i hadn't actually listened to the tuss before. rushup edge slaps
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
It does! I may have given it more spins than Druqks.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
Listening to The Tuss now, it's amusing that there was even a question whether it was RDJ.
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
i like most of his singles and collections but i just can not get into much of the album material for some reason and i like his caustic window and polygon window material but not much of the afx material!
― xzanfar, Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
The Tuss is really really good
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
I never really got into the Analords or the Soundcloud dump. I'm not sure if it's the music itself or just the sheer amount of it. Maybe I should just admit I prefer his digital stuff and that the later attempts to re-embrace analogue don't move me much.
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
some parts of analord are better than others but the better parts are transcendent cf. "fenixfunk 5"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
I think analord is pretty consistent overall, it’s fun listening to them in order
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
i love "where's your girlfriend" so much
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 December 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
yeah was pretty stunned that one didn't make the CD
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
Woot! Now that we’re facing an insurrection, an impeachment and an inauguration (hopefully), it’s time to indulge in some hardcore Drukqs!
Drukqs — The id to the ego of The Richard D James Album. Equal parts exhilarating and exhausting, Drukqs is Richard’s White Album, McCartney and Lovesexy wrapped into one — a sprawling creative whirlwind that rejects the fruits of mass celebrity for the indulgence of complete artistic freedom. Far from an hour and forty minutes of alternating drum and bass and MIDI-enabled John Cage homages its first several tracks suggests, this is almost certainly the most diverse release in his catalogue outside of the Soundcloud dump (of which this is certainly a forbear), with plaintive proper piano compositions, trip hop entrails, traces of music concrete, a gentle harmonium ditty, and a doting 28th birthday voicemail from his mum and dad for good measure. Continuing to delight in giving his audience aural whiplash, he sandwiches arguably his most epic drill n’ bass composition (the 8.5’ Mt. Saint Michael + Saint Michaels Mount), between his most conventionally “pretty” track (Avril 14th) and would-be “serious composition,” Gwarek2 which sounds like the quieter moments of Morton Subotnick’s The Wild Bull. Throughout there’s smatterings of exceptional, sly writing, with Bbydhyonchord his most “beautiful piece” since Flim and Ziggomatic 17 concluding with one of his most winsome digital melodies. Meltphace 6 features some of his best FM textures and the kind of zig-zag structures he would return to a dozen years later with Syro while Taking Control is one of his last great digital sample-fiestas. He didn’t care because we did? I don’t care but you still do? Yeah.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
Lovely post NTI
Still enjoying/rediscovering this album now that I've sorted the Bangers and the chillers out from each other
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
Apparently Aphex Twin sent a tape to Jeff Mills and Mike Banks. On the tape was the first Analogue Bubblebath. They passed on signing him to UR. Jeff sounds a little regretful about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K0tVVnXfn4
― lukas, Sunday, 25 April 2021 23:01 (three years ago) link
think it lost the timecode, it's twenty minutes in
The way I've ripped Drukqs to my server means it plays disc 2 track 1, disc 1 track 1, disc 2 track 2, disc 1 track 2, etc etc etc, mashing the two discs together.
I don't know whether I should solve this or not. Probably not. It's not like it flowed at all.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 26 April 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
There's stuff on here that's absolutely as good as the best he ever did, it's just dumped together in a way that's difficult for most people to parse, seemingly.
Richard D James album is the one I go back to most often, the one I'd take with me to a desert island. It's got concision and gestalt.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 26 April 2021 07:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2156356/aphex-twins-sister-is-wales-new-climate-change-minister/news/?fbclid=IwAR2JYZ5JGDTsQ_DFoskK6593AF46_ygXT6BeK_2I8wlhCByWcAOXEPNG2hI
― lukas, Thursday, 5 August 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
we're sure it's not just james with fx?
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
When asked whether she’s a fan of his music, Julie said: Very much. Not all of it.
Very much. Not all of it.
same here
― Malibu Cheer Chants Forensics (morrisp), Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
lols from the comment section:
"Her best work is Selected Environmental Writings 87-93"
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 5 August 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
Something is happening on August 18
https://190823.co.uk/
― StanM, Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
19th
Field Day returns to Victoria Park on that day.
― kraudive, Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
I only had to type 1 number and still managed a typo
― StanM, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
I don’t know who Ludo is but what is up with people who sign their comments.
- Moka
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
Field Day indeed
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 09:37 (one year ago) link
So is Alberto Balsalm his most famous track at this point, what with all the memes?
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 05:42 (one year ago) link
*farts* wow I had no idea that’s actually kinda funny!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
Better than some “we made old person listen to ventolin, you won’t believe their reactions!!”
― brimstead, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link