26 Mixes for Cash is a compilation album of remix

Remix

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es produced by Richard D. James (better known by his recording alias of Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin

Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...

) for various artists, plus four original tracks. It was released on 24 March 2003 by Warp Records

Warp Records

Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....

. 26 Mixes for Cash was released on CD

Compact Disc

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 only, although a vinyl

Gramophone record

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 promotional disc entitled 2 Mixes on a 12" For Cash, featuring the two Aphex Twin originals exclusive to this compilation, was released in limited quantities in Japan only.

Along with the 22 remixes on this release, four original Aphex Twin tracks are also included. Two are new versions of previously-released tracks: "Windowlicker, Acid Edit" and "SAW2

Selected Ambient Works Volume II

-Formatting notes:The cassette version of the album featured six songs on each side, barring side three, which contained seven . The vinyl version featured four songs on each side, excluding side four, which contained five ....

 CD1 TRK2, Original Mix". The other two were previously available only on Further Down the Spiral

Further Down the Spiral

Further Down the Spiral is a remix album by Nine Inch Nails, and was released on June 1, 1995. It is the tenth official Nine Inch Nails release and is the companion remix disc to The Downward Spiral...

, the remix album by US industrial rock

Industrial rock

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 band Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails

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: "The Beauty of Being Numb Section B" (the second, much quieter part of the complete track found on Further Down The Spiral) and "At the Heart of It All" (originally 7:14 long, this version is shortened to 3:49 by removing a lot of repetitive loops).

In addition to the remixes featured on this release, James has also remixed tracks by Beck

Beck

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, DJ Pierre

DJ Pierre

DJ Pierre is the stage name of Nathaniel Pierre Jones, a Chicago born DJ and performer of house music. He helped to develop the house music subgenre of Acid House, as member of Phuture, whose 1987 E.P...

, and Soft Ballet

Soft Ballet

Soft Ballet is a Japanese Pop and EBM band. The group had three members: Maki Fujii, Ken Morioka, and Ryoichi Endo. They have been recording since 1989, though they had a long span of inactivity from 1995 to 2002 while the members pursued solo projects....

, as well as additional remixes of tracks by Seefeel

Seefeel

Seefeel are a British electronic/post-rock band formed in the early 1990s. They are currently signed to Warp Records.-Biography:Seefeel formed during 1992 in London, England; with Mark Clifford on guitar, Mark Van Hoen on bass, Justin Fletcher on drums and Sarah Peacock on vocals and guitar. During...

, Gavin Bryars

Gavin Bryars

Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.-Early life and career:Born in Goole, East...

, Jesus Jones

Jesus Jones

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, Saint Etienne

Saint Etienne (band)

Saint Etienne are an English Pop group comprising Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They are named after the French football team AS Saint-Étienne.-History:Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs were childhood friends and former music journalists...

, and Mescalinum United

Marc Trauner

Marc Trauner, better known by his numerous aliases including Marc Acardipane, Mescalinum United, The Mover, Pilldriver, Marshall Masters and Resident E, is a Frankfurt, Germany based DJ and producer.- History :...

.

Online orders of the compilation through Warp Records

Warp Records

Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....

 came with two silver-wrapped chocolate

Chocolate

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 coins, featuring the Aphex Twin logo on one side and Richard's profile on the other (with "ELECTRONICA REX" written alongside it).

The album is popular television background-music fodder, with tracks appearing in an advertisement for Axe deodorant, the television programme Top Gear

Top Gear (current format)

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, and the BBC

BBC

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's 2006 Snooker World Championships coverage.

Reception

Disc One

Disc two

Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	63
U.S. Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	29
U.S. Top Electronic Albums Top Electronic Albums Dance/Electronic Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top-selling electronic music albums in the United States. The chart debuted on the issue dated June 30, 2001. It originally began as a fifteen-position chart and has since expanded to twenty-five...	3
U.S. Top Independent Albums	18

External links

• 26 Mixes for Cash at the Warp Records discography