excellent!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
drool
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
i know don't sound excited about it but this is great news
― just another (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
Has anyone confirmed that the extra tracks are included with CD / vinyl orders from the webstore?
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
As downloads, obviously. It's not clear as the listings for physical items just show the standard tracks.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
SAW 1.5 :O
― clouds, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
yes please SAW 1.5!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:05 (six years ago) link
God's promise has been fulfilled! *lights self on fire*
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
whats the track they are talking about?
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
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
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 July 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
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
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Thursday, 3 August 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
this is sick https://vimeo.com/223378825
― just another (diamonddave85), Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
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/
― 👁 (am0n), Friday, 4 August 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/C2TsLU4TfZ— Energy Crow (@acd_bitter_sad) June 19, 2023
― koogs, Monday, 19 June 2023 08:01 (ten months ago) link
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
― koogs, Monday, 19 June 2023 08:02 (ten months ago) link
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
― koogs, Monday, 19 June 2023 08:11 (ten months ago) link
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/
― ledge, Monday, 19 June 2023 09:07 (ten months ago) link
"We are an augmented reality company building new emotional technologies for artists, brands & spaces to create a more human connection with their audience"
― ledge, Monday, 19 June 2023 09:09 (ten months ago) link
definitely feel whatever this dude is doing next is gonna be some AI thing
― frogbs, Monday, 19 June 2023 12:42 (ten months ago) link
An app. Great.
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Monday, 19 June 2023 16:20 (ten months ago) link
^^ ok boomer
― the late great, Monday, 19 June 2023 16:32 (ten months ago) link
it's Aphex Twin, not Radiohead
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 19 June 2023 16:51 (ten months ago) link
ftr i too am deeply underwhelmed
― the late great, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 03:00 (nine months ago) link
Bump this thread when/if the music becomes accessible without an online treasure hunt
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 11:01 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 11:15 (nine months ago) link
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.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 12:02 (nine months ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:27 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:45 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:48 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:52 (nine months ago) link
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)
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 16:13 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5311M2lqV0
― fpsa, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 22:04 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUhWO_Nfl0
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 09:11 (nine months ago) link
for those of us with images off...
^ new track taken from official soundcloud and uploaded to youtube
and this is video of the app for the curious, with a sample of the above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3wPfTXFrvk
(and fpsa's video was 90 minutes of live footage: "Aphex Twin at Best Kept Secret Festival 2023 in Netherlands")
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 10:49 (nine months ago) link
dog latin’s video has already been removed. What’s the official SoundCloud?
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 14:03 (nine months ago) link
it's not 'aphextwinofficial', last post 11 years ago
but that track is herehttps://soundcloud.com/richarddjames
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 14:16 (nine months ago) link
sounds nice, too bad all this nonsense with QR codes and apps is so alienating
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 14:41 (nine months ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=justin+strauss+the+lot
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 14:49 (nine months ago) link
whoops wrong link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEkZbWYUego
was sharing a link to Justin Strauss's appearances on the Lot when I noticed the official posting of this.
into this track
agree about the qr code fatigue
just release a friggin' record for god's sake
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 16:07 (nine months ago) link
yea it's pretty good, on par with the Collapse EP stuff, though a bit more toned down in a way that I think is nice
can't believe Syro was nearly a decade ago
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 17:36 (nine months ago) link
It's very nice but it could easily have been on Druqks, is my feeling
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 17:52 (nine months ago) link
Wow. I was expecting a rave banger!
The programming is, per usual, absurd. The melody is is the most somber since Selected Ambient Works Volume II and the rhythm (and harmony) is nostalgic or even self-referential (it reminded me of ...I Care Because You Do more than Druqks). I do miss some of the mixing tricks he started using in Syro and recent live performances.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 18:04 (nine months ago) link
(The mixing stuff might be present but lost on Spotify.)
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 18:05 (nine months ago) link
If there’s an album, I pray he does an interview similar to the interview he did with David Burraston for the release of Syro. There’re so many issues from the past decade that I’d love to hear him talk (or write) about: open source, SoundCloud (and Bandcamp), cryptocurrency, mixed reality, artificial intelligence, etc.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 18:10 (nine months ago) link
I'm not sure I want to know Richard D James's opinion on cryptocurrency, mixed reality, artificial intelligence, etc.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 18:31 (nine months ago) link
This new track is fine, on first listen seems fairly generic, but that's what I thought about Syro at first too.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 18:34 (nine months ago) link
LOL, OK?
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 18:35 (nine months ago) link