Aphex Twin Bell Orchestre covers Aphex Twin

I went to a Bell Orchestre concert last night - great show, really good instrumental stuff - and for the final number (before the encore), they announced they were going to play an Aphex Twin track. I thought I misheard them at first, (I was also too chicken to shout "C'mon you cunts, let's have some Aphex acid!") but they did in fact go ahead and play a rousing rendition of...

Bucephalus Bouncing Ball!

That's not I expected to hear at all... but it sounded great, with the full size standup bass playing the 'bounces'. Maybe they just got confused; I mean, Flim is the track on that album that everyone covers.

sounds bizarre...

i wonder how accurate a reconstuction you could make of it?

the timings are mental !

Haha! Thats fuckn rad!

Oh my god... that must have been insane I mean the timing on that is hard enough. Do they have this officialy recorded anywhere or is it a mess about track?

It hasn't been released (they have only one album so far) but apparently it's at least a fairly regular occurance at their shows.

man, i really want to hear this now..

They're still on tour:

Mon 4/24/06 Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall ~

Tue 4/25/06 Clinton, NY The Annex / Hamilton College ~

Wed 4/26/06 Rochester, NY THE GERMAN HOUSE ~

Thu 4/27/06 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom ~

Today

Fri 4/28/06 Pittsburgh, PA Andy Warhol Museum ~*

Sat 4/29/06 Columbus, OH Chuck Helm/Wexner Center ~

Sun 4/30/06 Cincinnati, OH Contemporary Arts Center ^

Tue 5/2/06 Ferndale, MI Magic Bag ~

Wed 5/3/06 Kalamazoo, MI Kraftbrau ~

Thu 5/4/06 Louisville, KY The Clifton Center ~

Fri 5/5/06 Chicago, IL Logan Square Auditorium ^~

Sat 5/6/06 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue

Sun 5/7/06 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater

~ Snailhouse supports

~* Snailhouse supports, Jeremy Boyle opens

^ with Erik Friedlander

^~ Clogs support, Snailhouse opens

wholly shit thank you much!!!

Tue 5/2/06 Ferndale, MI Magic Bag ~

that's literally 5-10minutes from my home

ill check this out tues!

Please someone bootleg this.

pix plz

  absolu said:

Please someone bootleg this.

seconded

im going to try and go to this tonight

it starts at 8

yikes!

how long is their show?

im probably going to be late so hopefully i wont miss the afx track

ill try and record it

:)

what was it like? im not familiar with them

what types of tracks did they play?

Here's Bell Orchestre's cover of Bucephalus Bouncing Ball recorded live at the Pabst Theater; Milwaukee, WI, US on May 7th, 2006. Enjoy. The whole show will be available to download in lossless audio on www.dimeadozen.org in a few days.

http://download.yousendit.com/A509BD9901AB4CD6

Kickass!

  Bubba69 said:

Kickass!

Violin solo?

All kidding aside this is a really nice rendition, everyone should give it a listen

thanksssss I shall give it a listen later :)

  keirondrk said:

thanksssss I shall give it a listen later :)

greeeatt stufff....... well worth a listen to every richard fan...

great quality recording as well considering!!! wow..

  keirondrk said:

  keirondrk said:

thanksssss I shall give it a listen later :)

 

 

greeeatt stufff....... well worth a listen to every richard fan...

 

great quality recording as well considering!!! wow..

a lossless version of the track would be awsome!...

  punkishlyevil said:

Here's Bell Orchestre's cover of Bucephalus Bouncing Ball recorded live at the Pabst Theater; Milwaukee, WI, US on May 7th, 2006. Enjoy. The whole show will be available to download in lossless audio on www.dimeadozen.org in a few days.

 

http://download.yousendit.com/A509BD9901AB4CD6

thank you! an awesome cover of the song

  keirondrk said:

  keirondrk said:

  keirondrk said:

thanksssss I shall give it a listen later :)

 

 

greeeatt stufff....... well worth a listen to every richard fan...

 

great quality recording as well considering!!! wow..

 

a lossless version of the track would be awsome!...

I'll post the link as soon as the show is up. Hopefully tomorrow, but maybe not. So busy lately. Glad you guys liked the song/recording. I was amazed at how good the recording came out. And the song kicked major ass. I was in awe watching them play it. I hadn't heard any of Aphex Twin before, so I'm probably going to check it out now. I found this board by searching for the name of the song so its lucky people had been talking about it here!

  punkishlyevil said:

I'll post the link as soon as the show is up. Hopefully tomorrow, but maybe not. So busy lately. Glad you guys liked the song/recording. I was amazed at how good the recording came out. And the song kicked major ass. I was in awe watching them play it. I hadn't heard any of Aphex Twin before, so I'm probably going to check it out now. I found this board by searching for the name of the song so its lucky people had been talking about it here!

wow, if you've never heard the original song you're in for a treat. its the first aphex song i ever heard and it completely changed my perception of music. happy listening!

... you are indeed in for a treat :)

happy listening...

to hear afx for the first time... you have a large catalogue of interesting music to go thru!! :)

if you don't like some at first.. give it time... ya may end up lovin it..

crazy!

Great recording, thanks for taking the time to share it here. Good thing I started this post :)

How was the turnout at the show you went to? For some reason there was an appalling low turn out for the one in Cleveland, only about 30 people. Exact same venue where Arcade Fire had it packed.

  Moebius said:

Great recording, thanks for taking the time to share it here. Good thing I started this post :)

 

How was the turnout at the show you went to? For some reason there was an appalling low turn out for the one in Cleveland, only about 30 people. Exact same venue where Arcade Fire had it packed.

My guess is there were between 100 and 250 people (not the greatest range because I was in the very front row and didn't look behind me much). The place they played holds 1000+ and has three sections (floor, second balcony and third balcony). The second/third were closed. The floor has three sections, left, right and center. The center had a fair amount of people, but a decent amount of open seats. The left and right sections had very few people in them. There were more people than I expected, but I don't know why they played in such a big venue. Its a really nice theater (about 100 years old) and the sound was great, but the place was so huge.