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Silver vinyl sounds great. It is also numbered out of 500. No complaints. Yeah this remix thing is kinda underwhelming. I want to hear the DRAMA man.

So I fell absolutely bonkers in love with this for the first few months it was out. I even got the silver vinyl edition. But, like all albums I fall too much in love with, it has taken a backseat to my discovering of other albums and tracks. Discovered the brilliance of Rifts (can't wait to get my hands on that sexy 5xLP) and R+7. Working on loving Returnal, working on liking Replica (other than Andro, which is amazing). Also, how in the hell does OPN have so many obscure tracks on very obscure cassettes? I swear, where the hell am I going to get a good quality version of "Banlieue in 3 Sectors?" The only version I found of it is 16kbps, which is so woefully inadequate that my head would explode but for the track being divine. I seem to have gotten off topic, so allow me to go back on topic. GoD is my favourite album of 2015. It will certainly be one of those all-time favourite albums. But I've moved on from the honeymoon phase. Also, Ezra is the best track on the album. Bite me.

It would be announced by now if there was a new album in march. ODS was announced in early July, and was released in late August.

Wait what? "you caught me?" RDJ?

I'm quite young, and so I only first developed independent musical tastes around 2012. It started with Linkin Park, Coldplay, and Nickelback (kill me). I then discovered the wonders of prog metal in early 2013. I was a huge Dream Theater fan for about a year, and then I found modern classical music thanks to Ólafur Arnalds in early 2014. Spent half of 2014 obsessing over Ólafur Arnalds. Over that summer I was recommended Bonobo, and so I decided to give Spotify a try in August 2014. With my classical music tastes, spotify recommended me some Post-Rock, which is how I got into that genre (still love Explosions in the Sky, GYBE, MONO, etc). I then checked out Bonobo. That downtempo sound made Spotify recommend me Boards of Canada (specifically the song Reach for the Dead). For some reason, this song intrigued me. It seemed mysterious, cold, unknown. And so I did something I rarely did with Spotify. I listened to their debut album based on Reach for the Dead alone. What a fucking journey that was. I was hooked. I digested BoC slowly, beginning with MHTRTC, followed by Tomorrow's Harvest. Then Campfire. But Geogaddi scared me. I was actually afraid of it. I attempted to and 5 seconds after Ready Lets Go started I shut it off. I eventually got over that, and became the biggest Boccer in Malaysia. 2 months later I was hungry for more. So I delved back into Spotify and Aphex Twin popped up. Heliosphan, to be exact. Bought SAW 85-92 immediately, but it took a little while for it to fully dawn on me how great it was. Aphex Twin was a slow burner for me. I shied away from his "heavy" tracks, which means I stayed clear of Drukqs for a long time. Eventually I devoured the Aphex Twin discography (then I realised that he has like a dozen other names he releases music under, and then the soundcloud dump happened. I'm still trying to digest it all). (side note: Squarepusher came up once or twice. Too jazzy for me, though I appreciate Damogen Furies and Feed me Weird Things). So this leaves me to May 2015. The name Autechre had popped up a few times when I read some articles about Warp Records. I noticed someone writing that Chiastic Slide was "essential listening." So based on that guy's praise of the album, I gave it a go. Keep in mind I was into the easy-listening Aphex stuff at that time. My god, listening to Chiastic Slide for the first time was almost painful. It was a hard album to start Autechre with. But I liked it. I was scared to listen to the rest of the discography, though. Yet I kept hearing more and more praise for Autechre. So I did the same thing I did with Boards of Canada. I listened to Incunabula. That album became my favourite album during June 2015. The rest of the summer was spent slowly dipping my toes into the lush-pool that is the Autechre discography. At first I preferred 90s ae, falling in love with Tri Rep, then Amber, then LP5, and then I fell in love with Draft and Exai. Then Oversteps, Quaristice and Confield still have not clicked with me yet. Untilted is well on it's way to my top 3. I'm still working on listening to every Autechre LP and EP without being repelled by the abstraction. I'm working on L-Event right now, and that has been my biggest challenge with Autechre so far. But I'm conquering it. A couple months ago, I got my first turntable. I'm slowly amassing the vinyl versions of my favourite albums that I have discovered over the past year. And that is basically the story of my musical journey, leading up to Autechre.

I'm Aphexual.

YAAAAAAY. Also, COMEON BOC YOU DON'T HAVE TO ISOLATE YOURSELVES. Mikepls Marcuspls

Chiastic Slide Incunabula Draft 7.30 Tri Repetae Exai Quaristice (only if you include versions and quadrange, which is what I think the definitive album is) Untilted Amber Oversteps Confield LP5 I think my list is settled. Regarding LP5, I adore the first the tracks, but after that it is very hit or miss. Regarding Confield, I love the first two tracks, I like Sim Gishel, and I can tolerate the rest. Oversteps is an album I like quite a bit, but I have to be in the right mood for it to click (r ess is still amazing though). Untilted is there just for LCC and Sublimit. Amber, like Oversteps, is an album that is great when I am in the mood for it. Thoughts?