bassline/breakdown midway through CIRCLONT14 is goofy/hilarious.. hi-hat fuckery is CALBOTI, on the outside. groove feels a bit rigid/cluttered towards the end, with all of the drums going on
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
gave this a spin last night and really enjoyed it, then "Digeridoo" came up next on Spotify and it was amazing how similar it was (in a good way, as touched on above re: artists who retain signature sounds)
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
then "Digeridoo" came up next on Spotify and it was amazing how similar it was
lol this literally just happened to me
― example (crüt), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
180dB sounds a bit tossed-off if you listen to it out of context.
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
gave this a spin last night and really enjoyed it, then "Digeridoo" came up next on Spotify and it was amazing how similar it was (in a good way, as touched on above re: artists who retain signature sounds)― sleeve, Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:38 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sleeve, Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:38 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I had this with the Caustic Window album. Popeye came up on random and without looking at what was playing I immediately assumed it was off the new album.
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin)
the recording of the drums sounds all shoddy/dulled on headphones, as if it's a deteriorating tape recording.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
11 Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II Mar 1994 24 Aphex Twin Classics Feb 1995 24 Aphex Twin …I Care Because You Do May 1995 22 Aphex Twin Drukqs Nov 2001 Any guesses where this one might go?― Mark G, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 7:43 AM (Yesterday)
― Mark G, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 7:43 AM (Yesterday)
Looks like it's between Aphex and Alt-J for the #1 slot with Alt-J ahead
― groovypanda, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
huh
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
how many sales does it take to get to #2 these days
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
Aphex Twin's first album for 13 years is in the running to top this week's UK album charts.
The highly-anticpated and heavily-praised 'Syro' album dropped on September 19 and has been giving the new Alt-J LP a run for its money in the race for the top spot.
Although Richard D. James was behind the bang-average UK band in the midweek stats, we firmly believe that the electronic pioneer can beat the band to become king of the albums.
Let's get Aphex to number one, fire your war-crys, sound the klaxons, it's about time that a genuinely innovative and groundbreaking artist gets the mainstream recognition over a band that have been active for about 2 measly years.
#GetAphexNo1
poop
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Richard D. James was behind the bang-average UK band
No way, it was him all along!?
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, he's a big wheel in the bang-average music scene..
― Mark G, Friday, 26 September 2014 08:58 (nine years ago) link
love those the average white bang records
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 26 September 2014 09:01 (nine years ago) link
the
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 26 September 2014 09:02 (nine years ago) link
Who the fuck is "Alt-J"?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 26 September 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
evidently you're not down with the UK bang average scene
― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), Friday, 26 September 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
alt+j resets your itunes i think
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
#8 it is then so his first top 10 album.
― groovypanda, Sunday, 28 September 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
That's alright, innit?
― Mark G, Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
Seems to have had a brief burst of interest then gone away..― Mark G, Sunday, 21 September 2014 22:33 (1 week ago) Permalink
― Mark G, Sunday, 21 September 2014 22:33 (1 week ago) Permalink
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Friday, 3 October 2014 10:37 (nine years ago) link
Like ILX, like life.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2014 10:41 (nine years ago) link
This is how every album release ever goes on ILX.
Rumour - anticipation - discussion - IT'S LEAKED - everyone's heard it but you - by the time you hear it people have stopped talking - thread death - in 6 months there will be a poll.
It was ever thus.
― Welcome to reality. No spitting, please. (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 4 October 2014 11:43 (nine years ago) link
this album still rules but there's not much one can really say about it is there?
― example (crüt), Saturday, 4 October 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that cycle seems perfectly natural to me, not sure why discussion of this album needs to run & run
― please delete outrageous tanuki crappyposter (wins), Saturday, 4 October 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
i like that one part where it goes doooo-WIP! svock-deedle-ingra-SVOCK with the calm rising synth behind it
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 4 October 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
He's got the best doooo-WIP! svock-deedle-ingra-SVOCK n the business - without a doubt.
― Twist of Caliphate (Bob Six), Saturday, 4 October 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
rip battles
― lool at the herrlich (wins), Saturday, 4 October 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm listening to it a lot, really great record
especially into the fine line he walks when it goes full on junglist-AFX in the final third- he could easily have tipped it into more aggro breakcore style (which would have been a redundant retread of Drukqs) and thank god he felt no temptation to make it sound "current" in an EDM manner- it's a really graceful turn in the album.
I think Aphex and Autehcre both suffer a bit from being difficult for people to write about, resistant to being patched into discourse, and the "autistic" tag is a placeholder for that withdrawal from circulation- because once you have tagged the genres that they are glancing at on New Record X or Y, you're left with a mostly formalist/abstract statement of Here's How I'm Programming Now, and so the signifiers of domesiticity or intimacy in the occasional human voices are really useful but also just a bit out of reach. What makes the music so generative and receptive for people as a place in which to abide and dwell and speculate is also what defeats any attempt to attach it to particular ideas and signifiers and context (perhaps why the 33 1/3 book on Aphex focused so much on the uses people made of the music rather than trying to construct some interpretive story re: what the music is "about"- it was a smart move but also one made as a result of this witholding).
― the tune was space, Saturday, 4 October 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
do you know of any other worthwhile writing about aphex, or about autechre for that matter
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Saturday, 4 October 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
the track of this that i first got into replaying incessantly (other than minipops when it was prereleased) is papat4it shares some of melancholy verging on saudade that is so distinctive about analord #2the walsmley review from the wire that someone posted a scan of upthread was good
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Saturday, 4 October 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
track 2 is my favorite. love all the hooks it spits out and swallows back up over 10 minutes.
― example (crüt), Saturday, 4 October 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
You know what?
I did play "Druqs" and re-enjoyed it
I will get it t some point, but I am still really loving the ILX pre-version and want to stick with it for a while longer.
Maybe next week....
― Mark G, Saturday, 4 October 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
third track slightly reminiscent of where i go era lindstrom
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 3:27 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
great era, that album OWNED me when it came out.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 5 October 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
As for Syro I'm still getting my sea legs with it, spinning it often. I find I like it best on headphones, while walking. Opening cut has really grown on my but there are fun bits of pleasure all over the album.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 5 October 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
enjoying how much of this has what sounds like roland d50/yamaha dx7 FM synth sounds
― clouds, Sunday, 5 October 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
It's been enjoyable. Does what I want from aphex which is to paint a pretty abstract narrative that feels natural to move to.
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
caustic window lp is better
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
there's not an animated gif big enough for that challop
― the late great, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
no way
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
* spews cornflakes out of mouth, drops morning paper * WHAT? WHAAAAAAT?!!!
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 08:58 (nine years ago) link
I've been listening to this constantly for the last week and I don't feel like I've even remotely got under the skin of it, nearly every track has so many mutations and different sonic elements appearing that you find something new every time. It's funkier than most of his other stuff as well, first few tracks especially. Minipops reminds me quite a lot of Windowlicker.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 09:28 (nine years ago) link
i listened to it loads in the first week but somehow haven't been in the mood to come back to it lately. the Autechre poll could well have something to do with that of course.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 09:35 (nine years ago) link
this is really great, intensely musical, comes across as "not ambitious" somehow (was it the interview i read?) but hits it out of the park.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah it definitely has the feel of dude just jamming out & enjoying himself rather than trying to make a statement or w/e
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
really a challop? seems to be the consensus at least with the RDJ fans i know. i've had this conversation at least a dozen times the past few weeks... "Syro? yeah, it's good, but the Caustic Window LP..."
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
that's bollocks
― cheeseburger, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
I prefer the Caustic Window release, new one hasn't grabbed me in the same way.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
* cornflakes everwhere * NOT AGAIN!!?!
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 08:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah, you need to lock that labrador out of the kitchen.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 09:26 (nine years ago) link
nice to see so many knowledgable music buffs chime in on this. the pitchfork boys "hit it out the park" with their review but i had to unsub fatando after taking his take on things. he didn't quite get the vibe that aphex is going for or how it reflects to the state of edm in 2014. i think this is a very musical album that "hits all the right buttons" but it's not going to be everybody's "cup of tea". but saying that it is definitely in the top 20 twins' releases, if not top 10. one for the buffs and not the casual "johnny go latelys"? go figure. but saying that this is album of the year material and i can see this being very high in the coveted lists of the year
just my $0.2
― fuhgeddaboudit! (missingNO), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link