Boards of Canada's peel session cd from Warp is damn horrible, for one
reason: XYZ is not on it. Why cut the best (and unreleased) track from the
radio session off the cd? Makes no sense to me, and i refuse to pay money for
this disc.
-mark
"j.d." wrote:
quoted 26 lines Aquarius (version 3) *is* the Peel Sessions cut. It's really lovely -> Aquarius (version 3) *is* the Peel Sessions cut. It's really lovely -
> much warmer and not so wintry as the album cut. Many more voices and
> samples though. This whole 3-track CD is classic stuff, IMHO...I thought
> I saw it being dismissed as "a disappointment" somewhere, probably the
> Wire, but I really like it.
>
> Warp are issuing Peel Sessions from artists on
> their roster regularly now, with a really pleasing minimalist theme to the
> box design etc - much nicer than the 10+ albums! I think there's also
> Autechre, Black Dog, and Plaid. There were two Aphex Twin ones planned,
> allegedly, but I reckon they've probably been scrapped. Word was, they
> were all very old stuff anyway.
>
> Meanwhile, backing Aquarius v3 is a *very* different, beautiful version
> of Olson, which I prefer to the album cut, and a tune called Happy Cycling
> which I think was on one of the earlier BoC albums, like "Twoism" or
> something. Happy Cycling is worth the price of the CD alone: It's
> simultaneously spooky and uplifting, with a weird Gyorgy Ligeti atonal
> choir sample too, rather like the start of 2001 when the monolith
> shows up. One of their most lovely melodies. Yes, this challenges the
> might of Roygbiv!
>
>
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