New Aphex Twin Record

Finally listening to the Field Day set itself. Good stuff.

http://item.warp.net/interview/aphex-twin-speaks-to-tatsuya-takahashi/

RICHARD D. JAMES: I really enjoyed working on this with you. I know I only joined the project near the end, but I found it really exciting. Like a proper job, ha.

TATSUYA TAKAHASHI: Richard, it was amazing working with you on the monologue. And now to be interviewed by you?!? That's crazy. But also a lot of fun. The monologue was also the last Korg synth that I was involved with directly, so I guess it's a nice conclusion to things.

RDJ: It is now the only synth on the market currently being made to have full microtuning editing, congratulations!

TT: Thanks! But it was completely because of you that we included microtuning. If you hadn't insisted on it, I definitely wouldn't have discovered how powerful it was.

RDJ & TT: *intense hugging for 10 minutes*

Haha yeah, but great geeky read. RDJ uses smiley's and 'LOLz'

i just finished it, and yes, so good! it was interesting to hear that RDJ is a synth demo nerd and collects them! would listen to RDJ's comp

oh man awesome i <3 tats

that bonus link from the end (https://dood.al/pinktrombone/) is fun for the whole family, too

what a great interview! i basically want every volca and the monologue now

I wish faders were curved horizontally and vertically, so you could make them like a double helix that go over and under each other, hehe.

you are completely nuts in the best kind of way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnF_mMDgZ08

New(?) website with new tunes for sale. https://aphextwin.warp.net/ (thanks keith)

i haven't looked too hard but it seems like he's tacking the soundcloud demos onto the relevant releases (they are available individually but sometimes it's cheaper to rebuy the entire thing, i think)

More importantly it looks like it will be a repository for the Rephlex catalogue.

interesting.. wonder if they're doing reissues on CD with these "bonus tracks"

I wonder if these versions of the soundcloud demos are properly mastered?

Also, this is written on the about page (https://aphextwin.warp.net/about):

If you buy a whole release, album, ep etc on this site then any tracks that are added to it after, you get for free :)

it's great you can stream more-or-less his whole back catalogue for free

SAW 1.5...

http://i.imgur.com/Y4E6NLy.jpg

excellent!

drool

i know don't sound excited about it but this is great news

Has anyone confirmed that the extra tracks are included with CD / vinyl orders from the webstore?

As downloads, obviously. It's not clear as the listings for physical items just show the standard tracks.

SAW 1.5 :O

yes please SAW 1.5!

God's promise has been fulfilled! *lights self on fire*

whats the track they are talking about?

Guess I should start stocking up on the week's worth of hallucinogens I'm gonna need to burrow 1.5 as deep into my being as 85-92 and 2 are at this point.

here's what was on his "saw 1.5" soundcloud playlist:

"Sams Car”
“Afx origTheme”
“Red Alert”
“Suzanne”
“Dance and Play”
“Nova Robotiks”
“21 Forgotten T”
“Lannerlog”
“Bimbongo”
“Symbonsad”
“Original Chaos Riff”

awesome

This may interest some - 'Stone in focus' (original track #19) has just been added to the SAWII download:

https://aphextwin.warp.net/release/68148-aphex-twin-selected-ambient-works-volume-ii

this is sick https://vimeo.com/223378825

https://www.mixcloud.com/suppamicropamchopp/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E6%B0%B4%E8%B6%8A%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8Baphex-twin-mixtape/

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— Energy Crow (@acd_bitter_sad) June 19, 2023

w12 today, looked freshly posted

he's helpfully covered up one of the qr codes but the other works. points to a website that redirected me to Google site and some new app

such a palaver getting a qr code from an image in a tweet

https://boxh0d2lu.xyz/p1-s and then about 1000 digits, probably more than the qr code could encode. that's giving me an https error in mac broswer

I'm not about to install some app from a random qrcode pasted up on the street - here's the developer's website though: https://www.kalkul.com/

"We are an augmented reality company building new emotional technologies for artists, brands & spaces to create a more human connection with their audience"

definitely feel whatever this dude is doing next is gonna be some AI thing

An app. Great.

^^ ok boomer

it's Aphex Twin, not Radiohead

ftr i too am deeply underwhelmed

Bump this thread when/if the music becomes accessible without an online treasure hunt

Yeah I don't want to be a cynic, and I shouldn't slag it off before I've properly checked it out. But these kinds of interactive app-based guerilla marketing campaigns seem to appeal to a particular type of person.

The Biophilia app was a novelty. Much as I heart Boards of Canada, I wasn't going to go scavenger hunting around the world for clues about their new album - just give me the music please.

As for Aphex, a QR code for an app feels more like the work of a marketing agency who think they're smart than RDJ's style of merry pranksterism.

I guess it's much harder to do cool, fun sleight of hand in the internet era. We live in a post-mystique world where any sort of mystery about artists' identities and messages are impossible to obfuscate.

The plausible sounding summaries of all the shenanigans I've read (on reddit) reckon that most likely there will be a new song tomorrow, 21st June, and an EP next Wednesday, 28th June.

on my phone it's not even a full app, it's one of those applets that doesn't require installation

just a little augmented reality bit where it's doing a little animation of the aphex twin logo over the poster while playing a short clip of presumably new music

I don’t have any information (and I don’t want to ask because, unlike some of you jerks, I enjoy the theatrics) but I’d bet there’s something happening.

I enjoy his theatrics because he oscillates between being self-obsessed and entirely detached. If this is a shady marketing stunt, I doubt he’d comment! It’s win-win.

The Biophilia app was a novelty.

Yeah. It’s interesting if, and only if, the music is interesting. You can’t champion innovative graphic design without a desirable product.

if the app's just a PWA then they can add things as they go

(the google page said '100 downloads' when i looked yesterday)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5311M2lqV0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUhWO_Nfl0