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I hear what you mean, I think it's more of a case of being inspired by the same sources (I mean Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, etc.). This new Legowelt sounds very influenced by Unit Moebius again this time too, which is good. This interview is worth a look. https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2567 Having read this now, two weeks or so after having first heard Alexi Perälä's "Mental Union" and parts of "The Colundi Sequence Vol. 1", I will have to consider well if I want to continue supporting something like this. Whoever compared it to a cult was accurate. I recommend anyone to reconsider too whether they want to be associated to something like this. There are past precedents. And something else just came to mind. About two years ago, Richard D. James was interviewed by the Guardian, where he implied that the September 11 terrorist attacks were carried out by the US government. It may not be connected, but you cannot deny that there is now not an imminent risk to their work, where their music is being compromised by these supposed inspirations leading to closing down a relevant label, plans to purchase land to build a community and who knows what else. lol P.S. Grant just archived the colundi facebook group, as in locked the whole forum. What now? commence drinking of the Kool-Aid

That interview is hilarious. Especially the end, its like he is worried he may not have come off as crazy enough to drum up publicity so he keeps adding more and more mad stuff. Contrast this to the bit when the interviewer manages to dispassionately and pretty accurately describe the Colundi sound with a few touchstones, demystifying it and making Aleksi sound even crazier. And the bit when he admits he doesn't even know how Grant arrived at the sequence, I can just imagine a room with arcane books, skull candles, compasses & protractors scattered about amid a lot of spliff smoke. Take everything the Rephlex crew says with a pinch of salt, the are longtime masters of cryptic promotion and it seems with Colundi the have found fantastic music and a nice little gimmick where they can flog all kinds of bespoke bollocks, festival tickets, t-shirts etc. They are moving with the times, business-wise. And the growth of these events seem to suggest they're doing a good job. I don't doubt the sincerity of Aleksi and Grant's intentions re:tuning experiments, and music production and the tunes speak for themself. But the stuff about uniting all world religions with IDM? call me a cynic... I would like to get to one of the Coundi events sometime to get a vibe of it myself but its so fucking weird and cult-sounding I can't convince even my most freakiest of mates to drive out the arse end of nowhere with no drugs on the hopes of some vague spiritual experience.

Im enjoying this record as a fan of Slowdive and as a curious observer to how long-dormant bands approach comeback records. Theyve retained the combo of acoustic guitar and shimmery-reverb-delayed electric guitar which was stolen and ruined by the likes of Coldplay sometime in the late 90s, but the gated percussion and soft focus synth sounds quite contemporary. Its quite strange to hear Slowdive produced like Blonde Rehead or Grizzly Bear but i got used to it quickly. and there is a return to the poppy hooks which was absent for much of their final record and solo stuff. Hope to catch these guys at Field Day if they don't clash with anyone else Im interested in seeing.

It's the same for me when watmm blows their load over The Other People Place: Lifestyles of the Laptop Café. The greatness just doesn't quite compute and you wonder why. Read the rules you two.

Whenever I read Actress interviews I find him incredibly gnomic and not sure whether he's hilarious or a bloody nutter. This one seems to be a lot more modern/futuristic sounding and slick, I guess the chrome thing plays that up. A complete about turn from the grimy, rusty-sounding Ghettoville. This time round the weird eq and filtering tricks sound more familiar and recognisable and are aping certain specific eras in pop music as opposed to the alien methodical stuff on Splazsh/R.I.P. Snatches of classical strings mixed in with RnB basslines and classic detroit rhythms. and the usual white noise/textural stuff he does. Still very original sounding.

cheers Kavinsky, lots of stuff I'd never heard before. According to the Wire review of AZD, its more technoey and punishing which sounds nice. And 'Uber Spliff To Gatwick' is on the album under the title 'Runner'

Yeah unfortunately the Fire Walk With Me soundtrack, in its original tracklisting, isn't complete. In fact, technically Sycamore Trees should've been included on the original show soundtrack rather than with the film soundtrack. I am also missing the really dark sounding atmospheric music tracks from Fire Walk With Me. I haven't found them yet inside the Twin Peaks Archive, either :( I think its pretty much all there on the Twin Peaks Archive just spread out a bit and theres a lot to search for. There's a thread over on dugpa where somebody has listed all the tracks in order of when they appear in the movie, The track Schlitze is looking for is called 'Back To Fat Trout (Unease Mofif/The Woods)'

I'd like to see a track list too. Its a damn good compilation. Grant posted on FB asking people to guess. Someone guessed Bogdan for one track and I concur. I don't see the FB post any more. My guess is that the fourth and sixth tracks are D'Arcangelo? The ninth track really sounds like Bogdan, tenth track is Jodey? Eleventh is Wisp? Not sure about the others... I would agree with those. two sounds like it could be MNLTH. And I'm guessing one is Aleksi himself.

I remember when Untitled leaked it was one of the few times I actually thought it was a fake and it turned out to be real. (not to be confused by the real actually fake orchestrated by awepittance & gl0tch) .. I couldn;t believe they would use such dry sounds, and the album was much faster, and much more minimal than I was expecting. Prob about halfway through Ipacial Section I started to think it might be the real deal. As usual the details reveal themselves over successive listens Still think it trails off slightly by the last few tracks, but that run of Ipacial-Iera is golden.

Pretty cool idea. tbh Im still blown away by the idea that we got to basically hear AFX unreleased archives last year, I couldn't care less if some of it got pressed to wax for limited release for a handful of hardworking techno enthusiasts. it would also be funny if he donated some exclusive monster next-level epic and next to nobody got to hear it. Also I don't thing Squarepusher wants those acid tracks releasing for some reason. Grant from Rephlex already tried, thats why the testpressings were made.

Its got that effortlessly sweet Aphex melody, but being played on an organ preset, and with those lo-res drum samples lacks the kind of care and attention to put it up there with Alberto. certainly a nice curio and one of the highlights of the bonus tracks though.

Really nice to have the chance to sit down and revisit this unappreciated release, I can't have listened to it more than 10 times since I first heard it 15 or so years ago. I always quite enjoyed it but some of the good feeling was tarnished by a very arch mid-90s easy-listening and almost big beat vibe and the nagging feeling that both artists were just noodling about here and selfishly saving their best melodies and ideas for their own later solo releases. but now a combination of factors, (the aggressive remaster job, the charmingly dumb bonus tracks, finding out it was actually made in 94) have really made me enjoy it a lot more. I can hear Perrey-Kingsley in there, and similar ground to the soundcloud trax of that era. Mikes strange little reverbed sine melodies playing utopian supermarket musak mixing in with Aphex's sloppy crunchy distortion works a treat. Mr Frosty sounds like Jake Slazenger remixing Acrid Avid Jam Shred, Eggy Toast is subdued but with a serpentine AFX lead. It is very tongue in cheek insofar as Mike & Rich both know thier listeners know these synth lines are cheesey as fuck, but I believe now it comes from a real non-ironic love of cheesey as fuck synth lines.

That interview seems to play out a kind of master-protege power relationship going on between Aphex and μ which they both take the piss out of with varying degrees of seriousness. Like when Mike admitted Richard cares more about making music, therefore 'he wins'. They both have such a dry sense of humour it is difficult to tell where the jokes stop. The standard opinion about the Mike & Rich album is that it is enjoyable but not top tier work from either artist, usually this is explained away by its origins as drunken, high, barely edited jams, but what if it was a subconscious playing out of this friction? and they were both trying to hijack the sessions with heightened goofiness in order to prove the other one was shit. Im really happy about this re-release (as I would be if pretty much any Rephlex album got a 3LP coloured repress + bonus trax) and its made me revisit it for the first time in years. Its subdued work for both of them, and the easy-listening loungetronica vibe is very '90s hipster but still strangely charming. Its easy to tell who did what with Mike P's uber funkiness and supermarket musak organ excursions playing out over ICBYD-era hip hop breaks and strings and Melodies From Mars woozy mysteron sounds. Def one of the better half of the catalogue. Can't wait to hear the bonus tracks, There were a few soundcloud tracks that seemed to very reminiscent of this stuff too.i need to get back on.

This EP reminds me a lot of Analord 02 and 08 but with a more colorful sound palate, and a hint of some of the more funky Tuss/ODS tracks. CIRKLON3 in particular sounds like a Tuss re-interpretation of Ageisopolis. 2X202-ST5 is giving me Bradley Strider vibes as well.

Thanks v much Penryn Space Agency for these shows. Only really started listening to them the last couple of months and theyre a treasure trove of riches for fresh new electronic music. A mix of stuff I already love, some completely new stuff and best of all the unreleased/exclusive tracks from Rephlex alumni. Also somebody needs to pressure Krzysztof Oktalski into releasing his music somewhere, his tunes are always a highlight and there is quite a backlog of them now from these shows.

Carrying on the fine Rephlex traditions... Support the artists you love by purchasing a new, original, authentic copy" (if you can figure out how to) Ah I'm only sore cause I missed out on hearing 'Contact'. 'Connection' is probably my favorite thing Aleksi has ever put out so I'm really up for hearing more of this ilk. I'd always wanted a fully beatless ambient Aleksi album, and I was happy with the long stretches of ambient on vols 5,6 and 12, but Connection is much more to my taste - the textures and timbres are much more warmer and inviting. Maybe it will go on on bandcamp at some point. Did a massive Colundi-thon this past weekend, listened to the full series again in order (18 hours and counting) there's something very ephemeral about it which reminds me of the first time I heard the likes of Derrick May et al. The music is fascinating, rich and beautiful but the second it stops playing I'd be hard pressed to tell you anything about it, nevermind whistle a melody or hook. on the surface it is simply techno made with sine waves and 909-style percussion, but there is an almost monastic devotion (sheer volume of releases, lack of obvious fx,no track titles) about the music which almost defies discussion and analysis. the ones which veer from the core sound (10's neo-classical pretentions, 11's dubby plasticity, 13's tribal drumming or the busy IDM of 14-16) got the most attention on here but thats not to say the likes of 2, 8, or 4 are weak, its just that there isn't much to get your teeth into as a listener. It's like ghost music (and I mean that in the very best way) its no surprise that my pattern-seeking human brain still wants me to go back over and try and get my head around them all again

Link for posterity, this release still is top notch :) https://soundcloud.com/colundi/sets/colundi-every1-vinyl Yep great stuff. Good thing I'm not a completist otherwise Colundi would have bankrupted me this past year. I kept on top of it up until Level 7 but then started to lose track when Aleksi started doing those gig only releases and super-limited runs. I wonder how he manages to be quite so productive- surely there has to be some generative element in the production that lets him churn it out at such a pace and quality. Good to see the Colundi virus spreading out to other artists as well. I love the microtonal melodies & filter sweeps (but not so much the pseudo-spiritual stoner spiel theyre using to sell it). Interesting track selection as well. Levels 10 and 14 get three trax each, but nothing at all from Levels 3,5,9,12 or 16! (I can understand 3 is already available on vinyl, and 9 is exclusive to Colundi backers only). Very cohesive though, and it's clear to see Serge has gone for the more technoey sounding trax. Wonder if there will be a Vol.2 at some point? Maybe after all the Levels have been completed. Also according to the Penryn Space Agency site that Kryzysztof Oktalski track is called 'Foundered'. There are a few track titles up for the Jodey Kendrick EDM F/A-18+ Stimulator album as well if anyones interested.

I just received this flyer in the mail, in a hardback envelope with nothing but a Warp invoice attatched. I have ordered from bleep recently so maybe they are sending them out randomly. Hadn't seen this thread bump so it was a bit of a nice surprise.

Holy shit 4 hours. Its gonna be a long night boys.

Turns out Steve Davis is a massive fan of Oneohtrix Point Never. And Autechre http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/10/steve-davis-snooker-champion-radio-show-dj-interview

The bmp is back up for Colundi 14, reminds me a lot of Colundi 3 but busier.

I was looking for a thread about Petiatil Cx Htdui which i just LOVE, definitely my fav Aphex piano track. Then I saw this comment, anyone have more info about it? Hey that was me from years ago. I seem to remember a couple of people reporting back on here and on xltronic (or aphextwin.nu?) about the set more or less straight afterwards but no boots emerged. I think he played SAWII tracks with beats as well. Seems a little more likely in these post soundcloud days that we might eventually hear some of these alt. versions at some point.

I'd love some Drukqs stuff but 'tapes' implies earlier tunes. Most of Drukqs was done on PowerPC or laptop I think

I can accept that the Steinvord EP was made by an anonymous newcomer, however I can't accept that some of those untitled myspace tracks were as well.

Nightmail sounds like Freeman Hardy & Willis crossed with Analord 5. Can't believe he's still uploading stormers - it's gonna make people want to reassess their poll choices. Genuinely excited to see what comes next.