This is a thread for Aphex Twin's album SAW II, or other

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This is a thread for Aphex Twin's album SAW II, or other generality. The other day, he uploaded the missing-meme-track "Stone in Focus" to his online store, thus effectively completing an official digital quality release of the album. Further, Richard has also uploaded a great gloomy bonus track "th1 [evnslower]", which fits well with the rest of the album.

This got me thinking back about the album artwork and the confused versions of the releases over the years. Basically the pie chart design is supposed to indicate track lengths over six sides of three LPs in the complete version, but since the complete album's full length runs over 160 minutes, it is impossible to squeeze it all onto standard, old-school CDs (the redbook convention for standard CD optical media is a max playing time of 80 mins on one disc). And since no one could ever be fucked to do a proper 3xCD physical release, hence the missing track.

But anyway, even the album artwork is fucked, now that I look at it again and compare it with the complete album (no matter which version you might think). Specifically the "middle" pie-charts of platter-LP 2. Unless some other weird linear combination of tracks (and track lengths) was understood by the designer at the time.