so i'm sure everyone who browses this particular forum is quite familiar with this classic track. now i'm positive i've heard a 'real' live version on the radio a while back as the backing music for a promo between programs. i've tried emailing the CBC for info like this before to no avail (the last one i was stumped on turned out to be a fennez track).

so has anyone heard of a live band version of 'aquarius' floating around out there. something along the same lines as what alarm will sound did with aphex twin tunes.

and what do you people think of live groups that cover electronic tunes with traditional instruments? yay, nay, super cheese?

I like what 'Alarm Will Sound' did with Aphex Twin and with their previous output with Philip Glass. I haven't heard of this so called Live version of Aquarius, but I'd love to hear it if you come across it again.

I think it's good what other artists are doing with electronic music. Like the Dillinger Escape Plan doing 'Come to Daddy' or this new London Sinfonietta disc that Warp is putting out. A bunch of contemporary artists playing along with the Symphony as they play older works by John Cage, Edgard Varese, etc...

I think it's good exposure for electronic artists that other wise may not be known to all, yet I do feel that someone that's not use to hearing 'electronic music' and stereotypes it as being all the same, may like the cover version better than the actual version.

If the artist does a good job with the cover, I don't mind...and vice versa. (i.e. Squarepusher remaking 'Love Will Tear Us Apart')