i noticed i was here before, but didn't leave a post. strange, that. i went looking through my posting history, and realized i left one on a now deleted video of this disc well over a year ago, when i was just doing daily rotations, before i settled into my existing alter-reality algorithm in real-time (current date in the alter-reality april 11, 1998). and, i'm thinking i skipped over the inrisampled obligatory, waiting for a better moment. i think i was waiting, specifically, for the period 1.3 transition, which was the beginning of 1999. the influence really becomes more obvious at that point. another year before i get there.
but, the track i just switched into is too dominated in influence by the ambient sections on this disc to wait. the coil and aphex mixes, specifically, but the thirlwell ones, too. which isn't to say i'm stealing ideas, so much as it's to say it's where my head was. listening to it, one might hear eno or maybe even joy division. there's hints of autechre. but, it was really this disc that i was enamored with.
it wasn't conscious emulation. iirc, i just made a loop and started jamming over it. but, i would have likely never thought it sounded musical without interfacing so heavily with at the heart of it all.
i've done a bunch of obligatories on these nin remix discs between fixed and the perfect drug and they're still nearly unparalleled in terms of abstraction. i wish i could find something contemporary that exists at this level of quality. i can aspire. but, it's not the same thing as finding it out there. alas...
(relevant tracks: medicated to the one i love, jesus gets fucked on robitussin, symphony 1, curious george, wish, why, symphony 0, many others - almost everything, really.)
