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hhmm interesting. afx.wordpress has all the other track times for Q-Chastic as being 9-10mins long, that would square up with Joyrex's statement. The lack of any Melodies From Mars material is also intriguing. Not just MFM itself but the later Joyrex Tape tracks or anything dated from 95 when he would have been working on it. Is it really true he has overhauled it all in preparation for release? I always thought that the Steinvord track 'Untitled 97' sounds exactly like what an updated Melodies From Mars track would sound like, even though it shares no obvious resemblance to those earlier ones. I really hope this is true. Before last week I was skeptical but now all bets are off!

I wonder which four tracks were on the aborted Q-Chastic EP from '92. chances are it is some of these. Bimbongo has the same synth sound as Symbonsad, and Red Alert sounds quite similar too. Only now can I really appreciate the circumstances surrounding the many lost/abandoned releases, when you are producing music at such a rate it seems almost futile to try and stem it and convert into an easily digestable and coherent chunks for an audience every few months. Especially on a small label like Rephlex where you're only going to be cutting limited vinyl runs anyway. Thank fuck for the march of technology.

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.

I think Warp was hoping to follow up Windowlicker quickly with an album, but Richie took longer than they expected and it turned into Drukqs. I don't think it was a conceptual thing. There are bound to be lots of tracks made in 98-99 that we havent heard though.

Cheers murph Organ sounds like RDJ's answer to Journey To Reedham that he never bothered releasing.

They were 95. The previous Peel Session was 92 where he played Italic Eyeball, and Blue Calx. theyres probably gonna be a few errors on there and quite a bit of personal conjecture about that 'album/ep closest to' field as well.

someone please answer this - as this would make it the most recent track if true :O lost the discussion about this during the first 50ish pages Doesn't sound like her at all. Yeah those Caustic Window tracks are strewn with pitch-shifted samples, its a coincidence it sounds similar to her voice. Tbh it doesnt sound like hes gone back to these tracks at all apart from digitising them and uploading them.

Ok so after listening to these tracks for a couple days, heres my sini/encey/alcofribas attempt to pass comment on and date every single one of them. Hey ive been off work for a few days and i fuckin love afx twin. dont judge me ok?: ∂ƒ∆ [rough mix] fantastic, HABish pads, deployed the woozy synths of mookid but for a completely different end result. 93-94? ∂ƒx 126b eerie, gloomy, but triumphant sounding On/SAWII era mid-tempo number (93-94) 07 B SAWII outtake(?), sounds more indebted to Tangerine Dream or Kraftwerk, very serene. 1st bank Trac spooky detroitish cut, the use of room reverbs remind me of CCAI2. no idea about the date.. when did he move into the bank? 2tone[camborne college mix] (1989-1990) obvious SAW1 material 5 RDJLP EXPANDED EDITIONS 70 s Tune coated in flange. Playful/whimsical MFM-era (94-5?) ACH (1993) Played live with mixed in with other C.W., sounds like one of the harsher ICBYD trax to me. Acid Misc (1993) live excerpt from Leeds 1992, (mistagged year?) Afx 71 1 (1994) sounds like proto-drill drums mixed with Caustic Window distortion Afx origTheme (1990) shades of Xtal here. Alis Trak[brain floss mix] (1993) the harshness of Ab4 mixed with a move towards INKEY$/Crappy type complex beats Archponf (1991-1992) sounds a hell of a lot like Dodecaheedron or Isoprophlex. lost R&S Records stomper. barbarella on microdots brilliantly mad, Mookid drums with barbarella OST(?) samples providing the old-AFX dissonance (94ish) Bcr78 cocktail loungey Mike N Rich type groove, ABB5 sounding percussion (94ish) Bellbrk (1989-1991) sounds Ab3 era. Is that bell like-drone the same sample used in Tamphex? (Bicycle Wheel) pretty obvious SAWII outtake. richie even put the title in brackets for us Bimbongo (1989-1990) could have gone on SAW1. very close to Delphium Bradley Jam Pump Brad Strider session Bpjdrop Forge [pump up the jam mix] sounds Bradleyish as well. prob the most 909-heavy RDJ tune Ive ever heard Catsquidge2 (1991-1992) CW by numbers Chink 101 like Mike P says, sounds like a much earlier version of [hexagon] Clapstab Ab6 modular clattering funk. All Ab6 made around 94? CooltempoDemo (1990-1991) interesting piece, like a valiant attempt to do intense Drukqs-level drum programming on limited SAW1 gear Cutting one of the most recent trax on here. Weakling Child synths play music box melodies over CTD agression (96?) Dance And Play (1989-1990) Heliosphan/Tha vibes Dance2thebeat (1990-1991) Fantasia/Linmiri-type CW stormer Donkey Rhubarb Remix prob better than the original. sounds slightly more recent. DroneBReak (1989-1990) sparse sounding ambient proto-jungle experiment. sounds a bit like Steinvord being made on SAW1 gear. Dual Acid Ab6 sounds like Aphex doing Autechre. industrial futuristic acid Early Morning Clissold sounds very close to the [lichen] patch/sample. are these the tracks AFX was on about when he said SAWII originally had all beats? ep string (1989-1990) sounds like Polygon Window stuff Fly Beats (1994) minimalist beat heavy clunker. like the sort of less commercial stuff he'd put out on an Analogue Bubblebath Fnkmg whimsical ICBYD/MFM era track with a haunting Polygon Window acid line 94-5 Forgotten T early sounding Polygon Window Fork Rave (1989-1991) could have done well to released this one as a single back in the day, its that good. Fresher + Cleaner (1990) classic C.W. funnel (1994) it isn't, but it sounds like a SAWII version of Digeridoo gerald Remix starts off technoey and evolves into a busy playful tune in the mould of Plaid. really sweet. (94-6?) Girl Boy Dark Version RDJLP Expanded Editions glockenspiel TEAC (1991) unique. seems to anticipate the mad detuned sounds of Midi Evil Rave/Analord 9 GPO Beat (1990) another variation on the Caustic Window/Classics sound. Quoth drum samples. Hapshifter1 from AB5. I wonder if richie remembered this? he didnt post any other Ab5 trax up. High Hats Tune Tamclap Orig another highlight, like On mixed with hexagon but more cheerful. (93?) How Much I Wanted You (1990-1991) Supremacy II drums, Tamphex hoover sound, one of the better Caustic ones Hollow Alias Ab6 How To Science Ab6 How To Science 2 Ab6 Step Up To Cornwall Ab6 World Waver Ab6 these are a revelation, all from a style he never released/developed further. harsh, industrial bewildering. no pads or basslines just percussion and snatches of melody. reminds me a bit of Cylob's Smack Em Up Sharp extrapolated over a full EP. Human Rotation (1990-1991) the CW trax are hard to judge; because theyre so distorted they suffer the most from being unmastered (and also cuz its club not laptop music) but this is ace. Kids Beach (1989-1990) SAW1 contender Knife Fork Freq (1990-1992) early attempt at doing really heavy precise breaks. could be CW or could be AFX Lanner B4 Ardkore (1990) the AFX 114/Phlange Phace break given another workout Lannerlush Full really odd medievil historical-drama synths meet nauseaous metro disco. no idea, mid 90s leeds orbit[live] (1993) live acid, more U.I. than Analord. lsb [slo] one of the best. is this an attempt to do a languid Acrid Avid type track shortly after the move over to software? (96?) Lush Ambulance 2 (1994) really nice experimental track. one of the most minimalist he's released. sounds like Coil remixing SAWII Make A Baby stellar HAB track. chord sequence reminds me of Rushup I Bank 12 Martins Car LPF Green Calx acid line, pads sound like Fingertrips, SAW1 era. Mental Telepathy is this one of the earliest trax? sounds like a lot of the same ideas as SAW1 but the structures not there yet. Metal Beat Bucephalus type beats-only programming excursion. i wonder how many of these he's got? (95-6?) mooow [Dixons Theft mix] (1989-1990) perfectly serviceable Ab3 style early 90s AFX acid. nocares SAWII ambient track reminiscent of cliffs or domino (92-4?) Nova Robotiks SAW1 era softly flanged beat h'ordeuvre. late 80s Ny Groove (1994) getting a Sega Megadrive level select feel on this one. very Kerrier District. an unexpected highlight. organ bafflingly unreleased psychedelic sugar-rush drill workout masterpiece. yeah 6 adjectives bitch. I would happily have had this on the Windowlicker EP. Original Chaos Riff SOSW or AB3 potential. maybe too close sounding to Cuckoo to release? P – String been waiting years to hear this in good quality. top tier AFX. like D-Scape or Icct Hedral but with more fury. 1993? P.e. (1990) halfway between Polygon and Caustic. Parking Lot (1988-1989) Another Delphium-esque track from that era. Not too keen on the sample but maybe thats Janet Jackson's fault. Pearls can't date this one. it has the MS-20 modulated percussion of ICBYD but the pianos remind me more of SAW1. its really nice either way. Phlangebeat (1994) Ventolin EP era industria Phuqed Up (1994) Same. pre-dating the kind of harsh metallic beats of RDJ. Pink Floyd sounds like Window Peeper, break tutorial ephemera. interesting but wouldnt have fit on SAW1 Plinky Plonk[orig] Plinkyplonk (1990-1991) both sound really old, but like Squidge in the Fridge, have charm in their naive melodies. the synth sound is brilliant. Pump The Shit (1991) if its got an aggressively confrontational title and shitloads of distortion its probably by Caustic Window Quad Rave TEAC (1991-1992) reminiscent of Polynomial-C: cosmically arpeggiated breakbeat track. is it by Polygon Window, is the Q a clue? Red Alert this one reminds me of the Q-Chastic track, other than that its quite subtle and unassuming (v.early 90s) Red Calx fucking yyeeesss. Renalgade Sonar (1989-1990) pleasingly lo-fi rumbler. sounds a bit like Clayhill Dub. Rough Beat Tune Another lost masterpiece. has SAWII strings, MFM synth gurgles and ICBYD drums. fuck. no idea what year SallyVingoe (1989) early Polygon Window type material. nice 727 whistle Sams Car ageisoplis is that you? Short Mental Afx (1993) another short experiment in agression sline a difficult one to date/contextualise. a lumbering monolith. sounds like Tri Rep-era ae. possible descendent of SAWII mutating into ICBYD. Slo Bird Whistle[peel Sesh] (1995) Donkey Rhubarb/Plaid-esque pop tune finally in better quality. you can hear the beginnings of the buzzy MFM synth sound in here as well. [slo]w Early Morning Clissold Sunrise another highlight. sounds like [lichen] adapted and mixed with some crunchy Ventolin beats SomewhereOTTGTBAG very early subdued Caustic rave. i like the maddeningly repeating horn sample. Squalitude Acid possibly the harshest CW ever got. this is almost Haswell levels of noise and brutality. and theres 6 mins of it. Square Dance very weird. like Goon Gumpas done on a less realistic synth with lots of squelchy interference. 94ish? Ssnb beautiful. like one of the more serene SAWII tracks with the orchestrated strings of ICBYD. Suzanne SAW1 outtake. early Ptolemy? ThnxU4letinMeStyWitU (1990) another CW cut, creepy kids voice deployed over massively domineering lead line thats had all its low end eq'd out in a spooky fashion. Twister (1994) weird experiment featuring tracks of ring modulated instruments,sounds like youre in the middle of some horrific recursive maze. like the pisstakey stuff on the girl boy ep. Utopia similar to Pearls it has elements of SAWII and ICBYD but sounds like it foreshadows them or is less polished/focussed. Vocoder Disco (1994) from the funk drawer. sounds like elements of the bassline for Bummy. sounds like he just got hold of a vintage vocoder and bashed this out. Vtnm (1993-1994) Vtnm2 (1993-1994) cant believe these two, they sound like contemporary Gerald Donald remixes of Ventolin. sterile creepiness. With My Family the studio setup here suggests SAW1 but the melodies are advanced and nuanced like something from years later. sounds like Pissed Up in SE1/bittersweet analog jam X – Rays (1990-1991) variation on the distorted kick/high pitched metal percussion of Caustic Window/AFX. solid. Xame Filtered (1993) another unique track. ominous strings and an insistent beat are put through a series of filter experiments.

Yeah it seems pretty much obvious given the track title and the other tunes he was uploading in the same batch, but i didn't make the connection til Joyrex said.

those synths sound so Arpanet/Zwischenwelt mid-00's Gerald Donald sound its crazy. Fork Rave sounds like something off Burial's Rival Dealer but the sounds have washed out and decayed themselves the long way round.. its gonna be quite divisive working out what fits where, as a lot of the Aphex albums were compiled from large time periods anyway. There are about 20 tracks alone which would sit nicely on ICBYD mood and time-wise, and about another 20 for SAW1. There are a few tracks from 94 that hint at some lost funk phase (i thought Bummy was the only one). Will probably try and come up with some kind of personal compilations that have good flow and tonal coherence.

Bpjdrop Forge sounds like Drexciya trying to cover 'windowsill' of SAWII

Its also sampled from the Run DMC record on Wagon Christ's Electro Gangsta if youve heard that.

I thought 70 tracks for analord was a lot for a few yrs work. and this isnt even all the unreleased stuff from that time period either!, theres still Ab5, MFM, some Joyrex Tape trax, live trax etc unaccounted for. dude must be making music most of the time.

if hexagon and On had a baby.

I would say P-String. ABBs usually kick off with a banger, and its from the right year (94ish) . that one fits the most closely but i'm not sure, the rest of the EP is so cohesive. reminds me of the stuff Cylob was doing around the smae time (Smack Em Up Sharp). lots of clanky percussion, not much bass, and the melodies arising from the strange harmonics.

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Early Morning Clissold... lush sounds like SAWII meets Cylobian Sunset.

lsb (slo) is an oddity - sounds like the mood and structure of Acrid Avid, but with the clean softsynth sound of the CTD era.

Red Calx Slo is a beaut. Would have been one of the highlights of SAWII.

good to hear How To Science 2 in clarity, i always thought it was an early pass at the NIN remix

its insane, yesterday I didn't know it existed, now I'm hearing it for free. its feels like the Beatles just reformed and gave out 8 albums they had recorded but not told anyone about.

Ok so he answered my question lol. another Joyrex Tape Track as well. Funny we might have been sitting on ABB6 all these years without knowing it.

The early stuff is going to be difficult to apply pseudonyms to because these a lot of cross-over in sound. I guess the SAW1 stuff is more chilled out with warm 606 cymbals, more reverb etc. The Polygon Window is more technoish with eerie acid vibes, TR-drum hits. Anything else is AFX prob. Q-Chastic is virtually impossible to catagorise as we've only heard 1 official track (there is meant to be an albums worth(!)). I would class Caustic Window as the more aggro stuff with distorted kicks and breaks, but then again some of the tracks on Cat023 were very different from this remit. After about 93 most of them start sounding industrial/hip hoppy like the stuff off ICBYD and presumably are under Aphex Twin. There are some really fucking weird ones from '94. Apart from Clapstab and World Waver I wonder which other tracks would have been on ABB6?

Cutting would fit straight near the back end of the RDJ Album

Great track. Reminds me a lot of Wagon Christ's Phat Lab Nightmare