Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

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yeah those tube paintings definitely weren't paid for by Warp or RDJ himself, they were definitely free and easy to do

flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link

Bust your humps recreating a rick James tune

Loser

brimstead, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link

afx has talked about symbols he used to put around locally to create a coded language...i imagine he would not care if others repped him

sleepy sweet (Ross), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link

who is mark robinson? according to discogs he released one record in 2010.

No organ. (crüt), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link

Maybe he should try tagging some garages or something.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link

Looking at his tweets he's definitely badass at using hashtags xp

groovypanda, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link

Warp's marketing campaign goes to the next level...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/183353101869

brain (krakow), Thursday, 2 August 2018 09:55 (five years ago) link

Fragile item. Leaves are loose and may shift around. Could attempt fixing leaves with a spray adhesive at buyers request.

niels, Thursday, 2 August 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link

love it

niels, Thursday, 2 August 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link

new track and it's great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQcH3LkUstg

Neil S, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link

ooh blocked

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 09:14 (five years ago) link

yeah gone now. A leak of some sort I guess.

Neil S, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 09:20 (five years ago) link

official vid here, just came through in a warp email

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqayDnQ2wmw

cheeseburger, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link

did it come with an epilepsy warning?

koogs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link

nice though. it's like 1000 videos in one. like a demoscene demo but with better music.

koogs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link

Whoa that’s so cool!

Great track too

Ross, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link

amazing video, think it comes with an epilepsy warning yeh

reminds me of the vid to holly herndon "chorus"

nxd, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link

(they nixed the planned adult swim showing in amaerica today because it failed the epilepsy test)

koogs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link

well I'm gonna go puke now

frogbs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link

it's like an update of the Gantz Graf video

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link

haha wow you weren't kidding!

sleeve, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link

it's like an update of the Gantz Graf video

yea this was my first thought as well, the way every single movement in the music is reflected in the video is insane. if I watched this in VR I'd probably have a stroke

frogbs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link

this track is great but also very much more of the same

the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link

especially love the first minute or so of the video, with all the descending text. although i ended up pausing the video about a dozen times to read certain frames!

at the same time...

this track is great but also very much more of the same

― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)),

on first listen, i kind of agree. it would fit in on any number of his earlier releases, seamlessly. but that's not really a criticism in itself - if anything it kind of speaks to the mindblowing futurism of his 90s music. and if he released selected ambient works vol 3, and it sounded just like 2 (or 1) i would be absolutely thrilled. i think the bigger problem (personally speaking) is i'm not sure what place this kind of frenetic music has in my life anymore, to be honest. it's not you, rdj, it's me.

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link

i still go back to polynomial c - ON - Xtal and the ambient ones more than any of his newer music

it is nice he still puts out music but yeah cannot say i have been crazy about anything since DRUKQS

Ross, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link

Predictably, Bleep's servers are pretty much melting right now

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link

Was their new aphex music on KUSO flying lotus soundtrack

Ross, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link

this track is great but also very much more of the same

Yep.

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link

I had no trouble loading https://bleep.com/release/106868-aphex-twin-collapse-ep, here have your trackers back Mark

?utm_source=Bleep&utm_campaign=85ec323687-Aphex+Twin+-+Collapse+EP+%28Warp%29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db8ca97389-85ec323687-1596021

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link

I'm either getting 0 copies of the vinyl or 20

Uhura Mazda (lukas), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link

Finally got through here as well. I felt a little silly; the regular black vinyl pressing is fine, but...not shiney ;_;

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link

stevie otm so I don't know what to think of this. the majority of latter day aphex really bores me but this track and the video work really well

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link

i liked cheetah, it was pretty mellow

brimstead, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link

this feels old-fashioned. i know he's not interested in fashion, but still.

Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link

Track is just OK, boilerplate Aphex, I was hoping that by this point he'd be doing something a bit different, after the long break he had I thought maybe he'd return with an LP of piano music like the tracks on Drukqs, but happy enough to have him around putting stuff out even if he isn't quite at his peak anymore. Cheetah was nice enough.

The video is fucking great though, it's not like it has any completely new ideas, but I've not seen gants graf x cyriak before and it just works, really looks like something that should exist in 2018.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link

oh really? i thought that looked old-hat as well. fwiw, i don't think RDJ is old-hat!

Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link

definitely seems to be keeping up with the OPNs and James Ferraros of the world there

tbh I think his new stuff is probably the most technically challenging and complex work he's ever done, it just doesn't really engage me like his previous work does. Syro was definitely one of those albums I thought was pretty rad on release but never really wanted to hear again after the first couple months. Then again drukqs was like that and I love that album now so who knows

frogbs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link

it is definitely super technical but also it sounds like yet another refinement of a sound that started as far back as Druqks. At this point i can play a 'typical Aphex tune' in my head - detuned sinewaves, squelchy acidy noises and drilly rhythms bouncing all over the place, and that's sort of what he does now

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link

its almost like you could write a program to just spit 'em out

frogbs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link

after the long break he had I thought maybe he'd return with an LP of piano music like the tracks on Drukqs

This was my hope, as well (love those tracks)

I was a massive fan in the day, but haven’t really enjoyed his new stuff

empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link

I wish he would either evolve rhythmically or, yeah, make more Drukqs-esque electro-acoustic music.

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link

biweekly reminder that the soundcloud dump still delivers

brimstead, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link

or, yeah, make more Drukqs-esque electro-acoustic music.

Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link

he hasn't been away that long has he?

Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link

Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2

I had hopes for this, but was disappointed

empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link

he hasn't been away that long has he?

two years since his last widely-available EP

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link

Just listened to the new track... it definitely recalls classic Aphex, and has a propulsion that his other recent stuff has lacked (it’s no “Windowlicker,” though?)

My son heard it and made me replay the whole thing again while he watched the video, so maybe that’s something...

empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link

I just want more 4/4 stuff with pretty melodies again.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link

Once in college, I was sitting around stoned with my jamband/jazz/J. Tull/etc. loving roommate.... I put on I Care..., and he was totally entranced — “I think about music this way, too”

empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link


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