Aphex Twin

I've been interested in owning a bass station II having previously owned all of the other iterations of the bass station. It's a great sounding synth and this new version looks great and has some very interesting features, I'm just not sure if it justifies the higher price of €437 though....

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

I'm always curious when people own multiple synths. Pardon the naivety, but aren't they all roughly the same? I recently bought a Moog Mother-32, knowing next to nothing about synths but what it seems to be is a tool for taking electric current and manipulating it to make weird sounds. As I type this I guess that's what any electric instrument does but

They're roughly the same in the same way cars are roughly the same, i.e they all can make music (get from A to B for the car analogy) but they do it differently.

There are certainly bread and butter bass and lead sounds that nearly all synths are capable of covering but each has it's own character, modulation possibilities (which can bring you to experimental places leading you to sounds you couldn't have made with another synth) and timbre.

Much like guitars I suppose, they all pretty much get played the same but they sound different and are capable of different ranges of tones depending on whether they're acoustic, electric, solid body, steel body etc, then of course there can be different pick-ups whammy bars etc.

I haven't played with the Moog Mother-32 but I know it's a semi modular synth (i.e a synth where you can change the hard wired routing) and as such it is very easy to go off the beaten track as it were when experimenting with patching.

Incidently the bass station would be a better first synth to get to grips with as the layout and routing is fairly traditional and intuitive.

Any love for James Holden or Nathan Fake out there, would put them in same category to an extent with Aphex Twin, Jon Hopkins, Four Tet and Daniel Avery etc.

happy 50th mr james

Hopefully he gives us another album as a gift for his birthday

Aphex Twin apparently playing the Arcadia stage at Glastonbury this year, will he bring the screens I wonder or Weirdcore along, will it be a live improvisational set like his previous outings or will he be just spinning records. Mad Yaker we leave it up to you to shoot the Aphex Twin at Glasto movie. :)

Maybe he'll stream it himself like the last two times, that would be phucking amazing.

Someone upped the full set of Forbidden Fruit 2017, comprising all the clips taken by audience with the soundtrack matched for continuity. :)

Yeah just saw that. As far as I can tell no tickets for sale yet but when they are I'm going to buy one and book a flight. I have friends in London I'll try and convince one or two to go.

Yeah, hopefully tickets are easy enough to get, seems like the reaction to this announcement across social media is lukewarm so fingers crossed I can nab one. I'm not booking a flight unless I have a ticket.

I bought a ticket a ticket and booked a flight for London. Friends have no interest in anything on the bill so I'm going on my tod but I don't care. Hopefully since he seems active he actually gets booked for Glasto this year.

The Denmark gig.