Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

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

or jimi tenor

allow jimi tenor, haven't listened to plone in a while

Plone were great! So were Plaid (although I'm so-so on their more recent output). Never really got my head around Jimi unfortunately.

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 one minute he's making beats on the train using nothing but decaying copies of Reason; next he's got a ginormous NASA system in his front room that's big enough to house a man. LOL Rich, you so funny.

Seems like UK ppl're way fascinated w a public persona I've never rly bnoticed tbh

the cray(1) is tiny though - they have one in the science museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1#mediaviewer/File:Cray-1-UIUC_CAC.jpg

they have built-in seats - can use them as furniture.

that said, the phone in your pocket probably outperforms one today.

Maybe he meant cray-cray, like, I've got this totally cray computer.

Well, he is consistent, in that he is at least still a compulsive liar. He's always just made up bonkers shit on the spot in interviews. Seems like his wife has become the new focus of his lying, like his parents used to be. (The number of stories I'd read him telling about his parents - everything from "they're acid-heads from a mental hospital!" to "I killed them and ate my mum")

The Cray supercomputer is probably a lot like the tank story. (He did not own a tank; but he did an armoured car.) He may well own some room-sized ancient bit of processing kit.

His lying, buffoonish,trickster persona has *always* been a huge part of his schtick, TBH. Even back in the olden days, the idea of this Cornish, ginger, trickster wizard character was always presented as a counter to "faceless techno" or whatever.

Yeah see I've been listening to him since I ws like 15 and never, ever thought that stuff meant anything outside of maybe "oh geez I HAVE to do an interview, so". I just really loved his records and tbh I'm p sure everyone else I've ever known that liked his music thought the same. Why do interviews etc matter?

Speaking as a colonial btw

why does anything matter?

sorry, that was facetious but unless we're going to talk about specific pitches or rhythm templates or whatever, then what else is there to discuss? A big part of the Aphex/RDJ 'thing' is the way he built up a mythos around himself in a time when techno producers generally hid behind their equipment. It looks like he's continuing to do so now. The difference today is that people are a lot more receptive to bullshit, because internet, photoshop etc, so now it seems he's doing it by coming across as genuine as possible but still slipping in massive lies about himself.