Mike and Rich, thanks for the memories: Well my friends spring is
in our midst and the cold, cold earth shall soon thaw to release
natures bountiful blossom. March has faded into April and (how
could we have guessed?) still no sight of Mike and Rich from our
friends at Rephelx. In 11 or so days, that will make it 4 months
since any new material from our beloved RDJ (if you don't count
Empathy Box Rmx). Looks like he's slowing down in his old age.
RDJ Notes: There's been a lot of trash talk on here recently
regarding Aphex. It seems all the closet Aphex haters have been
crawling out of the wood work. Anyhow, it seems slightly dodgy (<-
new word learned from English mag) that we're all getting down on
him for his huge ego and being so full of himself when none of us
personally knows him (except for Grant, wherever he is). If his
head has gotten a bit big though you can't fault him. I think it
might go to any one of our heads if so many trainspotters went
salivating after every single damn noise we'd ever made and paid
some of the prices I've seen floating around recently. As for this
whole "if these are the good songs can you imagine what crap the
unreleased stuff is" thing, I don't think this is true at all. It
seems to me that when Aphex work's he records a bunch of songs in
the exact same style with slight variations. Sometimes this bunch
may appear as an EP of simmilar sounding songs i.e. Gak, HAB, or
simillar songs may be released years apart, ie. some of things on I
Care... and earlier work. So I think the huge backlog probably
comes from each song having 5 or 6 brothers somewhat like it.
Hopefully sometime in the future (when I'm an old man probably)
some one will see fit so release some type of boxxed set of these
recordings on some un-created format most likely. I've never gotten
the sense from Aphex's work that he's been taking a piss and trying
to test his fans to see how far astray he can lead them. If you
like some of the songs more than others thats understandable, I
have my favorites as well. But for every person that things AB 4 is
utter crap there's someone who really likes it (such as myself).
Peace out...
-Fresh