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    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

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    Someone may have already said this, but what is the possibility that this SC bounty is all leadup and promo for a forthcoming "Unreleased Aphex Backcatalog" compilation, coming from Warp in the not too distant future?

    Is there any chance that these are tracks that "just didn't make the cut?"

    maybe a reissue of his backcatalog ? (on, donkey rhubarb, ventolin, girl/boy, drukqs)

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

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    It's kind of funny that we get 112 tracks, almost 9 hours, of new music, and so many people are pointing out the "Japan" track that was released over 20 years ago as a highlight lel

     

    I mean, what are you doing listening to 9 hours of leftovers when you haven't even listened to the official releases

    The problem is it actually is a highlight because it's fucking excellent.

     

    I guess not hearing a total of 3 or 4 tracks that aren't widely distributed anymore means I can't aphex. Oh well, I won't be losing any sleep over it.

    With the praise both this one and Space Beat are getting, I imagine a lot of people are going to be digging out 26 Remixes and discovering some underrated gems.

    26 mixes is an amazing collection, oft overlooked IMO.

    yes indeed ! the mike flowers pops remix is an all time fav !

    The Nine Inch Nails remixes are beautiful.

     

     

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    My favourites are probably:

     

    Gentle People - Journey (aphex twin care remix)

    The beatniks - Une Femme N’est Pas Un Homme (Aphex Twin Mix)

    Nobukazu Takemura - Let my fish loose (aphex twin remix)

     

    good choice . The gentle people remix is deep !

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

     

     

     

    It's kind of funny that we get 112 tracks, almost 9 hours, of new music, and so many people are pointing out the "Japan" track that was released over 20 years ago as a highlight lel

     

    I mean, what are you doing listening to 9 hours of leftovers when you haven't even listened to the official releases

    The problem is it actually is a highlight because it's fucking excellent.

     

    I guess not hearing a total of 3 or 4 tracks that aren't widely distributed anymore means I can't aphex. Oh well, I won't be losing any sleep over it.

     

     

    With the praise both this one and Space Beat are getting, I imagine a lot of people are going to be digging out 26 Remixes and discovering some underrated gems.

     

    26 mixes is an amazing collection, oft overlooked IMO.

     

    yes indeed ! the mike flowers pops remix is an all time fav !

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

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    as a pynchon and pta fan i thought "inherent vice" was awesome. i think the only real issue i had with it is simply that it didn't exactly nail the tonal ambiguity of the book. in the book the paranoid stonerisms dovetailed with an elusive and sinister tone in a much more bizarre and moving way. the movie rather nailed the stoner stuff i think but the melancholy cultural backdrop (end of the 60s) was too often absent and i think doc's personal experience in the movie felt much more thin as a result. there were, however, some solid scenes that brought this home for me but i do feel like the bizarre tone of the book didn't translate so well. but that's not surprising bc...pynchon.

     

    overall i thought the movie was great. i liked that it kept the conspiracy developing merely by introducing doc to all these fragmented conversations and brief encounters, thereby preventing a coherent picture from ever developing (bc, of course, doc is a totally unreliable protagonist). this was a cool structural way of capturing an aspect of the story (again, more evident in the book), viz., how this ever elusive conspiracy signifies for doc as well as his era a turning point from something familiar to something much more fragmented and foreboding. for doc personally this means the disintegration of his personal life, the reemergence of a kind of tragic, unresolved relationship from his past, the confrontation of his highly limited professional endeavors with something beyond the scope of his understanding of the world and the legal parameters in which he's used to navigating, etc. and this all takes place in a cultural environment where the known and familiar are eroding and beginning to spin on their heads -- there's that great line when he goes to the party just before conversing with owen wilson at the kitchen table which captures this perfectly. it's a wakeup call of sorts but doc is too stoned to work it all out.

     

    i definitely think the movie had excellent acting and was pretty obviously funny throughout (lots of lols in the theater). imo it was a cool journey orbiting around a strange conspiracy that never really pans out which i guess is the perfect metaphor for a middle-age stoner life at the end of the 60s. it glorified the period with its humor but it at the same time it portrayed the the melancholy and futility of the era in a unique way. could've been a lot weirder but whatever man, this movie rules.

    can't wait to see this movie !

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