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Posts posted by d-a-m-o
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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 !
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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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"Thanks for sticking with me and encouraging me to release this for you. THANK YOU"
looool
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ok now time to listen to all those fantastic tunes
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that donkey rhubarb remix is really something !
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These three slo tracks are pure bliss! (Thank god for Richie re-upping red calx)
There are so many potential great albums within this dump...I'm stupified. Why didn't he release more back then? (This is a retorical question, btw).
Anyhows, because I still want the entire set in a box...how about a Kickstarter to rent some kind of ultra mastering wizard session to relief Richie of mastering the tracks (for a Bandcamp release) ?
+1 for a kickstarter
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hey you know what guys, i overreacted i admit it
i just listen to a little red calx to calm dow.....wait what??? argh!
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yes I think it's fake
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WTF is going on ?
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downloading right now
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there's so much great tracks. I think my fav is organ ! pure rhytmic and melodic mindfuck !
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here we goooooo !
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wakin' up and listening to organ makes my organ hard !!!
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Rob: Did you see User4873653001's soundcloud stream?
Sean: kek
Rob: I think it's actually Aphex, we heard him play some of these tunes out before
Sean: meh
Rob: Is it time to launch operation Quaristice soundboard?
Sean: *kicks snow in northface jacket*
Rob: Sean pls
looool
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I need to sleep so badly but in the meantime I can't stop refreshing the soundcloud page
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feel like I'm 15 all over again
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come to daddy era no doubt
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yes more fucked up beats !
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this is unreal !
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I hope that when the torrent of music stops, there will be zip that you can download that the community agrees on is the whole thing sorted, tagged, commented etc correctly, because I barely have time to listen to the stuff, much less download and organize it...
That would be nice... or a way to purchase the lot...
do you know something about this JR ?
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RDJ album is the best music ever composed ! I'm in heaven right now !
Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans
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good choice . The gentle people remix is deep !