Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

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I don't think he is. I make some kind of music just like the warp acts.. and I can tell you this: boards of canada and esp. Autechre are better. he just no as classic as everybody thinks.

Ludo

― Ludo, Friday, 12 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

More style killing substance the way a small boy will kill ants with a magnifying glass in the noonday sun. He is attractive to some because of his videos, which is a nice way of saying he gets good directors to do his shit.

― JM, Friday, 12 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

If you judge Richard James on his videos I think you've really missed the point. Techno pioneer, innovator and creator of some of the finest electronic music of the last 10+ years. (IMHO Autechre, who claim James is their major inspiration, churn out dull, dessicated and tiresomely ornate sounds by comparison).

― Stevo, Friday, 12 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

The videos are really good, though. Though possibly that should be in "Chris Cunningham: Classic Or Dud"

― Tom, Friday, 12 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I've never seen his videos (though I wanna) and I think he's classic. It's always a good idea to challenge the conventional wisdom, but in this case it's right: Aphex has made tons of beautiful tracks (though most of his albums are uneven) and has been hugely influential. Boards of Canada is unthinkable without the style established by James, as I'm sure Sandison and Es would tell you!

― Mark Richardson, Saturday, 13 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I know hid made some very good tracks. and maybe he has influenced some people. but.. if you listen to his albums most of the songs are just crap. his videos rules and the songs made the videos for also. but I think this guy is just too lazy to make one good album.

Ludo

― Ludo, Sunday, 14 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Does he have to make a good album, to be considered classic? (By the way: Selected Ambient Works Vol. II., The Richard D. James Album.)

― Josh, Sunday, 14 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

does he has to make a good album to be a classic.

yes.

the ambient works are cool but, not that cool to become a classic. he should make an album full of super songs like windowlicker to become a classic. or songs like flim.

Ludo

― Ludo, Sunday, 14 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Classic. He made me realize how great electronic music can be. Just like Joy division, MBV and Fushitsusha made me realize how good 'rock' can be. He's made great records and he's not a one trick pony (RD James to selected ambient II).

The one problem is that a lot of people just buys his records and don't dig a for more records by other groups like autechre, Susumu Yokota and so on. For me he was definetely the beginning but not the end.

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 14 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

The only Aphex Twin that I liked was "I care because you do". That had soul. The rest are just experimentation for experimentation's sake.

I mostly listen to psytrance/Goa, intelligent techno, jungle & ambient. IDM in general doesn't do it for me, it lacks emotion (at least positive ones).

― Snow Dog, Monday, 15 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Classic. No contest.

― o.munoz, Monday, 15 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

The first track on "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is, on a good day, the end result of the dialectic of all culture.

So, classic, yeah.

― Tim, Monday, 15 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Classic. Just on the basis of the Richard D James album, the bloke's a genius. Add to that Surfing On Sine Waves, Windowlicker, Girl/Boy and most of the Selected Ambient Works and the guy's at least a demigod. BoC and Autechre have both done fine stuff but they aren't even fit to step through the door of Mr Twin's bank.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Oh, without a doubt classic. He was shitting out stuff in the early nineties which defined the genre by breaking it so often. Edgy, fractious, occasionally twee Ver Twin was where it was at.

You don't need to make a good album to be a classic (I'm not even sure you have to make a good single to be a classic) but Ritchie has certainly made some good albums. And what's this guff about Selected Ambient Works not being a proper album. Glen Campbell's 20 Golden Greats is a proper album, just because its a compilation does not weaken its claim.

Of course that make The Best Of Blur pretty much their best album...

― Pete, Monday, 15 January 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Anyone who goes to the trouble of making their own weird space instruments out of whatever they can lay their hands on in order to realise their sonic vision is definitely classic

― William Casper, Thursday, 15 February 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Listening to just one track can answer this.

POLYNOMIAL - C

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever. Also digiredoo and analogue bubblebath. Classic, groundbreaking music

― Andy, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Aphex is by far the most versatile, creative and most advanced artist in ALL of Dance/electronic culture, that means every genre thats made with samplers and electronics. IDM is easy to make now , but you wouldnt have said this 6 or 7 years ago. I laugh when people assume theyre just as good as someone like an Aphex, 10 out of 10 times theyll play what theyve done with it and its nothing even close to the genius of Aphex. Now ofcourse everyone has their own opnion about this, but this is mine and generally ya can ask most djs or artists and they'll usually admit that Aphex is in a league almost no one can touch. Everyone from Bowie to Reznor to Bjork and countless dance artists will reckon that fact. I like both Boards of Canada and Autechre, and I as nice as for example BOX is, they dont even come in the total BATTING RANGE of what Aphex has done over the past 11 -12 years or so. Music Has the Right to Children is good , but IMO nothing groundbreaking and the last 4 tune EP "Out in a Beautiful place in The Country" nothing to write home about IMO. Autechre has done some amazing stuff as well, but they sound rather repetitious at times, neither BOC or Autechre have the emotion ridden classics as AFX's "Heliospan", "Girl/boy", "Alberto Balsam", "Peek","Flim", "UZ-US" for example. Personally I think that Plaid/Black Dog kick both Ae and BOC's butts in terms of emotion and the likes in their music. I would like Mr Ludo come up with a Girl/Boy track for example, if yer so good, then put yer samples online bro.. Aphex is still King of all......

― PostModernVancouver, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Definitely classic - though his cohorts Autechre and Boards of canada are good too.

I'm good too

― charlie frame, Wednesday, 14 March 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Strange enough I find Autechre to be the most emotional of the IDM (aaarghh I've said okay, I.D.M.) artists. They have a fairly unique way of going for childlike melancholy without using the sounds of the 70s itself a la Boards of Canada (love em too). It's more like the sound nostalgia makes. It's a bit hard to explain but you hear it best on the 1st album and "Amber". Unlike much of Mr. James later output, for instance that irritating fartknocking "jungle" on "Richard James" album. Which is a pity because he had that emotional touch up to "I Care...".

― Omar, Thursday, 15 March 2001 01:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

this Man are king of free minding music and thinking.I llicke that Man!

― vinsents krebs, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Aphex Twin deserves more credit than he's given. For me, it's the sound of 'england dreaming', a contemporary embodiment of our eccentricity, more evocative of the Britain I experienced in the 90's than the indie commentary (Divine Comedy/ Babybird). Listen to 'Cornish Acid' on Richard. D James for the quintessential 'english' whimsy- seaside towns, Martin Parr, provincial backwaters. (A suggestion for an artist who's speaking more directly, i.e. vocals, samples, try Martin - Male Caucasian, but unfortunately this'll date like a Blue Peter annual.) Folk music for the digital pastures that've been uncovered in the past decade, he's as vague and indistinct as the new avenues we find ourselves on.

Despite the rictus grin there's is a genuine warmth and humour to his music, though I'll admit that, like many Warp artists, the emotional communication is indirect, showing us how to feel, as opposed to telling us what to feel. But that's fine, it's not as if they're even trying to tell us a story. Concequently this kind of music has a greater resonance with me. But then what what distinguishes him from his contempories? Well, he's survived every micro-genre he invented, reacted to and re- developed his own back catalogue - he replied to ambient with Ambient Vol 2, Drill n Bass with the classical hybrids of Richard D. James, then stirred the already stagnant electronica scene with Windowlicker, which I'm sure could hold it's own in any ILM pop league. Still a genius, even with his head firmly up his own arse.

Did you know AFX has been corresponding with Beck for months about producing the Beck's album. It fell apart cause neither were prepared to record outside their own studio. I dunno, but that would have been fun.

― K-reg, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

i agree. be sure to not refer to beck as 'the beck' on your top forty list though.

― ethan, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

basically, just agreeing with everything k-reg said. i like the martin parr comparison in particular. always been taken with the ruralism in aphex. richard.d.james album always seems like a cousin of nick drake's bryter layter.

but i'm glad the aphex/beck thing didn't happen. even aphex couldn't make beck good.

oh, and to answer the question, classic, obviously

― gareth, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Just wait until Robin gets ahold of that "provincial backwaters" thing that K-Reg said.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Yeah? So? I've met K-reg and I could tell instantly he meant it in good spirit. It's the sarcastic mockery of certain other contributors that I can't take. I'm quite happy being in a geographical backwater as long as I'm not in a cultural one.

The Parr comparison applies for sure, but not as explicitly as it does with BoC's "Concourse" and "M9" (but then how could it?).

Aphex is classic, of course. I actually used to see him as a model for making a virtue of geographical isolation as a means of artistically refining yourself, so it's appropriate that K-reg said that. I think "Richard D. James Album" is his best work, as well, whereas FWIW I think "Bryter Layter" is Drake's weakest.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

If Richard D. James doesn't impress you, Ludo, then who the hell does??????!!!!

― Sam Garcia, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Apropos of nothing: "Audax Powder" on the Polygon Window's Surfing On Sine Waves: The windows are down, I'm going to pick up my baby, my paycheck is still warm and I've had 7 gimlets. And we live inside Tron.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Sunday, 11 May 2003 20:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

Fair enough, Autechre and Plaid are more focused in their visions and make arguably better music, but they would be nothing, absolutely nothing without Aphex. Aphex is a starting point, if you like his complexity, then get into Autechre; is maniacal evilness, listen to Boards of Canada; for his melodic brilliance, Plaid are highly recommended. But it is always worth listening to and revering RDJ as the pioneering force behind this music.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 12 May 2003 00:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

This is interesting because I have been obsessed with "electronic" music since I was about 10 years old but then I stopped listening to it for years. I thought I'd get back into it by seeking out the guy everyone was talking about, The Aphex Twin. So a few years back I bought "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" - listened to it a few times and thought, "blah". I found it totally bland and uninteresting and it wasn't doing anything I hadn't heard hundred times before. But I am willing to give the guy another go because I think he must have talent for people to be so fanatical about him.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

I think this thread has my first evah post on ILX (I think my opinions on eelctronic have changed quite a bit since then).

dada- you should get selected ambient works vol II. I heard the first disc of that last evening. its really wonderful 'ambient' stuff. great to read books with.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

neither classic nor dud - just hugely overrated.

I think the general feeling on Aphex Twin is surely that he makes far better videos than records.

Most of his stuff is doodly nonsense..... some unlistenable, some rather good. Much of it sounds like he's making it up as he goes along.

― russ t, Monday, 12 May 2003 11:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

great to read books with.

-- Julio Desouza (juli...), May 12th, 2003.

Julio: "Once upon a time there was a little bear named Pooh..."

SAW V.2: "Who lived in the House At Pooh Corner..."

Julio: "One day Pooh's friend Piglet came round for tea, and said to Pooh-"

SAW V.2: "'Come on you cunt let's have some of that Aphex Acid!!!!'"

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

Most of his stuff is doodly nonsense..... some unlistenable, some rather good. Much of it sounds like he's making it up as he goes along.

I like doodly nonsense, I like unlistenable, I like "making it up as he goes along" - someone direct me to the doodly unlistenable shit he makes up as he's going along.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:09 (10 years ago) Permalink

classic. for the ambient records especially. the more drum'n'bass-y ones don't do it for me quite as much, but then i'm not really into drum'n'bass. i feel like i'm on rocky territory if i start calling him a genius, as i'd feel i have to give reasons other than the beauty of the music. and that's all that matters, really.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:09 (10 years ago) Permalink

yeah that's spot on nick.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:09 (10 years ago) Permalink

I like those jungle inspired recs. its not all good but some amazing tracks came out of that. also search windowlicker and come to daddy singles.

I think SAW II + I think there's enuff to make a wonderful two CD 'best of'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 12 May 2003 11:13 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

classic,and not just because i own 7 of his albums.I really do believe he is a classic if only for SAWII and "I care..."those two cd's are possibly my faveorite albums ever and underneath fall my boc albums and then the rest of my aphex twin collection.I am interested in autecher and squarepusher but I haven't gotten into them because I'm afraid i'll like them and that'll be another artist to follow and spend my money on....oh and I do like underground stuff too,donato wharton's "is that why yr still on earth" is breathtaking and makes me cry everytime i hear it...

― Caleb, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

"I haven't gotten into them because I'm afraid i'll like them and that'll be another artist to follow and spend my money on"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm a fan.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

"I haven't gotten into them because I'm afraid i'll like them and that'll be another artist to follow and spend my money on"

This actually makes perfect sense to me. I used to have to deal with this. (Not just because of the $ factor, but also because it takes me a long time to "absorb" new material, and I get ansy when there's stuff piling up that I'm really itching to soak up, but haven't been able to give my full attention to.)

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

What's up with RDJ these days, anyway? All the big Aphex websites seem to be defunct or otherwise non-operational...

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

probably getting fat and making music he will never show to anyone, ever.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 16:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

He should hang out with D'Angelo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

he did a good interview with the wire a few months back. did anybody mention that?

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

I noticed that interview, but I have nowhere to buy the Wire. (And I figured it would end up eventually on the "watmm.com" website.) What did he have to say?

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

what is this?

― :| (....), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

Anal lord, eh?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

maybe he's picked up some new hobbies?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

according to luke vibert, aphex has been fully analogue for a while and this is the result

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

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seems likely, she's on Drukqs as well so

― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

aphex twin classics or drukqs?

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Thing is, her accent on Drukqs sounds so different from the person speaking on the Mummy Mix (esp with the pitch shifting and all) sounds so different that I didn't recognise her.

― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

some ppl sound quite different on the (answer)phone

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

has anything happened since one of the warp ppl said a new aphex twin album is in the works (last yr iirc?)

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not really, no. Vibert claimed to have heard some of the new tracks for the album, so there is ~something~ but who knows when anyone will pry it out of Richard's little mitts.

I'm going to squee about how cute and gentle and ever so slightly Cornish accented his voice sounds here, because if I'm going to be thrown off WATMM if I do any more fangirling.

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

I always knew he did 95% of his own singing, as well. like, people are always "who's the girl singing on some of the tracks on SAW85?" and it's just so patently obviously him, when you hear his speaking voice. So I'm glad that he says it's almost always him.

― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

He was supposed to have a "tsunami"* of releases ready to go last year.

*Trying to remember if this was the phrase used, might have been something else.

― djh, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well, first it was that one album for Warp. Then in the Another Man interview, he said he had six albums, all ready to go. And then in an interview with a Spanish broadsheet, he started talking about how he had FIFTEEN albums, and it just started to sound like typical RDJ exaggeration and lies, you know? Especially since his excuse for why he hadn't released any of the albums was all "I waited to get divorced" so his family didn't get any of the money, followed by "my ex wife is robbing me" and other assorted "the divorce ate my homework" bullshit excuses which actually started to sound kinda pathetic but if I start to think too much about how shitty it is to talk that way about yr ex wife when you have kids, I'm going to start to feel distinctly un-squee and quite cross about him, which I really don't want to feel.

― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Friday, 29 July 2011 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Why do I even know this gossipy shit? I wish I didn't, sometimes.

― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Friday, 29 July 2011 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

are you sure he was actually married?

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 July 2011 20:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

anyway i'm glad you know this stuff because it saves me the ever-dispiriting biannual trawl thru aphex twin fansites in seach of granules of information

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 July 2011 20:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

He was definitely married. I even knew his wife's name, that's how uber-damn-sad-fan I am.

― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Friday, 29 July 2011 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Also, happy 40th birthday, hope you have a nice midlife crisis, Mr Twin.

</sad pathetic fangurl>

― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 18 August 2011 09:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

So, going on past results, someone needs to break in and steal copies (ropey ones, mind) of these 15 albums, then he might actually release them to his label or some such other.

― Mark G, Thursday, 18 August 2011 09:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

I kinda feel like they *might* all be garbage

― frogbs, Thursday, 18 August 2011 13:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

i have the same fear/feeling.

― karma's ruthless invisible (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

I don't. He's been playing some amazing unreleased stuff at his recent gigs, and if that's any indication, it'll be wonderful.

::continues to drift on in a giant bubble of heart-on::

― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

So he's bringing that remote controlled orchestra of disco balls Reich thing to England. Finally.

I appear to have a ticket for it.

(Whether I actually go or not is another story. It wouldn't be the first time I bought a ticket to see him, then backed out, from job or fear or nerves or anxiety or just plain stupidity. I am telling myself he probably won't even be there. And it will be a seated gig therefore not too anxiety inducing.)

((I am super glad it is the Reich thing, and not the Penderecki thing.))

(((also.... EEEEEEEP! I have not been this squee-ish about a concert since I was a teenager.)))

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 09:20 (11 months ago) Permalink

Also, they have knocked down his house. It's so weird sitting on the Thameslink being able to stare down into what used to be his bank vault as the diggers fill it in. This makes me feel v v v crepey even if it's not my fault that Thameslink stops for 10 minutes just outside the Elephant every day.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 09:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I was watching "Heathers" for the first time in 20 years, and got this real sense of deja vu at parts of David Newman's score. Like, check this very SAWII-style clip, beginning around the :30 mark:

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:41 (10 months ago) Permalink

Sounds like a cross between Goon Gumpas and one of the ones on the last quarter of SAWII, yeah, but that might just be the pizzicato strings.

― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Monday, 13 August 2012 09:19 (10 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

So the Barbican thing is tonight. I should be feeling a lot more excited about this.

(I think mostly it's physical I've not been well and my ear has been giving me problems and it just doesn't seem fair that the first time I see Mr Twin I will only be able to *hear* half of it.)

Since I stopped reading the Phanboys I haven't really been able to keep up with what he's been up to lately. It's the remote orchestra thing so I don't know what to expect, or if indeed he will even be there, or conducting remotely from a bunker in Wales.

I still feel disappointed about not going to the Bangface thing in Cornwall but, y'know, Bangface. Bleurgh.

Help me get more excited. (Why am I asking this on ILM? Of course you won't.)

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:02 (8 months ago) Permalink

Eh, well, I didn't know about this.

I know what you mean about Bangface. I've never actually been but if it's anything like the Planet-µ night I attended several years ago now, there's an intense level of fawning geekery pervasive throughout the night, and not in a pleasant way. I don't really know what Aphex fans are like these days mind you.

As for the Barbican, I'm sure it'll be good once you're there, right?

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:14 (8 months ago) Permalink

That's not really what I meant about Bangface at all, but um whevs.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:20 (8 months ago) Permalink

sometimes going in with low expectations is better than being all hyper? better to be surprised than let down. also

conducting a 28-piece string section and a 12-strong choir by remote control

ought to be a treat whoever's doing the conductoring

― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

also i assume there's seats. i'm all about gigs where i can sit down.

― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:22 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yes, there are seats. This is the A No.1 thing I am most happy about. If memory serves, it is actually a front row ticket. That might be awkward, so I'm glad he's conducting remotely.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

Damnit, time was I'd have been all over a gig like this. I've seen Aphex silent DJing in the Barbican conservatory, Scanner on a Routemaster, all the Warp London parties. First thing I heard about this was someone on facebook last week saying it was sold out. So you should be excited, it's exciting! Aphex! The Barbican! Remote Orchestra! Whatever the hell that is!

― ledge, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

maybe he'll be...sat amongst the crowd. DA DA DAAAAAAAAH

― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

I would suggest going early to see the rain thing there but queues for it are prett crazy atm and probably everyone else will have had the same idea.

― ledge, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

I was trying to get in the mood listening to SAWs on the bus. But it's not going to be SAWs, it's going to be something completely new and different and orchestral. So I should be excited about that aspect, that it will probably be completely unpredictable and unexpected, no matter what he is doing.

What is the rain thing? I have a couple of hours to kill but I hate queueing.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13723

― ledge, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

TWO HOUR QUEUE TIMES?!?!?!?

I haven't got that much time to kill. Looks cool, tho.

But after experiencing Orcadian rainstorms last week I am not really keen to experience any more rain, art or no.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

"I know what you mean about Bangface. I've never actually been but if it's anything like the Planet-µ night I attended several years ago now, there's an intense level of fawning geekery pervasive throughout the night, and not in a pleasant way. I don't really know what Aphex fans are like these days mind you."

No no no. Bangface is full of young people off their tits on ridiculous amounts of drugs lots of nakedness drawing on each other silly sweaty dancing glowsticks very very trash dreadlocks gurning that sort of thing. I tend to go once every... few years.

― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:08 (8 months ago) Permalink

^^^that is what I suspected about Bangface, so the combination of Bangface plus Newquay was just one of those... "um, just, no." moments for me.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

I had fun at the club nights back in the day but (I think I posted this before somewhere) people's descriptions of previous Bangface festivals reminded me of what you read about, like, Deadheads in the 80s, after the good times had gone and it was just burnouts

― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:22 (8 months ago) Permalink

No no no. Bangface is full of young people off their tits on ridiculous amounts of drugs lots of nakedness drawing on each other silly sweaty dancing glowsticks very very trash dreadlocks gurning that sort of thing. I tend to go once every... few years.
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:08 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh well that's okay then. Rather a bunch of mental ravers dancing about than a room full of sweaty dorks crowing for obscure Wagon Christ B-sides.

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

Oh just fucking shut up.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

you're not a very nice person, you know that?

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

Like, we get it, how over IDM you are.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

I'm just really sick of how you feel the need to come on any thread and stomp all over anyone's possible joy or excitement over it. I get it, you're not into this any more. You're allowed to move on and leave it to other people. You don't have to ruin it for everyone else.

Oh god why the fuck am I even talking to Dog Latin?

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

If I'm feeling iffy about a gig or an artist, ILM is the worst possible place I could come. Why do I never learn this? Stupid me for not learning after 1000 times.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

Um sorry but I don't think DL was doing any stomping at all, given that all he did was get the demographics of the Bangface crowd wrong.

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Meantime, a little flashback to 1993:

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:48 (4 months ago) Permalink

jesus what happened up there ^^^^

― frogbs, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:51 (4 months ago) Permalink

british humour

― Crackle Box, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:12 (4 months ago) Permalink

woah just looked at two threads in one day featuring poster Ludo. weeeyerd.

― andrew m., Friday, 8 February 2013 16:54 (4 months ago) Permalink

Am I allowed to say "I miss the Old Trout, Windsor" again?

― Mark G, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:58 (4 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Heard "Actium" on a big system yesterday. Sounded fantastic, was suprisingly danceable, and holy hell that's a lot of bass.

― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 29 April 2013 03:31 (1 month ago) Permalink

Am I allowed to say "I miss the Old Trout, Windsor" again?

you sure can... so many memories for me too

I was at that Aphex Twin gig... i remember a load of the indie/rave kids being REALLY freaked out by all the noise stuff he was playing, and me and one other bloke (who happened to be wearing a Hafler Trio t-shirt) being really into it....

― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 19:07 (1 month ago) Permalink

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