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Godfuck i want it now. Soooo....? This means im getting my treat early? Redditguy ordered on amazon, Omfg, that looks tasty as hell! I love the orange, really a perfect choice coming from the white, black, blue of recent Aphex cover art... Also kinda fits the vibes of the single and from the way people have described the rest of the ep from what they've heard. You guys are hilarious with the leaks... Just wait it out! Lol

Agreed... I wonder how good he felt putting out that SoundCloud dump. Being someone that has a fuckton of un-finished ideas and many mostly finished tracks in my studio, I can imagine just how much of a release (no pun intended) it would be to feel some sort of completion with all of that work of his, especially considering the majority of them are pretty damn polished and we're totally ready for a release!

I know, his bass as of late has been so tasty right?

Ah ok, yeah from a macrolevel, the next generations will probably not find packaging for music necessary agreed lol

Digitizing media and functions that serve no emotional or artistic purpose makes sense. But clearly there's a desire and priority for music to remain as a physical format, which explains the new adoption and growing reissues of vinyl and tape. I predict the same will occur with CDs in the near future. To me and countless others, the physical format of a music release has value far beyond simply being a medium to store the data.

May as well throw all "physical" paintings, sculptures, and other art that can be reproduced digitally away too. Hey movie theaters don't need to be built any longer, let's save the building materials for... more chipboards, sensors and data centers? ? If digital-everything is the way of the future, then god help us.

Agreed! I like some of his material quite a bit, and got really hyped up on a particular track for it's its ability to perfectly encapsulate certain 90s motifs and progressions... Somewhere between INXS, The Smiths, and Type 0 Negative.

Miss this thread and the community, been so busy lately with this new job I haven't had much online time :/ I listened to some ライフMIDI today and it hit the fuckin spot. It's funny how you can be nostlagic for vaporwave music which is about being nostalgic for the sample sources. Double the meta, double the flavor. It's an experience like no other, kind of cathartic brain massage. https://swampcircle.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-reality-97-platinum-edition

How cool would it be if someone could publicly confront the shitbag and ask him frankly like human-to-human, "dude, what the fuck is the matter with you? You realize you are a lying mentally unstable sicko, right? You realize you are a narcissist in need of serious emotional and psychological help from a professional? You see how you're a fucking bully, right? Like you're not blind, or deaf. You know the lies and manipulation you're you're peddlingg, right? You do realize half the country fucking hates your guts... Do you get off on being hated/despised? What kind of fucking scumbag are you to behave like this, for real?"

I may just have to give in now after reading the last few pages. Fuuck. Let's see how the end of this week pans out.

So this is Span's fav since Rushup edge... Anyone else whose heard the EP feel like this a new favorite so far? I'm so got dayum hyped it's unreal.

I am master of mine (besides T69 Collapse I listened to like once for the video!) I've been listening only to T69 collapse on repeat in 2116 but not the others until sept 14 am I still in the game, master of my domain? :) Me too... I plan on straight T69ing myself until I fucking Collapse.

GODDDAYUM hearing about what Collapse sounds like is making me hard/wet. But I think I'll still wait like a good little Weakling Child / Girl/Boy. Ugh, I can't stand when people go on at length talking about footwork as if it's some sort of enigmatic phenomenon. From what I've heard of it, the stuff lumped under the phrase is just an eclectic fusion of hip hop, jungle and bass/electro with maybe some jazzy elements. What's the big deal? Some of it's cool I guess here and there, but way overhyped imo. Also, lol @ the thought of RDJ consciously deciding to be "footwork-influenced" or something when he made this, when he quite literally was responsible for X number of silly niche genres that have spawned out of a number of scenes. Don't get me wrong, all music, all styles, all good, love it all, but fuck.

Not to be pretentious but Aphex like this is what I've been waiting for since like.. I don't know... Smojface EP. There's a spirit that feels like it's returned here, of course in a new light, Syro, Orphans, Cheetah, are amazing but didn't satisfy that headfuck element that some of his earlier stuff has. This does- while still being musical and smooth. An excellent fusion of styles. Only listened once and I can tell it's gonna get better with each listen.

Good way to describe it... It is proper aphex!

It's a fun one for sure, really exciting and playful track. Glad he's bringing a new flavor here. :) Very excited to hear the rest of it and I have a feeling it will be filled with some really great stuff. Definitely ambitious and far from freeform modular knob turning. :) In many ways, it's just what we needed... Some quirky not-afraid-to-be-accessible stuff with some attitude and a focus on musical structures and simplicity.

So hyped but gonna wait til full quality version is ready.

This is the first thing I thought of. Putin is trying to capitalize on the corruption of our political system, and found another scumbag celebrity of ours to insert and involve in US - Russia relations. It's totally gotta be intentional and it makes perfect sense.

I predict he'll give us a few 10min + ones in there ?

I'm guessing with this new art it's something either ambient or atmospheric and minimal acid techno. Or not. Either way it's going to be fucking awesome and I'm not going to be able to contain myself.

They all look like they're just sort of floating/hovering. Donnie looks like he's seconds away from falling forward flat on his face. Some truly awkward people, kinda feel bad for his kids, just born into this nonsense that they kinda just have to sustain at this point lol

Ive been listening to his SoundCloud works recently and was reminded at the sheer volume of incredible unreleased material that I've yet to fully discover. It's like he blessed us with a decades worth of ear candy to explore, so appreciative.

kind of shocking to me that they actually believe that. i tend to feel like, deep down, earnest repubs know that they don't really understand the issues they're talking about, and / or that they are supporting based on some wedge issue, disregarding proportionality to the whole, and that they are mimicking confident opinions they perceived as respected. I agree that those are common reasons GOP voters stick with Trump, and it's built on rhetorical tactics that have been gradually solidified and started before Reagan. Ignorance and wedge issues indeed. Despite that, I stand by that conclusion. Yesterday was a line in the sand. If you excise the Mueller investigation and collusion, and you can, it was still objectively wrong what he did in Helsinki. It transcends partisan politics. It's not the worst thing but it's free of the left vs right debate tied to other wrongs he's committed under his term. There are going to be Republicans who stick with him and those who will continue to call him out on this very basic moral obligation as POTUS. Those in the latter camp will eventually be forced out or will voluntarily leave. You are now witnessing the Trump supporters who have turned on 100% unwavering support for him and the Republican Party over Roy Moore's defeat is about the only other preview of a litmus test earlier I can think of that occurred earlier, with some voting for a Dem, Nick Saban, or abstaining. I've already seen conservative friends of mine yesterday acknowledge embarrassment over Helsinki while others went even further into denial, redirecting, or flat out conspiracy territory. Many are either too far gone or are way too proud to back down. That sentiment of lacking courage is withering away to straight up obliviousness and delusion, if it hasn't already. Offhand I can break down those supporting Trump is multiple categories. I know people personally who fit each one: - Naive Ignorant - the Ken Bone independent voters, those who normally don't vote, those who voted Obama in 2008, etc. Many probably regret it. Others have no idea what's going on. They could easily vote Dem or not vote next election. Many probably won't even know the mid-terms are coming up. - Right-wing Ignorant - the anti-Clinton, drain the swamp, MAGA suckers and those who are the "wedge issue" folks - the Christian and pro-life fall in this camp. So do the rust belt working class folks. This is the legacy of the Tea Party movement. They likely complain about populist issues that harm them while blindly supporting Republicans who enact them. They aren't racist or mean-spirited IRL but they hypocritically excuse or echo that ethos indirectly or via complacency. - Pragmatic - these are folks who think the POTUS is reckless imbecile, albeit quietly...but stocks are doing well. The baby-sitters in the Trump admin fall in this camp, so do all of the GOP members who criticized Trump before he was elected but are happy about de-regulation, tax cuts, and special interests. They are biding their time. They range from moderate to very conservative but none are in the alt-right or conspiracy territory - after all the Wall Street and wealth isn't limited to one ideological side. - Right-wing extreme - the alt-right, the pro-Kremlin, anti-Liberal Democracy elements and the emboldened white supremacists, nationalists, fringe elements, etc. The absolute scariest of the bunch because they are yielding increasing influence on the above three camps and above all else it's undermining the fundamental beliefs of American democracy. They sway the naive via relentless misinformation - faux news, online bots, subversive social media, etc. Their rhetoric is eaten up voraciously by the ignorant right-wingers and is gradually converting them. The pragmatic, establishment right-wingers are constrained by their effectiveness and increasingly undermined by the extreme. It is anything but conservative - it's right wing populism.This a seed Trump planted even if he doesn't believe it himself. He certainly didn't beforehand but his own delusions and narcissism likely means by default he espouses it. We have authoritarians seeking one-party rule in power. Our Republic is being bombarded to hell but is historically stronger in it's Constitution and laws than most other democracies that have fallen to dictatorships via fascism or left wing populist-peddling despots. That's how we've avoided full on civil strife, a constitutional crises, a coup, etc. for now. I hope it can stay entact long enough to flush Trump and those taking advantage of his presidency out. Brilliant anaylsis of the personas. And how surreal is it to see these different groups mingling and defending one another with complete ease and unashamedly unifying as a choir to praise Trump? 41.8% current approval rate. What?? Who ARE these people? How the hell did Russia manipulate almost half our damn country to become loyal to a complete unqualified moron dictator?? And being that this manipulation has been pretty much proven, isn't interfering with our election / democracy essentially an act of war on us?

What the actual fuck? There's so much absurdity in all of this that it's hard to keep track of or even put it all together. And it's moving to fast for us to even feel like we even need to connect anything cuz it's kind of spelling itself out in real time.

P.L.U.R.