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Aphex Twin
Replex Records official Web site
articles/contests
Track List:
1. Time to Find Me
2. Raising the Titanic
3. Journey
4. Triachus
5. Heroes
6. In the Glitter, Pt. 2
7. Zeros and Ones
8. Ziggy
9. Your Head My Voice (Voix Revirement)
10. Change
11. Une Femme N'Est Pas un Homme
12. The Beauty of Being Numb Section B
13. Let My Fish Loose
14. Krieger
15. Deep in Velvet
16. Falling Tree
17. We Have Arrived
18. At the Heart of It All
19. Flow Coma
20. Windowlicker
21. Normal
22. SAW2 Cd1 Trk2
23. Mindstream
24. You Can't Hide Your Love
25. Spotlight
26. Debase (Soft Palate)
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Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash
(Warp)
By Kingsley Marshall
An integral facet of the sprawling myth that shrouds the Aphex Twin's Richard James includes his approach to remixing. Once, having forgotten to turn around a Lemonheads commission, a hasty scramble around the studio saw him handing over the DAT of a previously discarded drill and bass sketch to the anxious record company bike courier who'd come to collect it. Thankfully, this deceitful digression isn't included on 26 Mixes For Cash, but pretty much all of James' other reconstructions have been sought out and grouped together for this impressive selection.
The first of this two-disc package pays tribute to the sweetly naïve Aphex, his interpretation of Seefeel's "Time To Find Me" a stunning realization of classical clicks and blips, where simple beats yearn for more sustenance than that provided by the skeletal orchestration. From there, the Twin works his wanderlust on the likes of obtuse Japanese duo Nav Katze, Jesus Jones, and a dramatically strung out symphony that is his interpretation of the Philip Glass arrangement of Bowie's "Heroes." Part two couldn't be more contrary, the calm seas of the opening "Krieger," Phillip Boa, and Curve slowly receding to reveal the demonic side of Aphex—ravaging speakers with the mathematical square pushing of Mescalinium Unit's appropriately titled "We Have Arrived." From there, James fires up his 303 for a veritable analogue bubble bath, the acid machinery weaving intricate patterns through the close of the LP, a chiastic slide enjoyed by tracks from Rephlex regulars DMX Crew and Wagon Christ, Baby Ford, Meat Beat Manifesto, and even recharged material from the man himself, including a new version of "Windowlicker" and a track culled from his Selected Ambient Works 2.
Though the accompanying press sheet notes that the release of this album has undoubtedly devalued many of the harder-to-find records which continue to change hands for increasingly astonishing sums on E-bay, to have this decade of Aphex Twin brought together into a single collection is a real treat for both Richard James' legions of fans and those who may have previously avoided the self-anointed champion of braindance. A rare treat.
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