doesn’t seem to have hampered the Innervisions quartet of Dixon, Âme (Kristian Beyer & Frank Wiedemann), & Henrik Schwarz from attempting their own feat of time-juggling.

What results is a truly time-defying melting pot, where Steve Reich's gradual processes joins Robert Hood's groundbreaking "Minus", Richie Hawtin's mix of La Funk Mob's "Motor Bass Gets Phunked Up", "Bass-Line Generator" by legendary electronic composer Raymond Scott, post-punk from Liquid Liquid, classic Krautrock of Can to the skwonk jazz of Moondog (there's even one specially for yours truly - Ø's "Atomit").

For your aural edification there are both mixed & unmixed discs.

Henrik Schwarz / Âme / Dixon – The Granfather Paradox 2xCD, 

Barely Breaking Even BBE 120CCD, 2009.

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CD1 – Mixed (one single track)–

Steve Reich & Pat Metheny - Electric Counterpoint-Fast (Movement 3)
Etienne Jaumet - Repeat After Me (Âme mix)
Kenneth Bager - Fragment Eleven…The Day After Yesterday Pt.1
Liquid Liquid - Lock Groove (Out)
Cymande - For Baby Oh
Patrick Moraz - Metamorphoses 1st Movement (live)
To Rococo Rot - Testfeld
Mathematics - Blue Water
I:Cube - Acid Tablet
Ø - Atomit
Conrad Schnitzler - Electrocon 11
Green Pickles featuring Billy Lo & M. Pittman - Feedback
La Funk Mob - Motor Bass Gets Phunked Up (Richie Hawtin's Electrophunk mix)
John Carpenter - The President is Gone
Yusef Lateef - The Three Faces of Balal
Robert Hood - Minus
Raymond Scott - Bass-Line Generator
Moondog - Invocation

CD2 – Unmixed (individual tracks)–

Conrad Schnitzler - Elektrocon 11
Steve Reich & Pat Metheny - Electric Counterpoint-Fast (Movement 3)
Liquid Liquid - Lock Groove (Out)
To Rococo Rot - Testfeld
Patrick Moraz - Metamorphoses 1st Movement (live)
Young Marble Giants - N.i.t.a
Kenneth Bager - Fragment Eleven…The Day After Yesterday Pt.1
Arthur Russell - Make 1, 2
John Carpenter - The President is Gone
Robert Hood - Minus
Raymond Scott - Bass-Line Generator
Pyrolator - November Mühlheim
Cymande - For Baby Oh
Can - Sunday Jam

Enjoy,

NØ