rx-101: like yesterday

“Like Yesterday” complies 10 tracks from RX-101’s two vinyl-only 12” EPs, together with three CD/digital album exclusives, arranged with a serious album listening experience in mind, reminiscent of the glory of years of Warp’s “Artificial Intelligence” series. Who is RX-101 and why has this material never seen the light of day until now? RX-101 is a previously unknown producer from the Netherlands named Erik Jong. Here’s RX-101 in his own words: “From childhood I loved dance music and was fascinated by synthesizers. In the late ’80s It was 1991 when I started listening to techno from labels like Underground Resistance, Transmat, Metroplex, +8 Records and Warp. That was the time I knew that I also wanted to make electronic music and build a studio. With my musical background and love for synthesizers, everything fell into place. When I heard Aphex Twin's ‘Digeridoo’ in '92, I was completely hooked on Aphex Twin and soon discovered his label Rephlex. I almost bought every release. In '92 (when I was 16) I bought my first synthesizer, a Roland Juno-106. Then I started to buy more stuff, and two years later I had a small studio with some synths, a drum machine, a Quadraverb fx unit, an Atari computer and a mixer. My Roland SH-101 is still my favourite synth. After buying some more stuff in the years following, it was time to start making tracks. It was 1997 then and I was 21 years old. I started to like it very much and I was very productive then. I wanted to make music all the time. I was a student then and had plenty of time to make music. I made a lot of tracks and recorded everything to cassette between 1997 and 1999. In the early ’90s I dreamt of releasing music on a record label, but in the years after that dream ebbed slowly away. I'm not sure why.... I think that's the reason I never have sent tracks or a demo to a label. In 2000 I quit school and I found a full time job. Because of this I also had less time to make music. It was a new step in my life. My passion to make music then became less. At one point I saved my tapes with my tracks in a box. In 2013, I discovered that box again, and uploaded about 15 tracks of that old stuff to Soundcloud. About a year later I started to upload more and more stuff. I received many nice comments and I was a little bit surprised that a record company was also interested.”