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November 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Aphex Twin: Peel Session 2

Aphex Twin Peel Session 2 Warp Records It’s anniversary time for Warp Records – 30 years, unreal! So various digs in the vault are happening, including the release of this – Aphex Twin’s second Peel Session from around the time of the peak years (’95) where he was still thrilling with drill’n’bass but also working […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 12", 30th Anniversary, Album Review, Aphex Twin, EP, p-string, Pancake Lizard, Peel Session, Peel Session 2, Peel Sessions, Radiator, Richard D. James, Slo Bird Whistle, Vinyl, Warp Records, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 319 

Aphex Twin, Come To Daddy (1997) This was the very first thing I heard by Aphex Twin – it sent me down a path. I’ve never returned really. Never backed away. It’s all intriguing and invigorating. And the best of it is the best music I’ve ever – ever – heard. And the worst of it is still better than so much. I bought […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1997, Album, Aphex Twin, Come To Daddy, EP, Flim, Pappy Remix, Record, Richard D. James, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 319, Vinyl ·

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September 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Aphex Twin: Collapse EP

Aphex Twin Collpase EP Warp Records I’ve said this before but I think it bears repeating: you could imagine that all of the Aphex Twin material – and we’re now talking about a nearly 30-year span of music-making – was created in a single weekend; Richard D. James high on herbal drinks and pills and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aphex Twin, Aphex Twin: Collapse EP, Collapse, Collapse EP, Come To Daddy, Drukqs, EP, Richard D. James, Syro, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Aphex Twin: Cheetah EP

Aphex Twin Cheetah EP Warp Records It’s been easy to rush in and declare nearly any and all of the product/activity from Aphex Twin since his return “The Best”. Quality control was there, always. It was usually great stuff – but since a mini glut of releases, many of them no doubt stored up over […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aphex, Aphex Twin, Cheetah, Cheetah EP, Electronic, Electronica, EP, Glitch, Richard D. James, Richard James, Warp, Warp Records ·

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November 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

AFX: Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008

AFX Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008 Warp Records There were all were, just over a year ago – lost without Richard D. James and Aphex Twin and some of his other pseudonyms. And then that Caustic Window album was made available to the mainstream, a flurry of Soundcloud activity was captured across a slurry of accounts. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2006-2008, AFX, AFX: Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008, Album Review, Aphex Twin, Archive, Caustic Window, EP, MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96, Mini-Album, Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008, Richard D. James, Soundcloud, Syro, Vault ·

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June 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Palmbomen II: Palmbomen II

Palmbomen II Palmbomen II RVNG International Here’s the latest from Kai Hugo, a self-titled album under his Palmbomen II moniker. He’s been making analog house and dusty old ambient-techno releases under various names and all with a cleaning-out-the-attic feel. Here on album where the strange gimmick is that every track is named after an X-Files […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Angelo Badalamenti, Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, Cliff Martinez, Giorgio Moroder, John Carpenter, Kai Hugo, Palmbomen II, Richard D. James, Selected Ambient Works, The X Files ·

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May 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Aphex Twin: MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep)

Aphex Twin MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep) Warp Records Last year Aphex Twin re-emerged. We had the very worthwhile Syro album, the eventual mainstream release of his Caustic Window project, then there was the ep, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (to my ears some of the very best Aphex work ever – and who […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 12", Album Review, Aphex, Aphex Twin, Caustic Window, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2, dance music, Demo, DJ, Drill'n'Bass, Electronica, EP, Japanese Version, MARCHROMT, MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96, MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep), Richard D. James, Syro, user487363530, Vinyl, Warp Records, XMAS-EVET [120] (thanaton3 mix) ·

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February 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Aphex Twin: Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (ep)

Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (ep) Warp Records You wait a decade for new Aphex Twin music – then you get a previously hard to find album recorded under another name, the now Grammy-winning official new album/return, as well as a stack of apparently unreleased Aphex leftovers under the typically cryptic user487363530 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aphex, Aphex Twin, Caustic Window, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (ep), David Lee Jr, EP, John Carpenter, Richard D. James, Syro, user487363530, Warp ·

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September 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Aphex Twin: Syro

Aphex Twin Syro Warp Records It’s going to seem like closet-clearing time with the release – limited though it was – of Caustic Window and now this: new Aphex Twin material. Richard D. James has been in a form of hiding for most of a decade, release-wise. There’s been music, performances, but he really slowed […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aphex Twin, Caustic Window, Richard D. James, Syro ·

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June 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Caustic Window: Caustic Window

Caustic Window Caustic Window Rephlex Records/Kickstarter/Revolt/YouTube By now any Aphex Twin/electronic music fan knows the story Richard D. James’ shelved album – under his Caustic Window moniker – has been released via a Kickstarter campaign. So, for whatever reason, we still don’t know the real reason – this Caustic Window release was pulled right as […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aphex, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Caustic Window, Electronica, Flutey, Kickstarter, On, Richard D. James, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Stream ·

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January 3, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1687

Aphex Twin, Windowlicker [Single] (1999) I had to buy this – simply for the cover. Alright, and because I love the song Windowlicker – and its over-the-top extended-version video too; for a while there I loved every single thing that Aphex Twin did. Clever cookie, that Richard D. James. And the three songs that form […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1999, Aphex Twin, EP, LP, Nannou, Richard D. James, Single, Vinyl, Windowlicker ·

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