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In C Remixed 是一张基于音乐作品 In C 的混音合集。这张2CD的专辑收录了一首由大谷州立大学新音乐乐团（GVSU New Music Ensemble）演奏的 In C 原作以及由18位音乐新秀（DJ，混音师，作曲人）创作的18首混音作品。

Terry Riley 于1964年创作了这部半机遇音乐（Aleatoric Music） 式的音乐作品 In C，并建议最好由大约35人来演奏，当然多于35人或少于35人也没问题。这部音乐作品是对20世纪中期作曲家们惯用的抽象、学术、序列音乐（Serialism）式的创作技法的回应，通常被认为是历史上的第一部极少主义音乐作品。

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You Are My Sunshine 最早录制于1939年；是Louisiana州的两首州歌之一，因为这首歌的创作者，乡村歌手 Jimmie Davis，是Louisiana州曾经的州长。该歌的版权为 1940 / 1977 Peer International Corporation，词曲作者为 Jimmie Davis 和 Charles Mitchell。然而，Theodore Pappas 在他于1990年发表的文章中指出，这首歌的原创作者是 Oliver Hood。

You Are My Sunshine

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( 为什么我那么喜欢听Sparklehorse？因为我喜欢沉溺在这样忧郁、脆弱、甜腻、怀旧的氛围中，并且幻想在大山肚皮里一梦千年 / Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain。)

一直很爱 Sparklehorse (网站 / 维基百科) 的 Come On In 这首歌。现在想来，或许可以从中感受到一些 Mark Linkous (维基百科) 的抑郁心情。Mark Linkous 在访谈中说：“每天早晨醒来我都觉得很失望，因为我发现我还活着。”

想起曾经历过的灰暗日子，每天早晨都在异常绝望的心情中醒来，幻想撞向一辆疾驶的卡车之后是不是一切悬而未决的事就会显得完美了。

昨天听这首歌时，用 [画图] 作了一幅比较拙劣的画。还是决定贴在这里，以聊表我的点滴悼念之心。

Rest in peace, dear Mark Linkous. 如果死对你来说比生快乐，愿你在另一个世界一切都好。

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Ten months ago I did a story for Dazed on Dark Night of the Soul, the noir audiovisual album created by Danger Mouse, David Lynch and Sparklehorse. Out of the trio, Mark Linkous (wikipedia), the man behind Sparklehorse (official site, wikipedia), was the least known to me. I had heard the stories of his near fatal overdose on the 1996 Radiohead European tour, and of course was familiar with songs like “Someday I Will Treat You Good”, “Heart of Darkness” and “Don’t Take My Sunshine Away” but in comparison to Lynch and DM, he was very much an enigma. After all, this was a man who shunned the spotlight, rarely gave interviews, wore a horse’s head on stage and recorded surreal alternative rock music out in the Virginian countryside, on his own.

On the day of our interview he cancelled on me. Or rather overslept because it was his day off. When I did get him on the phone the following day I found a sweet, laid back, Southern gent on the other end of the line, who was quick to apologise for missing the first interview – not typical rock star behaviour. For an hour Mark talked about Dark Night of the Soul, how working with Danger Mouse had brought him out of a creative rut, his love of Twin Peaks and hip hop, and also what a pleasure it had been to record with heroes like Lynch and Iggy Pop. He called the sessions “a happy time” in his life, and appeared to have used the project’s dark subject matter as a cathartic counter balance for his own personal demons. He had a voice and easy manner I immediately warmed to, trusted and wanted to get to know better.

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