here's my rough category groupings of (some of) the Soundcloud tracks.
these have my own numbering prefix that I added as the tracks came out so I could keep track of them.
grouped into 8 highly subjective categories: ambient, dance, fast/busy, harsh, mid tempo, pretty, slow, weird
ambient:061 11 early morning clissold.mp3107 4 red calx(slo).mp3111 4 Red Calx.mp3140 th1 (slo).mp3163 33 SAW II un stabbing interview.mp3164 9 un chopped f beginning (SAWII un).mp3173 5 just fall asleep.mp3179 35 SAW II un road shimmer f.mp3
dance:011 SomewhereOTTGTBAG.mp3085 (vocoderdisco).mp3133 d15-8 ny groove2.mp3
fast/busy:004 quad rave TEAC.mp3012 thnxU4letinMeStyWitU.mp3016 red alert.mp3017 16 fresher + cleaner.mp3028 17 kids beach.mp3030 1 human rotation.mp3031 6 Plinky Plonk[orig].mp3032 8 knife fork freq.mp3035 dance2thebeat.mp3042 2 xame filtered.mp3044 4 ACH.mp3049 7 clapstab ab6.mp3065 1 p-string.mp3070 ep string.mp3080 14 modular acid.mp3087 6 fly beats.mp3100 37 off key [bicycle wheel].mp3118 phase acid.mp3119 hypersquij.mp3120 4 bonkophone2.mp3126 prncDMC.mp3127 4 frequency transmitter.mp3130 33 jonny hawkes broken guitar[not finished].mp3146 carn marth remix.mp3147 (mature raver).mp3149 23 lush acid.mp3150 5 heliosphan live.mp3152 179brk2.mp3154 T08+4.mp3161 (HAB un23).mp3162 lannerlog.mp3166 3 s-tral.mp3168 1.5 dp5 beats.mp3170 32 venus squidge.mp3171 6 RANDOM FX.mp3172 5 african rhyt.mp3184 Medievil Rave Mk2.mp3
harsh:010 24 squalitude acid.mp3019 GPO beat.mp3040 cooltempoDemo.mp3046 17 Alis Trak[brain floss mix].mp3050 8 world waver ab6.mp3078 2 pcp 2 [unreleased version].mp3079 23 moodular3[live gig]_soundcloud_188328563.mp3081 9 leeds orbit[live]_soundcloud_188329063.mp3094 8 metal beat.mp3095 24 afx 71 1.mp3102 6 step up to cornwall.mp3104 4 how to science ab6.mp3105 5 how to science 2 ab6.mp3106 2 dual acid ab6.mp3114 9 100m 2 (leeds orbit).mp3115 23 100m 3 (moodular).mp3125 5 strange rhythm.mp3128 16 shit squidge.mp3159 (mortal1).mp3160 mortal 08.mp3180 24 Triple D.mp3181 25 rogphlange 1.mp3182 36 Shroommdot [miCro3] [8th dimension transmission].mp3187 13 Phukup2.mp3
mid tempo:001 8 utopia.mp3002 original chaos riff.mp3003 22 pearls.mp3006 bimbongo.mp3009 1 chink 101.mp3014 symbonsad.mp3015 sallyVingoe.mp3018 Afx origTheme.mp3020 pump the shit.mp3021 plinkyplonk.mp3025 40 lannerlush full.mp3026 39 fnkmg.mp3027 Renalgade Sonar.mp3029 martins car LPF.mp3033 mooow [Dixons Theft mix].mp3034 mental telepathy.mp3037 glockenspiel TEAC.mp3056 3 gerald remix.mp3057 12 rough beat tune.mp3058 13 high hats tune tamclap orig.mp3059 16 bpjdrop forge.mp3064 21 hapshifter1.mp3067 15 bradley jam pump.mp3068 1 70`s tune.mp3069 2tone [camborne college mix].mp3072 dance and play.mp3077 nova robotiks.mp3086 4 ny groove.mp3101 21 forgotten T.mp3116 bell bass (ep string).mp3117 vibert remix 5 edit max c.mp3119 fmsubBass.mp3122 9 wind squidge.mp3123 bob morgan.mp3124 subCan.mp3129 19 bradley echoes.mp3136 33 synthi rhy [q].mp3141 (taut).mp3145 14 floating .mp3151 notting hill bus.mp3155 cottage3 e.mp3176 30 ms short.mp3178 18 ssbA.mp3185 6 Gear Smudge.mp3186 6 Backdrop Trigger.mp3189 19 Winding Road.mp3
pretty:041 19 ssnb.mp3051 11 donkey rhubarb remix.mp3052 18 with my family _.mp3053 1 nocares.mp3093 26 5 (demo).mp3096 7 cutting.mp3099 28 organ epic.mp3112 5 Girl Boy Dark Version.mp3131 37 last clissold maybe.mp3132 15 sekonda.mp3137 (watery big ez).mp3139 th1.mp3142 blue carpet.mp3156 cottage4 af 1.mp3157 4 acid organ.mp3158 18 mello punchy.mp3167 23 pianox.mp3183 1 Lmt.mp3
slow:005 suzanne.mp3007 20 pink floyd.mp3008 parking lot.mp3022 sams car.mp3024 10 bcr78.mp3045 14 07 b.mp3047 20 vtnm.mp3048 21 vtnm2.mp3054 7 ∂ƒ∆ [rough mix].mp3055 2 ∂ƒx 126b.mp3060 71 1st bank trac.mp3062 12 space beat.mp3063 13 barbarella on microdots.mp3066 11 slo bird whistle[peel sesh].mp3084 8 lush ambulance 2.mp3097 5 sline (jap flute energy rave).mp3098 35 japan.mp3108 7 lush slow blips.mp3109 19 slow early morning.mp3134 d15-10 dulcimer dub.mp3143 dsb.mp3144 hilo.mp3165 5 scorrier.mp3169 23 band pass beat slo.mp3174 7 dub cliker + 0hz.mp3188 3 Slothscrape.mp3
weird:013 x-rays.mp3023 9 square dance.mp3036 34.5 p.e.mp3038 archponf.mp3039 catsquidge2.mp3043 13 short mental afx.mp3071 bellbrk.mp3073 droneBReak.mp3074 fork rave.mp3075 how much i wanted you.mp3076 lanner b4 ardkore.mp3082 10 shit smothered.mp3083 5 acid misc.mp3088 12 phuqed up.mp3089 15 twister.mp3090 11 phlangebeat.mp3091 25 funnel.mp3092 14 make a baby.mp3103 3 hollow alias ab6.mp3110 arrd (25 funnel).mp3121 thy're here aahha.mp3135 (throatie).mp3138 d17-5 synth bonus beats 1.mp3148 tigercubdelay.mp3153 T13 quadraverb.mp3175 24 casiotribaltronics mfm.mp3177 22 gak bass.mp3
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 August 2018 03:55 (five years ago) link
YSI? (j/k)
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Thursday, 9 August 2018 05:11 (five years ago) link
does anyone know if any of the soundcloud dump is copyrighted
― flappy bird, Thursday, 9 August 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link
Copyright subsists from the point of creation.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 9 August 2018 06:07 (five years ago) link
(God)
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 August 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
i think this is what the text says at the beginning?
this track's called collapse by the waycos when the bass hit kicks inand the tempo starts slowing down,it's like a collapse of sorts :)i'm gathering visuals references at the mois ther any other point cloud or other references you like i should looknope don't think so.. I still love ascii visuals also..surprised it never got used more but maybe it's cause I don't get out muchsure... i'll look into doin 3d ascii point-cloud cross over.maybe when you get up close to the point cloud it looks more like ascii...yeah i see your point with midibut you could just edit tight to the beat manually anyhow can't you?
― No organ. (crüt), Friday, 10 August 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
the whole soundcloud dump is on archive dot org if anyone needs it btwhttps://archive.org/details/AphexTwinAllUser18081971SoundcloudTracks
― methanietanner, Friday, 10 August 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
thanks rich
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 10 August 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
reminder to revisit the houston tracks for some gr8 noize/drone AFX
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Saturday, 11 August 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
When thru a good chunk of the Soundcloud tracks -- there's good stuff for sure (tho also some headache-y stuff)
Listening to the "Classics" LP right now; it's so bomb...
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
Aphex s DNA seems part of Sophie’s new one Ponyboy sounds like an updated ventolin
― Ross, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
https://aphextwin.warp.net/t69-collapse
― macropuente (map), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
2nd track sounds great
― macropuente (map), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
Sorry for the spam but this should be of interest to keen AFX watchers.
I've just published a Weirdcore interview in which he talks about the T69 Collapse video in depth and confirms other films are on their way, maybe even a VR version. And much other tittle tattle besides.
Does RDJ read the YouTube comments? "Big time."
― Doran, Saturday, 18 August 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
good interview, this at the beginning though:
thinking is innately, reliably visual. If I asked you to think of your favourite song or some music, it would, generally speaking, be a challenge. It's hard to manifest sound alone in one's thoughts without some manner of visual accompaniment. That’s because the ‘language’ employed by the human brain is primarily one of images. Even if we’re engaging in dense verbal cognition such as preparing a speech, vivid pictures act as the unbidden chaperone of all thought.
may be true for the author, far from true for everyone. there is a thread on it somewhere...
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 24 August 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
Aphantasia - the inability to visualise things in your mind
a better place for discussion.
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 24 August 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
ah yeah that's not my experience at all. great piece though
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Friday, 24 August 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
How’s the new one then
― Ross, Monday, 17 September 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
I went looking for it last Friday, found 1 copy in the local hmv, filed away under aphex, none on display anywhere. (Same with orbital album, didn't see a single one)
Not listened yet.
― koogs, Monday, 17 September 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
It's very hard and breakbeat-y.... the tracks feel too long and unfocused for me to take in (and honestly each one started giving me a headache halfway thru). I'm also not hearing the melodies underneath the beats that made the RDJ Album-era tracks such a pleasure. I'm probably being a bad listener, though...
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
no surprises
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
he's old-fashioned. no one's cared about skittering drill and bass'y music for a decade or more. it was old-hat even then and it certainly doesn't fit in with anything people are playing currently.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
he can do so much that this seems like a weird old fixation that no one would care about. i'm sure if you're a gearhead it might seem exciting.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
it's fucking excellent, maybe the best thing he's done since The Tuss eps. Unfocused, my ass. It's melodically, harmonically cohesive, with loads of varied percussion--hurried, unhurried (spacious) at times, and it breathes. Listen to track four, the "Abundance10edit" track, and tell me this is old hat. It's like "Goodbye Rute", fully fleshed out. "Mt1" (track 3) recalls elements of Drukqs, as well as the delicate melodic timbres of "Fenix Funk 5", and it kicks ass. This isn't some bullshit, Venetian Snares-like, dime-a-dozen drill 'n bass track, more-is-more, hyperactive fiddle faddle.. it's a motherfucking steak dinner.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
This isn't some bullshit, Venetian Snares-like, dime-a-dozen drill 'n bass track, more-is-more, hyperactive fiddle faddle
actually ....
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 04:49 (five years ago) link
"Mt1" (track 3) recalls elements of Drukqs, as well as the delicate melodic timbres of "Fenix Funk 5"Maybe that’s part of it then; these aren’t key touchstones for me.
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 04:55 (five years ago) link
real talk, on ILX
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
I like this more than Cheetah I think
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 05:17 (five years ago) link
I'm not as well versed as you all in RDJ's work - have heard maybe 10 of his albums/EPs - but this does remind me of The RDJ Album (my favorite). melodies are there but only in fragments, and there are lots of them. it's not nearly as busy as I thought it would be reading the comments here
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 05:20 (five years ago) link
His music was always so “expressive” to me, and I just haven’t really heard that element in any of the new stuff. But it could also just be that my tastes have changed, and I’m not able to give him a fair shake... I didn’t even care too much for that “legendary” Caustic Window LP (CAT023) that was released via Kickstarter a few years back (and that was old stuff).
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link
aphex tracks absolutely dime a dozen considering the man himself just poops them out by the 100s on soundcloud
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
it's a motherfucking steak dinner.
it is absolutely not a steak dinner. it is a bowl of lucky charms washed down with a slug of hi-c.
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 06:41 (five years ago) link
Sounds pretty good tbh xpost
― Ross, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 06:52 (five years ago) link
In my head that's more like Rustie or someone.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link
sure, i just meant to say APHEX is NOT NUTRITIOUS
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 07:00 (five years ago) link
it's not even particularly filling
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 07:01 (five years ago) link
rustie at least has brought something new to the table in the last 10 years, though he's been stuck in a real rut himself for at least 5
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 07:02 (five years ago) link
and that's okay! i think some of the best music of the last 20 years is 20 years old, eg ICBYD and RDJ albums
this is just ... whatever the word is for juvenalia, except the kind that you make when you're old
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
eh, it's sounding pretty well refined to these ears... it sounds elegant, even. It sounds fun, joyful.. it is fun. It doesn't sound like an old guy trying to sound youthful/relevant, or whatever.. do these tracks actually sound rote, or hackneyed to people (!?)
I don't compare this to the Soundcloud dump, as these tracks are obv. of a higher caliber / standard / more developed, or fit for a proper release.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link
there's loads of fantastic, often amateur music on Soundcloud, by the way
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 08:36 (five years ago) link
*amateur-made, i s'pose
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 08:39 (five years ago) link
this EP isn’t terrible but I just question why we need more music like this in 2018 esp from a man who made a career out of innovation and exploration
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link
"do we really need more..."About 488,000 results (0.26 seconds)
― niels, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 12:24 (five years ago) link
Single's pretty good, the rest is a little too heavy on the rhythm for my Afx tastes. It's no Syro, which at this point is probably the LP of his I've listened to the most.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
When I think of classic RDJ (from any era), I think of each track exploring a single, strong musical idea — in engaging, surprising, and “personal”-feeling ways. That’s a defining characteristic for me. And it’s something else I don’t hear in the new work... everything feels like, idk, a technical exercise to me.
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
"but I just question why we need more music like this in 2018 esp from a man who made a career out of innovation and exploration"
the ep sounds like classic RDJ with new twists and turns... the percussion and flows on tracks two and four suggest/assert new areas of exploration, vaguely recalling vibes of Jlin and others, possibly? what i don't find lacking are "strong musical ideas", sustained throughout the tracks--it doesn't feel like a clinical / technical exercise, imo
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
it's been prompted before, but why do we need any more music like ___ _____, et al -- in 2018, 2020, 2050 etc.
99% of the time we don't
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
new music is super overrated.
maybe if people listened to better music they wouldn't constantly need to seek out new music
actually now that i have typed that, i realize it is not really true, maybe the thing is people need to listen better to the good music that already exists?
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
Is there any indication or claim that this stuff is new, as in, even recorded recently?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
good question
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link