Aphex Twin - Collapse EP

Jesus wept!!!That was a terrible experience but I managed to get the limited vinyl and cassette.

also on boomkat

I really feel like I'm missing something with the Ltd edition...What's the point of it? I was just gonna pick this up when it hits phonica but you guyz are making me question whether I should spend £7 extra for an extra sleeve which doesn't look as good as the normal one

The "collapse effect" is applied to all his other releases too (on bleep). kinda cool. 

https://bleep.com/release/74048-aphex-twin-cheetah-ep

RE the track itself.  Overall, lush af. Second half kills me.  But to nitpick, is anyone else NOT in love with the collapsing bit at the center?  In the Houston bootlegs, i just saw it as a pretext for making the second half more lush, and was hoping it would be a bit more refined in the final track.

I also was not a fan of the grating (synth screech) sounds in the middle of CIRCLONT6A, and despite many listens that hasnt grown on me.  IMO, drukqs era tracks seemed to be able to dissolve/go bonkers in more interesting ways..

  On 8/7/2018 at 6:16 PM, Jamesqdot said:

I see they've had time to apply the Collapse EP 3D effect to the artwork of a load of other releases on Bleep. How very silly...

quite silly! why would they bother?

whole ordering thing's been a right pain in the hole. 

nice

lol

Finally got to check out and place order, but it keeps saying "coudln't process order". Fuck!

  On 8/7/2018 at 6:47 PM, Amen Warrior said:

I really feel like I'm missing something with the Ltd edition...What's the point of it? I was just gonna pick this up when it hits phonica but you guyz are making me question whether I should spend £7 extra for an extra sleeve which doesn't look as good as the normal one

I'm with ya. 18 quid seems like a lot of money imo….

yeah, i guess its just the silver cover, with the actual artwork as a paper sleeve...

im trying. not sure i do tho

  On 8/7/2018 at 6:58 PM, popeonarope said:

Finally got to check out and place order, but it keeps saying "coudln't process order". Fuck!

same here.

just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.

preordered the soulseek edition

  On 8/7/2018 at 6:47 PM, species8472 said:

also on boomkat

thanks! Norman ran out already and blerp not responding again.

bleep collapsed, boomkat to the rescue.

Finally got mine after 2.5 hours trying on multiple devices and sites. Got my confirmation email, but still feeling skeptical.

For anyone having problems ordering from Bleep, try Boomkat. Just ordered the vinyl with no issues.

I guess Blerp doesn't want our money. Oh well!

Finally got the foil one to go through by ordering on Aphex site instead of bleep. Weird

  On 8/7/2018 at 7:20 PM, thebackdrifter said:

Finally got the foil one to go through by ordering on Aphex site instead of bleep. Weird

Worked for me too.  Thank you!

  On 8/7/2018 at 6:49 PM, Marked x 0ne said:

RE the track itself.  Overall, lush af. Second half kills me.  But to nitpick, is anyone else NOT in love with the collapsing bit at the center?  In the Houston bootlegs, i just saw it as a pretext for making the second half more lush, and was hoping it would be a bit more refined in the final track.

yeah I agree, it's pretty heavy-handed

the track is pretty good but does it really feel different / like an upgrade from what he was doing in the mid 90s? the sound design is kind of distinctive but surely not any more than it was before he had a massive collection of rare, expensive synths. honestly maybe even less so.

I don't think richard actually has any "next level beats" in store for us--at least not until he finally decides to release them 100 years from now. I'd love to be wrong though

just placed buy order for the ltd vinyl and cassette... no prob. 

also, did anyone notice/mention the glass house AFX apparently lived in makes an appearance in the vid? looks like the one... at 3:59

FFS 30 EUROS FOR AN EP?

Procédé Heliophore sleeve, eh?

http://hardlybaked.blogspot.com/2017/12/avant-eye-candy-10-prospective-21e.html

  Quote

"The sleeves were manufactured using “Procédé Heliophore”  - a technique originally developed in the 1930s by Louis Defay to transform aluminum paper for printing" - says Discogs

 

But the Prospective 21e Siècle sleeve designer(s) remain(s) unidentified and unknown!

 

The below is from an essay I wrote for a catalogue for an exhibition in France to do with ideas of lost futures and retro-modernism etc etc:

 

The LP series name derived from “prospective,” the philosopher Gaston Berger’s term for the study of possible futures.  Prospective 21e Siècle lived up to this futuristic promise with its startling packaging: glossy, reflective silver-metallic sleeves whose abstract geometric patterns evoked Op Art and the Space Age couture of 1960s designers like Paco Rabanne, with a hint of Art Deco.  

 

"Launched by Philips in 1967, Prospective 21e Siècle seemed to encapsulate the spirit and aesthetic of the Philips Pavilion of a decade earlier: that shockingly futuristic construction, also known as the Poème électronique, created for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels through the unique cross-disciplinary collaboration of Le Corbusier, Edgar Varèse, and Iannis Xenakis.  Prospective 21e Siècle scaled the Pavilion down to artifacts that could fit into the domestic living space as displayable consumer commodities (the series actually included a couple of avant-garde percussions albums by Xenakis, an architect-turned-composer). According to the insert that accompanied the four-disc box set Electronic Panorama, the series “quickly won its place as the most avant-garde, the most revolutionary of all record collections:  ‘revolutionary’ in its presentation...  in its exclusive [musical] repertory...  and in its price, putting it within the reach of all, and especially of young people, who are passionately interested in new sonic effects... 

 

 

"In 1969, the publisher Robert Laffont launched the literary equivalent of Prospective 21e Siècle: the imprint Ailleurs et Demain [which translates as Elsewhere and Tomorrow] dedicated to science fiction and under the direction of Gérard Klein. Over the coming years Ailleurs et Demain would publish translations of works by giants of the genre such as Philip K. Dick, John Brunner, Frank Herbert, and Arthur C. Clarke along with novels by French s.f. writers like Jacques Sternberg, Michel Jeury, and Klein himself .  Klein was an admirer of the Prospective series and decided to package A & D fiction using the same process, called Héliophore and originally developed in the 1930s by Louis Defay to transform aluminum paper for printing.  Some of the Ailleurs Et Demain designs closely resemble specific Prospective 21e Siecle sleeves, while others are new but clearly inspired by the series. (With both the albums and the novels, nobody seems to know the identity of the designers, who were in-house and uncredited).  The design style, which eventually extended beyond silver to gold and copper book covers, was maintained for over 20 years, before being abandoned."