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Aphex Twin

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


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

    no


  • Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    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 -



    From Serenity -



    On Bandcamp -

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    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 -



    From Serenity -



    On Bandcamp -

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

    Thanks! this is very nice indeed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    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.

    Richard James
    via Soundcloud

    MUSICNEWSAPHEX TWINCORONAVIRUSPOLITCS
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Warehouse project gig from last year going online tomorrow

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    peteeeed wrote: »

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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Can't believe this passed me by until today.

    Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006–08


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    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.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    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

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker




    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    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. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    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.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    That was quick


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


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

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    MadYaker wrote: »
    That was quick

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    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.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    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.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Hopefully an album


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Hopefully an album

    some of the articles are mentioning a novation hardware release


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


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


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    peteeeed wrote: »
    loving the new autchre album, nice and chilled , which they have gone against recently

    That opening track is a bit mental


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    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....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    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 :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    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 :confused:

    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    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/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    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.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,528 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    happy 50th mr james



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    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.


    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    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. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


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

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Caught this the other night in Galway, Glasshouse Ensemble performing Aphex Twin, clips feature Xtal and We Are the Music Makers.


    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    That is brilliant, i basically missed giaf this year, thanks for the clips.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Just come across this well put together 35 minute Aphex Twin doc on YouTube, enjoy. :)


    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia




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