Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

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It'll probably be in a Claus Olssen branch.

Mark G, Friday, 29 August 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link

This is getting too weird, on a "fandoms colliding" kinda tip.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwX2G-fIQAI68WQ.jpg

(It helps if you know whose shoes you are gazing at)

Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link

probably

boney tassel (sic), Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link

dud

nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 August 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link

this is the first time ive seen deems say anything about music other than 90s rock bands you like, 90s rock bands who betrayed you, or irish folk music

Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Sunday, 31 August 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link

not my fault you skip john prine or Kris Kristofferson threads son

nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 August 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM9ToD0FTj4

this is still my jam

the tune was space, Sunday, 31 August 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link

american singer songwriters with scots irish folk fixations dont fall very far from those trees

Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Sunday, 31 August 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link

distance from a tree is no metric of satisfactory listening I ever found myself lusting after but come I've said my piece as far as this thread goes

nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 August 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link

Ordered on CD, am stoked.

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 31 August 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link

Special edition is quite ornate:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/september/syro-aphex-twin

Guess it's somewhat expected for the quid you're extracting for it

octobeard, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 07:56 (nine years ago) link

Love this. Also it only occurred to me after a talking with my partner last night that the sole intention behind releasing those track titles, BPMs and run times was to encourage loads of bootlegs and rub obsessive fans up the wrong way. Same as this deluxe edition and the Caustic Window album - this is good music, but it's not worth £200-£46,000.

www.perry.como (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 08:49 (nine years ago) link

New interview: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/aphex-twin-on-new-syro-lp-im-feeling-really-horny-about-it-and-very-smug-20140903#ixzz3CH2dlUjr

Yeah, I've got this brand spanking new Swedish digital-analog hybrid drum machine-sampler-synthesizer. It's fucking good. Pretty much everything I do has to be somehow related to making music – when I came up to London to do press, I thought, "Oh, I can go on the train and make some music on the way up." But then on the train, I didn't have any power sockets to plug anything into, so that didn't work out so good. I'm going to make sure that they have sockets in the one on the way back.

Since when did Richard become so adorable? This interview is quite open and earnest (it would seem). Also, did he just buy an OP-1? Sounds like it from his description.

octobeard, Thursday, 4 September 2014 08:45 (nine years ago) link

I thought it might have been that new Elektron drum machine, but that sounds plausible

JLB Credit (Jack BS), Thursday, 4 September 2014 09:07 (nine years ago) link

He still lies his head off. Basically contradicted a ton of stuff he said in other interviews over the past couple of years. (Then again, given those were supposed to be email interviews, it's entirely possible they weren't him?)

He sounds pretty happy, which is good.

Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 4 September 2014 09:13 (nine years ago) link

> Skrillex has called Aphex Twin's 1997 track "Flim" his "fav song of all time."

skrillex has just gone up in my estimation. first he invents dubstep*, now this

(*jokes)

koogs, Thursday, 4 September 2014 09:48 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/qA5P4gn.png

niels, Thursday, 4 September 2014 09:59 (nine years ago) link

Skrillex has called Aphex Twin's 1997 track "Flim" his "fav song of all time."

lol if this becomes standard in the first paragraph of Aphex articles

ugh (lukas), Thursday, 4 September 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link

"fav"

example (crüt), Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link

favour fav

nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link

How many kids do you have?
Two boys, eight and six. They make music, both of them. I don't know if you've ever heard of an artist called Mark Fell – it's avant-garde techno, not danceable. Someone said [my son's music] sounds like a cross between that and Holly Herndon, who's another experimental electronic artist. That's really accurate, actually. He was five when he did it.

lol, so proud

mattresslessness, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link

also mark fell is gr8 and his sensate focus tracks are totally danceable

mattresslessness, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link

indeed

https://soundcloud.com/editionsmego/sensate-focus-y-focus-1

ugh (lukas), Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link

GOT INVITED TO THE LISTENING PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link

wtg diamonddave85

mattresslessness, Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link

Oooh, a track just popped up on Bleep if you've preordered

Brakhage, Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUAJ8KLGqis

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link

Right, I must not listen to that.

Mark G, Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link

Go onnn. you know you want to.

cajunsunday, Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link

mark fell rulez xps

clouds, Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link

My prediction upthread that this might sound like the Analord series seems true, then?

Moka, Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link

I get Windowlicker Lite from this track at least

Brakhage, Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link

sounds good 2 me

example (crüt), Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link

The processed vocals sound super super-Tuss like, to me.

Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link

it's good!

the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link

kewl track

mattresslessness, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link

it's ok.

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link

dud

am0n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link

the ilx progression

the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link

it's an aphex twin track.

Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link

^^^

festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link

when posting track opinions please also post your opinion of ICBYD so I know if I can discount yours, thanks

ugh (lukas), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link

shapedworld707 59 minutes ago
i wish i could lick my own ball listening to this

am0n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link

A good opinion of ICBYD makes my opinion valid or invalid? I rate it between 3.5/4 stars out of five.

Moka, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link

you can live

ugh (lukas), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link

i wasn't that bothered about him releasing new material but if it's going to generate opinions i'm on board

Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link

he just.......................................... cared because you do xp

mattresslessness, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link

I'm not going to listen to any of these tracks until I get the LP I guess.

xp I'm interested in Lukas's opinion about "...I care" though because I've only just rediscovered after years and years of it being sat in a cupboard festering and being ignored. It sounds so, so great in the last two days I've heard it again. Almost like the Aphex I'd dreamed of hearing after SAWII. erm, yeah. I know.

kraudive, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link

it is very richard h. kirk : lovely melodic bouncy bleeps, layered/cut up/processed vocals

subsequently, i really like it.

mark e, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link


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