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greetings people a few mutterings to while away a few seconds..... news of spymania #4 has reached us.... Spymania All Stars- "Avit" is a show case ep , with 6 artists featured track listing Alvis Parsley - Blue Suede Doo Doo Si Begg (aka Cabbage Boy/Buckfunk 3000) - Third Wave V.2 Wafta - What About the Leopard? Tight Pac - We Cut Men's Hair Paddington Breaks - Where's Frank? Modi Jedson - King Size Rolly and no we don't know if any of them are Tom Jenkinson!, bizzare names tho....street date 4/11 Meat Beat Manifesto's new single "It's the Music" features the Luke Vibert remix ,of 'Asbestos Lead Asbestos'....out 4/11 New Volume compilation - 'Breakbeat Science' features unreleased cuts by Boymerang 'Blue Notes' , Plug - 'Dark Matter' , Witchman- 'Burnin Headz', Phume 'Movin On' as well as host of more mainstream drum n bassers...... wot about the Aphex album then? - 32 minutes retailing as a full price album - and one of the cuts was on the Girl/Boy ep? mmm........ My personal opinion on the album is indifferent , it really is too short and sounds like a collection of unfinished ideas , no track is much longer than 3 minutes, you would think if he had supposedly hundreds of tracks un released - he could come up with something more satisfying than this.... it strikes me as being run of the mill aphex and the words being bandied about amongst us about it are mundane , pedestrian and lacking in any cohesion. , i have followed afx since day one and find myself becoming disillusioned with the 'wacky' pop star image and half baked tracks , school report - must try harder. back to the grindstone sm @ 4th world *cutting edge mail order* http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/4thworld

quoted 3 lines news of spymania #4 has reached us....

> news of spymania #4 has reached us.... > Spymania All Stars- > "Avit" is a show case ep , with 6 artists featured

Wicked! I bet two or three might be Tom J.

quoted 7 lines wot about the Aphex album then? - 32 minutes retailing as a full price

> wot about the Aphex album then? - 32 minutes retailing as a full price > album - and one of the cuts was on the Girl/Boy ep? mmm........ > > My personal opinion on the album is indifferent , it really is too short > and sounds like a collection of unfinished ideas , no track is much longer than > 3 minutes, you would think if he had supposedly hundreds of tracks > un released - he could come up with something more satisfying than this....

I think the length of tracks/album might be inspired in no small part by Jean Jacques Perry's Moog Indigo, which has tracks all hovering around the 2 to 21/2 minute length, each one of them a fucking masterpiece. I have a tape of Aphex Djing track after track from Moog Indigo & he samples it on Hangable Auto Bulb. From Greg:

quoted 3 lines Yawn yawn. What about just about every album before CDs came along

> Yawn yawn. What about just about every album before CDs came along > retailing at full price etc etc. what about albums full of shit > fillers retailing at full price etc etc.

I think both viewpoints are valid really. However there is no denying we are living in the post-CD age and there is no going back. Your argument really is dependent on how people feel about the tracks, whether they think each one is a gem or some of them are just buffing out time. You can't argue with 74 mins however. It's just there.

quoted 2 lines Cornish Acid

> Cornish Acid > are not mundane. they are three of his best ever released tracks.

Why do I have a feeling RDJ proabably knows a thing or two about 'Cornish Acid.' Grant might have some pointers as well :) Peace out, _____ / ,-,_) /,_) (/ RESH Live & Direct from the G-Spot, Orange County, California, USA