Aphex Twin Extended Poll

drukqs was the first album of his I loved from the moment I first heard it. Syro was the second

Dog Latin OTM

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!!

suzanne
symbonsad
red alert
sams car
martins car lpf
mental telepathy
donkey rhubarb remix
with my family
high hats tune tamclap orig
2tone[camborne college mix]

sorry, that’s a post of mine about the SoundCloud stuff from another afx thread.. You shall be moved, dog latin

drukqs is sooooo much better than everything he’s done since. never understood the praise for syro at all.

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.

I think it’s really good!!

again, it’s funky

lol

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/AnnexePineHuwgit/reviews

"Questions that will never be answered honestly"

'accidental' lack of comma?

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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).

SAWII is my all time favorite album

C2D for me, although it was very hard to vote against ICBYD. C2D has higher highs (BBB, Flim.)

Should have voted Come To Daddy, overthought it and voted Hangable Auto Bulb, now regret it

I went with Syro in the end because it deserves more love.

went with drukqs. gotta live my truth

'We must suffer into truth', saith Aeschylus.

C2D has higher highs

I feel terrible about this now. How can you even compare "Flim" and "Wax the Nip"?

love The Tuss eps almost as much as drukqs. hard to choose

Man, FILM

Film?

wait wait wait everyone, stop, I've changed my mind, write-in vote for the Flow Coma remix

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i don't know what i would have selected, but yep

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.

favourite single:

https://www.discogs.com/AFX-2-Remixes-By-AFX/release/10444161

RDJ will probably always be in my aphex top three, and sometimes it's my fave. soooo many strong memories, an attachment to it

Mark G:

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

Syro tied RDJ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

I recently listened to RDJ album and “logon rock witch” really cracked me up for, all those “BYOOOP” slide sounds.

man, Fredugolon 6 ... eternal

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, 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), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:58 PM (three weeks ago)

haaaa I missed this

fuck aphex twin

it’s ok he’s giving money to planting trees

if this goes well enough it could be the last Aphex Twin release

Can't wait for Martin Shkreli to buy it.