Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

but i'm glad the aphex/beck thing didn't happen. even aphex couldn't make beck good.

oh, and to answer the question, classic, obviously

The Parr comparison applies for sure, but not as explicitly as it does with BoC's "Concourse" and "M9" (but then how could it?).

Aphex is classic, of course. I actually used to see him as a model for making a virtue of geographical isolation as a means of artistically refining yourself, so it's appropriate that K-reg said that. I think "Richard D. James Album" is his best work, as well, whereas FWIW I think "Bryter Layter" is Drake's weakest.

dada- you should get selected ambient works vol II. I heard the first disc of that last evening. its really wonderful 'ambient' stuff. great to read books with.

I think the general feeling on Aphex Twin is surely that he makes far better videos than records.

Most of his stuff is doodly nonsense..... some unlistenable, some rather good. Much of it sounds like he's making it up as he goes along.

-- Julio Desouza (juli...), May 12th, 2003.

Julio: "Once upon a time there was a little bear named Pooh..."

SAW V.2: "Who lived in the House At Pooh Corner..."

Julio: "One day Pooh's friend Piglet came round for tea, and said to Pooh-"

SAW V.2: "'Come on you cunt let's have some of that Aphex Acid!!!!'"

I like doodly nonsense, I like unlistenable, I like "making it up as he goes along" - someone direct me to the doodly unlistenable shit he makes up as he's going along.

I think SAW II + I think there's enuff to make a wonderful two CD 'best of'.

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This actually makes perfect sense to me. I used to have to deal with this. (Not just because of the $ factor, but also because it takes me a long time to "absorb" new material, and I get ansy when there's stuff piling up that I'm really itching to soak up, but haven't been able to give my full attention to.)

If that's the plan, he was smart to grow the beard early.

What's the story behind Melodies from Mars?

Luke played me some of the hundreds of tracks earmarked for this Analord series and they are beautiful. More like SOSW* & CW**. But really good clear production. Lots of acid lines, but also a lot of melody & pads... Mostly analog(ue): 303, 606, 808, 909 and his collection of synths (a nice bit of chunky doepfer acid) but a few with breaks too.

* Surfing On Sine Waves
** Caustic Window

Melodies From Mars is rumored to be a demo that he sent to video game companies for them to use in their games. in any case they're probably just outtakes from the RDJ album period since a longer version of Fingerbib is on it.

http://www.richarddjames.com/

http://cdn-channels.netscape.com/gallery/i/b/banks/lg6.jpg

Aphex sucks. Their style is weak.

they broke up last year

Yo APHEX can I have your buchla modular?

why cause it looks intrsting

What really broke up Aphex Twin was the increasing tension within the group, which was kind of inevitable when you consider that Richard was devoting more and more time to card battle games, James' personality was being warped by his addiction to painkillers, and D's only true desire was to become a family man, now as much as ever. The Richard D. James album was really the last time they functioned as a cohesive group. On the bright side, I've heard Richard was working on a new solo project, and James, always a collaborator and producer above all, will surely find new talent to work with. There's also the possibility of a comeback album in the future, as long as one of the key members doesn't croak (fingers crossed!).

they still suck though

of course there are some song exceptions

Wait, now I'm confused. Do they suck or not? Because I need to know.

they suck with a few song exceptions

kind of like you, but you don't write songs.

do u like their cover of scorpions 'windowlicker'

In retrospect it's clear that the title "Druckqs" was a not-so-veiled jab at RDJ's former bandmates.

So they suck 100% of the time, except for when they were making those songs? Do they temporarily cease sucking if they perform those songs live? What if they mix two of their sucks together, and one sucks, and one doesn't? Do they suck 50% for the duration?

i hadn't actually listened to the tuss before. rushup edge slaps

It does! I may have given it more spins than Druqks.

Listening to The Tuss now, it's amusing that there was even a question whether it was RDJ.

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!

The Tuss is really really good

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.

some parts of analord are better than others but the better parts are transcendent cf. "fenixfunk 5"

I think analord is pretty consistent overall, it’s fun listening to them in order

i love "where's your girlfriend" so much

yeah was pretty stunned that one didn't make the CD

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.

Lovely post NTI

Still enjoying/rediscovering this album now that I've sorted the Bangers and the chillers out from each other

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

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.

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.

https://www.stereogum.com/2156356/aphex-twins-sister-is-wales-new-climate-change-minister/news/?fbclid=IwAR2JYZ5JGDTsQ_DFoskK6593AF46_ygXT6BeK_2I8wlhCByWcAOXEPNG2hI

we're sure it's not just james with fx?

When asked whether she’s a fan of his music, Julie said:

Very much. Not all of it.

same here

lols from the comment section:

"Her best work is Selected Environmental Writings 87-93"

Something is happening on August 18

https://190823.co.uk/

19th

Field Day returns to Victoria Park on that day.

I only had to type 1 number and still managed a typo

I don’t know who Ludo is but what is up with people who sign their comments.

- Moka

Field Day indeed

So is Alberto Balsalm his most famous track at this point, what with all the memes?

*farts* wow I had no idea that’s actually kinda funny!

Better than some “we made old person listen to ventolin, you won’t believe their reactions!!”