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
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 (10 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
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 (9 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 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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 (7 months ago) Permalink
maybe he'll be...sat amongst the crowd. DA DA DAAAAAAAAH
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:25 (7 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 (7 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 (7 months ago) Permalink
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13723
― ledge, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:29 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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
― 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 (7 months ago) Permalink
Oh just fucking shut up.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:27 (7 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 (7 months ago) Permalink
Like, we get it, how over IDM you are.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:28 (7 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 (7 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 (7 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 (7 months ago) Permalink
Meantime, a little flashback to 1993:
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:48 (3 months ago) Permalink
jesus what happened up there ^^^^
― frogbs, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:51 (3 months ago) Permalink
british humour
― Crackle Box, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:12 (3 months ago) Permalink
woah just looked at two threads in one day featuring poster Ludo. weeeyerd.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 February 2013 16:54 (3 months ago) Permalink
Am I allowed to say "I miss the Old Trout, Windsor" again?
― Mark G, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:58 (3 months ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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 (2 weeks ago) Permalink