Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

New interview: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/aphex-twin-on-new-syro-lp-im-feeling-really-horny-about-it-and-very-smug-20140903#ixzz3CH2dlUjr

Yeah, I've got this brand spanking new Swedish digital-analog hybrid drum machine-sampler-synthesizer. It's fucking good. Pretty much everything I do has to be somehow related to making music – when I came up to London to do press, I thought, "Oh, I can go on the train and make some music on the way up." But then on the train, I didn't have any power sockets to plug anything into, so that didn't work out so good. I'm going to make sure that they have sockets in the one on the way back.

Since when did Richard become so adorable? This interview is quite open and earnest (it would seem). Also, did he just buy an OP-1? Sounds like it from his description.

I thought it might have been that new Elektron drum machine, but that sounds plausible

He still lies his head off. Basically contradicted a ton of stuff he said in other interviews over the past couple of years. (Then again, given those were supposed to be email interviews, it's entirely possible they weren't him?)

He sounds pretty happy, which is good.

> Skrillex has called Aphex Twin's 1997 track "Flim" his "fav song of all time."

skrillex has just gone up in my estimation. first he invents dubstep*, now this

(*jokes)

http://i.imgur.com/qA5P4gn.png

Skrillex has called Aphex Twin's 1997 track "Flim" his "fav song of all time."

lol if this becomes standard in the first paragraph of Aphex articles

"fav"

favour fav

How many kids do you have?
Two boys, eight and six. They make music, both of them. I don't know if you've ever heard of an artist called Mark Fell – it's avant-garde techno, not danceable. Someone said [my son's music] sounds like a cross between that and Holly Herndon, who's another experimental electronic artist. That's really accurate, actually. He was five when he did it.

lol, so proud

also mark fell is gr8 and his sensate focus tracks are totally danceable

indeed

https://soundcloud.com/editionsmego/sensate-focus-y-focus-1

GOT INVITED TO THE LISTENING PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~

wtg diamonddave85

Oooh, a track just popped up on Bleep if you've preordered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUAJ8KLGqis

Right, I must not listen to that.

Go onnn. you know you want to.

mark fell rulez xps

My prediction upthread that this might sound like the Analord series seems true, then?

I get Windowlicker Lite from this track at least

sounds good 2 me

The processed vocals sound super super-Tuss like, to me.

it's good!

kewl track

it's ok.

dud

the ilx progression

it's an aphex twin track.

^^^

when posting track opinions please also post your opinion of ICBYD so I know if I can discount yours, thanks

shapedworld707 59 minutes ago
i wish i could lick my own ball listening to this

A good opinion of ICBYD makes my opinion valid or invalid? I rate it between 3.5/4 stars out of five.

you can live

i wasn't that bothered about him releasing new material but if it's going to generate opinions i'm on board

he just.......................................... cared because you do xp

I'm not going to listen to any of these tracks until I get the LP I guess.

xp I'm interested in Lukas's opinion about "...I care" though because I've only just rediscovered after years and years of it being sat in a cupboard festering and being ignored. It sounds so, so great in the last two days I've heard it again. Almost like the Aphex I'd dreamed of hearing after SAWII. erm, yeah. I know.

it is very richard h. kirk : lovely melodic bouncy bleeps, layered/cut up/processed vocals

subsequently, i really like it.

still likes electro, breaks, philip glass

but now he's old and the context is different so ymmv

Hi,

Just in case it was not clear, I am avoiding listening to that track, as I am the ILXor that's doing a track of that name for the pre-cover project.

Regards,

Mark.

k, thanks. was waiting for you to weigh in

http://www.discogs.com/Corneliu-Cezar-Ziua-Fără-Sfârșit/release/966371

ICBYD is possibly my favourite Twin album.

The new track makes me think of other Warp artists, especially Plaid.

if you like spoilers... http://thequietus.com/articles/16166-aphex-twin-syro-review

I'm interested in Lukas's opinion about "...I care"

Yeah, I love it. I discovered electronic music when I picked up some sampler that was 1/2 ICBYD + 1/2 of Black Dog's Spanners. So I'm probably not totally rational about that album.

I can go inside my little Cray supercomputer in the day, and people don't even know I'm in the room. You can kind of hide away in there. My wife will be calling me, "Rich!" My wife is next to me smiling as I'm saying that. She knows my secret.

so the divorce thing was b.s. huh

Heard for the first time on Radio 1’s Zane Lower night, can now listen to the album track minipops 67 (120.2) (source field mix). This is the first dong fore 13 years between the publication of the first a formal music.

lol it's like someone who can't speak english well, so funny

The new track makes me think of other Warp artists, especially Plaid

ouch

lol remember plone