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online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-02-22 19:52 [#02513787]
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who plays the shakers on this track? they're p. tite


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-02-23 14:58 [#02513870]
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i flucking love this track, its flucking amazing


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-02-23 14:59 [#02513871]
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i listened to a live youtube version multiple times a day
for years on end before it came out


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-02-23 17:20 [#02513883]
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yes, it was the infamous "metz" track, wasn't it? or so it
was called on watmm. people flipping a bum for years over a
youtube video with people yelling over half the track.
still, people were not deterred and kept pounding on it.
some enterprising chap even sat there and re-recorded it.

i remember hearing synthacon 9 in the "snowbombing" set and
saying "this sounds like unreleased aphex" and then the left
channel cuts out and it's like the mix saying, "why yes sir,
it is! at any other moment, this would be a soundbard
malfunction, but right here, i'm clearly being a huge ginger
richard" watmm dutifully remastered the missing left half
and it was like james had cured cancer when he put out
rushup edge.

i half wonder if it's self-fufilling prophey of sorts. aphex
is genius omg. all aphex is hunted down. any whiff of new
aphex is remastered, reconstructed, regurgitated, and
reviewed and re-viewed and re-viewed. by the time it goes to
the vinyl factory, people have heard it 917 times and it is
a part of their soul already and there's no way the vinyl
won't sell out

any pointers on how to swing that myself?
thanks,
every musician on the internet


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-02-23 17:26 [#02513885]
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i always wondered this nice people able to recognize some
sound is an unrealeased something at an aphex twin gig.
never been into the following trends once.


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-02-23 17:29 [#02513887]
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that set is a perfect example, really. when he did the
soundcloud dump i realized a lot of other things in there
were also unreleased aphex -- 180db segues into GPO beat etc
-- and i missed all of those. all of 'em, absolutely all of
'em. so, yes, i was sure about synthacon 9, but i missed god
knows how many others. that should put this mystical ability
nicely into people perspective


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-02-23 17:36 [#02513888]
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you dont think to unreleased tracks to an afx gig


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-02-23 17:39 [#02513889]
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180db i strongly suspected, but he didn't cut out half the
mix like he did synthacon 9.

it's funny, but there is a distant dialogue of sorts going
on between RDJ's playlists and the listeners. presuming that
channel drop-out wasn't just a spooky convenient accident,
it comes across a little cheeky wink from across the pond:
yes, this is new aphex. you heard correctly. this glitch is
confirmation

i could just as easily have it backwards: the channel
drop-out was serendipity. unplanned, accidental, just
life... but people like me perceived it as deliberate. james
logs onto the interweb to find a bunch of people carefully
extracting the broken fragments of synthacon 9 from his set
and says to himself, "i guess this should be track one on
the next record i put out"

also possible: he's completely unaware of the channel
glitch, the fans, or even his face, so blazed every day.
what tracks did i put on rushup edge again? oh yeah


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2017-02-24 01:07 [#02513926]
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i wouldn't be suprised if that channel drop out was not
purposeful, he's quite a serendipitous person
new track on that day for night recording


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2017-02-24 01:17 [#02513930]
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this bit of that business


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-02-24 01:37 [#02513931]
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i'd just never noticed the (possibly serendipitous) parallel
between synthacon 9 (snowbombing set -> first track on
rushup) and monopips 67 (metz fetztibal set -> first track
on syroblappist).

i've also come up with a fourth scenario to add to my above
three [deliberate channel dropout, deliberate reaction to
accidental channel dropout, complete serendipitous chain of
accidenti] --

james creates a virtual computer console in a lucid dream.
he logs in and queries, "what tracks should be on rushup
edge?" and then it promptly spits it out the proper tracks
in the proper order.... or, well, good enough. i've had
dreams hand things to me like that after i've stewed on them
all day. should it actually make it to a dream with an
answer, the answer is generally spot-on

this was all a very long set-up for a terrible punchline. so
long, in fact, that i forgot the punchline. it probably
squarepusher or something... i give up.

i guess what i'm trying to say is picking the tracks/order
for an album is something that's very easy to get
superstitious about. the ancient chinese chaps would
carefully inscribe characters into animal bones and then
pour molten brass into the marrow hole. the bones would
explode and wise men would argue fiercely about how to
interpret the meaning of the way the bone fragmented... and,
what gets me is this: the arguments about the meaning
informed the characters they carved in next round. over
enough iterations, a feedback loop grew, and i'm sure they
eventually had a spooky-good divination success rate.

is that deliberate? kind of. is it rational? partially.
parsely


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-02-24 02:00 [#02513932]
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that bit of this business


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-02-24 02:01 [#02513933]
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fuk 'o! woo! o!

that yelling man sure likes the letter o. bet he's making
his face


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-02-24 02:04 [#02513934]
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fukin o! fuckin o!

is that like "fuckin a" down in texas? this is why i tend to
wait for the first track on his next album


 

online EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-02-24 02:08 [#02513935]
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a google deep mind network scans illegal recordings of gigs
for large clusters of "fuckin' o" and a virtual computer
console inside a server rack promptly spits out the proper
tracks in the proper order.


 


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