Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

It's also difficult to untangle fact and fiction as usual...

yeah, I STILL can't shake the feeling that this is some elaborate hoax

the record is good in any case

really dig 'fingertips', SAW 85-92 caliber track imo

yeah, how can we verify this is really RDJ and not a hoax? (haven't had a chance to listen to any tracks yet btw).

And when the fuck is he releasing new material?

two more test pressings of unreleased albums have appeared on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNRELEASED-APHEX-TWIN-VINYL-TEST-PRESSING-MELODIES-FROM-MARS-CAT-087-LP-AFX-/291171368296?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item43cb2a7d68
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNRELEASED-APHEX-TWIN-VINYL-TEST-PRESSING-ANALOGUE-BUBBLEBATH-5-CAT-034-LP-AFX-/291171360722?

it's not a hoax

Oh so YOU'VE been RDJ all this time.

fuuuck xxp

Still waiting for that HDD that he left on the plane...

it's not a hoax

yeah, I don't have any legitimate doubts, it's just a very strange way for a record to be released. more like a funny feeling I can't shake compounded by the whole 'RDJ constantly making stuff up for ~20 years' thing

xp lol

same seller as the $20k caustic window lp. wonder if the same deal will be struck?

My first impression was that this is actually a brand new record released in the most obtuse way he could think of. I mean it's probably not true but it's amusing to think about.

1. flutey a1
2. stomper 101mod detunekk a2
3. mumbly b1
4. popeye b2
5. fingertrips b3
6. revpok b4
7. afx tribal kik b5
8. airflow c1
9. squidge in the fridge c2
10. fingry c3
11. jazzphase c4
12. 101 rainbows ambient mix g1
13. phlaps g2
14. cunt g3
15. phone pranks g4, 5

would also be great if someone just read the interview with the mu-ziq guy, deliberately created music similar to what paradinas described, and that's what everyone is currently freaking out over. super improbable but RDJ gets my conspiracy theory pseudo logic going.

xp

he should have called the album phlaps

fred phlaps

A couple of those Caustic Window tracks have been released before, no? I have "Cunt" on a comp I bought in 1994, and the version on that Youtube playlist is the same one (and it still sounds as awful as it did 20 years ago). I guess the rest of the tracks could still be fake, though...

There's a number of drum parts, synth settings and melodic styles that are absolute classic RDJ trademarks circa 1990-1994 on this. Also the two comp tracks. If these are fake, then this whole board is fake; each thread produced by some form of music nerd AI. Nothing to see here.

a couple of the tracks have been released before, no?

yeah, i believe two of them came out in the 90s on compilations.

I guess the rest of the tracks could still be fake, though...

nope

two more test pressings of unreleased albums have appeared on ebay.

OMG

i really hope these make it to the 'net

Yeah, I have no doubts about this being genuine either.

does it make any difference if fake or real?

i really hope these make it to the 'net

Melodies was on CD and online for years already.

So was AB5, no?

Melodies was on CD and online for years already.

i always assumed that bootleg going around was a fake

i hope not, because i've been listening to it (and analogue bubblebath 5) for the past 10 years!

This isn't the first time he's been accused of being in on a hoax. It reminds me of the Black Devil Disco Club reissue from a few years ago. This writer seems convinced it actually was a hoax and seems kind of angry about it on this review for the follow up album. http://www.allmusic.com/album/28-after-mw0000573787

I'm thinking it was actually wise not to release this in 1994 because it really does sound super similar to a lot of stuff he was doing at the time. Though releasing under Caustic Window probably would have alleviated a lot of that

how have I never heard of Black Devil Disco Club before???

Ugh that Black Devil review is so obnoxious. What a wanker. It's a great album!

Some of us were listening to Black Devil Disco Club well before Rephlex reissued it.

But we also thought there was no way it was from the 70s either.

It was.

Oh yeah the Black Devil Disco Club album is fantastic as is 28 After. I always wondered how many people had actually heard it before the 2004 reissue. I certainly hadn't heard it before then.

I'm thinking it was actually wise not to release this in 1994 because it really does sound super similar to a lot of stuff he was doing at the time. Though releasing under Caustic Window probably would have alleviated a lot of that

Too much of a good thing? The change of moniker wouldn't really combat that anyway, but isn't it also possible that it's just really original great music? Despite being massive influential, I can't think of many artists who entirely replicate this kind of early 90s RDJ sound...

the phone pranks track gave me an unexpected nostalgia rush.

http://www.nme.com/news/aphex-twin--2/79205

Blimp decorated in Aphex Twin logo appears over London

It'll turn out to be a countdown now. Next year we'll see 2013!

aw it's kind of adorable how aphex fans respond to these campaigns

a blimp, haha! that is so richard! crazy motherfucker *shakes head, chuckles*

"logo apparently appears outside of New York's Radio City Music Hall"

http://pitchfork.com/news/56339-an-aphex-twin-is-blimp-flying-over-london/

its probably just a campaign for the official release of the caustic window lp

nah, it probably isn't is it

drukqs reissue

with added bonus track of like a clock ticking for 80 seconds

Can someone just break into his house already and steal his DATs and hard drives?

Was the conspiracy theory that he was actually behind Burial's music ever discussed?

no idea why anybody would take that idea seriously

Because it's hilarious.

10-19-2014

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