Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

i hadn't actually listened to the tuss before. rushup edge slaps

It does! I may have given it more spins than Druqks.

Listening to The Tuss now, it's amusing that there was even a question whether it was RDJ.

i like most of his singles and collections but i just can not get into much of the album material for some reason and i like his caustic window and polygon window material but not much of the afx material!

The Tuss is really really good

I never really got into the Analords or the Soundcloud dump. I'm not sure if it's the music itself or just the sheer amount of it. Maybe I should just admit I prefer his digital stuff and that the later attempts to re-embrace analogue don't move me much.

some parts of analord are better than others but the better parts are transcendent cf. "fenixfunk 5"

I think analord is pretty consistent overall, it’s fun listening to them in order

i love "where's your girlfriend" so much

yeah was pretty stunned that one didn't make the CD

Woot! Now that we’re facing an insurrection, an impeachment and an inauguration (hopefully), it’s time to indulge in some hardcore Drukqs!

Drukqs — The id to the ego of The Richard D James Album. Equal parts exhilarating and exhausting, Drukqs is Richard’s White Album, McCartney and Lovesexy wrapped into one — a sprawling creative whirlwind that rejects the fruits of mass celebrity for the indulgence of complete artistic freedom. Far from an hour and forty minutes of alternating drum and bass and MIDI-enabled John Cage homages its first several tracks suggests, this is almost certainly the most diverse release in his catalogue outside of the Soundcloud dump (of which this is certainly a forbear), with plaintive proper piano compositions, trip hop entrails, traces of music concrete, a gentle harmonium ditty, and a doting 28th birthday voicemail from his mum and dad for good measure. Continuing to delight in giving his audience aural whiplash, he sandwiches arguably his most epic drill n’ bass composition (the 8.5’ Mt. Saint Michael + Saint Michaels Mount), between his most conventionally “pretty” track (Avril 14th) and would-be “serious composition,” Gwarek2 which sounds like the quieter moments of Morton Subotnick’s The Wild Bull. Throughout there’s smatterings of exceptional, sly writing, with Bbydhyonchord his most “beautiful piece” since Flim and Ziggomatic 17 concluding with one of his most winsome digital melodies. Meltphace 6 features some of his best FM textures and the kind of zig-zag structures he would return to a dozen years later with Syro while Taking Control is one of his last great digital sample-fiestas. He didn’t care because we did? I don’t care but you still do? Yeah.

Lovely post NTI

Still enjoying/rediscovering this album now that I've sorted the Bangers and the chillers out from each other

Apparently Aphex Twin sent a tape to Jeff Mills and Mike Banks. On the tape was the first Analogue Bubblebath. They passed on signing him to UR. Jeff sounds a little regretful about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K0tVVnXfn4

think it lost the timecode, it's twenty minutes in

The way I've ripped Drukqs to my server means it plays disc 2 track 1, disc 1 track 1, disc 2 track 2, disc 1 track 2, etc etc etc, mashing the two discs together.

I don't know whether I should solve this or not. Probably not. It's not like it flowed at all.

There's stuff on here that's absolutely as good as the best he ever did, it's just dumped together in a way that's difficult for most people to parse, seemingly.

Richard D James album is the one I go back to most often, the one I'd take with me to a desert island. It's got concision and gestalt.

https://www.stereogum.com/2156356/aphex-twins-sister-is-wales-new-climate-change-minister/news/?fbclid=IwAR2JYZ5JGDTsQ_DFoskK6593AF46_ygXT6BeK_2I8wlhCByWcAOXEPNG2hI

we're sure it's not just james with fx?

When asked whether she’s a fan of his music, Julie said:

Very much. Not all of it.

same here

lols from the comment section:

"Her best work is Selected Environmental Writings 87-93"

Something is happening on August 18

https://190823.co.uk/

19th

Field Day returns to Victoria Park on that day.

I only had to type 1 number and still managed a typo

I don’t know who Ludo is but what is up with people who sign their comments.

- Moka

Field Day indeed

So is Alberto Balsalm his most famous track at this point, what with all the memes?

*farts* wow I had no idea that’s actually kinda funny!

Better than some “we made old person listen to ventolin, you won’t believe their reactions!!”