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    Cheetah EP

    in Aphex Twin

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    I'm going to play this soooo many times. I've been listening to the Analords all this week (the ones from the Rephlex site) back in the day, these were on heavy rotation, looks like it'll be the same for Cheetah!

     

    Found my old cheetah joystick the other day "the bug". And my Atari ST :-)

    Cheetah EP

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

     

    Despatched :-)

    Dispatch vs. despatch

    There is no difference between dispatch and despatch. The latter is an alternative spelling that was common in the 19th century and earlier, but dispatch has gained undisputed dominance in modern English. Despatch has mostly disappeared from the languageexcept in the U.K., where it appears in place of dispatch about a third of the timeand dispatch is the preferred spelling for all senses of the word.

    The main exception is in the phrase despatch box, which refers to the lectern in the British House of Commons and the Australian House of Representatives. This use is the main contributor to the relative frequency of despatch in the U.K.

    Whoops! Bloody phone!!

    Cheetah EP

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    I think Syro is some of his absolute best, but maybe Analord is a bit more enjoyable to me than what I've heard of this EP so far. Either way, the drought is over and he says he's got some bangers in store for us too. Pretty generous IMO

    I hear ya!

    Cheetah EP

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

     

    Well Atari STs (don't think there was actually an ST5) were the midi sequencer machine of choice for a lot of folk in the late 80s-early 90s. So ..... possibly !

    There was the Atari 520 ST and Atari 1040 ST. I had a 1040STE, my first computer (in 1987).

    So did I!!

    Still got it somewhere....

    Cheetah EP

    in Aphex Twin

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    Please change thread title to 'Unreasonable Expectations Discussion'

     

    Also I should pre-order this already...

    I mean, if you disagree with the expectations that's fine but i don't think they're unreasonable. It's like if i bought a can of beer from my favourite beer company, took a sip and there was orange juice inside. Turns out the company's switched to producing oj instead. Sure it's gonna quench my thirst, but i'm not gonna get all the fun extra things that came with drinking beer. So i'm disappointed because i wanted a beer from my favourite company. The company's done nothing wrong, i'm just a little sad.

    Aphex Twin is not a production line based company, he's an artist. There are musicians who work this way and release another album in the comfortable old style (AC/DC and others), but I have never expected Aphex to be this type, as with Squarepusher and others of that ilk. I can be disappointed too if it's not quite what I hoped, but to expect it to match my own invented / preferred ideal is unreasonable.

     

    At no point had Aphex ever promised or advertised himself as a beer supplier: we get to drink what he serves (and I prefer OJ to beer anyway). Syro wasn't what I was expecting*, along with certain other music he's made, but then, there was never any formal customer / supplier contract stating what I was to receive. I can lump it or leave it, I can be sad, but there was never any promise made to be broken. Any promise was in my head and nowhere else.

     

    *although I love it just dandy now**, having erased my own expectations and come to love what the album is, not what it wasn't

    **sounds better on vinyl***

    ***imo

    I started listening to Aphex Twin when drukqs came out and love everything he's done (icbyd is amazing!) but I must admit that I listen to the Analords and everything after mostly nowadays.

    Cheetah EP

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

     

    Why is there never any previews for Aphex on bleep?!

    There have been on Amazon

    Yeah and were quickly removed. What's the problem with Aphex Twin samples being on there?! For example, they never do that with Autechre.

    Cheetah EP

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    For the next couple days all other music is gonna sound like total shit. The Cheetah has ravaged my memory center of the brain

     

    EDIT: this is coming from 30 second 60kbps previews as well. Christ.

    Agreed!

    elseq 1-5

    in Autechre

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    Buying and listening to these one at a time (I know its more expensive this way, but I can't afford the whole thing at the moment) this way I can really take in each track better. Loving it so far!

    Same here ! Doing it the same way I'd watch a tv show, one episode a week !!! the AE_Live were just too much to handle and I never managed to wrap my head around it so...

    Exactly!

    elseq 1-5

    in Autechre

    Posted

    Yeah, artov chain is off the hook. it's the one I currently have of re-listen. It's 3rd on my faves list behind acdwn2 and curvcaten.

    Curvcaten is my current favourite. Fantastic track!!!!

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