Final version is here: https://soundcloud.com/cylob/diary-burner-1?in=cylob/sets/placeholder-5

Tracing the evolution of the track "Diary Burner" from last year's album PLACEHOLDER. The various versions at different stages of development are crossfaded into each other. Starting as a "home made 808" jam, some ominous chords are added, a funky bassline joins the party and the vocoder gets involved. The last 35 seconds are from the final version, the iconic track that we all know and love :D

The initial track was saved on January 25th 2021 at 13:41 and the mixdown of the final version on August 29th 2021 at 17:27, so now you know.

Is this interesting to you? I'm always thrilled to hear early or alternative versions of tracks I like, so that's why I did this. If you want me to dig out some more "evolutions", click the heart and / or leave a comment. If not then fine, I can just delete this later and we can all move on as if nothing happened, OK?

Track Evolution: Diary Burner

hello, my name is cylob, and i make electronic music

I love electronic music. I listen to underground, indie artists. There are so many diamonds in the rough. I just want to share them with the world.

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“I Care Because He Does.”









This is a page inspired by the artist Richard D. James, more specifically, his work on the Rephlex Records label, unreleased/rare releases, and the album he released under the alias “The Tuss”, called “Rushup Edge.” Leading up to this official release, there were multiple MySpace pages said to be accounts belonging to The Tuss. At this point in 2023, it is still unclear how much of these Tuss accounts Rich was involved in… the only confirmed RDJ Tuss material are the aforementioned “Rushup Edge”, and the ep the preceded it, called “Confederation Trough”.

This page also focuses heavily on the “SoundCloud Dump”, which was a series of releases uploaded to a number of anonymous accounts on SoundCloud that eventually became clear to the world to be Richard. It is an astonishing amount of material - spanning his entire artistic career. They eventually were taken down by his record label, but there are a number of folks that compiled each track in a zip archive and can be downloaded for free to this day on archive.org. 

Though this page is dedicated to and inspired by Aphex Twin - I came to a turning point with where to take this page. The main goal is to promote. In other words,  to provide a place online for fans of Aphex Tain to easily stream the best of their favorite artist, as well as showing younger fans of electronic music who I believe is the greatest electronic musician. 

I’ve also uploaded various tracks from a few other artists that are either collaborators, influencers or those influenced by Aphex Twin. You will find some original DJ mixes done by me and some straight up “mixtape” style hour long tracks arranged by and mastered by me. 

I do not profit in any way from this monetarily speaking, but I do get a lot out of seeing the comments and the joy that the songs uploaded bring about, and archives are important.

https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/adopt-me

https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/blackbox-life-recorder-21f-in-a-room7-f760

https://squarepusher.bandcamp.com/album/dostrotime-1

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/grush



https://archive.org/details/aphex-twin-2023