New Aphex Twin!

Drill & bass. He adopted it. There's not a lot of arguing to be done here.

Looking forward to this "RJD Album" - maybe that's one of the 6 unreleased albums, on which he finally buries the musical hatchet with Tom?

It's a new album where he travels back in time and nicks the idea for Drill and Bass off of Tom Jenkinson and then travels further back in time and makes an EP called Hangable Auto Bulb which magically uses Drill and Bass tracks 6 months before Squarepusher's released anything. Dead clever.

Also in this magical alternate universe Mike Paradinas doesn't exist and internet message board poster "kelpolaris" has 1 (one) fucking clue.

that interview is nice btw....he's a strnge mixture of new age serenity and mischievous humour

~strange~

Interview's a couple of months old isn't it? At least it's been floating around watmm & that othe afx board. One of those rare interviews you read and just think "what a lovely man." Unusually rare for him. Usually I get the impression that he got bored halfway through & just decided to fuX0r with the idiot interviewing him.

Doesn't seem strange at all to me. And I absolutely loved his definition of "weird."

I have evidence to support my argument. Just give me a couple hours while I change the wikipedia page.

No.

I think I've read what kelpolaris is talking about, that Aphex was influenced by Squarepusher's particular method of chopping up of drum beats. Squarepusher had bought this awful drum machine that had some really weird granular synthesis function, and I think Richard James ended up combining this effect with his own stuff. I seem to remember reading this. Obviously Aphex totally created Squarepusher's whole style and Tom has said this, but I think I know what you're saying.

Also, as someone mentioned above, RDJ doesn't like Radiohead. He said he wouldn't tour with them "because i don't like them" and he said that Kid A was "cheesy." Such a strange person.

I think I've read what kelpolaris is talking about, that Aphex was influenced by Squarepusher's particular method of chopping up of drum beats. Squarepusher had bought this awful drum machine that had some really weird granular synthesis function, and I think Richard James ended up combining this effect with his own stuff. I seem to remember reading this. Obviously Aphex totally created Squarepusher's whole style and Tom has said this, but I think I know what you're saying.

I've been scouring the web for the past couple hours b/c I can't find where I read it either and am afraid to admit that it might've possibly been via the official iTunes review for the RDJ Album, of which I currently can't pull up because I'm on a public computer w/out itoonz. But I don't bullshit for the sake of bullshit.

i'm on teh internet! i'll help. itunes review:

Perhaps inspired by the experimental drum'n'bass being created by Squarepusher (a recent signee to his Rephlex label), Richard D. James' third major-label album as Aphex Twin was his first to work with jungle — though, to his credit, he had released the breakbeat EP Hangable Auto Bulb almost a year earlier. Contemporaries Orbital and Underworld were beginning to incorporate moderate use of drum'n'bass in their work as well, but this album was more extreme than virtually all jungle being made at the time. The beats are jackhammer quick and even more jarring considering what is — for the most part — laid over the top: the same fragile, slow-moving melodies that characterized Aphex Twin's earlier ambient works. Most overtly disturbing is "Milkman," the first straight-ahead vocal track from Aphex Twin; the song is a child-like ode that gradually deteriorates into a bizarre fantasy concerning the milkman's wife. With all the Aphex Twin's curious idiosyncracies, though, Richard D. James Album is a very listenable record and a worthy follow-up to I Care Because You Do.

"Milkman" was a track off the Girl/Boy EP and post-dates RDJ, altho maybe not in the States.

My whole objection is only to the "RDJ copped these moves direct from Squarepusher" idea, I certainly wouldn't say guys weren't influencing one another, but Luke Vibert belongs in the picture somewhere too afaik

That first sentence contradicts itself so bad I'm not even sure why it was written

curse u steve jobs

But OK, I'm in the wrong, excuse me for getting my historical facts off an employee of Apple

My dates were a smidgeon off anyway, Squarepusher might've released his first Spymania EP around the same time as Hangable Auto Bulb, but the latter definitely has drill'n'bass stuff going on a good year before RDJ, so the crappy review is right about that bit.

well, I think we can all agree that I did a very good job in quickly finding and posting that iTunes review

that's an allmusic review being used by itunes there, i'm pretty certain

RDJ was on Mixing It (cult UK radio show, long since cancelled) in like 1994, I can't remember if he picked any tracks or just commented on the presenters' picks, but I do remember him saying nice things about Xenakis

(and not getting angry when they played an Oval track - maybe this predated the alleged Oval/RDJ beef)

IIRC both of Squarepusher's Spymania releases as well as Vibert's Plug EPs predate Hangable Auto Bulb. But all these guys knew each other so I'm sure the actual conversation and exchange of notes was happening outside of what exists on vinyl.

HAB moved things a lot further away from 'actual' Dn'B though, in terms of timbre, melody and general spasticness, so that's something.

No I think there was an interview somewhere with Richard James where he said it. I definitely have never read the iTunes description before. A couple years ago I got obsessed with reading Aphex Twin interviews and he was pretty specific, I think it was the result of this one particular drum machine that Jenkinson was using to produce those "clipping" drum beats, where every beat is suddenly played many times faster. I think he describes it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knnLsJ37PLI&feature=related

That being said I could be totally wrong though...

xp to aps: what Oval/RDJ beef?

yeah, curious about that myself...

Turf war, innit? AFX was Elephant & Castle.

huh, I was sure there was a later interview where RDJ was mad at Oval for sampling him but I am failing to google this, beginning to think I imagined it

sorry all if I did! ps I like Oval and Aphex

oh hai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yQRp4j2RQM

That's a pretty cool looking stream.

so many aphex twin threads...

anyway, the long awaited r d james / w h auden collaboration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0A0mMp48Rg

(there was apparently a 12" available at the above gig, that's from it)

Was at Aphex curates at WHP in Manchester Depot and that was some bloody show. Oh my lord, Polynomial C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OXRME6UWSs&t=882s
fuck, this is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OXRME6UWSs

14:42 is what Lowell was talking about