Right, so Plus One Loo is ripping through Mindhunter season 2 on Netflix and this killer track comes on. It's clearly where Basement Jaxx knicked the huge riff from for Where's Your Head At? (which still bangs by the way), and it turns out it is only yer man Gary Numan.
How the flip has it taken me nearly 18 years to hear M.E. by Gary Numan is beyond me.
"What have you been up to recently? Oh you know, stuff. How and where was the mix recorded? In rochdale bus station, at about 2am, on a butchered 3D super woofer."
Not only is it top top content but it's also presented in a really interesting way. Instead of voiceovers, talking heads, and archive footage like a lot of music documentaries, Everbody in the Place takes a different route. It uses a format of a talk to a class of sixth form students, who ask questions and interact with Roland 909s. It may sound wanky but it works and charmingly so.
While there are many highlights, and I heartily recommend you catch it on the BBC iPlayer before September, I'd just like to share this...
Body popping to Numbers by Kraftwerk on US TV. Love it. Absolutely love it.
I've been on another big Aphex Twin binge. Maybe it's the nostalgia that's stirred by a birthday.
But rather than picking an album I've been going threw the fan-made mixes on YouTube of the SoundCloud dump. I've written previously on how I felt the 20+ hours of music that Richard D. James posted anonymously in 2015 was a bit daunting. Yet sonic explorers braver than I continue to sort and stitch together albums and mixes from this trove.
Before I come on to this week's listening though and my particular highlight, I'd like give thanks to Naked Flames for their Aphex Twin - Sleep Mix. Mainly made up of Selected Ambient Works Volume II, this exquisite music helped immensely during the long nights in the hospital around Frank's birth. I continue to return to it when I need to create some headspace.
And as these mixes (with the exception of Selected 2017 Works) are made up of the user48736353001 and user18081971 SoundCloud dumps, they're very unlikely to be pulled for copyright infringement any time soon.
Rhubarb orc. 19.53 rev [unrev mono edit]
Finally, it's within that last mix that I found my particular highlight of the week. Well kinda. It's "Rhubarb Orchestral". Yet as Dommoson states on the accompanying Reddit thread the hard panning of the bass takes you away from the beauty of this orchestral version of Untitled 3 (Rhubarb) from SAWII.
But yet again those more dedicated than me have come up with the goods. Here's Aphex Twin - rhubarb orc. 19.53 rev [unrev mono edit] which sorts out the panning issue...
A Llantwit Major-based music blog for things post-punk, electronic and a little bit left of centre, with second-hand cultural musings, third-rate sociological stabbings and very rarely the odd mp3.
I also write the odd album review for Buzz Magazine and used to present Amser Electroneg on Bro Radio.
