II
― gman59, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
Richard D. James
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 22:48 (three years ago) link
85-92
― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
RDJ album warped my brain as a teenager so I might have to pick that. But I’m starting to think drukqs is his most consistently satisfying.
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link
wait is the ballot poll happening soon?
― octobeard, Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link
Tough choice between Come to Daddy and I Care for me
― octobeard, Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
Oh there's gonna be a ballot poll?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:33 (three years ago) link
Come To DaddyWindowlicker EPICBYDRDJSAWII
The the rest is a bit of a jumble.
No Caustic Window in this poll?
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:39 (three years ago) link
It's there.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:40 (three years ago) link
The Drukqs love here is a bit perplexing. I like it - well, I like a lot of it - but it wouldn't even crack my top 5, and I was always under the impression it wasn't especially well received upon release
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
It's not my favorite record of his, but in a way, Windowlicker felt like the end of music for several years after its release.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:53 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
it was his ...
new jersey
(leaves thread, shuts down computer, runs away)
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:58 (three years ago) link
Windowlicker calls to me.
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:59 (three years ago) link
I've warmed up to drukqs in the intervening years but have never completely overcome the sheer disappointment I felt back in 2001, a mere few months after I discovered Afx's music (via the 'Windowlicker' and 'Come to Daddy' videos that occasionally popped up on MusiquePlus, Quebec's now defunct answer to Much Music aka Canadian MTV).
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:00 (three years ago) link
Windowlicker covers a lot of ground in just three tracks, none quite in a style he had done before or would do again.
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:02 (three years ago) link
Speaking of which, that French-Canadian accented talk of dog croquettes in 'Windowlicker' is one of my favourite things about it. I think he got his then-girlfriend to utter that line ('j'aime faire des croquettes au chien')?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:03 (three years ago) link
Pomenitul, try these alternative druqks sequences I experimented with. Makes more sense to me like this:
1. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ottxyuqVttiufuAQvygva?si=frA7GpkIT9uq4OCIAy_Fgg
2. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5T1VrMYGtIzkbGswl4KZFA?si=azMIW3NDTqyTOG1GzZanRg
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:03 (three years ago) link
Between 'I like to make nuggets for the dog' and 'I like to make dog nuggets', the latter reading strikes me as most appropriate.
xp cool, thanks, will try them soon.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link
I hear it as "Je vais faire.." but same difference. Similar to Autechre's "Is it washable?"
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:05 (three years ago) link
Isn't croquettes a kind of biscuit?
Oh no I'm thinking being of potato croquettes
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:06 (three years ago) link
Being? Oh man I need to go to bed
There are chocolaty croquettes, but less so in Quebec ime, where it's usually fried breadcrumb rolls with a savoury filling. McNuggets are called 'McCroquettes', for instance. And it can also refer to dog/cat biscuits, yeah, which is what's most relevant here.
It could well be 'je vais faire' btw. I've never managed to make it out 100%.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
I loved getting croquettes from the automats in amsterdam
― brimstead, Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
hell yeah
i doubt i'll come up with anything better than that, but i love any excuse to revisit and do some really intelligent but also danceable music thinking about these, do a little braindance and see which ones come out on top
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
FIBO!
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Voted for Analord, but it contains a lot of his best stuff.
― silverfish, Thursday, 4 February 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
I honestly think Drukqs is a great album, I remember buying it at the time and being puzzled at how it got panned. In the end I had to pick SAW II though, because it is such a strange and unique album.
― mirostones, Thursday, 4 February 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
top tier:
SAW ISAW IIRichard D James albHangable Auto BulbAnalordCheetahWindowlicker-ish
― Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 February 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
funny, 85-92 happens to be in my car atm, bumped “hedphelym” & “delphium” on the way back from work yesterday
― brimstead, Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
yeah I had this feeling too
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
I wish I could just get over myself and do a deep dive into his post-Druqks material without mentally placing it in the context of his nineties stuff.
Doesn't help that a lot of it is archived in either massive volumes (Analords, Soundcloud dump) or short, disjointed EPs, with not all of it being immediately and handily accessible online.
The main problem though is the nagging feeling that it couldn't possibly move me in the same way his early stuff did when I was first getting into it
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
it feels so wrong to vote SAW II, but in the end i had to
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
drukqs was the first album of his I loved from the moment I first heard it. Syro was the second
― Dan S, Friday, 5 February 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link
Dog Latin OTM
― We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 5 February 2021 00:59 (three years ago) link
here are some faves from the earliest sets he dumped, really only covers about 1/4. there's more great stuff in that 1/4 too!!suzannesymbonsadred alertsams carmartins car lpfmental telepathydonkey rhubarb remixwith my familyhigh hats tune tamclap orig2tone[camborne college mix]
― brimstead, Friday, 5 February 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
sorry, that’s a post of mine about the SoundCloud stuff from another afx thread.. You shall be moved, dog latin
― brimstead, Friday, 5 February 2021 01:21 (three years ago) link
drukqs is sooooo much better than everything he’s done since. never understood the praise for syro at all.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 5 February 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
The first two tracks on Syro are great and the last one is nice too, never got into the middle ones as much. They feel a bit overworked to me.
― mirostones, Friday, 5 February 2021 01:37 (three years ago) link
I think it’s really good!!
― brimstead, Friday, 5 February 2021 02:16 (three years ago) link
again, it’s funky
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 5 February 2021 12:35 (three years ago) link
lol
https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/AnnexePineHuwgit/reviews
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
"Questions that will never be answered honestly"
'accidental' lack of comma?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 09:13 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 28 February 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
Feel like digging up that thread that asks "what is the best 4 lp run by any artist" and seeing if SAW II -> ICBYD -> TRDJA -> C2D is in there, which is one of the most diverse sequence of 4 megaclassics I can think of. Of those, I care takes it for me because it feels still unreplicated by anyone else, the cheesy and elegiac showing you their lovely little home in a geometrically impossible house with murderous thugs bursting from the closet and drugged out zombies chained in the attic. It feels in parts more like a real rock record than any other "electronic" record I think I've heard, very organic and a bit ramshackle, then goes into full minimalist techno mode but then randomly goth sounding or sabotaging the driving rhythms by stripping out the bass or slowing the tempo a tad halfway through the song. But all of those 4 albums tower above Aphex's peers, much as I love individual tracks by Squarepusher and plenty of Autechre cds. (Yes C2D is an album not an extended play single by any reasonable measure, whatever people like Stereolab and Autechre think).
― mig (guess that dreams always end), Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link
SAWII is my all time favorite album
― eisimpleir (crüt), Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
C2D for me, although it was very hard to vote against ICBYD. C2D has higher highs (BBB, Flim.)
― lukas, Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:25 (three years ago) link
Should have voted Come To Daddy, overthought it and voted Hangable Auto Bulb, now regret it
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:53 (three years ago) link
I went with Syro in the end because it deserves more love.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:57 (three years ago) link
went with drukqs. gotta live my truth
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:57 (three years ago) link
'We must suffer into truth', saith Aeschylus.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:59 (three years ago) link
C2D has higher highs
I feel terrible about this now. How can you even compare "Flim" and "Wax the Nip"?
― lukas, Sunday, 28 February 2021 05:09 (three years ago) link
love The Tuss eps almost as much as drukqs. hard to choose
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Sunday, 28 February 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
Man, FILM
― We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 28 February 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
Film?
― Mark G, Sunday, 28 February 2021 23:47 (three years ago) link
wait wait wait everyone, stop, I've changed my mind, write-in vote for the Flow Coma remix
― lukas, Sunday, 28 February 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 1 March 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
i don't know what i would have selected, but yep
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 1 March 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
RDJ and C2D got robbed! RDJ in particular has seen its stock fall, that album was seen as a big leap from someone who was already worshipped.
― lukas, Monday, 1 March 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
favourite single:https://www.discogs.com/AFX-2-Remixes-By-AFX/release/10444161
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 March 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
RDJ will probably always be in my aphex top three, and sometimes it's my fave. soooo many strong memories, an attachment to it
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 1 March 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
Mark G:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHkUg-QCwk
― We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 1 March 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
Syro tied RDJ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
― lukas, Monday, 1 March 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
I recently listened to RDJ album and “logon rock witch” really cracked me up for, all those “BYOOOP” slide sounds.
― brimstead, Monday, 1 March 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
man, Fredugolon 6 ... eternal
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Monday, 1 March 2021 06:07 (three years ago) link
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:58 PM (three weeks ago)
haaaa I missed this
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Monday, 1 March 2021 06:22 (three years ago) link
fuck aphex twin
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 14 March 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
it’s ok he’s giving money to planting trees
― brimstead, Sunday, 14 March 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
if this goes well enough it could be the last Aphex Twin release
― lukas, Sunday, 14 March 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link
Can't wait for Martin Shkreli to buy it.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 March 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link