​Say what you want about Animal Collective's recent turn as wedding music for the shrillest people alive, they will probably always have a better record collection than you. To wit: The line-up for May's AnCo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England just added OutKast funkateer Big Boi and minimalism's blissmaster general Terry Riley in the same day. No word on whether Poppy Nogood and Sir Lucious Left Foot are gonna jam out on some indotrancealisticadillacmuzik, but with that news we're pretty much ready to hop on a plane--even if it means spending a weekend avoiding facepaint stains from AnCo's most fanatical, make-upped followers. General Patton and Terry also join an already double-stuffed lineup including the reborn masters of avant-clank Thinking Fellers Union 282, Saharan guitar masters Group Doueh, Atlas Sound, Gang Gang Dance, Meat Puppets, The Frogs, Vlasislav Delay and like the entire Paw-Tracks roster. Basically, if you like putting terrible things in your body and then rapidly sweating them out in a tiger mask, boy do we have a weekend for you. Full, totally batshit ridiculous line-up--including 12 new additions--after the jump.

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Friday night brought about the first ever staging of composer Terry Riley's epochal "In C" on the Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of its release on long-playing LP in the late 60s. From "In C"'s debut on, Riley's humble, infinitely variable piece sparked a new lineage of classical composition drawing heavily on rhythm and repetition (deemed the first major work of minimalism), rock'n'roll (see The Who's "Baba O'Riley"), and trance-inducing electronic dance music. For this special celebratory performance, it was fitting that the lobby of Carnegie Hall was still a crush of humanity: even as the house lights flitted, patrons jockeyed for entrance into the venerated hall. Classical Indian vocalist Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan opened with a sung intonation--his voice soon consumed by a glowering drone and the sputter of the Quartet New Generation's specially-built recorders, which looked like some downtown condominium tower made from Ikean wood slats. As the 60+ players eased in, the phrases of "In C" were projected overhead, as if we in the audience were auditing a music comp class. The piece then lifted off.

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So today, for whatever reason, Amazon is offering the California minimalist Terry Riley's most iconic piece, 1964's "In C," as a free download. Don't think too hard about this one. [h/t Alex Ross]