where's the cost of the blimp??
― example (crüt), Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
He already had that, it's his normal means of transportation since the tank got towed.
― StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
strictly speaking it's a moored balloon, not a blimp
just want to keep this discourse factual
― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
someone needs to poll the press release, it's gotten me laughing really quite hard
― imago, Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
claiming this btw
― James Analogue Booblebath (imago), Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
"influential electronic fartist" is the best 3-word description of RDJ I've heard
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
it's a sin to appropriate such highprofile content actually
― imago, Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
they could sell way more than 200 super special box sets
c'mon richard
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
"Due to the labour-intensive hand-crafted print process, this edition is strictly limited to 200 copies."
― koogs, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Each limited box set includes a sealed jar that contains air particulates from the smelting of 1/200th of the world's last remaining ores in a giant, limited edition bonfire created just for your box set.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
Nyns eus Cornwallo yn England, Dogluthior. :-P
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
holding out real glee until i can hear just a snippet
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
at $400?
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
def
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
If there are only 200, they could have charged way more then $400. But I guess $80,000 up front goes a long way to paying the alimony, huh.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Expect at least 50 of those boxes on ebay in the weeks after having been sent out, fetching double or even triple the cost price.
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 August 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
That press release..
Way back when, I wrote a Jesus & Mary Chain article for Record Collector magazine.'While editing/revising the final version (which unbeknownst to me was a waste of time as the mag had already readied a previous draft for publication with some mistakes left in and a bunch of new ones added but never mind time to close the bracket) I ran it through a thesaurus, and went through replacing random words (e.g. "The Jesus plus Mary Manacle" by Frank Cement)
Anyway, the point being: it reads a lot like that press release.
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Reads like it was run through translation twice. Plus some jokes.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 21 August 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
several angry professionals bandying it about online; i think they missed the joke
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 August 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
Xpost yeah, more than likely.
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 August 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
NA has got the ball rolling on this, BTW:
ILX pre-covers Aphex Twin "SYRO"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 August 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
I'm pretty sure he passed the real press release into chinese or something in Google translator and back into English and decided it was more awesome that way.
― Moka, Friday, 22 August 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
uhh it's pretty obviously composed tbh
― mattresslessness, Friday, 22 August 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
maybe translate helped
regret these posts immensely
― mattresslessness, Friday, 22 August 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
yeah the google translate thing was my first impression but a lot of this is clearly meant to be funny
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
I think Dan got it right. He translated it back and forth and then added some jokes.
― Moka, Friday, 22 August 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
In June 2014, Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit stated "Cliffs" off of Selected Ambient Works II is the song he would listen to for the rest of his life - if he had to pick one.[61]
― tao lin commentboxing (nakhchivan), Saturday, 23 August 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
nice cardiacs ref in that press release
― rushomancy, Saturday, 23 August 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
this is a little strange, having spent however many hours playing the analord eps and the 90s shit over the last years, since i have scarcely thought about the author of all of that sublime music, so it's almost like being reaquainted with him and his mischievous yokel humour via the usual pr breadcrumb trail
he resembles a slightly more rustic andré villas-boas these days
http://www.mtv.com/crop-images/2013/08/15/aphex_twin.jpg
― tao lin commentboxing (nakhchivan), Saturday, 23 August 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
That's a very old picture. He shaved his head in 2008, maybe 2007? He is back to looking more like himself again recently:
http://38.media.tumblr.com/07e5bcde99548244157bdd20e97ce2de/tumblr_nar38xhJJV1rjw8sqo1_400.jpg
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 23 August 2014 08:25 (nine years ago) link
I listened to the Caustic Window LP for the first time yesterday and kind of instantly loved it, it was so familiar, so comfortingly weird, which obviously wouldn't have been the effect had it actually been released at the time. 'Squidge In The Fridge' is glorious.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 23 August 2014 09:31 (nine years ago) link
not so into that one, Jazzphase is the one from that record that i play
― saer, Saturday, 23 August 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
Aphex Twin is really nice in interviews. Apparently.
http://www.thefader.com/2014/08/25/aphex-twin-syro-interview-excerpts?&_suid=140897978232205487933855038136
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Monday, 25 August 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
spotted on my commute this am
http://photos-h.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xaf1/10607925_944036628956879_1511072352_n.jpg
― caek, Monday, 25 August 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure I can deal with a world where Aphex Twin does promotional press and even Pitchfork interviews like a normal artist with a record out, instead of disinformation and counter-claims and fake stuff leaked over the web...
http://pitchfork.com/news/56459-aphex-twin-speaks-on-his-new-album-being-sampled-by-kanye-more/
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
re: Caustic Window
I've got thousands more like that at home. I should release all that stuff as well.
― sleeve, Monday, 25 August 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
I don't think Mr Twin realises that the sheer obscurity/inaccessibility of the stuff was a huge part of why that kickstarter blew up so big. :-/
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
he is just too much
― example (crüt), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
"features unintelligible voices" <3
― sleeve, Monday, 25 August 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Maybe I should just ban myself from posting to this thread or even reading his interviews until the record is out because I am so used to viewing Richard D James as a puzzle to be solved or an arcane mystery to be pieced together that I just can't handle seeing him as a product to be marketed.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
aphex and marketing, imagine
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
wish he'd do a SAW III instead of all this noisy stuff.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
I know last week I was complaining about all the game-playing but compared to the whole "interviews with P4k" thing I'm not so sure. :-/
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
he's leaving his son's bandcamp page a mystery for us to sort out, at least
― example (crüt), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
Is this his first interview or
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Well, I remember interviews from a long time ago.
Maybe it's the only way to throw off the concrete cast of those fans that think they know him and his music better than he does.
(And that does not include anyone that has posted here, before anyone misunderstands )
― Mark G, Monday, 25 August 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
he's done maybe 2 or 3 interviews in the past 10 years, and those he has done have been mostly by email. It's just weird seeing him do 2 big conversation interviews so close together.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
On Kanye sampling Drukqs’ “Avril 14th” on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s “Blame Game”: “Is it a sample? I actually don't know what it ended up being in the end, I'm so slack. I know that he tried to fucking rip me off and claim that he'd written it, and they tried to get away with not paying. I was really helpful, and when they first sent it to me, I was like, ‘Oh, I can re-do that for you, if you like,’ because they'd sampled it really badly and time-stretched it and there was loads of artifacts. I was like, ‘I'll just replay it for you at that speed if you want.’ And they totally didn't even say ‘hello’ or ‘thanks,’ they just replied with, ‘It's not yours, it's ours, and we're not even asking you any more.’” [laughs]
this is awesome
― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 August 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Yeah.
Personally, that's what I want more of.
Your mileage, as ever...
― Mark G, Monday, 25 August 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
right I mean outside of those Analord releases and Rushup Edge he's been kind of a non-presence these last 13 years, I don't mind him talking - those few interviews he's done have been great
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 25 August 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link