kinski Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 http://boomkat.com/cds/9196-caustic-window-compilation ' pure tweaked out acid mentallism and 4/4 brutality' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 First time I heard this album was just over 10 years ago - I was sitting in a friend's bathroom getting my hair bleached (such was the way in the early 2000s !), the caustic fumes from the hair peroxide matched the sound of album perfectly ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Richard's coffers must be running low...there's a lot of repress/reissue action going on! Seriously though, I doubt Richard is behind all these reissues - I think the labels are sensing the fans' need for Aphex, and are capitolizing on that need... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sljiva Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 It says repackaged. Can anyone confirm this edition comes with "recommended Rephlex catalogue" sheet? Probably not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 It says "remastered" too so it might be interesting. I'm happy with this reissue politic made by Rephlex, it's definitely not a bad thing if the money they earn that way allow them to put more stuff out and be more active on the electronic scene...Not to mention a possible preparation for new Aphex coming..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I haven't heard this for donkey's years. As I remember I hated it lol, I wonder if I still do?.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyonPalm Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I know the 3LP has been reissued a few times, but I suppose it's interesting that the CD gets re-released, as I can't recall it ever having gotten a second press (correct me if I'm wrong.) I wonder what "remastered" means... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I know the 3LP has been reissued a few times, but I suppose it's interesting that the CD gets re-released, as I can't recall it ever having gotten a second press (correct me if I'm wrong.) I wonder what "remastered" means... Me too. Hope they don't do it over and over like on R&S… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 The CD hasn't been repressed to my knowledge... the audio on the original CD was pretty good, so I wonder too what "remastered" means... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 One of the interesting things about the CD version of the Caustic WIndow Compilation is it finally gave proper, "official" names to all the tracks that appeared on the vinyl (sans of course the one from J5 featuring samples from R2-D2 from Star Wars and the omage to Hot Butter's "Popcorn" that appeared on J4). It would be neat if they finally included those vinyl-only tracks on this version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I have never heard these. Purchased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 One of the interesting things about the CD version of the Caustic WIndow Compilation is it finally gave proper, "official" names to all the tracks that appeared on the vinyl (sans of course the one from J5 featuring samples from R2-D2 from Star Wars and the omage to Hot Butter's "Popcorn" that appeared on J4). It would be neat if they finally included those vinyl-only tracks on this version. I love Caustic Window. I don't know much about the state of hardcore techno and gabber back then but I always found this to be extremely novel for 1993. Do you think there's a chance they'll put the two vinyl only tracks on? I figured a copyright issue applied (I think that's been mentioned in the past actually), after all "popcorn" sampled the moog version of the song right? And well, then there's the almighty George Lucas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hijexx Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Just add a breakbeat and a few filter sweeps and you got AFX Popcorn. Not taking away from the AFX version though, still the jam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzAaJ6Fq6Ng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 One of the interesting things about the CD version of the Caustic WIndow Compilation is it finally gave proper, "official" names to all the tracks that appeared on the vinyl (sans of course the one from J5 featuring samples from R2-D2 from Star Wars and the omage to Hot Butter's "Popcorn" that appeared on J4). It would be neat if they finally included those vinyl-only tracks on this version. Let's wait til somebody purchased one of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Let's wait til somebody purchased one of this. Feltcher, we're waiting for your report :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoeB Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I haven't heard this for donkey's years. As I remember I hated it lol, I wonder if I still do?.... Cordialatron and On the Romance Tip are absolutely divine. It's a shame they weren't released on another consistent ambient techno album along with CAT 00897-AA1, Cuckoo, AB4's track 4 and n.IASP. The Analogue Bubblebaths and the Caustic Window compilation seem even more than most of his albums to be collections of random tracks he had lying around that don't really fit together all that well. Having said that, I love The Garden of Linmiri, but then I remember the advert it was in from my childhood... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Ahhh I haven't heard this for donkey's years. As I remember I hated it lol, I wonder if I still do?.... Cordialatron and On the Romance Tip are absolutely divine. It's a shame they weren't released on another consistent ambient techno album along with CAT 00897-AA1, Cuckoo, AB4's track 4 and n.IASP. The Analogue Bubblebaths and the Caustic Window compilation seem even more than most of his albums to be collections of random tracks he had lying around that don't really fit together all that well. Having said that, I love The Garden of Linmiri, but then I remember the advert it was in from my childhood... Ahhhh I remember On the Romance Tip. It's the only track I remember liking, most of the other stuff was a bit gnarly. I might get this (as I quite like gnarly nowadays). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoeB Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Ahhhh I remember On the Romance Tip. It's the only track I remember liking, most of the other stuff was a bit gnarly. I might get this (as I quite like gnarly nowadays). It sounds like we're at pretty much the same mental place. Check out Cordialatron, it's almost as nice as On the Romance Tip. It's mad that such nice tracks were only released on such relatively obscure EPs, but then again the same's true of Hangable Auto Bulb, especially the second part. I think he just goes out of his way to try to be unpopular. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 It's just what eccentics do I suppose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I haven't heard this for donkey's years. As I remember I hated it lol, I wonder if I still do?.... Cordialatron and On the Romance Tip are absolutely divine. It's a shame they weren't released on another consistent ambient techno album along with CAT 00897-AA1, Cuckoo, AB4's track 4 and n.IASP. The Analogue Bubblebaths and the Caustic Window compilation seem even more than most of his albums to be collections of random tracks he had lying around that don't really fit together all that well. Having said that, I love The Garden of Linmiri, but then I remember the advert it was in from my childhood... The Garden Of Linmiri……… there is a nice version of that tune he played at Big Day Out several years ago. In the midpoint he is farting a horrible white noise between Linmiri's drums… A guy I worked with years ago copied a crappy 112kbps file of that live set on my harddrive. Maybe some of you know this. It's pretty good with some classics thrown in too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoeB Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 It's just what eccentics do I suppose Driving a tank or living in a bank is eccentric. Throwing a bunch of tracks together haphazardly is more likely a cash grab or portfolio builder. I guess you could classify both kinds of behaviour under the broader term of simply not caring... It's a shame, because a lot of his individual tracks are great, it's just the releases as a whole that don't really gel together very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 ICBYD being a good example. So many songs I hate, so many songs I love. Definately a ping-pong album for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoeB Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 ICBYD being a good example. So many songs I hate, so many songs I love. Definately a ping-pong album for me. Yes, all his albums are like that for me. I only like half of ...ICBYD, but I really like it in a way that no other music quite manages to reach (although Kissing a Robot Goodbye gets close). The same, to a lesser or greater extent, is true of almost all his albums. If everyone disagrees about which are the good tracks, fair enough, it's a difference of opinion. But when pretty much everyone's in agreement (such as I'm Self Employed being a good track), it starts to seem a bit arbitrary which tracks were picked and which weren't. Especially with the re-release of Surfing on Sine Waves, which has some previously unreleased tracks which sound (to my ears, at least) better than some of the originals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I can't remember the timeline in which I heard ICBYD (as in relation to his other releases) but it was an early lesson that Aphex will make tracks I equally worship and hate. I quite like that though, heheh. To me it's what listening to Aphex is all about so it doesn't bother me too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EleminoP Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 gwc sent hat this message on facebook, and asked him to pass it along hello again. boomkat are selling in some represses of AFX/Caustic Window. I knew they ve been in the pipeline for time, but heard about the actual release via a WATMM/thread this morning. I'm not registered on it so cannot reply. Boomkat are saying it's remastered, repackaged with an extra track. this is not true. i've emailed the distrubutors and boomkat about this but it's still me that will get the stick for it. I thought i ought to inform you about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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