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- CAT023-The Lost Caustic Window Album.
- By Bowgie (Mike P.) and Joyrex
- This was an email that was sent to me (Joyrex) about the
- rumored "CAT023" a white label Caustic Window album that
- Rich has had done for about 3 years now. What follows is
- Bowgie's description of the album, as he is one of four (4)
- people who have the album. It is rumored that Bowgie is
- actually Mu-ziq (aka Mike Paradinas). This has not been
- confirmed.
- A full tracklisting is impossible since it's a white label.
- There are no titles:Untitled.
- It has hand written labels by RDJ: SIDE 1) in black marker
- pen: "CAUSTIC WINDOW LP 33 1/3 SIDE A REPHLEX" in the run
- out groove: "CAT 023-A1 A PORKY PRIME CUT"
- There are two tracks on side A, the first is a subtle
- melodic grower, with hi q's; pianoish DX sounds & woodwind
- type synths.nice but not very immediate. Track 2 is *much*
- more like it: Industrial type drums straight out of J5 and
- the catchiest afx acid line (not 303). Builds and builds
- with pad sounds & percessive held chords in a spooky
- fashion.
- SIDE 2) Same hand written info except it says: "SIDE B" in
- black marker pen and in the run out groove it's the same but
- says side "L"
- 5 Tracks on B:
- Track 1) called "muttley" by Richard.It features samples
- from "dastardly & Muttley"(Wacky Races Cartoon) starting off
- with Dastardly shouting "Muttley!" then Muttley the dog
- going "RashingFrashingWrarraFrarraWrash". Other samples: A
- girl speaking: "You know I don't even know why you bother
- talking" and the track ends with "what an utterly
- fantastical journey" (unknown sample) As regards to the
- music, it starts with a monophonic synth line doing a
- percussive riff up 4 notes, joined by another sound a few
- bars later. Then the drums kick in. Bass and snare from
- Phloam, sort of metallic guiro and clangs from Schottkey.
- Halfway through an orchestral string chords sample comes in, and the girl speaking sample appears.
- It's a great track, very SAW85-92 in period.
- Track 2) Happy,jolly little track with high pitched
- bell-like hihats acid sounds and long square wave bass note.
- Random dat glitches spice up the percussion. The melody
- comes from the interplay of tuned bass drum & tuned metal
- hihats.
- Track3) Wow!This is a treat for fans of SOSW. Starts with
- Roland R8 hihats,then a marimba melody & the BD Kikkz in
- with an acidicish line.marimba fades in again. Then a BB1 DX
- pad in 5ths (lots of reverb) makes it fuckin lush. Drum
- break then the track restarts with stabs from Audax powder,
- then acid & marimba. Track ends wth drums.
- Track 4) My favourite: Noisey drum loops (Tuned white
- noise?) acid pokes. Bass drum from Hedphelym or the B-sides
- to ABB2. Also odd bell like High melodies & metallic sampled
- melodies! very odd track.
- Track 5) Tribal bongos, Quoth Bd kik &
- "a,aphex-a,aphex"samples. About 1 min. long.
- SIDE 3) Handwritten on label: "CW LP side C" and in the run
- out groove it says; "THIRD REICH VETERANS WILL NOT JOIN
- VICTORY WAR PARADE. CAT 023 -01" 4 tracks
- Track 1) Very simple synth melody & 4/4 kik drum / snare
- joined later by emotional sounding soft detuned string
- notes. Hihats and hi Q's join later and lo-bandwidth
- metallic samples.
- Track 2) A very early track.One of the 1st he did. Childish
- squeaky acid line. Crap piano riff. Redeemed by lush strings
- & reverb on certain drum sounds,which might have indicated
- Here was a future talent.
- Track 3) Square wave bassline, melodic held acid line, R8
- drums. Simple lovely very Aphex.
- Track 4) Jazz fusion aphex! Drum sounds similar to Gak.
- Sounds like Gak in fact except for a low farting bass and
- muted jazzy piano riff & overlaid solos.
- SIDE 4) "CAUSTIC WINDOW LP . side D" handwritten in black on
- label in runout groove:"CAT 023 - G1 A PORKY PRIME CUT " 5
- tracks
- Track 1) An ambient track. This was a reject from SAW85-92
- and is unspeakably lovely. A monophonic synth weaves around
- soft flutes to devastating effect. The synth filter opens &
- closes to emphasise the riff at certain times, & the flute
- goes freestyle towards the end. Metallic percussion invades
- the song at times complementing the groovy momentum gathered
- by the main riff.
- Track 2) This is Phlaps off the criminal justice bill comp.
- Track 3) This is Cunt off TEX 3
- Track 4) This is a phone call between Mixmaster Morris &
- Scanner. Richard got 2 phones, rang them both (one to
- Morris, one to Scanner) and luckily they both answered
- simultaneously. What follows is very funny. Both Morris &
- Robin think each other has initiated the call and confusion
- reigns. This increases as a third voice enters the fray
- (RDJ). Eventually they recognise him as Richard: "If you put
- the phone down your gonna die.."
- Track 5) Same trick between Chris Jeffs & Mike Paradinas
- .This time Cylob figures it out straight away but the
- funniest bit is where he says "I think Richard wants us to
- talk to each other", to which Mike replies "Oh great..."
- track (& album) ends.
- You can post this info on the joyrex site (is that you?) or
- wherever. I promised Richard not to let anyone have copies.
- I stick to that.
- Originally sent to joyrex.com on 9.14.99.
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