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Christian Marclay, More Encores

10", No Man's Land 1989

Each piece is composed entirely of records by the artist after whom it is titled. 
"John Cage" is a recording of a collage made by cutting slices from several records and gluing them back into a single disc.  In all other pieces the records were mixed and manipulated on multiple turntables and recorded analog with the use of overdubbing.  A hand-crank gramophone was used in "Louis Armstrong". 

Records by Johann Strauss, John Zorn, Martin Denny, Frederic Chopin,
Fred Frith, Louis Armstrong, Arthur Ferrante & Louis Teicher, John Cage,
Maria Callas, Jimi Hendrix, Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg, Christian Marclay