Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

agreed -- deeper, subtler, more dynamic, funkier, etc etc etc

yes to all that

Chosen Lords/Rushup Edge/Ophaned Deejay Selek/Syro/Cheetax EP is a pretty remarkable run - clouds is right, but to some extent it's coming at the expense of his unparalleled oddness - he's not quite as fun to talk about anymore. Reminds me a bit of what's going on with Autechre, the old stuff is classic but I find myself reaching for the new stuff much more often. Even if for no other reason than it sounds fantastic.

yeah, it all sounds amazing.

Aphex and Ae's progressions have felt very different to me. Autechre seem to have always been striving for the type of sound they've achieved in the last decade from the very start, and now that they've really nailed down their process, they're having fun and experimenting with composition and timbre in really rewarding ways.

Conversely, RDJ seems to have kind of locked in to this particular sound and mode of composition ever since Analord that is starting to get a bit stale to my ears, though a few tracks on some of his recent EPs have been interesting, they still exhibit a lot of the "sameness" of the rest of his 21st century output. I miss his playfulness, that trollish desire to take the piss in tracks in some creatively brilliant ways, that edge, and it feels like he's now simply making very satisfyingly cromulent electronic music.

yeah, i dunno. there's blatant goofiness to "CIRCLONT14" (shrymoming mix), with the shifting hi-hat patterns and instances where the beat is so straightforward, they're augmented/emphasized as if he's saying "look at how dumb this is", and the gnarled, 20-step bass breakdown midway through the track - it's like an elaborate piss take. papat4 is just joyous.. the slick, rubbery bass lines are so effortlessly pert and buoyant-sounding, and those stuttered snare and tambourine bits -- it's so malleable and fluid-sounding. and then there's "s950tx16wasr10" (earth portal mix), which is possibly the 'deepest', most fleshed-out and varied track on the album, sort of a late grower. the first couple tracks of the album do feel refined, but Syro is all over the place, and it's undeniably playful. the Tuss eps really are the cream of the crop, imo. it does seem like he's zeroed in on a rich (but not super-varied?) sound palette. whatever mode he might be locked into, it's pleasurable enough. the way you described Ae in the first part of your post could to apply to RDJ over the last decade, though he's not fucking around with structure and composition in such extreme ways (like Ae).. i wouldn't say that he's solidified yet.

There's a really cool website here: http://user18081971.watmm.com/

that lets you vote on the various soundcloud tracks and then see what tracks have gotten the most votes. It's actually really helpful for sorting through the soundcloud tracks and I've found quite a few that are great. There's also a complete rip of the soundcloud tracks on watmm's aphex twin forum. Or I think you can find a torrent somewhere also.

I wasn't very excited about the SC tracks at first but now that I've heard some of the top voted ones, I think that there's some album quality stuff in there. The Cheetah track itself I think was chosen for release because of how many votes it got on that site, lol.

do you have to vote to see the results?

I'm still spinning Syro on a regular basis. Great record.

frogbs--no, but you do have to link it to a soundcloud account, I think, which is somewhat annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pysu0dICxy0

dddoes this hint at future dates as well???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqxqbc4x4AA&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/dqxqbc4x4AA

AFX (Aphex Twin) - 21 Forgotten T

http://i.imgur.com/TBxbKZy.jpg

hah awesome

that is pretty amazing tbf

rip of houston mystery LP: https://archive.org/details/AphexTwinHoustonTX12.17.161

only heard side A so far but damn i didn't realize i needed noise/drone/acid aphex in my life

wow, thanks

Amazing! Thank you!!

evidence?

is this real?

http://item.warp.net/interview/aphex-twin-speaks-to-tatsuya-takahashi/

https://aphextwin.warp.net/

um!

classic

lol at this post on reddit -

There was an aphex twin show I saw where he literally sat on a couch in front of his laptop for almost 2 hours and just played music. He could have been playing minecraft for all I know. I never really understand live electronic music but it seems like there’s no right or wrong way to approach it.

Ha, the one time I saw him live he did this. There was a stage with a couch on it. He reclined with a laptop while three people in giant Day-Glo teddy bear costumes stumbled around.

2002, no visible presence, just someone in giant Teddy Bear furry doing the same exact dance for 40-50 minutes over his "DJ" set (was billed as a performer at the festival).

2018 pic.twitter.com/ujv5ekAM9h

— Entr’acte (@LutyensBrontis) December 20, 2017

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b88k6l

"Music writer John Doran ventures into the strange world of Richard D James. Over the course of three decades James, known to his legion of hardcore fans as Aphex Twin, has achieved the primary but evasive aim of most serious musicians - the invention, exploration and curation of a truly unique and inimitable sound."

Radio 4 just now...

(nothing very new tbh, and it didn't cover the most interesting thing he's done in the last few years, imo - the soundcloud dump)

^^otm. SoundCloud dump still delivers

"L. James" — did lorna sign for richie's DX100 purchase?

I listened to it earlier today and I must say I really enjoyed it. Haven't listened to a full album by RDJ in ages; the programme made me want to dig out his records and give them all a spin.

NEWSFLASH! More Aphex Twin artwork has appeared in Turin 🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/JXHbbHP3Yk

— BOILER ROOM (@boilerroomtv) July 31, 2018

looks analog

Badass International DJ Mark Robinson is not happy

So us grafters bust our humps in the studio, make a dope track, spend money on promo, beg our peers to support, hustle, hustle... and it comes and goes.... Aphex Twin puts a picture up in a tube station and the whole industry goes mad for it

— Mark Robinson (@djmarkrobinson) August 1, 2018

first response HOF on that tweet

bad aphex no spend money on promo no beg peers to support

hey afx do u do promo 4 promo, hmu

yeah those tube paintings definitely weren't paid for by Warp or RDJ himself, they were definitely free and easy to do

Bust your humps recreating a rick James tune

Loser

afx has talked about symbols he used to put around locally to create a coded language...i imagine he would not care if others repped him

who is mark robinson? according to discogs he released one record in 2010.

Maybe he should try tagging some garages or something.

Looking at his tweets he's definitely badass at using hashtags xp

Warp's marketing campaign goes to the next level...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/183353101869

Fragile item. Leaves are loose and may shift around. Could attempt fixing leaves with a spray adhesive at buyers request.

love it