Aphex Twin - The Joyrex Tape (1994)

It's been a while since I posted any weird electronic stuff, so here's another unreleased album from Aphex Twin. 'The Joyrex Tape' is the name given to a collection of unreleased tracks from the early 1990's recorded by Richard D. James. The original tape was copied from one of James' DATs sometime in the 1990's and was leaked onto the internet in 2011 after it was reportedly found during a house party. James had apparently passed out, and one of the guests went into his room and made a copy of one of his DATs. Since it was hastily copied, the sound quality is poor and it plays at the wrong speed, and subsequent copying has further degraded the clarity. The existence of the tape was rumored for some time until the We Are The Music Makers forum administrator Joyrex put up short snippets of the tracks, explaining the origins of the tape and his eventual possession of a copy. Contrary to common belief, Joyrex did not leak the tracks online even though his name has become it's title, but it's referred to as The Joyrex Tape since it was he who verified its existence with his audio samples, and via his communication with Richard D. James at the time. Tracks 1–6, 8-9, 13, and 14 were uploaded to SoundCloud in early 2015 by James himself, while track 7 is a demo version of 'Praze-An-Beeble Mix', which was subsequently released on the Ventolin EP. As I downloaded the entire SoundCloud dump in 2015, I'm able to use those versions of the tracks that I could locate, although couldn't find tracks 6 or 13. I've also speed-corrected and EQ'd the others so that they all play at a speed nearer to the SoundCloud versions, and hopefully in a clearer sound quality. 

Track listing

01 Fresher + Cleaner
02 How To Science 2
03 Step Up To Cornwall
04 Clapstab
05 World Waver
06 Gear Smudge
07 Ventolin (Praze-An-Beeble Mix)
08 Phlangebeat
09 Phuqed Up
10 [unknown]
11 [unknown]
12 [unknown]
13 Rogphlange 1[braiNfLOSS2]
14 DroneBReak

The Joyrex Tape doesn't include track titles, so the ones above are taken from the SoundCloud uploads.