(idm) INSERT SCREAM HERE: "Windows Licker" reviewed

From noze
Sent Sat, Dec 12th 1998, 06:00

off WarpNet...

 H. K. (xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx)
11:12:98 19:49:12
Window Licker EP review!

 He!He! Just received my advance promo copy
of Window Licker. Great artwork DR! First of
all Window Licker *IS* exactly the same track
then  the mp3 that circulated some times ago. I
still love that track but I've already listened to
it too many times to really care for it anymore.
Secondly, there are only 3 tracks on the EP,
I miss the old time where Aphex EPs sported 6
different tracks (ventolin). One day, singles will
really mean singles, that is 1 track per disc.
Anyways, track 2 "yoga" is a pretty fucked
up track, it sounds like good old SAW2 loops
torn up in a blender with vicious metallic beats,
and on top of all that there's a synthetic voice
calling a gymnastic session, with silly stuff like
"move your hips to the right, to the left, ...".
Then at one point he says: "Now I want you to move
your vaginal muscles at my command..."
Hilarious stuff. At about 3:00 the beats
stops and then there's a wicked chords progression
with more silly reverbed commands, it lasts
about a minute and then all hell breaks
loose for 30 seconds, like a concentrated version of
the final minute of Bouncing buccephallus ball.
The last track is called "my 61", it's
surprisingly smooth (even though there's pretty hectic
beats, but these sounds are very lush and quiet,
like a drummer who's really fast but hits his drums
very gently. I love the synth sounds in this
track, it's like pink bubbles forcing their way
through the water. This tracks reminds me a lot of
Flim, except it's longer and has a more complex
structure, you think the song is done and
then he brings a completely new pattern to the
song.
 At the end of the track, there's only the
little bubbly synth left, it has some kind of
bittersweet melody and then it fades out in complete
bass frequencies, it's Aphex is burying the track
to the ground, it's majestic and sad at the
same time.

           Hopefully there will be a second CD released
as well, three tracks of this isn't enough. I
don't really know how aphex does it, but I always
get a mental buzz listening to new Aphex stuff,
even though his music is so simple. He really is
the king.

--he said he was gonna post up some real audio clips of it
this weekend, site pending...
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