ok, side 3 & 4 are really clicking with me now... mookid and alberto balsalm are really beautiful... don't dig em as much as RDJ LP or Come to Daddy but I'll hold off on selling this one...
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 March 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
i don't think i ever properly appreciated the RDJ album (listened to Come to Daddy a ton though).
i have a playlist of all the piano/percussion pieces from Drukqs for weekend morning listening, i think it's time to make one for all of his electronic tracks with pretty pretty melodies.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Aphex was such a big part of my life in the late 90s and early thousands that I have difficulty imagining what it would be like to listen to ICBYD or even RDJ Album for the first time in 2016. I identify very much with lukas's post, in that hearing these records at the time, I didn't have to make any mental allowances at the time: it felt very much like the sound of daringness and future-music. Ironically I can't help feeling that ICBYD sounds really of its time. Still very much a unique piece of work, it's nevertheless harder to appreciate what made it so outstandingly different and new on release.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
cow cud is a twin
― am0n, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
imo Little Lord Faulteroy towers over everything else he's done. Ridiculously brilliant song from beginning to end
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
94-95 best afx period
― clouds, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
xp Come to Daddy as a suite is his (no pun intended) apex. Bouncing Bucephalus Ball and Flim were life-changing moments for me when I first heard them.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Thursday, 10 March 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
if/when it's starting to get warm where you live, go for a stroll and listen to acrid avid and cow cud.
icbyd has the best drums. they're made by special construction equipment that can dig out chunks of your brain and burrow inside.
think this was the last time he fully went for a super saturated mix with huge reverbs everywhere. i love that sound. no idea how he found so much space around all the gnashing cymbals.
― home organ, Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
paul woodford posted a peel session from 92: https://soundcloud.com/paulwoolford/sc-aphex-twin-peel-session-1992-live-from-sheffield-hallam-university-1993
― home organ, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/RussellHaswell/status/716983519189327873
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link
http://gcasfm.com/blog/hospital-radio-dj-food - DJ Food - Selected Aphex Works part 2
(this was part 1 by the way : https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-1322015-part-1-2-dj-food )
― StanM, Sunday, 15 May 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
19 Bradley echoes. So great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R74JBqM0lw8
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
PURE BUZZ
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
It's amazing that something this great was archived for years, unreleased and then dumped as part of an en masse.
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
i love this v SAW 85-92-sounding track -- it was my morning alarm for a few months
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8Rc0vPmSA
― clouds, Monday, 23 May 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
Yeah that's great.
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Monday, 23 May 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
Aphex Yay
― calstars, Monday, 23 May 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_frWfGNmQ&list=RDJI8Rc0vPmSA&index=3
― clouds, Monday, 23 May 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
oops meant to post this
fuck
― clouds, Monday, 23 May 2016 12:42 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13346617_10153445376705566_8240176362879208248_n.jpg?oh=4c240948d4caefc00336b2ccfbd5ee98&oe=57C1AFD1
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 11:50 (seven years ago) link
LOVE the cover
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
I used to work for a business to business advertising company and pretty much every ad they designed looked exactly like that, but a good 15 years after that's was the style du jour.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
http://www.cheetah-ep.com/
Aphex TwinCheetah EPWAP391
Released: 08/07/2016Formats: Vinyl, CD, Ltd Edition Cassette, Digital
01. CHEETAHT2 [Ld spectrum]02. CHEETAHT7b03. CHEETA1b ms80004. CHEETA2 ms80005. CIRKLON3 [ Колхозная mix ]06. CIRKLON 107. 2X202-ST5*
*CD, Cassette and Digital track only, included on download available with vinyl
― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
http://www.gforcesoftware.com/extras/syntharchive/cheetah-ms800
"The preproduction unit didn’t have a single factory sound, well, not that I could bloody well find” Chris recalls."During the course of the next few weeks I translated the manual into a series of diagrams and charts that visually allowed me to understand the ‘flow’ of the parameters, after which I set about creating ‘Tones’ and 'Patches' for this 15 note polyphonic, multi-timbral, filterless (what?), stereo bell box. The most bizarre thing is that you couldn't hear your parameter changes in real-time. You have to enter ‘edit mode’ adjust your parameters and then exit ‘edit mode’ to hear your changes."Beyond daft? We think so because given its almost totally incomprehensible editing system could it have been a contributing factor to Cheetah vanishing soon after the MS800's release?Nonetheless the MS800 had an almost unique tone and parameter structure which made it sonically interesting and reasonably useful back in the day. Nowadays though, we think it's a more interesting box of tricks than it was back then and the tones that you can coax from it provides a great counterbalance to analogue. The best description of the MS800's sound we've heard is "a PPG meets a Wavestation via a Sid Station."Nonetheless it remains the most difficult instrument to program on the planet - If you don’t believe us trawl the net and find a manual. Once you've read it, if you're still interested in giving it a go, let us know, we’ve still got ours.
"During the course of the next few weeks I translated the manual into a series of diagrams and charts that visually allowed me to understand the ‘flow’ of the parameters, after which I set about creating ‘Tones’ and 'Patches' for this 15 note polyphonic, multi-timbral, filterless (what?), stereo bell box. The most bizarre thing is that you couldn't hear your parameter changes in real-time. You have to enter ‘edit mode’ adjust your parameters and then exit ‘edit mode’ to hear your changes."
Beyond daft? We think so because given its almost totally incomprehensible editing system could it have been a contributing factor to Cheetah vanishing soon after the MS800's release?
Nonetheless the MS800 had an almost unique tone and parameter structure which made it sonically interesting and reasonably useful back in the day. Nowadays though, we think it's a more interesting box of tricks than it was back then and the tones that you can coax from it provides a great counterbalance to analogue. The best description of the MS800's sound we've heard is "a PPG meets a Wavestation via a Sid Station."
Nonetheless it remains the most difficult instrument to program on the planet - If you don’t believe us trawl the net and find a manual. Once you've read it, if you're still interested in giving it a go, let us know, we’ve still got ours.
― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:24 (seven years ago) link
sounds like programming the DX7
― bitcoin bajas (diamonddave85), Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P6vjIE8T3Ws/V1i-iWsKGmI/AAAAAAAKZ5M/qVe0ZxSzQJI0SgIMzBDCab1OlaogmWFXgCLcB/s640/13339478_1203121433031596_8653733728797572480_n.jpg
― am0n, Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
nice
― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
ah, yes, thought i remembered the name. they made a bunch of spectrum peripherals.
Spec-Drum anyone?http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000062
― koogs, Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/cLfYT6yXgEc?t=45s
― get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
$17 USD for a normal bias (type i) audio cassette at BLEEP.. seems slightly ridiculous
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
Uhm.. Cassettes these days are a novelty. That's what you pay for. Not normal or high bias or type 1 or 2. That shit don't matter any more. You shell out for novelty value or go to Spotify.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
labels (like Drag City) sell new cassettes at a reasonable price ($8 for The Arizona Record), some labels even use good quality tape stock (chrome or cobalt), like Notice Recordings. BLEEP charge approximately $14 for shipping to the US... that's fucking ridiculous. i mean, why spend $32 on a cassette if you're actually going to listen to it? i know, i know. it's a NOVELTY
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
If it's shipping costs you are on about I get that, absolutely. But otherwise? Tapes is tapes, man.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
AT pretty much the only music I need at this point
― calstars, Friday, 10 June 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEP-Qpw3lHg
― ejemplo (crüt), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
the director:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ottJOVPduoM
― ejemplo (crüt), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
cool track
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
streaming on bleep for those who preordered
― bitcoin bajas (diamonddave85), Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2016/06/29/aphex-twin-had-a-booth-at-the-summer-namm-trade-show-and-yeah-it-was-a-little-strange/
― am0n, Friday, 1 July 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
Obv dud
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
love u, but get the fuck off of ILM
― sleeve, Saturday, 2 July 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
Fair!
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Saturday, 2 July 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
new ep is dope (safe to say).. it's deceptively simple-sounding. i wonder how much of the material is actually sourced from the Cheetah (ms800?) synthesizer, the short interludes sound like they could be.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 8 July 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
It's ok, kind of boring tbh
I still prefer the more mellow, slower sound loud tracks
― calstars, Friday, 8 July 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
cheetah 3 + 7 TEAC are a couple of the mellow, slower SC tracks.. but they sound better/more detailed (especially 7) on the ep. cheetah 3 (Cirklon3) does sound livelier in the context of the other cheetah ep tracks. the whole thing has an Analord 2 vibe, it's very chill
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 8 July 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
analord 2 vibe = sold (not that i wasn't already)
― clouds, Saturday, 9 July 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
it's nowhere near as dark/brooding as Phonatacid... just, real relaxed. kinda goofy, 8-bit adventures
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 9 July 2016 03:36 (seven years ago) link
the cd sounds freakin' fantastic on the stereo. way more present/direct/dry than Syro
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 9 July 2016 03:38 (seven years ago) link
kinda reminds me of the "10 Ragas to a Disco Beat" sound, very clean and if you crank it up it sounds wonderful
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link