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1995-04-28 22:59Ryan G. Pals|It is a high-pitched ringing in |the ears, in my case chronic and omnipresent. Usually (b

From:: Ryan G. Pals <fk453@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 18:59:53 -0400
Subject:: aphex and your ears

|It is a high-pitched ringing in |the ears, in my case chronic and omnipresent. Usually (but not always) caused |by prolonged exposure to loud noise and believe me, it is no fun to have. take care of your ears, kids. watch those headphone volume levels especially. i have to sleep with either a cd playing or a fan on to keep enough noise that i don't hear that high-pitched ringing. i can't sleep without sound. that ringing drives me up the wall.

quoted 3 lines In particular, loud noise around the 4kHz range is most likely to cause

>In particular, loud noise around the 4kHz range is most likely to cause >hearing loss or tinnitus or both. Guess what the frequency of that >"Ventolin" tone is.

yeah, bloody great. he wants to ruin everyone's hearing i guess! but he cares cos you do. aww. isn't that special? +I do love the cover though. It looks like a cross between Alfred E. +Neuman and the hitch hiker from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. +It spooky. It looks like an obsessed nerd who has been up for about 3 +days straight. Excellent! well that's exactly what richard james is anyway! i got the album today cos it was cheap, something i was planning on getting, something i thought might be good... well. i think everything's been said to death about it, but i have a few questions... which one was the track with philip glass? it's not credited. is the US the same as the UK? if i can toss up my opinion on it, i'm a bit disappointed. he just doesn't want to make ripping tunes anymore i guess, and i think he's been hanging around luke vibert too much as well. this release is all trip hoppy, which isn't a bad thing, but i guess i miss old ab2/xylem/etc. skull-crushing-hard afx. and the cover really is something ghastly. and come on you slags is the only really awful tune on it. other wise it's ok. -r (wishing for more polynomial c moments) -- o _/,_ . /o...\__// fk453@cleveland.freenet.edu \_'__/``\` \`

1995-04-29 01:17Alan M. ParryOn Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Ryan G. Pals wrote: > this release is all trip hoppy, which isn't a b

From:: Alan M. Parry <fluid@hyperreal.com>
To:: Ryan G. Pals <fk453@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 18:17:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:: Re: aphex and your ears
Reply to:: aphex and your ears

On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Ryan G. Pals wrote:

quoted 3 lines this release is all trip hoppy, which isn't a bad thing, but i guess

> this release is all trip hoppy, which isn't a bad thing, but i guess > i miss old ab2/xylem/etc. skull-crushing-hard afx. > and come on you slags is the only really awful tune on it.

If Come On You Slags isn't taken right from the skull-crushing Xylem Tube era I don't know what is. :: Alan M. Parry :: fluid@hyperreal.com :: <finger me for PGP key> :: http://hyperreal.com/~fluid

1995-04-29 15:01g303On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Alan M. Parry wrote: > On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Ryan G. Pals wrote: > > >

From:: g303 <G.L.Eden@newcastle.ac.uk>
To:: Alan M. Parry <fluid@hyperreal.com>
Cc:: Ryan G. Pals <fk453@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>, <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 16:01:45 +0100 (BST)
Subject:: Re: aphex and your ears
Reply to:: Re: aphex and your ears

On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Alan M. Parry wrote:

quoted 8 lines On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Ryan G. Pals wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Ryan G. Pals wrote: > > > this release is all trip hoppy, which isn't a bad thing, but i guess > > i miss old ab2/xylem/etc. skull-crushing-hard afx. > > and come on you slags is the only really awful tune on it. > > If Come On You Slags isn't taken right from the skull-crushing Xylem Tube > era I don't know what is.

Indeed it is. He played this at the live Radio One session at Sheffield Poly. Some three or four years ago... greg The Official WARP Web Site 3 0 3 http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n264671/wap-indx.html

1995-05-01 16:18Michel Battagliai just bought the album, and even though i've not listtned through it all the way yet, i t

From:: Michel Battaglia <mikebee@freenet.scri.fsu.edu>
To:: Alan M. Parry <fluid@hyperreal.com>
Cc:: Ryan G. Pals <fk453@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>, <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Mon, 1 May 1995 12:18:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:: Re: aphex and your ears
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i just bought the album, and even though i've not listtned through it all the way yet, i think 'come on you slags!' is one of my favorite tracks. hard as nails. :D mike

1995-04-29 02:50Chris.Hilker>>In particular, loud noise around the 4kHz range is most likely to cause >>hearing loss o

From:: Chris.Hilker <cspot@hyperreal.com>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 19:50:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:: Re: aphex and your ears
Reply to:: aphex and your ears

quoted 5 lines In particular, loud noise around the 4kHz range is most likely to cause

>>In particular, loud noise around the 4kHz range is most likely to cause >>hearing loss or tinnitus or both. Guess what the frequency of that >>"Ventolin" tone is. > >yeah, bloody great. he wants to ruin everyone's hearing i guess!

I doubt it. I think's Ventolin's fairly self-policing as far as that goes. You'd have to be a masochist to listen to it at high volume. My suspicion is that his motivation for deliberately including a piercing tone of that pitch is more artistic than that. I haven't come to any firm conclusions, though.

quoted 1 line which one was the track with philip glass? it's not credited.

>which one was the track with philip glass? it's not credited.

"Icct Hedral (Edit)," according to the review in 'Rolling Stone.'

quoted 1 line is the US the same as the UK?

>is the US the same as the UK?

Yes. C. -- cspot@hyperreal.com (Chris.Hilker) "Blue ice cubes? How degenerate!"

1995-04-29 15:00g303On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Ryan G. Pals wrote: [stuff abpout ...I care 'cos u duz] > which one w

From:: g303 <G.L.Eden@newcastle.ac.uk>
To:: Ryan G. Pals <fk453@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 16:00:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject:: Re: aphex and your ears
Reply to:: aphex and your ears

On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Ryan G. Pals wrote: [stuff abpout ...I care 'cos u duz]

quoted 1 line which one was the track with philip glass? it's not credited.

> which one was the track with philip glass? it's not credited.

Wrong! None of the tracks on the album have any *direct* Phillip Glass involvement, as I have stated twice before. Icct Hedral, is RDJ's rearrangement of one of the tracks they did together. What isn't difficult to spot is that RDJ was probably heavily influenced by Glass's orchestral side. I'm still waiting for the 12" promo of their collaboration. greg The Official WARP Web Site 3 0 3 http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n264671/wap-indx.html

aphex and your ears