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On 3/9/2024 at 12:30 PM, Freak of the week said:
imagine a mid-90s set full of raw stuff like this, mmmm
Spoiler5 How to Do Your Research 2 Ab6
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Enbounce ramps up nicely, puts in the details where they count. Definitely a highlight. Big energy.
[I think I fall into the camp of ppl who like his "cheesier" opening tracks (Hello Meow, 4001 / Unreal Square, Stor Eiglass, Oberlove / Hitsonu)
I don't care, they work for me, I'm happy to hear them.]
Wedorlan is an acid rollercoaster I will ride again for sure, would love to rave to this.
Duneray is a solid break workout with fun pitched percussion sections and classic dark ambience / bass, works nicely.
Holorform gives me the strongest "vision" on the album, small robots dancing in moonlight.
Stromcor has some tasty bass and meshes with the beats nicely, doesn't get squashed by them.
Kronmec is my favorite of the lower-intensity tunes.
Haven't enjoyed Akkranen and Domelash yet, though I will try again.
I admire the intensity/density of his "harder" edit pieces but if there isn't enough of a flow to follow in there (usually his bass), I get tired of them.This has made me re-visit BUaH and find a renewed love for parts of it as well.
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On 12/13/2023 at 1:38 PM, logakght said:The whole of Tuss. I think it is a literal musical comedy, particularly this moment:
17:23 When the 2 piano notes get warped 'up' and 'down' like they're flying and landing,
I've noticed this little trick in other tracks and love it when I see it. A tiny call and response moment with one sound element moving up/down in/out.-
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On 12/17/2023 at 6:07 AM, Key said:
I saw this pic a while back and made the connection that he probably( at least possibly) made tracks like 'Mt Saint Michel' on that thing with a tracker while traveling.
Kinda blew my mind because prior to that I had no idea how that stuff came together and figured it was a wild studio effort.
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On 11/27/2023 at 3:42 PM, Amen Warrior said:
Holy shit that was so ahead of its time, and very afx-y, I feel like he must have gotten some formative inspiration from this artist if not this album.
The drum treatment, ambient sounds, and "unidentifiable electronic squiggy noises" are all there.
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On 11/6/2023 at 7:12 AM, perunamuusi said:
Produk 29 [101] (Aphex Twin) -played live by Echt! by ECHT! on #Soundcloud
It feels like "Hello Everything"-era tom style, that's neat
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Ze.zima deserves way more credit for his visual contributions to the shows and the BBLR video, definitely my favorite parts, and way more creative than some of the "glitchy patterns whoa!" filler stuff.
People keep praising weirdcore for the whole thing, but several artists were involved, including Ze.
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Discovering Come to Daddy video in 2003, Chris Cunningham obsession ensues.
Getting really into Xtal/Heliosphan while making computer art in 2004
Buying ICBYD/RDJ/26Mixes on CD and discovering all the layers there while doing homework
Buying the limited vinyl of SAWII and falling asleep stoned to tracks like Tassels
Listening to Vordhosbn walking home from school, Taking Control, 54 Cymru Beats between classes.
The moment I realized the vocals in 54 Cymru were about "3 bears"...
The slow release of the Analords and wondering what would come next. Jamming out drunk to PWSteal after my cousin's wedding.
The summer of The Tuss in 2007, really special time, I was living alone and those tunes were the soundtrack to my solitude.
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Hearing Minipops premiere on the "radio" in 2014, I took a break from work just to listen to it
The subsequent release of Syro and uptick in activity, coincided with a breakup, but felt apt somehow
Soundcloud dump, hearing 28 Organ and other "lost" tracks
Day for Night Festival, traveled to Texas just to see him
Collapse comes out, includes track played at DFN I was certain was one of his
Wearing the aphex shirt I've had since 2005 to Field Day 2023, hearing Falling Free live after getting lost in it 18 years prior at my desk.The moments all start as small/personal ones, and somehow eventually connect with bigger ones out in the world.
Power of music and community, huh.
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Re-listening to the set, one thing I wanted to mention in my initial reaction was, how amazing it was to hear Falling Free in a setting like that. I got excited as soon as that unmistakable clicky/buzzy drum pattern started sneaking in.
I've spent so much time listening to that track and being inside my own head, from hazy high school days to now, experiencing it in a huge setting like that was surreal and felt special.
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This was my favorite gig I’ve seen so far.
DFN was magic because it was my first and he played some gold, Brooklyn was cool but a bit ‘academic’ and the crowd was too packed to dance), this had a mix of classics, bangers, and a lot that sounded like new stuff or at least stuff that was clearly his own material. Felt like a more honest and clear glimpse inside than I’d gotten before.
It did help to be in the vip dance zone too, having room to spaz out to the tasty bits without violating 6 people’s personal space every 2 seconds was worth the price for us. (Went with fiancé, her first time, she loved it)
Only thing I was hoping for but didn’t get was a drukqs or classic track in the final 15 mins. Was very jealous of the Mt St Michel live experience-ers. Solid noise-chaos ending though.
Looking forward to all the recordings and possible releases of some of the new-ish stuff we may get eventually.
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Coming in from USA, gonna wear a flag as a cape at the show, can't decide which type of patriotic weapon to bring
I will be wearing the aphex tee I've had since 2005 though.
Flying in overnight Friday, probably gonna have to nap before the show. Rather nice it isn't going super-late though.
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11 hours ago, Bubba69 said:
clearly a play on black box flight recorder. Not sure if it's actually talking about gear. but also this exists and I know is quite popular amongst hardware folks https://1010music.com/product/blackbox
EDIT: ok it definitely is cirklon, because the sticker inside the album is a picture of cirklon lcd screenI kinda image it as, the sequencer becomes an object that contains a type of record of the user's "life."
When he passes on, the sequences (information) recorded in it will live on as a record of some aspect (musical data-stream) of his life, much like a flight-recorder box in a plane, recording data of the "life" of the plane.The outro of the main track has me picturing him sitting on a camp chair at sunrise, smoking a spliff, sequencer in his lap, reflecting and programming.
Or maybe it's just some black-mirror shit.
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I'm going, we wanted to do a London trip this year anyway and this seemed like a good thing to anchor that around.
I think there's enough besides Aphex to make it worth it to arrive a few hours before his set at least.
I too like Bonobo for nostalgia reasons, Fever Ray is interesting musically, I've wanted to see Jon Hopkins for a while, I've seen and enjoyed Moderat.
SBTRKT, Actress, Hagop, Kai Campos interest me.Paid for the fancy ticket cause we felt like splurging on something, I'm not expecting it to be super worth it tho.
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8 hours ago, Key said:
Sounds very much like he just cut and pasted the Beck vocal very sloppily over some Hangable Autobulb outtake. The way it drifts out of sync... I still have a laugh every time I hear it how lazy it is. I wonder if Warp themselves cut it from the 26 Mixes comp.
Yeah, it feels like one of those "oops that remix is due tomorrow" moments. The tune underneath feels like something between HAB and RDJ
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On 7/2/2023 at 3:52 PM, Stock said:
Aw shit, time to read the whole series again.
I often think about getting some Big Cheesys, but don't want elephantitis-
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5 hours ago, J3FF3R00 said:
Ahh shit I haven't played this one in years, instant re-listen, still holds up
I've thought about the thread subject too. I've thought about doing a few "pretty" tracks like the piano pieces, and Rhubarb/Lichen, then adding some beats with Xtal/Heliosphan, Flim, maybe On as well, that one bridges that gap nicely, move up to Alberto Balsalm... At this point ask if they want more intense beats or more pretty stuff (or both), and deviate from there. I'd want to guide the journey a bit, cause if you throw 5 tracks at them from the darker part of SAW2 they may bail out, or ask for more. There's too much variation in the catalogue for a standard journey.
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On 11/17/2022 at 6:12 PM, J3FF3R00 said:
Sophie’s choice!
For me, boxenergy4 by a nose.
Aye, and for me it's Mangle11 by a nosehair.
The massive reverb in the background creates such a striking feel of almost cathedral-like space that has stuck with me. The track really builds it in slowly, and you start to feel it around 1:20, while it really has its moment between 2:45-3:55. It slows down and puts you in a huge resonant space for a sec, then speeds back up, bringing the sounds in tighter as it gathers speed. Tracker trickery ala-drukqs in abundance, but really beautiful sound design to go with it too is what puts it over the edge.
Admittedly Boxenergy has more tricks up its sleeve and is wildly entertaining in its own right, I often listen to these 2 back to back, but that deep sense of space in the middle of Mangle has stood out to me for years.
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Ohh, that is decently exciting. Now where is Lxury dropping their mixes??
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There's multiple chronologies- the order he posted them, the order they were originally produced in, and the era he claims they were made- which is indicated for some tracks but not all.
There's various playlists and mixes out there on youtube and soundcloud that attempt to put them in categories based on approximate era or approximate vibe.
AFAIK there's nothing definitive
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On 1/13/2022 at 5:01 AM, o00o said:
What are the tracks on this channel? They do not sound like recordings from live shows also the animation looks somewhat official? Could also be some elaborate fake
why are the not on his SoundCloud?
Seems like a mix of live recordings and rare recordings (web/vinyl/unreleased exclusives), the animation is the aphex NFT with different color overlays
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Since I can't play keyboard for shit but can sing decently, I was interested in this when v1 was out, but didn't want to shell out for the "special mic" when I didn't know if it would work for me.
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I still remember hearing the opening of 4 for the first time in my bedroom, at my desk trying to do homework, the warm glow of the lamp, the quiet outside. Took me away instantly.
I've always felt like this is the music he really wanted to make. The pastoral tones mixed with tricky tracker work, before tracker-madness/competitiveness in the scene (pretty sure he said he and Tom were trying to out-do eachother toward the late 90s) led to Drukqs (which I have much love for). You see him taking a sharp turn away from tracker stuff with Analord, and then gradually working back to the tricky stuff with Tuss/Syro.
Syro felt like somewhat of a return to the balance he had originally struck with RDJ, ofc with years of experience/influence in between.
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Dostrotime [2024]
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Him talking about his custom gated reverb got me looking out for it, and I feel like I can hear it all over the album now.
Pretty neat idea, since that kind of sequenced FX editing has been an idm sound design staple, especially for him, for so long. Might as well build a custom device that handles that kind of thing for you, gives you more control, or streamlines it. I'd love to see him d'demonstrate it.