From Jeremy A.Smith Sent Mon, Dec 14th 1998, 18:09
From Jeremy A.Smith Sent Mon, Dec 14th 1998, 18:09
> Window Licker EP review! Just a few comments on this to engender some discussion... > First of all Window Licker *IS* exactly the same track > then the mp3 that circulated some times ago. Surprise surprise. That should piss off all those Aphex fans who believed it wasn't. > I miss the old time where Aphex EPs sported 6 > different tracks (ventolin). You can't chart with that many tracks. Dunno if you can even chart with 3 these days. Anyway, who gives a damn about the UK charts when the W/Licker video (Puff Daddy style, like the W/Licker song - I've seen a roller-blading-bimbo-still at www.warp-net.com/warp/mart - no doubt the 'joke' is that the bimbo turns out to be Aphex or something stupid like that) is clearly aimed at busting MTV wide open and flogging that Aphex. > One day, singles will really mean singles, that is 1 track per disc. Funny, it's called 'EP' which means 'Extended Play'. Not 'single'. 7"'s were singles, except for B-sides. 12"'s and CD-5s changed all that. > Anyways, track 2 "yoga" is a pretty fucked > up track,[snip] there's a synthetic voice > calling a gymnastic session, with silly stuff like > "move your hips to the right, to the left, ...". Umm... that's *Yoga*, not gymnastics. > Hilarious stuff. To be frank, it sounds like a pisstake of that 'GymTonic' thing by that French DJ bloke, Sinclar (note the missing 'i' to stop him being sued by Amstrad, who own the 'Sinclair' name). For those that haven't heard it, it's just Jane Fonda saying things like "Swing your buttocks to the left" off a fitness video, and some cod-house crap. Looks like Aphex has gone from one extreme parody (Puff Daddy Licker) to another. Oh dear... > I don't really know how aphex does it, but I always > get a mental buzz listening to new Aphex stuff, I know how he does it. He uses an Aphex Audio Exciter. Maybe two (one per stereo channel). He also uses some neat-O software on the Mac, and his Audio Exciter has no doubt now been delegated to a bit of plug-in software on the Mac. > even though his music is so simple. He really is the king. ...of the castle. Or is it the hill? > - --he said he was gonna post up some real audio clips of it > this weekend, site pending... What, Aphex or this other bloke? Jeremy A. Smith.