Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

I'm pretty sure he passed the real press release into chinese or something in Google translator and back into English and decided it was more awesome that way.

uhh it's pretty obviously composed tbh

maybe translate helped

regret these posts immensely

yeah the google translate thing was my first impression but a lot of this is clearly meant to be funny

I think Dan got it right. He translated it back and forth and then added some jokes.

In June 2014, Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit stated "Cliffs" off of Selected Ambient Works II is the song he would listen to for the rest of his life - if he had to pick one.[61]

nice cardiacs ref in that press release

this is a little strange, having spent however many hours playing the analord eps and the 90s shit over the last years, since i have scarcely thought about the author of all of that sublime music, so it's almost like being reaquainted with him and his mischievous yokel humour via the usual pr breadcrumb trail

he resembles a slightly more rustic andré villas-boas these days

http://www.mtv.com/crop-images/2013/08/15/aphex_twin.jpg

That's a very old picture. He shaved his head in 2008, maybe 2007? He is back to looking more like himself again recently:

http://38.media.tumblr.com/07e5bcde99548244157bdd20e97ce2de/tumblr_nar38xhJJV1rjw8sqo1_400.jpg

I listened to the Caustic Window LP for the first time yesterday and kind of instantly loved it, it was so familiar, so comfortingly weird, which obviously wouldn't have been the effect had it actually been released at the time. 'Squidge In The Fridge' is glorious.

not so into that one, Jazzphase is the one from that record that i play

Aphex Twin is really nice in interviews. Apparently.

http://www.thefader.com/2014/08/25/aphex-twin-syro-interview-excerpts?&_suid=140897978232205487933855038136

spotted on my commute this am

http://photos-h.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xaf1/10607925_944036628956879_1511072352_n.jpg

I'm not sure I can deal with a world where Aphex Twin does promotional press and even Pitchfork interviews like a normal artist with a record out, instead of disinformation and counter-claims and fake stuff leaked over the web...

http://pitchfork.com/news/56459-aphex-twin-speaks-on-his-new-album-being-sampled-by-kanye-more/

re: Caustic Window

I've got thousands more like that at home. I should release all that stuff as well.

I don't think Mr Twin realises that the sheer obscurity/inaccessibility of the stuff was a huge part of why that kickstarter blew up so big. :-/

he is just too much

"features unintelligible voices" <3

Maybe I should just ban myself from posting to this thread or even reading his interviews until the record is out because I am so used to viewing Richard D James as a puzzle to be solved or an arcane mystery to be pieced together that I just can't handle seeing him as a product to be marketed.

aphex and marketing, imagine

wish he'd do a SAW III instead of all this noisy stuff.

I know last week I was complaining about all the game-playing but compared to the whole "interviews with P4k" thing I'm not so sure. :-/

he's leaving his son's bandcamp page a mystery for us to sort out, at least

Is this his first interview or

Well, I remember interviews from a long time ago.

Maybe it's the only way to throw off the concrete cast of those fans that think they know him and his music better than he does.

(And that does not include anyone that has posted here, before anyone misunderstands )

he's done maybe 2 or 3 interviews in the past 10 years, and those he has done have been mostly by email. It's just weird seeing him do 2 big conversation interviews so close together.

On Kanye sampling Drukqs’ “Avril 14th” on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s “Blame Game”: “Is it a sample? I actually don't know what it ended up being in the end, I'm so slack. I know that he tried to fucking rip me off and claim that he'd written it, and they tried to get away with not paying. I was really helpful, and when they first sent it to me, I was like, ‘Oh, I can re-do that for you, if you like,’ because they'd sampled it really badly and time-stretched it and there was loads of artifacts. I was like, ‘I'll just replay it for you at that speed if you want.’ And they totally didn't even say ‘hello’ or ‘thanks,’ they just replied with, ‘It's not yours, it's ours, and we're not even asking you any more.’” [laughs]

this is awesome

Yeah.

Personally, that's what I want more of.

Your mileage, as ever...

right I mean outside of those Analord releases and Rushup Edge he's been kind of a non-presence these last 13 years, I don't mind him talking - those few interviews he's done have been great

Yeah it's pretty weird, all this niceness after reading stuff like 'I hate the public' for years. Unless ... unless he has been replaced and all these interviews are with a stand-in a la Kaufman

Maybe I should just ban myself from posting to this thread or even reading his interviews until the record is out because I am so used to viewing Richard D James as a puzzle to be solved or an arcane mystery to be pieced together that I just can't handle seeing him as a product to be marketed.

― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Monday, August 25, 2014 7:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can sympathise with this as it's similar to how I felt when BoC released Campfire Headphase.

Yeah it's pretty weird, all this niceness after reading stuff like 'I hate the public' for years.

Yeah this pretty much gets to the nub of my weirdness.

"Stay away! Stay away! Oh wait, I've got an album out, come'ere."

I remember seeing ppl complain about Chris Morris doing "straight" interviews for Nathan Barley and Four Lions, after a whole career of just fucking with ppl. Didn't ruin anything for me but I get it I guess

It's not even about "straight interviews" vs "just fucking with people" it's more about a decade of "I hate the public, fuck the public, I'm not talking to the public, I can't be arsed with the public, fuck interviews, fuck the public - OOH I'VE GOT A NEW RECORD OUT - here is a massive, friendly, chatty interview with Pitchfork."

It's not even that I dislike the latter, it's just kind of a shock after so long of the former.

if it's any consolation, it's hard to imagine RDJ being pushed into doing promo. i wd assume he's doing it cos he wants to but then there's that thing you said about alimony so hmmmm

Also, people (and the world at large) change. It might be interesting to see whether he's still as up for 'pranks' and scatological humour as before or whether the last decade has given him an alternative perspective on his public persona.

dude, the press release

yeah fair enough.

new material for his fannies and his enthusiasm has not diminished hope

Wish this was the real LP cover https://twitter.com/jessfishlock/status/504765161572696065

New announcement:

Aphex Twin
Syro International Listening Events

This is the information

Beginning next Friday, over the course of several days there will be one off events internationally where fans will be able to hear Aphex Twin’s first new record in 13 year in its entirety before the release on September 23. RSVP ticket lottery begins on Sunday, August 31 at 4amPST/7amEST/12pmGMT/1pmCET and closes Tuesday, September 2 at midnight in each time zone.


These are the cities where they are happening

London, UK
New York City, US
Los Angeles, US
Chicago, US
Toronto, CA
Paris, FR
Brussels, BE
Utrecht, NL


This is where you out find more about rsvping for specific listenings:
http://smarturl.it/syro-listening

best thing about this album (other than the music as i cannot comment on that) is that this is the largest profile release that tDR have been involved with for a long time.

hopefully it helps push ian into restarting tDR properly.

Really hope the London event takes place in a club or somewhere else with an amazing soundsystem rather than the shitty record shop where it will probably occur.

It'll probably be in a Claus Olssen branch.

This is getting too weird, on a "fandoms colliding" kinda tip.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwX2G-fIQAI68WQ.jpg

(It helps if you know whose shoes you are gazing at)

probably

http://33.media.tumblr.com/e03394291b8667a491410f454444823c/tumblr_nb4kabeCsl1qb2yn5o1_1280.jpg

dud

this is the first time ive seen deems say anything about music other than 90s rock bands you like, 90s rock bands who betrayed you, or irish folk music

not my fault you skip john prine or Kris Kristofferson threads son