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Aphex Twin

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  • #62
    Kold
    Registered Users 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 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


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


  • #68
    John
    Registered Users 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 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 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭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 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 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭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 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭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 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 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 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭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 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭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 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:


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