Polynomial-C (Maceo Plex Edit)

I'm quite surprised Watmm didn't even mention this..."thing" and that no blood was shed on that subject yet.

https://soundcloud.com/maceoplex/aphex-twin-polynomial-c-maceo

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dear haters, this is not a remix, it's an edit, and the intention is to make it possible for a dj to play Aphex's beautiful classic in a modern techno set.

Yeah because a track with a breakbeat in the same time signature is SO hard to incorporate in a set.

Yeah, a friend showed this to me yesterday evening, asking what I thought of this "remix" by his fave DJ at the moment. I told him it's not worth being called a remix and it is absolutely horrible. Funny to see the DJ has now changed the title into 'edit' instead of 'remix'. Dipshit.

just posted about this... then saw your post and I deleted mine... I don't like this version... but to be fair, I don't like the original either.

the original is godlike. and this version....whatever. i'll download it anyway just for novelty. just another excuse to listen to the original, i guess.

.... god these beats get boring really fast...

It's pedestrian. It is to remixes (or re-edits) what Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes is to re-imaginings.

So basically because the guy is a hack DJ he had to hack down a brilliant track to fit into his hack sets?

um this is horrible. he should have at least done something a little bit more engaging if he's gonna showcase a melody from the twin. wtf. really, a modern day cookie cutter techno groove (actually its more like 2008ish anyway ha) looped over and over?

Well I dunno, its not that bad. Would go down quite well in the right environment (big dark nightclub at 5am for example).

Sounds like a deadmau5 beat on top of the track.

I don't understand how the original isn't "possible to DJ in a modern techno set". Doesn't have to a have a monotonous uninspired beat to make it "modern".

The arpeggios are just too damn slow.

You can't do that shit to the Polynomial-C arpeggios man. They gotta be at the original tempo, that's the point of them.

It's not horrendous but it seems so pointless. I always took edits as ways to stretch out, repeat, or enhance build-ups and climaxes. This does the complete opposite. The best parts are literally denied from occurring. Instead we get a slick but generic 4/4 beat. If Polynomial-C is passionate sex IRL this is literally a half-hearted wank over overproduced HD porn.

shit

  On 11/23/2013 at 12:36 AM, Philip Glass said:

The arpeggios are just too damn slow.

You can't do that shit to the Polynomial-C arpeggios man. They gotta be at the original tempo, that's the point of them.

So true. And those goddamn beats....the horror

Nice example of the state of "modern techno" as he himself puts it. Everything has an unnecessary remix with a flabby beat these days, what's the point, to make everything sound exactly the same?

2001:

Lol@ watmm

;D

  On 11/23/2013 at 12:36 AM, Philip Glass said:

The arpeggios are just too damn slow.

You can't do that shit to the Polynomial-C arpeggios man. They gotta be at the original tempo, that's the point of them.

The original ripped you (Philip Glass) off!

The edit is OK. Nothing amazing, nothing shitty. No one was probably hurt in the making of it. Why so serious?

speaking of which, here's a jazzy interview with philip glass (talking about afx and eno, amongst other things)

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/philip-glass

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jesus mary mother of jozef this is some horrible stuff.

  On 11/24/2013 at 10:36 PM, goDel said:

speaking of which, here's a jazzy interview with philip glass (talking about afx and eno, amongst other things)

 

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/philip-glass

 

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Awesome. Thank you. I can't get enough to hearing him describe his work ethic.

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/550

Pretty decent edit of Bbydhyonchord.

maceo plex / maetrik isn't a hack. he's got a p cool minimal futuristic aesthetic (suck it). smoking a cigar in a space helmet kind of vibes.. and yeah this edit fits in to that better than the original.

although i remember years ago there was a dance floor version of windowlicker that disgusted me for similar reasons to those posted in this thread. however, that was released on vinyl for moneys and i'm pretty sure it had no distinctive sound at all and was more pointless.

  On 11/25/2013 at 9:09 AM, tauboo said:

maceo plex / maetrik isn't a hack. he's got a p cool minimal futuristic aesthetic (suck it). smoking a cigar in a space helmet kind of vibes.. and yeah this edit fits in to that better than the original.

 

This is painful to listen to. It has no energy.

Over 55.000 plays on SC... I hate this world.

in this thread:

1: evidence that nobody apart from tauboo has ever heard of Maetrik

2: a bunch of cry babies

Track is still shit.