Melodies from Mars

Melodies from Mars (1995) is a collection of unreleased tracks suspected to be by Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin. Although James has never admitted authorship of this supposed unofficial album, at least two of its tracks are alternate versions (possibly demo versions) of tracks featured on the subsequently released Richard D. James Album (1996). Some tracks also bear resemblance to those of Analogue Bubblebath 5. The Aphex Twin Community claims that Rephlex (James' record label) asked them to remove MP3 excerpts of this album from their web site. This appears to lend credence to the theory that Melodies from Mars is indeed a work by Aphex Twin.

It is commonly believed that 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 "Logan Rock Witch".

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
# Logan Rock Witch - 4:21
#*A version of "Logan Rock Witch" (track 10 on Richard D. James Album)
# untitled - 4:33
# untitled - 5:12
# untitled - 2:55
# untitled - 1:30
#*Features the same samples of 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.

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