It was seriously funny when I caught him listening to "Xtal" alone, though. He was just laying on the couch and staring at his iPad, and just bobbing his head up and down with his big old afro!
― potential trouble source (monster mash), Sunday, 22 November 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
It's a lovely story, and re: what to do, maybe talk to his parents, I'm sure they're facing similar issues already?
― fka styx (paul santa cruz), Sunday, 22 November 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
i was... 8 or 9 years old when i fist saw the come to daddy video on mtv, and loved it. still do.my advice would be to just let the little guy live his life.
― BringTheAuBonPain, Monday, 23 November 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
in fact!i remember showing my little niece a bunch of chris cunningham videos when she was a toddler. maybe 3 or 4 years old. she was a huge fan of the horrors' "sheena is a parasite"... good times. now she won't shut up about one direction.
― BringTheAuBonPain, Monday, 23 November 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
i'm also worried that if i keep listening to afx and autechre with him, that he'll rebel as a teenager by listening to eric clapton!
― potential trouble source (monster mash), Monday, 23 November 2015 02:11 (eight years ago) link
This looks new? And good.
https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/ngaimodu-bradley-stryder
― toby, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
man, i got the RDJ album a couple weeks ago and was totally floored, brilliant & beautiful album from beginning to end. i just got ...I Care Because You Do and it's just not doing it for me, the first 3 sides are actively irritating. the last side is nice
― flappy bird, Saturday, 5 March 2016 21:42 (eight years ago) link
Two very different albums, for sure. I wouldn't call myself the biggest Aphex Twin fan but sometime last year I had a period where I played through this whole discography chronologically and found I Care Because You Do to hold up really well. Perhaps there's something to hearing it come directly out of his ambient phase that made it more appealing to me. He hadn't yet reached the RDJ phase of rapid beats and more pop-leaning melodies. (I hesitate to say "pop" but I'm thinking of the light-hearted earworms of "4" or "Finger Bib").
But if you prefer the RDJ style, I don't really feel like he ever did anything that's as tight and purely enjoyable as that (the Come to Daddy EP was of the same era and is maybe the closest thing). Others in this thread who take the time to dive deeper beyond his proper albums may disagree.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 6 March 2016 12:46 (eight years ago) link
I adore the Come to Daddy EP. The Little Lord Faulteroy version is one of my favorite songs ever.
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 March 2016 00:51 (eight years ago) link
you should listen to it more than once.. or something. it's much much better than come to daddy.
― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 7 March 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
i feel like nobody's ever been able (let alone tried) to duplicate the stuff this album does. zillions of mid-period autechre tributes but the closest i can think of for ICBYD is the first disjecta album..
just a few extraordinary sounds on ICBYD:- the drums on "acrid avid jam". and the code melody that sounds like andreas vollenweider- the impossible deep and sad synth whine that permeates "mookid"- is that a vocal/chorale sample in "cow cud" (the one with the door slam)? or some synthetic approximation? no idea. it's magic.- the reverbed synth on "start as you mean". i just love that sound.- and obviously the splat/bleep sound he uses for/overlays on top of snares etc is marvelous.
i used to skip the harder stuff (tracks 3-5 basically) but i love it all now.
― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 7 March 2016 01:11 (eight years ago) link
code melody = coda melody
the chords of the "mookid" chorus/hook whatever... just magnificent. flappy bird, you can't deny that one!
― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 7 March 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
ah i think i meant the second disjecta album. this one: https://www.discogs.com/Disjecta-Clean-Pit-And-Lid-Promo/master/2452
― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 7 March 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
i'll give it another dozen or so chances, but for now it's in the sell bin
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 March 2016 01:17 (eight years ago) link
"mookid" kind of seems like a warmup for "fingerbib", now that i think about it.
― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 7 March 2016 01:23 (eight years ago) link
ICBYD was my favourite Aphex at the height of my fandom. It's just the quintessential record for me, straddling his hard-techno and ambient past while looking towards more conceptual territory which he would explore on things like Come To Daddy. Every track is different from the last. It's dated a fair bit now. It's kind of trebly and harsh for today's ears. But still, Alberto Balsalm will never not be a classic.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Monday, 7 March 2016 11:18 (eight years ago) link
^^^
there's a great disco nihilist post where he talks about how Aphex records used to be like shocking brand new worlds, ICBYD epitomizes that for me.
I got into electronic music in high school after I bought a used Warp sampler that was 1/2 ICBYD 1/2 Spanners (I remember biking across the Mississippi to Dinkytown to the store where I found it.) Sitting on the floor of my bedroom with the light flooding in listening to the first three tracks especially, I felt like I'd escaped from grunge to some incredible world of Apollonian beauty, I wanted everyone in the world to hear what I was listening to. Changed my life yadda yadda.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 7 March 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
ICBYD is the first aphex I heard and still my favorite album. it's just so ... different!
― the late great, Monday, 7 March 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
It's probably my least favourite of all the albums he released under this moniker.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Monday, 7 March 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight 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