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Member Since: Jan 10, 2005
Rank: 74
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.67, 3 votes)
Rated 221 releases, average: 4.55
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Reviews:
Aphex Twin - 2 Mixes On A 12" For Cash - 06-Dec-07 11:40 PM
These two tracks are absolutely superb. The Windowlicker Acid Edit is full of the yummy acid grittyness which doesn't feature too much in the simply brilliant original, which makes me think of this cut as a companion piece rather than a remix. This version is rather empty sounding and uses silence and gaps to further expose the crisp and cutting acid and tight broken beat. I'm especially fond of the cow bell which tings throughout the track.
The beatless SAW2 track from the ambient works was always one of my favorites to float off into my subconscious on, and this mix puts a hypnotic groove to an already hypnotic tune. Unmistakably Aphex Twin's work, the gentle yet driving beat massages your frontal lobes till your eyes start seeing black and white spirals pulsating from the walls.
Love it.
Ps. The stuff about this record being limited to 1000 copies is absolute bollocks, and anyone considering paying fifty pounds on eBay for it should snap out of it. I was in Japan last Christmas and in one record store alone i saw five copies of this 12" lying in the electronic section all marked 1000 yen (AUS $12 or 5 pounds). Definitly worth getting these tracks on vinyl but please don't be a sucker and give some con ten times what he paid for it.
Scooter - Our Happy Hardcore - 03-Feb-06 03:10 AM
The non commercial tracks on this album don't have any of scooter's trademark annoying MCing and are actually pretty mad hard dance. "Last minute" is a remake of "hava nagila" which i thought would be really cheesy, but its really not a bad quality production compared to other 'lame' attempts on the same idea. The hardcore track at the end "Crank it up" is used in the TV show "Ali G in da USAiii" as the introduction to the russian fashion show segment.
Baby Ford - Headphoneasy Rider - 09-Jan-06 05:42 AM
The track "Toman" is quite astonishing for me. I came home one night from doing stocktake at my old shitty job, put this record on, and the outstanding simplisity and at the same time complexity of this track had quite a strange effect on my mind. I kept having visions of factory machinery and conveyor belts working relentlessly like the oddly timed chipping instrument used in this track.
A brilliant album that gets half the attention it deserves.
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