Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

I was so underwhelmed by chosen lords, I have no idea why it was so received so well, and so unanimously so. Although I might very well be more into it today, in all fairness.

b/c it is gr8

I want to hear Karen Tregaskin's opinion.

Yes, I am quite interested as well.

the cun shines out of my behind

http://xltronic.com/nostalgia/aphextwin.nu/v4/visuals/rdj/rdj-09.jpg

Totally off topic, but has anyone else had the misfortune to stand next to a very odorous Luke Vibert? Dude smells so bad. I wonder if Mr. Twin smells as bad as Vibert. Now That's What I Call Funky!

you think that's bad you should check out what he tastes like

4 fans of analrods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6wKGtWJ4-o

xpost

ur not funny btw

Still think On EP is highlight of career. Warp version, of course.

i smoked a joint with vibert once but did not smell any foul odour

I love Vibert and have been called a dirty hippy myself many times before. My observation is in no way meant to diss Vibert. He's awesome. I still covet the early bits and pieces of his catalogue and have paid to see him live multiple times since the body odor incident.

love the GAK, and that one may be my favorite

Man, I dunno. It sure looks like it to me.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/qdobatwin.jpg

Hi, Richard.

Embarking on a "Best of Aphex Twin (Cornwall holiday version)" ...

What, see if you can hike from Portreath Harbour to Carn Marth?

"You've got so many machines, Richard"
"I 'aven't got that many..."

Turns out the talking on the "Mummy Mix" of Come To Daddy was actually his mum? If he's not lying his head off (and really, even if he is) <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

http://soundcloud.com/waphitxen/sets/aphex-twin-interview-live-1/

seems likely, she's on Drukqs as well so

aphex twin classics or drukqs?

Thing is, her accent on Drukqs sounds so different from the person speaking on the Mummy Mix (esp with the pitch shifting and all) sounds so different that I didn't recognise her.

some ppl sound quite different on the (answer)phone

has anything happened since one of the warp ppl said a new aphex twin album is in the works (last yr iirc?)

Not really, no. Vibert claimed to have heard some of the new tracks for the album, so there is ~something~ but who knows when anyone will pry it out of Richard's little mitts.

I'm going to squee about how cute and gentle and ever so slightly Cornish accented his voice sounds here, because if I'm going to be thrown off WATMM if I do any more fangirling.

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

I always knew he did 95% of his own singing, as well. like, people are always "who's the girl singing on some of the tracks on SAW85?" and it's just so patently obviously him, when you hear his speaking voice. So I'm glad that he says it's almost always him.

He was supposed to have a "tsunami"* of releases ready to go last year.

*Trying to remember if this was the phrase used, might have been something else.

Well, first it was that one album for Warp. Then in the Another Man interview, he said he had six albums, all ready to go. And then in an interview with a Spanish broadsheet, he started talking about how he had FIFTEEN albums, and it just started to sound like typical RDJ exaggeration and lies, you know? Especially since his excuse for why he hadn't released any of the albums was all "I waited to get divorced" so his family didn't get any of the money, followed by "my ex wife is robbing me" and other assorted "the divorce ate my homework" bullshit excuses which actually started to sound kinda pathetic but if I start to think too much about how shitty it is to talk that way about yr ex wife when you have kids, I'm going to start to feel distinctly un-squee and quite cross about him, which I really don't want to feel.

Why do I even know this gossipy shit? I wish I didn't, sometimes.

are you sure he was actually married?

anyway i'm glad you know this stuff because it saves me the ever-dispiriting biannual trawl thru aphex twin fansites in seach of granules of information

He was definitely married. I even knew his wife's name, that's how uber-damn-sad-fan I am.

Also, happy 40th birthday, hope you have a nice midlife crisis, Mr Twin.

</sad pathetic fangurl>

So, going on past results, someone needs to break in and steal copies (ropey ones, mind) of these 15 albums, then he might actually release them to his label or some such other.

I kinda feel like they *might* all be garbage

i have the same fear/feeling.

I don't. He's been playing some amazing unreleased stuff at his recent gigs, and if that's any indication, it'll be wonderful.

::continues to drift on in a giant bubble of heart-on::

So he's bringing that remote controlled orchestra of disco balls Reich thing to England. Finally.

I appear to have a ticket for it.

(Whether I actually go or not is another story. It wouldn't be the first time I bought a ticket to see him, then backed out, from job or fear or nerves or anxiety or just plain stupidity. I am telling myself he probably won't even be there. And it will be a seated gig therefore not too anxiety inducing.)

((I am super glad it is the Reich thing, and not the Penderecki thing.))

(((also.... EEEEEEEP! I have not been this squee-ish about a concert since I was a teenager.)))

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.

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

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.

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.)

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?

That's not really what I meant about Bangface at all, but um whevs.

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

also i assume there's seats. i'm all about gigs where i can sit down.

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.

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!

maybe he'll be...sat amongst the crowd. DA DA DAAAAAAAAH

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.

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.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13723

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.