Top Albums of The Decade #8
Aphex Twin – 26 Mixes For Cash (2003)
I’m really only including this as an excuse to have Aphex Twin on the list. Most of his landmark output was released back in the 20th century and technically 26 Mixes For Cash is no different, since a large portion of the songs on here were produced pre-2000′s. Aphex Twin’s trademark eccentricity and sarcasm begins with the very title of this compilation. Richard D. James, as his mum calls him, clearly has very little interest in the music industry but loves the work aspect of it nonetheless. The artists remixed here, as varied and diverse as they are running the gamut from David Bowie to Mike Flowers Pops, have nothing in common other than the fact that they were selected as source material for James’s outre studio machinations. Sometimes he remixes tracks he’s never even heard, as is the case with ‘The Beauty of Being Numb’ by Nine Inch Nails. Don’t ask me how that works. It’s just Aphex Twin being Aphex Twin.
‘Nine Inch Nails – The Beauty of Being Numb Section B (Created by Aphex Twin)’