Product description
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2 x CD Compilation, Limited Edition
UK 2003
1-01 - Time To Find Me (AFX Fast Mix) (7:34)
1-02 - Raising The Titanic (Big Drum Mix) (8:42)
1-03 - Journey (Aphex Twin Care Mix) (10:14)
1-04 - Triachus (Mix By Aphex Twin) (4:12)
1-05 - Heroes (Aphex Twin Remix) (5:18)
1-06 - In The Glitter Part 2 (Aphex Twin Mix) (5:02)
1-07 - Zeros And Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction #2) (5:49)
1-08 - Ziggy (Aphex Twin Mix #1) (4:25)
1-09 - Your Head My Voice (Voix Revirement) (3:15)
1-10 - Change (Aphex Twin Mix #2) (4:16)
1-11 - Une Femme N'est Pas Un Homme (Aphex Twin Mix) (4:06)
1-12 - The Beauty Of Being Numb Section B (Created By Aphex Twin)
(3:27)
1-13 - Let My Fish Loose (Aphex Twin Remix) (5:26)
2-01 - Krieger (Aphex Twin Baldhu Mix) (3:23)
2-02 - Deep In Velvet (Aphex Twin Turnips Mix) (3:50)
2-03 - Falling Free (Aphex Twin Remix) (7:41)
2-04 - We Have Arrived (Aphex Twin QQT Mix) (4:23)
2-05 - At The Heart Of It All (Created By Aphex Twin) (3:49)
2-06 - Flow Coma (Remix By AFX) (4:59)
2-07 - Windowlicker ( Edit) (4:15)
2-08 - Normal (Helston Flora Remix By AFX) (6:51)
2-09 - SAW2 CD1 TRK2 (Original Mix) (6:30)
2-10 - Mindstream (The Aphex Twin Remix) (3:42)
2-11 - You Can't Hide Your Love (Hidden Love Mix) (5:05)
2-12 - Spotlight (Aphex Twin Mix) (6:57)
2-13 - Debase (Soft Palate) (5:50)
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It's hard to imagine Aphex Twin having a more appropriately
named label (Warp); fitting also that 26 Mixes for Cash should
have such an honest title. Having passed off a random gabba track
as a Lemonheads ( /exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/40621/${0} )
remix and not bothering to hear the Nine Inch Nails (
/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/41583/${0} ) originals before
handing over his mixes, Aphex Twin has historically proved a
little wayward in his methods. Not so much remixing as recycling,
Richard D James's method is not unlike flinging tracks into a
garbage crusher just long enough so only the bare s of melody
and structure survive. Covering a decade's work, this stunning
eclectic mix effortlessly flicks from cinematic ambience (Nine
Inch Nails--"At the Heart of It All") and industrial pandemonium
(Mescalinum United's "We Have Arrived") to squelching trance
(his own previously unreleased edit of "Windowlicker"). The
disparate range of artists remixed is as remarkable as the music,
with Mike Flowers Pops ( /exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/83201/${0}
) and Wagon Christ ( /exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/109781/${0} )
making unlikely bedfellows. Improbable yet inspired highlights
come in the form of his haunting interpretation of David Bowie (
/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/41846/${0} )'s "Heroes" symphony
conducted by Philip Glass (
/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/26565/${0} ) and the breathtakingly
ethereal transformation of Curve (
/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/48644/${0} )'s "Falling Free."
--Christopher Barrett
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Review
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26 Mixes for Cash is right. Among the canon of rare releases
commanding collectable prices, deleted and highly limited
productions by IDM inspiration/innovator Richard D. "Aphex Twin"
James are the stuff of fanaticism that High Fidelity skewers. Not
that all Aphex is worth spades, but 26 Mixes well merits your
doss. The collection showcases two sides of the singular Twin.
Disc one featuring remixes of artists including Seefeel, David
Bowie & Philip Glass, Jesus Jones, Saint Etienne and Nobukazu
Takemura, among others showcases James symphonic ambiance. While
the perception of anyone most familiar with AT tracks including
"Ventolin" and "Come To Daddy" would be for James to apply
driving sheets of static, he instead directs gentle drifts to
whisper down thin, steely corridors. The second disc, meanwhile,
features more of the clanging pipes, chirping couplers and
deconstructed, zigzagging penny-in-tin-pan rhythms he most often
applied characteristically. Remixes of Curve, NIN, Baby Ford and
Meat Beat Manifesto as well as previously unreleased Aphex tracks
"Windowlicker ( Edit)" and "SAW2 CD1 TRK2 (Original mix)"
more directly connect to the early- 90s, post-industrial/electro
dance floor. 26 Mixes offers an alternate overview of an artist s
development considered groundbreaking, though finally not bank
breaking; pristine sounds well worth filthy lucre.
Tony Ware -- From URB Magazine
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