I agree with Chris, the original version of 'In C' on Columbia is the place to start. But I'll also put in a kind word for the Bang on a Can version, which is in a lot of ways the best performance available (and has been called "definitive" by much more exalted souls than myself). I also fondly recall a version on the New Albion label by the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Henry Kaiser and others. I haven't heard the Chinese version or the Acid Mothers version, but I do have one unusual version in my collection, a rock-oriented guitar swarm performance by art-punk band the Styrenes, formerly of the same Cleveland scene that coughed up Pere Ubu and now based in New York. (That one is on Enja, of all labels...) And it would have been really nice if someone had recorded the all-DJ and electronics version at the Lincoln Center Festival a few years ago... Jason Gross, weren't you at that one? Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Derek Bailey & Franz Hautzinger, "Talk," 'Derek Bailey Franz Hautzinger' (Grob)