Some of this is just insane. They've even re-created his intricate drum sequences with live instrumentation. wtf?
Here's a track...
Cock Ver 10
http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2NNF ... 6LBOJY9KCL
Here's a review...
If you took a classical music ensemble that has been described by the New York Times as “The future of classical music” and gave them the works of Richard D.James [Aphex Twin] to sink their teeth into you’d end up with two certain things : 1. An album of absolutely mouthwatering sonic possibilities and 2. A surefire hit of gargantuan collectable proportions. All of which makes it even more exciting to report that. A), this record actually exists and available now and B), that it’s absolutely brilliant. To put this into context, Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band based in New-York’s creative hub who have already cut their teeth with an album re-arranging Steve Reich's impossibly difficult 'Tehillim / The Desert Music”. As a sonic appetiser they don’t get much more extreme - but the fact that this group of musicians manages to make some well known and some lesser known Aphex tracks seem so comfortable in the acoustic environment is a testament to their exceptional skill and willingness to inhabit drastically varied musical arenas, as well as to some of the bizarre instrumentation they use. So, for instance, expect to hear four separate drummers trying to keep up with Aphex Twin’s ever-complex percussion, while treated voices, all manner of strings, woodwinds, brass instruments and even a Mouth Harp (!!!) work to re-create some of the most progressive music any of us have heard over the last decade in an entirely new yet strangely cohesive manner. This is just an absolute tease of a release - starting off with the delicious gimmickry of the concept and stretching all the way to the joyous execution of tracks from all of the twins’ albums (yes, there’s even a re-creation here of the memorable directive “come on you c*nts let’s have some aphex acid!”)
