Echelon wrote:We basically have what Aphex dumped on Soundcloud. I think the reason people crave more is because MDG constantly teased the release of a boxset and said there are thousands of unreleased songs from every session.
But honestly, I think the release of OT severely damaged their desire to release archival material and even their trust in people
mdg was saying this well after all their old stuff got leaked. More like we should be very glad the old tunes were leaked because there was every chance they wouldn't have released the bocset anyway. For whatever reason they ultimately decided against it, and I doubt the reason is just because they feel wronged by some friends who they thought they could trust.
Echelon wrote:It might not even be the fact that they dislike their Old Tunes, it was just the principle that somebody went back on their world and released it to the public. People have also taped their concerts and it should be no surprise we haven't gotten a concert since 2001!
It's naive to think they didn't do any more concerts because people spoilt it by recording them. They are on the record saying they don't particularly like doing gigs and only do them when asked by their record company. They also say they always want to change up each of their live performances and that they take a month of preparation for each gig they do. After ATP they probably were either just not asked to play at a place they wanted to, not particular interested or they just didn't have the time.
Likewise to old tunes, I for one am totally glad they were recorded because a lot of the unreleased tracks they played haven't seen a release (or only a two second loop in the case of Spiro, lol) when imho some are the best tracks they've ever made but didn't fit on any of their albums. I think recording rare concerts is absolutely righteous.