26 Mixes For Cash vs Parts In The Post

Anyway, this thread isn't really a VS thread, more just a composite to discuss these latest releases. I managed to scrape together enough for "26 Mixes For Cash" and I'm listening to it now. Aphex Twin is a very important artist for me, the Come To Daddy EP literally turning me on to electronic music and IDM. Throughout the late 90s I revered his music and bought almost everything he did. Then I got into Autechre and Plaid and Boards of Canada and CiM and Ulrich Schnauss and early Electro etc... Then after a long while, Druqks came out and I got excited to hear Aphex again. But the outcome was very cold. It seemed like RDJ was taking himself too seriously, listening to John Cage and solidifying a style he pioneered six or seven years ago. This is not what I wanted from the Twin though. Till then he'd been an experimenter. All his releases sounded very different from each other, yet Druqks seemed either filler or just redoing the quirky noises we've all heard before on Come to Daddy. The dream was broken, Aphex was, as I had very much feared, only human.
And now "26 Mixes" come out. A retrospective of Richard D James's remixes throughout his career. Nice idea considering a lot of these mixes are either very rare or don't resemble the originals whatsoever, making it more than yer average remix album.
Sadly though, this too is leaving me cold. Maybe I'm just fed up with Aphex but it seems that despite his much touted randomness, there are only a handful of Aphex tunes:
1. Polygon Window/Classics-era 4/4 beats, jittery electronic chatters and dreamy pads.
2. Ambient - The pure drifting soundscapes of Selected Ambient Works II
3. Drill'n'Bass - like the RDJ Album, Come To Daddy, Windowlicker and Druqks. This is probably the most tedious style. Interesting to start with but everyone's ripped this shit off and Druqks was RDJ ripping himself off. Not too bad if saved by a decent melody like on 4, Girl/Boy Song etc.
4. Well, every so often he makes a blinder. Most of these are found on b-sides and I Care Because You Do. Alberto Balsalm, Flim etc.

Ok, that was needlessly harsh, I admit, but this is the problem with "26 Mixes", I've heard very few of these tracks, but I may as well have.

Looking forward to one day getting the Plaid remixes. This should be more coherent seeing as Plaid could be counted as genre-opposite to Aphex in that they are perfectionists, unafraid to focus their attentions on every melody and timbre until they've made something achingly beautiful rather than the AFX approach of, wack it through the madloops generator, job done mate, NEXT! I've already heard the mix of "All Is Full of Love" by Bjork and it shines in comparison to anything off of "26 Mixes" simply because one realises that they're actually trying.

So yeh, what did everyone think of these? And is the new Autechre any gud?