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  1. ^this is my Fred McGriff-style post btw. just thought i'd rub one out like in the good old days
  2. i cannot believe i am only just discovering the majesty of refried beans. you ever made refried beans? this is part of my ongoing frenzy of making and preparing tortillas - you can throw around a lot of different ingredients, but oh my fucking god to high heaven refried beans are the best food known to humanity. you can use any beans, i use black beans and sometimes pinto beans. you're just mashing them and cooking them down with plenty of salt, and with paprika/tabasco/lime juice it's even more crazy delicious. what is the catch? sometimes on a lazy day i just cook the refried beans and eat them with bread rolls, you're getting instant comfort food AND you're getting protein. and i still haven't noticed a hidden catch? like are the police gonna come over to my house with a fuckin SWAT team because i made just a delicious meal that's so easy to make? COME AT ME YOU BITCHES. refried beans. techniques and recipes on google/youtube. plenty of salt. refried beans.
  3. yeah but i still call it a scam when i talk about it. must be a rephlex action.
  4. quadrange would fit very nicely on a 3xLP set. i tried putting the first 12 tracks on a C90 cassette tape and it worked out very nicely, roughly 45 minutes on each side without having to reorder the tracks. three tracks per side. 45 minutes per LP. subrange 6-36 would be split across one LP with 30 minutes per side. (i know that "all end" was lucky enough to get three sides of vinyl at 20 minutes each on the NTS box set, but on the other hand, 30 minutes squeezed onto one side was good enough for Brain Eno's Discreet Music back in 1975...) hot damn i want this now. take my money sean and rob
  5. Mururoa Project is a god-tier obscure Rephlex EP. iirc the Cylob track was pulled up as a digital bonus, but i don't think even half the nerds on this site have heard of this comp, it's like a little IDM time capsule
  6. whenever you found mp3s of yellow on slsk, back in the day, they were rips of people playing the record at 33rpm. the tempo is so fucking high on all these tracks, Wayne's Tantrum is 202 bpm and Mike Dred ended the legendary hour-long UI mix of this series with that track because it's the fastest, and so that the tempo accumulates throughout the mix.
  7. don't mind the snarky asshole response i gave earlier lmao, but for real, i think retailers were stamping the aphex name on the records to sell more copies. afaik blue and red had no labels or artist names whatsoever so i don't blame them.
  8. warp just revealed that TH doesn't really exist which BoC still haven't released an album for 18 years i am so fkn pissed
  9. i've listened to this album a few times now and it's honestly incredible. on the surface it may seem like a casual indie hobby project, but it's more than that - these tracks have an immediate appeal and charm and it's clear that on4word has put a lot of love into them. the sound design and production is insanely good, with careful attention to detail and a keen sense of direction, not just to recreate the music, but to inject some originality as well. the cover versions of Rhubarb and Stone In Focus on this album are probably the closest thing you'll get to SAW 3. i think they're masterpieces. ethereal, heavenly, loopable. i was sure i'd forgotten was it was like to hear SAW2 for the first time... just go ahead and pick it up on bandcamp. youtube embeds don't do it justice. https://on4word.bandcamp.com/album/selected-aphex-works-n64
  10. Merry Christmas everyone! i'm still here, mainly lurking but i still catch up with what's going on. i could never properly catch up with all the major new IDM releases without this forum. the new Aphex EP is urgent! also OPN, Actress, the stuff on Planet Mu, and then Oval (Markus Popp) coming back out of nowhere. idk how anyone was supposed to find those Oval EPs that disappear after 24 hours but i still got to listen to them thanks to you Much Love
  11. here we have one of those magical indie covers that feels really close to the spirit of the original. it's crazy how precise they got with the snare rushes. also the text-to-speech moment is the cutest little thing ever nice find!
  12. thank you for taking the time to find these!! that is fascinating. yet another example of a classic WATMM meme finding its way into journalism, this one became part of written history ?
  13. a companion to the "least favourite aphex song" thread. scenario: you are RDJ. the new album is about to drop, but the big men at the top are forcing you to include one extra bonus track, for some mega-exclusive limited edition which is so expensive no-one will even hear it. so instead of a good track, you choose something so terrible, so hilariously bad and anti-climatic that not a single rich bastard owner of the box set would be impressed. there are many different strategies you could use. we could look at some of the pranks richard himself has done in the past - there's the "Aphex Airlines" track, which happened after Virgin commissioned a fluffy ambient track to use in adverts. they clearly did not conduct themselves in an RDJ-friendly way if this is what he gave them: (this is the version of the track that got released on the compilation, Ambient 4: Isolationism) it's obvious that RDJ wanted to leave Virgin with nothing to work with. it's not only terrible, but distinctly piss-takey, to the point that you couldn't even take it seriously as a piece of dark ambient/noise music. or, you could take a track like Akunk. one of many reasons the original Tuss albums were destined to be legendary, well sought-after collectables were the way they included little bonuses, like replacing the last track on the CD with something completely different on vinyl editions. if you were a fan in 2007, and the track wasn't on a CD, you'd be trying to pirate it, and it was rare for pirates to own a turnable. i swear to god, when i finally got to hear this track, with those ridiculous synths, i was dying of laughter! imagine getting hold of the 12" edition of this EP, before youtube, just to hear Akunk. so besides ear-shredding noise, or something outright silly, you could do something a little more aggressive - like richard taking over the 2014 Grammy Awards. the producers wanted to play a snippet of their Best Electronic album, but someone had other ideas... i still don't know how the fuck he managed to do this. (nobody checked the sample??) but of course, this is a clip from the "hidden" track on AB 3.1 with its incomprehensible conversations about shit smothered on microphones. this very good prank potential, in fact some snippets of it have found their way onto certain compilation tracks. maybe you'd want to create some confusion? maybe get some slap bass in there and have your fans convinced there's a misprint going around it could even be as simple as announcing a 2-track EP and leaving a 3rd track on there. you could completely destroy their hardware setup... besides all these devious techniques, which involve being able to actually listen to the track, you could go a step further and make it impossible to find. back in 2005, when the Analord series had just been released in, people on this forum were losing their minds over the limited edition Analord Binder - one of the most ambitious, production-intensive products ever put out on Rephlex. between the hefty price tag, the tantalising collectability of the series, and the many disgruntled fans - who had their packages delayed or even cancelled, rumours began to spread of a "flexidisc" which was supposedly hidden inside the leather covering of the binder. there are claims that some fans actually fell for this and destroyed their Analord binders, slightly increasing the rarity of other copies in the process.... hopefully those were just rumours too! and let's not forget Bradley's Beat - the EP with the enormous centre sticker, proudly boasting of being the first ever release on Rephlex. if you a fan in the 90s, with a record collection vast enough to figure out that there are two completely different B-sides on differing issues of this EP, you may have been inclined to track down a release on the Xtra Nova label in Belgium, under the name "Bradley's Beat" to find another potential B-side. if you did, you would find... absolutely nothing on the B side ? i would like to take special time to mention the holy grail of hidden aphex material - the unsolved mystery of the paper puck, included with the limited edition of Syro in 2014: this is a full vinyl record, printed in extremely fine detail, on paper. it's generally considered to be impossible to play and to discovering the audio on this print would require deep analysis and specialist tools. if you own the Syro limited edition, with only 200 luxuriously hand-finished copies, then stop holding out on us, get some of your pocket change and hire a studio so we can finally crack this thing! what could it be? is it the greatest piece of music in human history? is it a speech recording telling us where to find the location of another planet with sentient, music-making creatures? is it a fully mastered set of James Brown multitracks? or maybe it's a prank? just a really, really bad track? that's what this thread is about. so let's talk about it and let me know what you think. what kind of content, sound and style would you employ to make a track that pisses off as many people as possible?
  14. absolutely great, looks fucking mental. and the great thing is if you ever get bored with it, you get a true-to-life aphex experience by dropping it in a blender... ?
  15. RDJ told us in one of his soundcloud comments that when he first listened to MHTRTC by Boards of Canada, he liked it, but he found himself no longer wanting to make music that has this sombre, melancholic feeling. i guess he was talking about tracks like An Eagle In Your Mind, Turquoise Hexagon Sun, and Pete Standing alone. apparently this was quite a significant thing to him, and from that point onwards it changed his approach to mood and atmosphere in his music. (wish i could find the original quote) i think it's fair to say that the sad, wistful melancholy vibing tracks by RDJ don't work very well. tracks like Slothscape (from soundcloud, which i think he actually commented was one of his least favourites) and then Nannou, which is a very pretty piece of sound design but not really very complex in terms of mood. i like Bbydhyonchord from drukqs but again, it's not very engaging and it sort of stays the same. there are other, more developed tracks like Mt Saint Michael, meltphace6, IZ-US and Fenix Funk 5. these tracks don't just sound "sad", they explore rich and complicated emotional territory. i think the main difference is positivity - for example, the breakdown in Mt Saint Michael. there's a great deal of hope, and optimism, as though you've witnessed something very rare and precious. or, more generally, you could look at the playful energy (eg Fenix Funk) in which these moods are explored. my least favourite RDJ track is probably Goodbye Rute. never understood what the big deal is, there are so few Tuss tracks. plus one of the new Tuss bonus tracks is basically the same track right? we're gonna hear a lot about the noise tracks in this thread so don't you dare come near the KTPA tracks from Smojphace ? they are absolutely sublime. ktpa1 is much more interesting in the space of seven minutes than about 90% of Merzbow's output. it could've been done in one take, it stops the moment it gets even slightly boring.
  16. you can definitely play your ultra-rare SKAM whitelabels and Brian Eno 180gram reissues on this. don't worry about changing needles, phono cables, putting the records back in the sleeves or any boring shit, just sit back in your $90,000 white couch, grab a bottle of Voss and enjoy the tunes ?
  17. a lot like when my bloody valentine released their album mbv, after 22 years. in fact, didn't Tomorrow's Harvest come out literally just after that mbv comeback album?? this could be a good sign ++
  18. word up if you replied to this thread in 2009 and made it this far. based on the results of Russia invading Ukraine, you're more likely to see a nation getting targeted, destroyed and relentlessly tormented for 1+ year than you are to see anyone attempt to use nukes. we won't see the world vanish in the blink of an eye, but we will see government bodies of all kinds doing horrific things to other human beings.
  19. pretty sure i collected from a forum post somewhere, don't think it was watmm, but it was a well-informed post with a lot of other info. it might've been a reviewer on discogs or some retail site. this was years ago and i've never found any material that contradicts it, i still think it's legit.
  20. random Ae trivia: official Ae titles for the tracks on Peel Session 2: czr c-down sqr map pantium chromedioxid edit: these are real btw
  21. goddamn i am so freaking tempted to comb thru this and find all the tracks this wannabe missed out. i bet the 2nd short edit of Mangle 11 is missing...
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