Artist: Gong

Album: You

Year of Release: 1974

Label: Virgin

I Bought This Record From: Pawn Shop, Randleman 

Come Hear this Record live at CFBG’s Record/Art Co-Op on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 beginning @ 6pm. 

- At first listen to Gong I sort of lost interest as I thought it was random prog noodling and aimless 70’s new age art rock, and apparently I’m not the only one.  When I popped it on the second side and truly listened to the closing track “You Never Blow YR Trip Forever,” I soon changed my opinion about Gong.  One of the main reasons being that one of my favorite producers of all time, Madlib, sampled a really spaced out part of the song as you can hear from who sampled who.  I’ve always loved that sample in the Quasimoto song so I spun my head around when I heard the original source.  I also gained some more interest in this group when I discovered that Gong was a project started by ex Soft Machine guitarist, Daevid Allen, and his wife in Australia.  Madlib also samples them in other songs, so I’m officially a Gong fan.