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    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

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    Going through everything to see the changes that were made, found this in the Nova Robotiks description, if it was there already I'd missed it:

     

    goes wrong at end, coz my mate came in my room [martin tresidder] and knocked the tempo knob on the qx21 and fucked it up, shame coz i really liked where this was going.

    Trying to make looped breaks on a qx21 was near impossible.

     

     

    Somadril maybe? I think on one of the tracks on that account someone says something like "sounds great Marty".

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

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    i mean, if stereogum or pitchfork framed it as "afx is releasing an album every few days"

    then it would look different to the world

     

    i think this says something about the perceived value of internet music

    if he released a ~15-disc box set then it would give some perspective as to the actual significance

    but for whatever reason uploading single tracks to soundcloud doesn't seem to mean the same thing

     

    I'm completely on-board with the whole "most baller move by a musician ever" thing and I am also most certainly grateful for what Richard is doing here, but I don't think you could justly frame this as AFX dropping albums left and right. I love a lot of these songs, some make me wonder how they never saw an official release, but if I'm being serious with myself I'd say that a fair amount are a bit below his usual standards as well. I think he definitely could put together a few albums here that would sound cohesive and warrant remastering, but I think most people (including the media for a change) are correct in their line of thinking. We're simply being inundated with a bunch of tracks. Some are awesome, some are not-so-awesome, some sound like unfinished ideas, but for the most part they're simply good. But yeah, still the greatest thing ever for an Aphex fan like myself.

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