Aphex Twin Universal Indicator Artist ID?

[dcom]

Yellow > Blue > Green > Red. Ultra-Violet's nice, but I don't count it as a proper UI release. I'm a lucky owner of all of them, having bought each when they came out; my copies have no extra markings, stickers or anything else. I don't think I even cared at the time who was behind what, I was buying everything RePHLeX I could get my hands on, which was really, REALLY difficult from Finland in the mid-to-late 1990s. I got a lot of the records directly from RePHLeX's mail-order, I still have the hand-written letters from Clair (who went on to run Clear and deFocus) on RePHLeX stationery replying to my orders and queries about the records.

[Ski Nell]

3 hours ago, dcom said:

Yellow > Blue > Green > Red.

totally. i've always wanted to hear a dj drop a track from yellow live but it hasn't happened yet. i bet tardis would decimate the dance floor, mental fucking track

[Dragon]

1 hour ago, Ski Nell said:

totally. i've always wanted to hear a dj drop a track from yellow live but it hasn't happened yet. i bet tardis would decimate the dance floor, mental fucking track

whenever you found mp3s of yellow on slsk, back in the day, they were rips of people playing the record at 33rpm. the tempo is so fucking high on all these tracks, Wayne's Tantrum is 202 bpm and Mike Dred ended the legendary hour-long UI mix of this series with that track because it's the fastest, and so that the tempo accumulates throughout the mix.

[Ski Nell]

2 minutes ago, Dragon said:

whenever you found mp3s of yellow on slsk, back in the day, they were rips of people playing the record at 33rpm. the tempo is so fucking high on all these tracks, Wayne's Tantrum is 202 bpm and Mike Dred ended the legendary hour-long UI mix of this series with that track because it's the fastest, and so that the tempo accumulates throughout the mix.

lmao i also remember getting those rips and then being shocked that it was actually meant to be played @ 45rpm. it's like that cylob industrial folk songs record. can't believe it's supposed to be that fucking fast

[dcom]

I've played WW303 the most, Tardis comes close second. Both have been staples of my acid sets for years, as well as Beverly Hills 808303's Pain In The South Pacific from The Mururoa Project.

 

Edited January 24 by dcom

[Dragon]

4 hours ago, dcom said:

I've played WW303 the most, Tardis comes close second. Both have been staples of my acid sets for years, as well as Beverly Hills 808303's Pain In The Pacific from The Mururoa Project.

Mururoa Project is a god-tier obscure Rephlex EP. iirc the Cylob track was pulled up as a digital bonus, but i don't think even half the nerds on this site have heard of this comp, it's like a little IDM time capsule

[dcom]

34 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Mururoa Project is a god-tier obscure Rephlex EP.

And it's an amazing one at that, but it's a bit of a shame that the glow-in-the-dark vinyl hasn't been a good quality choice for the pressing material, it crackled a lot from the get-go and noise has increased over the years, but with Pain In The South Pacific it doesn't really matter, the track is so noisy anyway. All other tracks can be found digitally elsewhere except Passarani 2099's Implosion, it's the only exclusive to the release.

Edited January 24 by dcom