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Reminds me of the Aphex Twin "selected ambient recordings 1", was he rocking an 808? Hihats sound the same ...


If it helps, "The Dice Man" is really Aphex Twin. He later used "Polygon Window" as another alias for a couple albums.


The accepted wisdom is that the drums on that record come from whatever crappy rompler he had to hand. The sounds may actually be 808 samples.

The important bit of gear on that record is the 4 track tape deck and the alesis reverb, which is what turns everything into that haze of cybernetic bliss.


If it's the same as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5AiRVqfqk

then I believe so.




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