Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

I don't know if the US version was stickered. The album was very heavily promoted and written about here in the UK and "Quoth" had already been a very big club hit. Not sure The Wire would have covered it though - i can't recall if they had quite got to this kind of thing yet by that point.

also, the track "polygon window" was on warp's artificial intelligence compilation which had been a big deal.

As memory serves this stuff was coming out fast and furious as soon as labels like TVT started distributing. There was like a backlog that kept hitting the shelves. At the school paper I remember being excited every time something from TBT arrived, even though it was often forgettable stuff like Rise Robots Rise iirc.

TVT, whoops.

My memory is that SAW and SAWII received a wider critical reception, had better distribution and had generally remained widely available. Surfing On Sine Waves, stop me if I'm wrong, actually went out of circulation at some point, and while not rare exactly, was a bit trickier to find... the early AFX and Caustic Window records were somewhat similar in that respect. I don't remember people not realising that it was all being produced by Richard James at the time, at least in my circle of DJ friends.

“It’s these people called Aphex Twins” 😭 pic.twitter.com/G6aygIiaFL

— arj (@shempiii) April 27, 2019

Great retrospective SAWII review by Sherburne: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/aphex-twin-selected-ambient-works-volume-ii/

It was a great piece, provides lots of context.

trying not to take the bait on that rating

what sort of maniac reads a numerical rating on a record review

Good piece. (I think the album deserves a 10, if any album does...)

in the unlikely event anyone wants Collapse but doesn’t have it, send me a webmail and i’ll send you a download code

damn this paul nagle song "the enchanted garden" sounds really close to whimsical mid-period aphex stuff like "cuckoo", "donkey rhubard", "fingerbib", etc, just without the beats (fast forward to around 5:10)

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

nice

yeah, definitely not too far off from a lot of that aphex influenced 95-05 stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXxIi58Hjrw&list=OLAK5uy_k1qCeDNL429NnRinb2ewPxc4M5I8jhlKE&index=5

try again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGs3d8mbSh4

God that first Jega album is such a winner. Bangers and beauties.

Hell yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWJP17esBlI

recommend his Variance LP too

this DN is a little on-the-nose at times

https://streamable.com/a68p9

recent clip of Aphex with a live singer

(typical photographer)

https://i.imgur.com/NqK7dqF.jpg

can't believe its taken me so long to notice this

What’s the one on the left?

Magnetic Fields by Jean-Michel Jarre

I doubt RDJ is much of a fan which makes this funnier tbh

Do you think it's intentional or just a random coincidence? Seems pretty coincidental to me, besides having a closeup of the artist's face on a white background (which is hardly uncommon), the covers aren't that similar: Jarre shows 1/2 of a face, Aphex has 3/4; Jarre is shot from a straight angle and shows only the face + a bit of neck, Aphex is shot from slightly above and shows some shoulder as well; Jarre includes the artist name and album title, Aphex doesn't.

sorry, these look nothing alike

^

tough crowd

I don't know if it's intentional or not though I'd imagine he definitely knows who JMJ is

Seems pretty coincidental to me, besides having a closeup of the artist's face on a white background (which is hardly uncommon)

for instrumental electronic music I think it's pretty uncommon! though obviously RDJ is pretty willing to do it

alright listen you little shits

Magnetic Fields

It's Les chants magnétiques, not Les champs magnétiques, except of course 'chants' and 'champs' are homophones in French.

I agree with the others that Afx's pose probably isn't a callback but I like the speculation.

Brilliant as ever. Visuals no slouch either. https://youtu.be/961uG4Ixg_Y

WTF @ 2/3 of Smojphace (which I just listened to for the first time and which will probably be the last thing I ever hear now that my eardrums have been thoroughly scoured)

I don't 'do' memes but if I did this would be a great candidate for the 'Lou Reed: (records Metal Machine Music); RDJ: Hold my beer.' treatment.

since it's my thread, i am gonna vouch for Ovuca - Onclements, which is great and I've been listening to it all week (and it's on Rephlex so semi-on topic)

it's amazing how consistently good these dj(+live?) sets are xxpost

I think those Smojphace tracks are supposed to be fed through a visualiser thingy

(Not new music)

what the fucking fuck is going on here?https://t.co/cPLG868cP0

(h/t @djhausUTTU)

— Posthuman (@posthuman) March 4, 2020

Probably forgot to renew the domain registration? The incest pron link on the contact page seems like a giveaway tbf

looks like a "prank" to me !!!

I vote prank

it's a very well observed one if so

The domain's WhoIs details are weird (the registrant/tech contact is purported to be someone named Elizabeth Hanks in Clinton, NJ) -- but it's hosted out of the UK and doesn't appear to have changed hands recently.

New tracks?

download the mp3s and check the comments ;_;

huh?

Oh, yeah, I saw that. (Apparently his father recently passed, and he dedicated at least one track to him.)

brimstead: https://soundcloud.com/user18081971

better: https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/tracks

no I got it, I just thought lukas’ initial post implied it was fake or something

o i c

'qu 1' is beautiful and sad.

I won’t attempt to parse the exact p.o.v. behind the cluster of URLs in the profile’s “Bio,” but there’s definitely a p.o.v. being expressed.