Re:Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music
by seanedevine on Thursday April 21, 2011 @08:31AM
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I know Aphex Twin was notorious for this and he even got to a point where anything released was run of the mill, middle of the road, remix stuff and was even entitled "26 mixes for cash".
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Re:Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music
by leviathant on Thursday April 21, 2011 @10:26AM
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I'd argue that some of Aphex Twin's best tracks were remixes he did for other artists, which later appeared on that career-spanning compilation. While it's arguable whether or not some of those remixes contained original source material from the tracks they are supposed to be remixes of, I think it's disingenuous to refer to that stuff as run of the mill.
I specifically pre-ordered that album not because it contained to chocolate Aphex Twin coins, but because it was way better than tracking down the dozens of singles that contained those remixes.