Aphex Twin

peteeeed · 06-03-2020 10:13am

bodhrandude wrote: »

So do you think Aphex Twin will come up with some experimental music that can kill the Coronavirus stone dead.

no

Scubadevils · 07-03-2020 10:00pm

Been a while since I posted here, a few years at least! Anyway, I've been loving the work of RX-101 - heavily inspired by Aphex and definitely captures that early 90s classic sound.

If you don't know of him, story goes that he made up to 200 tracks in the late 90s but never sent out any demos - that is up until recently when he finally sent them to Suction records who have since put out two albums and a few EPs.

There had been talk of whether it is actually Mr James himself but I think that's ruled out. Anyway, very much the Aphex template and incredible music.

The Dopamine album is more SAW 1 style and then the more recent 'Serenity' takes things up a notch while retaining a nice melodic backdrop.

From Dopamine -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em9YQilcg9o

From Serenity -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zol7AQjiCJA

On Bandcamp -

https://rx-101.bandcamp.com/album/serenity-2

jiltloop · 27-03-2020 3:48pm

Scubadevils wrote: »

Been a while since I posted here, a few years at least! Anyway, I've been loving the work of RX-101 - heavily inspired by Aphex and definitely captures that early 90s classic sound.

If you don't know of him, story goes that he made up to 200 tracks in the late 90s but never sent out any demos - that is up until recently when he finally sent them to Suction records who have since put out two albums and a few EPs.

There had been talk of whether it is actually Mr James himself but I think that's ruled out. Anyway, very much the Aphex template and incredible music.

The Dopamine album is more SAW 1 style and then the more recent 'Serenity' takes things up a notch while retaining a nice melodic backdrop.

From Dopamine -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em9YQilcg9o

From Serenity -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zol7AQjiCJA

On Bandcamp -

https://rx-101.bandcamp.com/album/serenity-2

Thanks! this is very nice indeed.

peteeeed · 02-04-2020 8:01pm

Apgex Twin has shared a note online mourning the loss of his father and warning people about the current political climate.

“Huge heartfelt condolences to anyone grieving right now, I lost my father recently and it’s been really tough, it was not related to C19 (COVID-19),” reads the note, which was posted in the bio of SoundCloud user user18081971, widely accepted to be Richard D. James.

The note continues to comment on the excessive governmental control during the pandemic, saying: “When you are presented with C19 statistics, you must demand whether the figures reflect people who have died WITH C19 or FROM C19. Please do not forget this. When police carry out wishes from government, without any law being in place, you are living in a police state and it is no longer a democracy.”

He adds: “When you are held under house arrest, when no crime has been committed, you are living in a police state and it is no longer a democracy. You didn’t think this could happen did you? Do you know what rights you could lose next, can you guess? You have been warned.” The note has since been deleted but re-shared on Reddit.

James’s father, Derek, was a tin and coal miner, before becoming a psychiatric nurse and a counselor, according to a comment posted by user18081971. He has featured in many of James’s tracks, including vocal samples on “Lornaderek” and “4”.

“He was the best dad I could've ever wished to have had. He had incredible encyclopedic knowledge of so many subjects, he blew my mind constantly and my sisters...tears,” he said in another comment.

Read the note below.

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peteeeed · 08-04-2020 11:21am

New soundclound tunes
https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/72392

peteeeed · 09-04-2020 3:01pm

Warehouse project gig from last year going online tomorrow

https://crackmagazine.net/2020/04/aphex-twin-stream-warehouse-project-live/

MadYaker · 11-04-2020 8:46pm

peteeeed wrote: »

New soundclound tunes
https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/72392

Really enjoying these at the moment. His stuff hits me like nothing else. Hopefully he does more shows in the future.

igCorcaigh · 21-06-2020 10:28pm

Can't believe this passed me by until today.

Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006–08

igCorcaigh · 21-06-2020 10:37pm

The AFX was his best moniker for good acid sounds. Although I found the Analord ep series much better than the LP Lords.

Just listened to Every Day again. I love the style of English voice over music. The Orb, little fluffy clouds, yeah.

igCorcaigh · 21-06-2020 10:42pm

That way though, of playing humdrum every day conversations over sound is genius..

I like realist film too, mostly English, where you can have a scene of just someone washing the dishes for five minutes.

bodhrandude · 06-08-2020 10:19pm

Well with no festival or concert tee shirts to buy this year I might invest in this next week, I can't resist, the Aphex Twin Richard. D, James smile, creepy mask aye! ur,mask_flatlay_front,product,600x600.jpg

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MadYaker · 28-08-2020 12:53pm

Heard this for the first time and just ordered the vinyl off discogs after listening to a few other tunes on it. The amount of music I have yet to find seems massive.

bodhrandude · 29-08-2020 2:17pm

MadYaker wrote: »

Heard this for the first time and just ordered the vinyl off discogs after listening to a few other tunes on it. The amount of music I have yet to find seems massive.

He played that at Oxegen 2008.

MadYaker · 29-08-2020 10:52pm

Ffs I was actually at oxegen in 2008 but I was 17 and had no idea what good music was

igCorcaigh · 30-08-2020 12:22am

MadYaker wrote: »

Ffs I was actually at oxegen in 2008 but I was 17 and had no idea what good music was

I was 17 ( going on 18

) in the summer of 1990.

Got big into ambient music over the next 2 years. Bought ambient collected works 2 on cassette, but loved the Orb and FSOL too.

But it was such a lonely time for me, so difficult to find music, or people who liked the music.

Was still very parochial and boring back then.

I remember wearing a smiley badge and T shirt when I was 15, friends and my parents were questioning my support of drugs.

igCorcaigh · 30-08-2020 12:34am

There was such a push back against electronic music though, the Rock music, even some Indie people hated it.

I remember the graffiti "acid is for children".

Media led a moral panic about illegal raves and the dangers of drugs. I remember when Cork City Hall cancelled a dance music event, for the fear of drugs.

MadYaker · 03-09-2020 1:57am

That was quick

bodhrandude · 03-09-2020 7:02pm

About 38 seconds in and then into Revok from Caustic Window.

igCorcaigh · 03-09-2020 8:25pm

MadYaker wrote: »

That was quick

The Analord series on vinyl is great. Not a fan of the follow up album version though.

MadYaker · 03-09-2020 9:09pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

The Analord series on vinyl is great. Not a fan of the follow up album version though.

I have 7 and 8 now. Might have to see if I can get them all.

igCorcaigh · 03-09-2020 9:21pm

MadYaker wrote: »

I have 7 and 8 now. Might have to see if I can get them all.

There's a lot available on YouTube if you just want to listen.

One of my favourites is Stepfilter 101 on the first ep.

I love that acid sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cU7fLGuVIk

igCorcaigh · 03-09-2020 9:44pm

So, this Roland SH-101 synth is analogue.

Does that mean that the acid sound we hear is not generated by code? Manually produced?

I have no idea.

jiltloop · 03-09-2020 9:55pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

So, this Roland SH-101 synth is analogue.

Does that mean that the acid sound we hear is not generated by code? Manually produced?

I have no idea.

I owned an SH101 for a while and that track sounds like the LFO is modulating the filter, the shape sounds like it's set to random as it sounds like sample and hold and the rate is definitely synced to the track. How the sync is done is the question, maybe it's a modified SH101 as I'm not sure if it's possible through the standard CV connections available.

MadYaker · 20-09-2020 7:18pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I was 17 ( going on 18 ) in the summer of 1990.

Got big into ambient music over the next 2 years. Bought ambient collected works 2 on cassette, but loved the Orb and FSOL too.

But it was such a lonely time for me, so difficult to find music, or people who liked the music.

Was still very parochial and boring back then.

I remember wearing a smiley badge and T shirt when I was 15, friends and my parents were questioning my support of drugs.

And now 70,000 people can get together in stradbally and take every drug under the sun for 3 days straight and nobody bats an eyelid, or at least we used to anyway

peteeeed · 08-10-2020 8:42am

the bat sign has gone up in the sky

https://twitter.com/CrackMagazine/status/1313838506091909124?s=20

MadYaker · 08-10-2020 8:44am

Hopefully an album

peteeeed · 08-10-2020 8:46am

MadYaker wrote: »

Hopefully an album

some of the articles are mentioning a novation hardware release

peteeeed · 17-10-2020 8:59am

loving the new autchre album, nice and chilled , which they have gone against recently

Gremlinertia · 17-10-2020 9:08am

peteeeed wrote: »

loving the new autchre album, nice and chilled , which they have gone against recently

Ooh thanks for the heads up.. Lost myself down a dark cyberpunk type hole of late and hadn't realised they were releasing

IamtheWalrus · 17-10-2020 4:11pm

peteeeed wrote: »

loving the new autchre album, nice and chilled , which they have gone against recently

That opening track is a bit mental

peteeeed · 20-10-2020 4:28pm

https://twitter.com/warprecords/status/1318568649435860993?s=21

jiltloop · 20-10-2020 4:42pm

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 · 22-10-2020 1:50pm

jiltloop wrote: »

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....

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

jiltloop · 22-10-2020 2:44pm

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.

peteeeed · 16-03-2021 9:39am

Aphex Twin Sells NFT Artwork for $128,000

Aphex Twin has sold a graphic artwork in NFT form, earning Ethereum currency equivalent to roughly $128,392.56 at the time of sale. Announcing his entrance to the controversial digital marketplace, Richard D. James said he would spend “a portion of the money on planting trees and either donating to permaculture projects or setting them up ourselves, depending on how much we get.” The auction closed Sunday night (March 14), at a price of 72.00 ETH.

https://pitchfork.com/news/aphex-twin-sells-nft-artwork-for-128000/

bodhrandude · 18-05-2021 7:15pm

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.

iamstop · 10-06-2021 6:22pm

I wouldn't put Aphex and Four Tet too close tbh.

peteeeed · 18-08-2021 9:05am

happy 50th mr james

igCorcaigh · 18-08-2021 9:50am

Happy Birthday RDJ, may your next 50 years be as prolific and upending as your last.

MadYaker · 24-08-2021 5:22pm

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

peteeeed · 07-09-2021 9:55am

https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/in-focus-aphex-twin-27th-august-2021/

Excellent aphex twin mix from NTS

iamstop · 05-01-2022 10:42pm

I just picked up this nice piece from my local record shop:

https://www.planetofsound.ca/product/jesus-jones-zeroes-ones-via-aphex-twin-the-prodigy-12-new-ep-vinyl-clear-colour/4069?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=4

Here is the track:

https://youtu.be/Y33arFBSOk4

bodhrandude · 20-01-2022 1:41am

My nephew picked up this tee shirt for me in Edinburgh for Xmas. 😀 Wasn't at that particular gig but saw him that year at RockNess festival in middle of June in Scotland. The concert is uploaded with some cut and edited highlights but worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbVyWkcIVTs&feature=emb_title

bodhrandude · 02-04-2022 12:07am

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. :)

MadYaker · 02-04-2022 5:59pm

Haha! If he's there I'll do my best to get a photo of him but I'm not watching the whole gig through my phone! Unfortunately that's one of the stages that the BBC don't broadcast so I'm not sure there'll be a way for people to stream it as BBC own the rights to all broadcasting at the festival. Him playing is just a rumour at the moment but it came from someone who has been right in the past.