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Friday, October 12th, 2007
The Apex Theory, self-titled
This is great stuff, and apparently, they’re still churning out music (including a new album this year titled Faces). “Shh…Hope Diggy” got some airplay, but my favorite track of theirs is “Apossibly” (only on the pre-release Random Bursts–see previous page–or on Topsy-Turvy).
Aphex Twin, Come To Daddy EP
So, I got this disc, because Mike Patton and Dillinger Escape Plan covered “Come To Daddy” on their EP Irony Is A Dead Scene. This album was enjoyable, but I have to be honest, it’s not something I would seek out.
The guy behind Aphex Twin, Richard D. James, is a prolific little bugger, with several dozen releases over the last decade.
I will say this: this is good coding music (I’m a programmer, and when one hits their stride in coding, there is a particular type of music that is ideal for the kind of flow–”Come To Daddy” is a great example). Is it wrong for me to download him, if I never intend on actually buying anything else he does?
What if what I download causes me to go buy an album? What, then, is the real cost of my downloading activities?
Atari Teenage Riot, 60 Second Wipeout
Bought it, listened to it once, really should have traded it in, but broke it down thinking I’d like it later. That didn’t happen, and here it sits.