Aphex

Aphex Twin - Peel Session 1992 /  Live From Sheffield Hallam University 1993

FACT's John Twells weaves together a curated selection of Richard D. James's lesser-known gems. Let's have some Aphex acid!

For more information and the all-important tracklist, head here: http://www.factmag.com/2017/04/14/best-aphex-twin-tracks-youve-never-heard/

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John Twells - Aphex Twin Deep Cuts Mix

трип двадцатый / ты c купидоном не шути. купидон не глупый.

трип 20 / Don’t you mess with cupid, ‘cause cupid ain’t stupid.

The 20th release from Nina Kraviz’s seminal трип imprint is an homage to some of the most uncompromising manifestations of electronic music imaginable. Tracing sub-cultures from the 90s to the present day, трип 20 interrogates the boundaries of tempo and form via hardcore, gabber, acid techno and ambient. A mix of unreleased material and essential gems, the ten-track compilation visits трип regulars, esoteric masters and relative newcomers on a voyage to the extremities of a global underground.

трип 20 continues the tradition of gatefold double EPs as a conceptual album. All of the tracks are selected around a particular story, a trip, and presented as a continuous sonic landscape. All of the tracks are structured in a way that they can be mixed one with another an endless amount of times making a continuous loop, a trip, that needs only end when the party stops. Kraviz works without release dates or deadlines, enabling her to achieve a certain sound bank to shape the story, unmasking the thoughts and unravelling like a dream.

C2. Shadowax – I want to be a stewardess - Looping vocals welcome you on board for this unfurling trip of multiple guises. What starts as a bare-bone techno sketch evolves into a fucked up mass of breaks, jungle and hardcore from Shadowax, also known as Russian producer and live act Ishome.

@itsashadowax @ninakraviz

Shadowax plays live at трип 2 BARCELONA AT EL MONASTERIO - Friday 15th June - https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1050812

Don't Mess With Cupid - трип 020

TRP020 - Don't Mess With Cupid

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TRP020 C2 - Shadowax - I want to be a stewardess

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****Big thanks to my brother Tony Rodriguez (Brothers Vibe, LUV4WAX)for the DAT player loan and the surgery on the DAT tape when it SNAPPED when we first tried to play it. You saved a piece of early TECHNO history!****

Thanks for all the comments everyone! If I was wrong on the date, I apologize, I honestly didn't think I was still going to the Limelight after 1993 and thats why I dated it earlier. 

Yes the sound quality isn't the best but like I said I snuck in a Sony portable DAT recorder and recorded it straight from the crowd from the floor level right below the DJ booth. 
While I was outside on line, the security guard frisked me at the door and was like "what the hell is that? You can't bring that in here!" I told him its just a walkman and he let me go in with it. I'm lucky to even have this bad recording to be honest.
While we were waiting for his set, Richard James walked by me and this kid I was with and the kid stopped him and asked "hey my friend snuck in a DAT recorder, can we record right from your mixer??? RDJ just laughed in his face, said NO! and walked away. Haha.

Thanks for the track IDs, that was very helpful!
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Back in the early 1990s when techno was just starting to explode in NYC, I snuck a portable DAT recorder into the Limelight nightclub when Richard James, The Aphex Twin was DJing a very rare live set. I recorded his entire 1hr set from the crowd and then put the DAT away for 25+ years. The other day with the help of my friend Tony Rodriquez (LUV4WAX)and his DAT machine, we finally made a digital copy of the set and finally uploaded it for all to hear. As far as I can remember, RDJ did only 2 live performances (one performance blew out the power to the entire club and left the place pitch black and silent for a few minutes!) and 1 DJ set at the Limelight during that time. I have never heard a live set from RDJ from the Limelight so this might be the only recording of this set (please correct me if I'm wrong, thanks!) The recording is loud and noisy just like 90s techno but I think its clear enough to enjoy. If you can ID any tracks to create a track list, feel free to post it in the comments! 

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Aphex Twin Live at Limelight NYC MID 1990s LOFIDELIC RECORDS

138 - 0204 - blue carpet

1989
Linmiri bedroom, looking out over Carn Marth.

raindrops on roses-PBOD

dark horse overlord acid+7

m11st lon

prememory100N pt2

tha2

s8v1   [brooklyn]

Tha2 [world scam mix]

qu 1

B2 42DIMENSIT10

here is a download gift / sneak tease for the fans, to show the kind of quality I'm extracting from my old cassettes using mega high quality cassette decks.
Because I've added vari-speed, I get to choose what speed I encode them at, I've done a few different versions of all my fave ones and it's usually just what I think sounds good at the time or just different to what I'm used to.
This one is from a That's cassette labelled copy III , i used a lot of the VX90 tapes in that period of my life.
It is the 12th track on side a.
Even though I used to write COPY *.number, they were actually the original masters.
Think was one of the first tracks that had a small section with intentional microtuning, [harmonic series sec]
Encoded with Nakamichi CR7e cassette deck.

+added, it cuts out at the end coz the tape ran out :)
I remember sometimes recording tracks to cassettes, I'd be looking at the cassette nearing the end and try and finish the track before the tape ran out :)
bit different from todays recording methods .

earely cassettes

a12. ab3 .215061.

Eventide 1745m, sequenced from the Cirklon2

rare box, even rarer if you can get one working.
Worlds first digital pitch shifter, just got a 2nd one working :)))

eventide 1745m demonstration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUr10sz_hes
produced sometime between 2000-2001

Aphex

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