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Aphex Twin

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  • #52
    Owenw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Owenw


    Morf wrote: »
    IS the new album of ambient songs any good? What could you compare the ambient stuff to?

    Hear for yourself:

    http://www.lastfm.com.tr/music/Aphex+Twin/Selected+Ambient+Works+85-92

    I wouldn't call it ambient in the Brian Eno sense. It's more slowed down techno, with slow electro grooves, 808 rhythms and melodic synth leads, loads of reverb (to add "ambience" perhaps?).


  • #53
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    Morf wrote: »
    IS the new album of ambient songs any good? What could you compare the ambient stuff to?

    Its not actually new, its a re-release of the SAW album we've been referring to earlier in the thread (not SAW II). Its in the shops now, I actually just picked up a copy just now. Owenw's description of it is pretty accurate. Ambient techno is a good description.


  • #54
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    i think drukqs is a mixed bag but over all its a good album, the heavier tracks sound amazing, really intricate programming, and some of the other ambient tracks are to me genuinely beautiful. but i must say my 2 favourite aphex albums are polygon window surfing on sine waves and caustic window joyrex compliation. they've got a very nice warm analogue sound to them like SAW85-92. and they've got some really hypnotic tracks. those to me are aphex's best sound


  • #55
    txomin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭txomin


    I'd recommend you get Drukqs, although as the previous poster mentioned, it's a mixed bag, and far inferior to Richard D James & ICBYD imo.


  • #56
    pluxus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭pluxus


    aphex for <snip> :D he's gonna be daycent

    Mod edit: No discussion of Aphex's upcoming Irish gig is allowed as per this thread


  • #57
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Selected Ambient Works and Classics reissues are out now, picked them up this afternoon (in an EPIC record buying spree). I haven't heard these at all before so I'm looking forward to listening.


  • #58
    Setun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    Have had SAW 85-92 for months and have only started listening to them properly tonight (don't ban me!) Really enjoying it.


  • #59
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Been meaning to pick up the reissue of SAW, my original is looking a tad old now but plays fine... be nice to have a new shiny version :) Be interested to hear the remastered version also... in a nerdy anorak kinda way.


  • #60
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Daddio wrote: »
    Have had SAW 85-92 for months and have only started listening to them properly tonight (don't ban me!) Really enjoying it.

    Reported. :D


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  • #61
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    I forgot how smashing "Digeridoo" is. I felt my mind dent earlier listening to it.


  • #62
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Got 26 mixes the other day. I find that since I've cut it down to a CD of 14 tracks it's far better. Some cracking tunes on it. Krieger is amazing.


    Druqz I've only listened to once but the prepared piano pieces are incredibly pretty and Vordhosbn is just.. wow.


  • #63
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    26 mixes for cash is my least favourite aphex album, a few decent songs on it but i wouldn't listen to it very often. and yeah digerdoo is a great song although one of the best songs on classics is definately polynomial-c


  • #64
    compostrebirth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭compostrebirth


    I agree, 26 Mixes for Cash is his worst. Drukqs and Selected Ambient Works 2 are his best. Polygon Window is also very worthwhile.


  • #65
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    compostrebirth wrote: »
    I agree, 26 Mixes for Cash is his worst. Drukqs and Selected Ambient Works 2 are his best. Polygon Window is also very worthwhile.

    yeah polygon window is one of his best, also caustic window joyrex compilation is excellant


  • #66
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    Mod edit: Unfortunately no discussion of that gig is allowed: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054981378


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  • #67
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Hangable Auto Bulb is now in Zavvi, not particularly cheap, it's good yeah?


  • #68
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    It's good but it shouldn't be expensive as it's currently in print from Warp. Shop around as you will probably get it cheaper. I think Tower have it in at the moment.


  • #69
    jk86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭jk86


    I got it a few weeks ago in HMV on Henry street.

    Can remember how much exactly, but it was quite cheap


  • #70
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Kold wrote: »
    Hangable Auto Bulb is now in Zavvi, not particularly cheap, it's good yeah?

    my CD copy exploded in the burner.

    only recovered half the pieces.

    great tunes.


  • #71
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    They have it in Tower for €9.99

    http://www.towerrecords.ie/viewdetails.asp?hfldUnitID=170319


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  • #72
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Bump! Sorry to bring back this old thread but I didnt see the point in starting an new AT thread. Anyway due to the lack of recent releases from the man and the few gigs he has played for the last few years, Ive become more interested in the artists he is dropping in his sets. I have been looking at a few threads in the AT WATMM forums, one in particular is the unidentified Singapore tracks from his gig there last year. The 15 minute clip is amazing.



    First track that blows me away comes in at 1 minute and 20 secs where he drops the artist Pale Sketcher - The Rainy Season which is amazing, then I found the link to the actual track.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aec0K2tFX8k


    Then there is unidentified track that comes in at 7.48 which is really nice.
    I have to admit I really enjoyed the Forbidden Fruit show where he dropped Mark Broom, Lakker, Autechre, Paradox among others.

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



  • #73
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Nice, still disgusts me that I've yet to see him play live, be it his own music or a DJ set :(


  • #74
    Léan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭Léan


    Gutted I only found out about his recently, Aphex Twin and Penderecki *drools* at the European Cultural Congress. I would've tried to attend this had I known :(



  • #75
    duiggers
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭duiggers


    Anyone here who hasn't seen the rubber johnny video get onto youtube now and check it out.

    Even more creepy and trippy than come to daddy's video


  • #76
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Saw him at Oxegen 2008 and really enjoyed it, the visuals were seriously messed-up! He didn't play 'Windowlicker' though which was a bit of a let down but his set went on for about an hour and a half.

    I really hope he releases another Aphex Twin album someday. It's been too long.


  • #77
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    I see the Caustic Window CD compilation has been reissued, I'll be grabbing that!

    http://boomkat.com/cds/9196-caustic-window-compilation

    Caustic Window - On The Romance Tip

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9HYjesSpTs


  • #78
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    So what do you folks make of this, is it fake or real, some of it is a nice listen. Unreleased Ambient Works 1985 - 2012 supposedly.
    http://forum.watmm.com/topic/71544-unreleased-ambient-works-1985-2012/

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



  • #79
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    I'm going to call hoax on this but it does seem very odd. Searching on Google all sources seem to link back to this Kroniktronikboy guy. It sounds like Aphex but not quite.


  • #80
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Just had a quick scan through a few moments of it - very nice and I reckon sounds very like him, if its not its certainly bloody good!

    Picked up that Caustic Window compilation also during the week, loving it.


  • #81
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Please join my Facebook campaign to get Aphex Twin for the Picnic, throw on a comment or a like, would love to be able to make this happen. https://www.facebook.com/groups/306301782765054/

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



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  • #82
    mclovin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭mclovin.


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    So what do you folks make of this, is it fake or real, some of it is a nice listen. Unreleased Ambient Works 1985 - 2012 supposedly.
    http://forum.watmm.com/topic/71544-unreleased-ambient-works-1985-2012/

    Definitely not him.


  • #83
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    mclovin. wrote: »
    Definitely not him.
    Any proof though?


  • #84
    mclovin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭mclovin.


    Zero1986 wrote: »
    Any proof though?

    In the pudding.

    I would have thought it was the other way round.


  • #85
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    His remote controlled orchestra from last night at the Barbican in London, trippy wippy stuff. Im kinda confused shouldnt Aphex be also in the electronic thread :confused:

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



  • #86
    Eileen Down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭Eileen Down


    Thanks for posting that, Bodhrandude. I really enjoyed it.:o

    Aphex Twin is welcome in both threads


  • #87
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Bump: When is Aphex Twin / Tuss / Richard D. James going to tour again, he hasn't done anything since the London Barbrican in August 2012. WHY has he never been booked for EP I don't know, we effectively should have EP cancelled until he actually plays it. I know he has not released much since the Tuss ep and album, but I always thought he liked touring and playing sets.

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



  • #88
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Yeah it would be good to hear some new Aphex Twin material, been quite a while...

    That Jodey Kendrick album 'Steel Erector' from 2012 was remarkably like Aphex material but I'm pretty sure it was determined as being just Joedy Kendrick! Well worth a listen for any that don't know it and would like an Aphex Twin type fix...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pGN8_dLnoI


  • #89
    metrosity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭metrosity


    Nice to scramble all of the s%&t out of your mind. Squarepusher is of that ilk too.


  • #90
    Eileen Down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭Eileen Down


    I wonder how much music he has released on the sly over the last few years. I'm sure there's a couple of albums worth.


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  • #91
    Standman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    I always thought he was the type of man who only does gigs or releases music when he needs a bit of cash. It's amazing when you watch one of his live shows on Youtube and he plays some random unreleased masterpiece that will probably never see the light of day again, and then it makes you wonder how many legendary albums of music he has locked away. :eek:


  • #92
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    New Caustic Window playlist is up on YT:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7Q7nYJpS8&list=PL05YPqhPmTtJUC0AWZAOJrhWJrjlCH11q


  • #93
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    It will probably get taken down soon because I'm pretty sure it violates the agreement RDJ/Rephlex had with the Kickstarter crew (think it was WATMM forum who started it? Not sure)

    Top track for me is Squidge In The Fridge. 101 Rainbows, Fingertrips and Mumbly are also brilliant. A lot of elements of SAW in there and a right shame it took 20 years for everyone to hear it.


  • #94
    daUbiq
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭daUbiq


    I've seen excellent quality downloads around the web... it's pretty easy to find.


  • #95
    Gonzovision
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Turns out it was Notch, the creator of Minecraft who bought it for $46,000.


  • #96
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Aphex Twin to release a new album in September woo hoo!

    http://pitchfork.com/news/56341-aphex-twin-announces-new-album-syro-via-the-deep-web/

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



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  • #97
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Oh hell yes!


  • #98
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    Hopefully some form of appearance to go with it. Desperate to see this guy.


  • #99
    Standman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    Finally! Delighted!


  • #100
    Gonzovision
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Pre-ordered.


  • #101
    Eileen Down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭Eileen Down


    I can't wait to spend some dark winter night's listening to this.

    This appears to be the first track on the album.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNDumOgAT54

    The sound improves after forty seconds.


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