New Aphex Twin Record

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

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")

dog latin’s video has already been removed. What’s the official SoundCloud?

it's not 'aphextwinofficial', last post 11 years ago

but that track is here
https://soundcloud.com/richarddjames

sounds nice, too bad all this nonsense with QR codes and apps is so alienating

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=justin+strauss+the+lot

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

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

It's very nice but it could easily have been on Druqks, is my feeling

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.

(The mixing stuff might be present but lost on Spotify.)

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.

I'm not sure I want to know Richard D James's opinion on cryptocurrency, mixed reality, artificial intelligence, etc.

This new track is fine, on first listen seems fairly generic, but that's what I thought about Syro at first too.

LOL, OK?

I wouldn't say generic, and for sure his recent stuff has been quality. But I'll be honest, every time I play a new Aphex track part of me is hoping for more "shocking brand-new worlds" (as Disco_Nihilist put it on this board years ago.)

Yeah I just don't know what I expect from Aphex any more, as opposed to "what to expect", that is.

I guess I really want to be blown away in the same way I was when I first heard Bouncing Bucephalus Ball when I was 17, but that's likely asking far too much.

That said, he seems quite happy making "just pretty good tunes with nice melodies and beats" these days, as opposed to doing something as conceptually daring as, say, Ventolin, Windowlicker or SAWII.

I like the beats being sort of 92 breakbeat ardkore. Wasn't his old favourite Trigger's Stratosphere in his sets a few years ago?

"I like the beats being sort of 92 breakbeat ardkore."

this track is very nostalgic but also weird, I really like it

I think it’s strange that it’s a single rather than an EP or album. It doesn’t say much as a single.

it's lovely but definitely generic aphex. if AI was fed in a ton of AFX i could imagine it spitting this out.

would not be surprised if that's how he made it, though I think it sounds too good to be AI right now

I mean I wouldn't put it past him. But he's also his own AI generator, I wonder if Warp conducts night raids on his vault every few years to wrest a release from him. I'm sure all the QR code stuff is just marketing department bs too.

xp

It's definitely very weird, and a nice return to focusing on synth tones and use of voice. I feel AFX has become increasingly one note since 2001, and this track is one of the more atypical 21st century tracks he's dropped! Hope it's a sign of things to come.

the sound of the opening beat reminds me of "Beat It"

I think it’s strange that it’s a single rather than an EP or album. It doesn’t say much as a single.

it is an EP with four tracks, WAP480