Melodies from Mars

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Melodies From Mars

Compilation album by Aphex Twin
Released	Unreleased
Recorded	1995
Genre	Electronic
Length	46:57
Label	Unknown
Producer(s)	Richard D. James

Melodies from Mars (1995) is a suspected unreleased album by Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin. Richard D. James has never admitted to having created the music on the album, although two tracks are different versions (perhaps demos) of Aphex Twin releases. The Aphex Twin Community claims that Rephlex asked them to remove MP3 excerpts of this album from their web site, which gives further evidence that this is indeed a work by Aphex Twin.

Apparently, Melodies from Mars was given to some of Richard's friends on cassette tapes. Other than these tapes, the only place to find this music is through online p2p file-sharing.

There are apparently two versions of the album circulating the internet, the more common of which is lacking the below mentioned version of "Logon Rock Witch".

[edit] Track listing

Untitled (3:19)
Fingerbib (4:16)
- A longer version of "Fingerbib" (track 4 on Richard D. James Album)
Untitled (2:20)
Untitled (4:14)
Untitled (5:14)
Untitled (3:52)
Untitled (4:04)
Logon Rock Witch (4:21)
- A version of "Logon Rock Witch" (track 10 on Richard D. James Album)
Untitled (4:33)
Untitled (5:12)
Untitled (2:55)
Untitled (1:30)
- Features the same plucked strings as "Girl/Boy Song" (track 9 on Richard D. James Album), though it does not develop into anything closely resembling the final track