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Kampai!

99% agree except I haven't heard any Vladislav Delay that remotely warranted comparison. Autechre are real auteurs, they're like the Stanley Kubrick or Tarkovsky of electronic music. They boldly go wherever the fuck they want. They seem to be very conscious of the cliches that abound in the medium, or maybe just so focused on and experienced at finding the sounds they like or mutating things until they suit them until it really, really sounds like Autechre. Almost every other current electronic musician seems to be aping something. It seems really fucking hard not to. I do hear Autechre making things in the vein of 80s hip hop pretty frequently, but it doesn't come off as copying, it comes off as exploring and trying to push the aesthetic boundaries of that form. And in that respect Actress is literally the only other current act that comes to mind. I don't know if it's just that these guys just have high (or at least very specific) standards, but they're all capable of creating things that 1) sound like nothing else 2) truly sound like them, their tastes, their personalities and 3) can create immersive sonic worlds that are so detailed and finely tuned and free of distracting elements that I can suspend my judgment of the individual components and just enjoy the ride. As far as Actress, I keep hearing sentiments like... ... and I just do not hear it at all. It's like if the music doesn't have the usual sharp-edged trebly textures in it, people perceive it as lo-fi. I don't know if it's because I listen to some dub with a similar spectral footprint, but I just hear that as very customized, tasteful, sensitive EQ/mixing, using those facilities to create the colors he wants. And those colors might sound lo-fi just because they are almost non-existent in current electronic music. The prevalent shiny production just isn't the palette he wants to work with and that's fucking excellent. I hear no irony or pretense in it, it's just what he wants to hear and it sounds great to me. I "see" his music as much as I hear it, though, maybe that's part of it. R.I.P. Susumu Yokota btw WHat the fuck??????? sUSUMU DEAD?

I agree with both of y'all actually..

Serious question: .........all this SC stuff is amazing BUT how many think its pure ultra modern marketing effort by Aphex's hidden management posse? Sure it has the veneer of a musician-with-integrity-touching-base-with-fans.... but could it all be just another music industry charade? Does it even matter?.... if its all about the tunes anyway?

so 7 x 20 more tracks? ish Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

They might mention it when SC-related releases come out

pat yourself on the back mate! Exemplary work :)

absolutely

am all ears.....lash them up on mixcloud!

I'm becoming very familiar with most of the tracks now - it helps having a 3hr commute every day! I go to Japan at the end of august so will do a mega-binge on the flight/transfers -> 17hrs of "new" Aphex. What the fuck planet am i on!??

I tend to play the tracks in my 2 hour /day commute to work in a cd in the car. So i never know the names of what i'm becoming familiar with sonically. I guess this track is very "Aphexy"-lite hence its popularity - electro bass, burbling acid lines, subtle vocally synths. Its poppy and "manageable". But it too is prob going in my "can't get into" list along with the other two tops ones, Organ 28 and 14 Cornish Spreek5b [st. Nectan S Glen Waterfalls Mix] They all just seem a bit meh RELATIVELY speaking. "Dance and Play" still not getting enough love btw!

Most emotional album? Its yanking at my heart these days for some reason......prob as i met this gal, etc......

After a massive SC dump listen-fest along with squarepushers last album and accompanying live sets, I've come back to Syro and really really love the shit out of it all over again now that its like a familiar old pal i'm having a pint with. Good old RDJ

"more additional"

Aye...Total headscratcher!

Just a note that I met xf on my very first night in Oz on a working visa trip there back in 2006! It was at a gig, by chance! Knew him from the xltronic days and he brought us to the "Blue Mountains" a day or so after the gig to see some nature. Little did I know then that I'd be voting in a poll of epic proportions such as this, designed by the very same chap. Nuts!

yep.. saw that! - its at 1hr3mins: https://www.mixcloud.com/keyfumbler/aphex-twin-hecker-warp20-paris-2009/

@keyfumbler: well spotted, its a pretty old track but I dont think I played it before that, not 100% sure. on "nighttrain1". I'm pretty emotional right now ...........

Who edits the googledocs spreadsheet.... He still has't added the note to "Floating..." that it was played at Forbidden Fruit ...

Niaghtmail1 played at Bangface 2012 @ 1hr14mins: https://www.mixcloud.com/keyfumbler/aphex-twin-2012-bangface-cornwall/

done

Excellent voting system.. Dance and Play just 16 votes? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

I never thought steinvord was aphex or tom or both. It sounds like an attempt at their style, the way some film seem sort of John Carpenterish but just aren't. They never grabbed me anyway

I need "Quad Rave TEAC" on vinyls

Dance and Play for sure is in there!