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do you think this has been forgotten because of the soundcloud dump? i haven't really bothered with this one until today. flutey is so lush. |
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I listen to it quite frequently its excellent, fingertrips, squidge in the fridge, ambient rainbows, flute, mumbly all top draw |
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« There are no titles: Untitled. » It has hand written labels by RDJ (Richard D. James): SIDE 1 in black marker pen: "CAUSTIC WINDOW LP 33 1/3 SIDE A REPHLEX" in the run out groove: "CAT 023-A1 A PORKY PRIME CUT": There are two tracks on side A, the first is a subtle melodic grower, with hi q's; pianoish DX sounds & woodwind type synths. Nice but not very immediate. Track 2 is *much* more like it: Industrial type drums straight out of J5 and the catchiest afx acid line (not 303). Builds and builds with pad sounds & percessive held chords in a spooky fashion. SIDE 2 Same hand written info except it says: "SIDE B" in black marker pen and in the run out groove it's the same but says side "L" 5 Tracks on B: Track 1) called "muttley" by Richard.It features samples from "dastardly & Muttley" (Wacky Races Cartoon) starting off with Dastardly shouting "Muttley!" then Muttley the dog going "RashingFrashingWrarraFrarraWrash". Other samples: A girl speaking: "You know I don't even know why you bother talking" and the track ends with "what an utterly fantastical journey" (unknown sample) As regards to the music, it starts with a monophonic synth line doing a percussive riff up 4 notes, joined by another sound a few bars later. Then the drums kick in. Bass and snare from Phloam, sort of metallic guiro and clangs from Schottkey. Halfway through an orchestral string chords sample comes in, and the girl speaking sample appears. It's a great track, very SAW85-92 in period. Track 2) Happy, jolly little track with high pitched bell-like hihats acid sounds and long square wave bass note. Random dat glitches spice up the percussion. The melody comes from the interplay of tuned bass drum & tuned metal hihats. Track 3) Wow! This is a treat for fans of SOSW. Starts with Roland R8 hihats, then a marimba melody & the BD Kikkz in with an acidicish line. marimba fades in again. Then a BB1 DX pad in 5ths (lots of reverb) makes it fuckin lush. Drum break then the track restarts with stabs from Audax powder |
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acid & marimba. Track ends wth drums. Track 4) My favourite: Noisey drum loops (Tuned white noise?) acid pokes. Bass drum from Hedphelym or the B-sides to ABB2. Also odd bell like High melodies & metallic sampled melodies! very odd track. Track 5) Tribal bongos, Quoth Bd kik & "a,aphex-a,aphex"samples. About 1 min. long. SIDE 3 Handwritten on label: "CW LP side C" and in the run out groove it says; "THIRD REICH VETERANS WILL NOT JOIN VICTORY WAR PARADE. CAT 023 -01" 4 tracks Track 1) Very simple synth melody & 4/4 kik drum / snare joined later by emotional sounding soft detuned string notes. Hihats and hi Q's join later and lo-bandwidth metallic samples. Track 2) A very early track. One of the 1st he did. Childish squeaky acid line. Crap piano riff. Redeemed by lush strings & reverb on certain drum sounds, which might have indicated Here was a future talent. Track 3) Square wave bassline, melodic held acid line, R8 drums. Simple lovely very Aphex. Track 4) Jazz fusion aphex! Drum sounds similar to Gak. Sounds like Gak in fact except for a low farting bass and muted jazzy piano riff & overlaid solos. SIDE 4 "CAUSTIC WINDOW LP . side D" handwritten in black on label in runout groove: "CAT 023 - G1 A PORKY PRIME CUT " 5 tracks Track 1) An ambient track. This was a reject from SAW85-92 and is unspeakably lovely. A monophonic synth weaves around soft flutes to devastating effect. The synth filter opens & closes to emphasise the riff at certain times, & the flute goes freestyle towards the end. Metallic percussion invades the song at times complementing the groovy momentum gathered by the main riff. Track 2) This is Phlaps off the criminal justice bill comp. Track 3) This is Cunt off TEX 3 Track 4) This is a phone call between Mixmaster Morris & Scanner. Richard got 2 phones, rang them both (one to Morris, one to Scanner) and luckily they both answered simultaneously. What follows is very funny. Both Morris & Robin think each other has initiated the call and confusion reigns. This increases as a |
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third voice enters the fray (RDJ). Eventually they recognise him as Richard: "If you put the phone down your gonna die.. " Track 5) Same trick between Chris Jeffs (Cylob) & Michael Paradinas. This time Cylob figures it out straight away but the funniest bit is where he says "I think Richard wants us to talk to each other", to which Michael replies "Oh great..." track (& album) ends. You can post this info on the joyrex site [...] or wherever. I promised Richard not to let anyone have copies. I stick to that. |
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ah gak, forgot about that d/l now " I stick to that. " mike p is a deece guy to keep his promises even though he was sitting on such rare afx trax that people would have robbed a bank to hear |
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It's his best album and he knows that everything else since has been frankly disappointing. |
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I care is my fave I think just about |
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yeah he kept his promise, what else is in the archive? the mr men/meldoies from mars, green calx picture disc and sonic bubblegu! |
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q chastic or some shit |
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Saw 2 was meant to be 5 albums long, so must be quite a few more tracks there, drukqs there is loads more tracks |
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melodies from mars was remade wasnt it, he said he had six albums to release including mfm remake |
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yeah I think one track of that is available but not the rest |
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Ptolemy drums I think |
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yeah would love to have that, if he makes it a physical release, hope he has the original as a download or on cassette with download or something that would be brill |
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im listening to gak now,is it definitely rdj? |
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yeah deffo him |
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one time there was a youtube comment that said richard shits music that sounds about right to me though he should have said richard shits *brilliant* music |
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don't know where he gets the energy from, |
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im trying to keep a mental tally of all the stuff that is unreleased, but im beginning to forget, he replied to some of my messages on the subject when soundcloud kicked off, i really should have kept notes but i was that excited i wasn't thinking about it then |
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there was other stuff that was mentioned, like more calx tracks, a longer version of I and stuff ive forgotten |
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i always neglected this one... the teenage me would have spunked his pants knowing you could just listen to the caustic window lp, mfm, gak, the joyrex stuff etc whenever you want, never mind the soundcloud dumps. spoiled, that's what i am / we are. the "unspeakably lovely" first track on side 4 is just that. muttley and cunt are bangers. feels like it sags a bit in the middle but i think it's just cos i'm unfamiliar with the tracks. will be listening to this more, it deserves it |
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and them phone calls are well funny! |
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"don't, your gonna die!" |
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appreciate the bootleg pressed lp of this. squid and fingertrips really give a sense of the time period |
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squidge really has lovely pads, some of the best |
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