Recorded live in 1968 at an event entitled Purple Modal Strobe Ecstasy with the Daughters of Destruction All Night Flight, “Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band” is an electronic time-lag accumulator work composed in 1966, and deriving from Terry Riley’s tape-loop experiments earlier in the decade. Purple Strobe Ecstasy‘s 40-minute edit, originally released in 5 parts, shows how Riley’s minimalist style uses tape delay effects to achieve pulsing layers of drone through repetitive looped instrumental phrases, a new form of trance-inducing psychedelic music. A seminal precursor to the tape experiments of Fripp and Eno which would follow just a few years later.