Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

He was supposed to have a "tsunami"* of releases ready to go last year.

*Trying to remember if this was the phrase used, might have been something else.

Well, first it was that one album for Warp. Then in the Another Man interview, he said he had six albums, all ready to go. And then in an interview with a Spanish broadsheet, he started talking about how he had FIFTEEN albums, and it just started to sound like typical RDJ exaggeration and lies, you know? Especially since his excuse for why he hadn't released any of the albums was all "I waited to get divorced" so his family didn't get any of the money, followed by "my ex wife is robbing me" and other assorted "the divorce ate my homework" bullshit excuses which actually started to sound kinda pathetic but if I start to think too much about how shitty it is to talk that way about yr ex wife when you have kids, I'm going to start to feel distinctly un-squee and quite cross about him, which I really don't want to feel.

Why do I even know this gossipy shit? I wish I didn't, sometimes.

are you sure he was actually married?

anyway i'm glad you know this stuff because it saves me the ever-dispiriting biannual trawl thru aphex twin fansites in seach of granules of information

He was definitely married. I even knew his wife's name, that's how uber-damn-sad-fan I am.

Also, happy 40th birthday, hope you have a nice midlife crisis, Mr Twin.

</sad pathetic fangurl>

So, going on past results, someone needs to break in and steal copies (ropey ones, mind) of these 15 albums, then he might actually release them to his label or some such other.

I kinda feel like they *might* all be garbage

i have the same fear/feeling.

I don't. He's been playing some amazing unreleased stuff at his recent gigs, and if that's any indication, it'll be wonderful.

::continues to drift on in a giant bubble of heart-on::

So he's bringing that remote controlled orchestra of disco balls Reich thing to England. Finally.

I appear to have a ticket for it.

(Whether I actually go or not is another story. It wouldn't be the first time I bought a ticket to see him, then backed out, from job or fear or nerves or anxiety or just plain stupidity. I am telling myself he probably won't even be there. And it will be a seated gig therefore not too anxiety inducing.)

((I am super glad it is the Reich thing, and not the Penderecki thing.))

(((also.... EEEEEEEP! I have not been this squee-ish about a concert since I was a teenager.)))

Also, they have knocked down his house. It's so weird sitting on the Thameslink being able to stare down into what used to be his bank vault as the diggers fill it in. This makes me feel v v v crepey even if it's not my fault that Thameslink stops for 10 minutes just outside the Elephant every day.

I was watching "Heathers" for the first time in 20 years, and got this real sense of deja vu at parts of David Newman's score. Like, check this very SAWII-style clip, beginning around the :30 mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhpTbVbvD1M&feature=relmfu

Sounds like a cross between Goon Gumpas and one of the ones on the last quarter of SAWII, yeah, but that might just be the pizzicato strings.

So the Barbican thing is tonight. I should be feeling a lot more excited about this.

(I think mostly it's physical I've not been well and my ear has been giving me problems and it just doesn't seem fair that the first time I see Mr Twin I will only be able to *hear* half of it.)

Since I stopped reading the Phanboys I haven't really been able to keep up with what he's been up to lately. It's the remote orchestra thing so I don't know what to expect, or if indeed he will even be there, or conducting remotely from a bunker in Wales.

I still feel disappointed about not going to the Bangface thing in Cornwall but, y'know, Bangface. Bleurgh.

Help me get more excited. (Why am I asking this on ILM? Of course you won't.)

Eh, well, I didn't know about this.

I know what you mean about Bangface. I've never actually been but if it's anything like the Planet-µ night I attended several years ago now, there's an intense level of fawning geekery pervasive throughout the night, and not in a pleasant way. I don't really know what Aphex fans are like these days mind you.

As for the Barbican, I'm sure it'll be good once you're there, right?

That's not really what I meant about Bangface at all, but um whevs.

sometimes going in with low expectations is better than being all hyper? better to be surprised than let down. also

conducting a 28-piece string section and a 12-strong choir by remote control

ought to be a treat whoever's doing the conductoring

also i assume there's seats. i'm all about gigs where i can sit down.

Yes, there are seats. This is the A No.1 thing I am most happy about. If memory serves, it is actually a front row ticket. That might be awkward, so I'm glad he's conducting remotely.

Damnit, time was I'd have been all over a gig like this. I've seen Aphex silent DJing in the Barbican conservatory, Scanner on a Routemaster, all the Warp London parties. First thing I heard about this was someone on facebook last week saying it was sold out. So you should be excited, it's exciting! Aphex! The Barbican! Remote Orchestra! Whatever the hell that is!

maybe he'll be...sat amongst the crowd. DA DA DAAAAAAAAH

I would suggest going early to see the rain thing there but queues for it are prett crazy atm and probably everyone else will have had the same idea.

I was trying to get in the mood listening to SAWs on the bus. But it's not going to be SAWs, it's going to be something completely new and different and orchestral. So I should be excited about that aspect, that it will probably be completely unpredictable and unexpected, no matter what he is doing.

What is the rain thing? I have a couple of hours to kill but I hate queueing.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13723

TWO HOUR QUEUE TIMES?!?!?!?

I haven't got that much time to kill. Looks cool, tho.

But after experiencing Orcadian rainstorms last week I am not really keen to experience any more rain, art or no.

"I know what you mean about Bangface. I've never actually been but if it's anything like the Planet-µ night I attended several years ago now, there's an intense level of fawning geekery pervasive throughout the night, and not in a pleasant way. I don't really know what Aphex fans are like these days mind you."

No no no. Bangface is full of young people off their tits on ridiculous amounts of drugs lots of nakedness drawing on each other silly sweaty dancing glowsticks very very trash dreadlocks gurning that sort of thing. I tend to go once every... few years.

^^^that is what I suspected about Bangface, so the combination of Bangface plus Newquay was just one of those... "um, just, no." moments for me.

I had fun at the club nights back in the day but (I think I posted this before somewhere) people's descriptions of previous Bangface festivals reminded me of what you read about, like, Deadheads in the 80s, after the good times had gone and it was just burnouts

No no no. Bangface is full of young people off their tits on ridiculous amounts of drugs lots of nakedness drawing on each other silly sweaty dancing glowsticks very very trash dreadlocks gurning that sort of thing. I tend to go once every... few years.

― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:08 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh well that's okay then. Rather a bunch of mental ravers dancing about than a room full of sweaty dorks crowing for obscure Wagon Christ B-sides.

Oh just fucking shut up.

you're not a very nice person, you know that?

Like, we get it, how over IDM you are.

I'm just really sick of how you feel the need to come on any thread and stomp all over anyone's possible joy or excitement over it. I get it, you're not into this any more. You're allowed to move on and leave it to other people. You don't have to ruin it for everyone else.

Oh god why the fuck am I even talking to Dog Latin?

If I'm feeling iffy about a gig or an artist, ILM is the worst possible place I could come. Why do I never learn this? Stupid me for not learning after 1000 times.

Um sorry but I don't think DL was doing any stomping at all, given that all he did was get the demographics of the Bangface crowd wrong.

Meantime, a little flashback to 1993:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgdYh7rgEmQ

jesus what happened up there ^^^^

british humour

woah just looked at two threads in one day featuring poster Ludo. weeeyerd.

Am I allowed to say "I miss the Old Trout, Windsor" again?

Heard "Actium" on a big system yesterday. Sounded fantastic, was suprisingly danceable, and holy hell that's a lot of bass.

Am I allowed to say "I miss the Old Trout, Windsor" again?

you sure can... so many memories for me too

I was at that Aphex Twin gig... i remember a load of the indie/rave kids being REALLY freaked out by all the noise stuff he was playing, and me and one other bloke (who happened to be wearing a Hafler Trio t-shirt) being really into it....

any takers? http://www.discogs.com/buy/Vinyl/Caustic-Window-Caustic-Window-LP/152379087

been taken down already

either that or someone has already bought it

says that the four ppl who own that are RDJ, Grant from Rephlex, Cylob and u-Ziq. it would be rude to speculate which if any of those individuals might need the money the most

seller write-up says it's the 5th copy

reading upthread, drukqs dismissed as "leftovers"... huh. is this still a perception held by people?