AFX* - Third Analogue Bubblebath

AFX* ‎– Third Analogue Bubblebath

Label:
Rephlex – CAT 008 CD, Rephlex – CAT 008
Format:
CD, Album
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Tracklist

1 .215061 3:54
2 .1993841 8:02
3 .0180871R 4:16
4 .942937 4:36
5 .0180871L 3:52
6 .000890569 4:48
7 .55278037732581 4:20
8 (CAT 00897-AA1) 4:05
9 (CAT 00897-A1) 5:06
10 AFX 6/B 0:36
11 (CD Only Track #1) 4:41
12 (CD Only Track #2) 0:53
13 (CAT 00897-A2) 5:14

Companies etc

  • Glass Mastered AtNimbus

Credits

Notes

The sticker on the front contains the only text on the entire release. No track titles are listed. The CD is entirely blank.

Known versions:
- Original issue, released in a bubble-wrap envelope sleeve (this release).
● The sticker features bubbles on the artwork.
● The sticker has the text "66% more bubbles".
● There is no sticker on the back.
● It has the following text in the disc's matrix ring: "CAT 008 CD" "1:3" "MASTERED BY NIMBUS".
- Reissue, which came is a slimline jewel case within a larger bubble-wrap envelope sleeve. This *might* be same as the 1997 reissue, but this is unconfirmed.
- Reissue (1997), which came in a slimline jewel case.

Cat# on sticker: CAT 008
Cat# on CD ring: CAT 008 CD

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 0 718752 170321
  • Matrix / Runout: CAT 008 CD 1:3 MASTERED BY NIMBUS

Other Versions (Showing 5 of 5) View All

Title, Format Label Cat# Country Year
Analogue Bubblebath Vol. 3 (2xLP, RE) Rephlex CAT 008 LP UK 2002
Third Analogue Bubblebath (CD, Album, RE, Sli) Rephlex CAT 008 CD UK 1997
Analogue Bubblebath Vol. 3 (13xFile, WAV, Album) Rephlex CAT 008 UK 2009
Analogue Bubblebath Volume 3 (CD, Album) Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) SRCS 8527 Japan 2000
Analogue Bubblebath Vol 3 (LP) Rephlex CAT 008 UK 1993
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by Mar 15, 2008
A couple of tracks on here are excellent, but for the most part this is not a very enjoyable release. Normally Aphex Twin's work is indeed very complex and wild, but this release is particularly annoying on the ears, with screeching synths at some points, and repetition and lack of creativity all throughout. If you want some of his better analogue releases, take a look at his later Analord series, summarized in his "Chosen Lords" CD.
Rated 5/5
Review by octo7 Dec 12, 2009
Brilliant album. It covers a lot of different style including 2 of AFX's very few forays with Trance. Track one is trancey, borderline cheesy but amazing, it has a rather industrial and repetitive beat glossed over with really nice synthesizers and uplifting chord-changes.

Track 2 is a highly repetitive track with incrediblyspooky synths and a heavy simplistic beat and beautiful high-pitched noises, it reminds me of a desert at night. Track 3 is weird, more spooky synth sounds, a really funky hiphop beat, strange illegible vocal samples and a metal clank, love it.

Track 4 is an atmospheric gabba-techno hybrid with overtones of calming ambient sounds reminiscent of Super Metroid. Track 5 is a nice intermission song which is pretty much indescribable but very enjoyable. Track 6 starts out as what sounds like a hairdryer pointed at a speaker and explodes into another Trance track although a lot harder than Track 1, great song.

Track 7 is vintage mental-as-fuck AFX acid in its purest form with a bit of Caustic Window spliced in. Track 8 is a really sweet ambient song with nice beats and sounds throughout. Track 9 is slightly industrial squelchy acid with a sample of a delirious laugh being looped, great track too.
Track 10 is thirty-five enjoyable seconds of mental Gabber. Track 11 is a very dark full-on Ambient tune with a really spooky vibe. Track 12 sounds like satan taking an analogue bubble-bath. The final track is slightly dated techno which wouldnt sound of place on a Caustic Window EP, good song though.
Rated 3/5
Review by jonathanchrist Nov 20, 2003
Analogue Bubblebath 3 (most notably track 2) proves that a prolonged, beyond-repetitious, not-exactly-complex string of tinnitus-inducing hi-hat-like samples, sometimes gritty and nasal booty bass booms, and atonal-yet-pretty, feather-light-yet-cheaply-overdriven ambient synth tones can actually be aesthetically pleasing. Listening to this disc gives me the same sense of wonder that I experience when I view paintings in an art museum - more so than listening to any Western "art music" I've ever heard. Genius, indeed.

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