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 (eleven years ago) link
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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhpTbVbvD1M&feature=relmfu
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 August 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
That's not really what I meant about Bangface at all, but um whevs.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:20 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
maybe he'll be...sat amongst the crowd. DA DA DAAAAAAAAH
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13723
― ledge, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"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 (eleven years ago) link
^^^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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Oh just fucking shut up.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
you're not a very nice person, you know that?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
Like, we get it, how over IDM you are.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Meantime, a little flashback to 1993:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgdYh7rgEmQ
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
jesus what happened up there ^^^^
― frogbs, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
british humour
― Crackle Box, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
woah just looked at two threads in one day featuring poster Ludo. weeeyerd.
― andrew m., Friday, 8 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Am I allowed to say "I miss the Old Trout, Windsor" again?
― Mark G, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
any takers? http://www.discogs.com/buy/Vinyl/Caustic-Window-Caustic-Window-LP/152379087
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 11:31 (ten years ago) link
been taken down already
― narcissism of vas deferenses (NickB), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
either that or someone has already bought it
says that the four ppl who own that are RDJ, Grant from Rephlex, Cylob and u-Ziq. it would be rude to speculate which if any of those individuals might need the money the most
― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:18 (ten years ago) link
seller write-up says it's the 5th copy
― original bgm, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:48 (ten years ago) link
reading upthread, drukqs dismissed as "leftovers"... huh. is this still a perception held by people?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
I seem to recall that yes, that was a commonly held perception at the time, but I'd agree people have largely given up that fight and given in to the album over the last 13 (!) years.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
that's funny, because 29 discogs users claim to own it
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
Huh, on wikipedia:
In an October 2010 interview with British magazine Another Man, James stated that he had completed 6 albums, one of which was a remake of the unreleased Melodies from Mars, originally produced around the time of Richard D. James Album.[25] In June 2011, he spoke to Spanish magazine EL PAIS. When asked about the 6 albums, he answered 'More than 10 or 11 are already compiled, and many more songs are orphans.' He also revealed that a new album 'will show in a while' and that the reason it has been so long since his last album was that he was waiting for a divorce from his wife.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I didn't hear this one, either:
In November 1995, The Wire published an article titled "Advice to Clever Children". In the process of producing the interview, a package of tapes containing music from several artists, including Aphex Twin, was sent to Karlheinz Stockhausen.Stockhausen commented:I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James (sic) carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work "Song of the Youth", which is electronic music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations.[42]Aphex Twin, a fan of Stockhausen, responded:"I thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: "Digeridoo", then he'd stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to".[42]
Stockhausen commented:I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James (sic) carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work "Song of the Youth", which is electronic music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations.[42]
Aphex Twin, a fan of Stockhausen, responded:"I thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: "Digeridoo", then he'd stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to".[42]
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
the reason it has been so long since his last album was that he was waiting for a divorce from his wife
Think he was determined to wait until there was no chance of her being able to claim a cut of revenue from releases, yeah
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
lol at the RDJ/Stockhausen exchange.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
the nme gave drukqs 9/10 while most of the people who ought to have known better misunderstood it
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
it would be rude to speculate which if any of those individuals might need the money the most― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:18
def cylob
― am0n, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
FLAC rips?
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
sounds like an RDJ title
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
when in his career has RDJ not claimed to have stacks of unreleased material ready to go?
― twistent consistent (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
Stacks of unreleased material generally means loads of crap that needs some quality control (an issue he's had through most of his career when he was actually releasing shit). I bet his 6 albums+ of stuff could probably be reduced down to 1 album and 3 EPs of awesomeness.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link