As he approached his 75th birthday, beloved avant-garde composer Philip Glass, a champion of transformation as creative authorship, reached out to Beck and asked him to enlist some of his favorite contemporary musicians in remixing Glass’s most iconic pieces. The result, out today, is Rework: Philip Glass Remixed — a spellbinding two-disc collection curated by Beck and featuring remixes by a dozen celebrated artists, including Amon Tobin (“Warda’s Whorehouse Inside Out Version”), Tyondai Braxton (“Rubric”), Memory Tapes (“Floe ’87”), and Beck himself (“NYC: 73-78”).

My indisputable favorites: Johann Johannsson’s remix of “Protest” and Peter Broderick’s “Island”.

Beck has kindly offered up his contribution to the album, a 20-minute masterwork woven of snippets from more than 20 Glass tracks, on SoundCloud:

Rework comes out on vinyl next month. You can hear the entire album on NPR’s First Listen.