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    Cheetah EP

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted · Edited by nyr22

     

    i absolutely adore threads were people go "mine has shipped", "shipping confirmed", etc. so here goes:

     

    bleep has sent my cheetah

     

    yep, mine is on the way too

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    Cheetah EP

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    So many great laid back melodies that keep changing on this one, also some amazing SAW 1 vibes that kick in around 2 minutes in - as usual it's completely different by the time you get to the end

     

    It really feels like he's perfecting his style while endlessly reinventing it

    Mike & Rich album turned 20 years old [Planet Mu Reissue]

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    One of my top 15 favourite albums.

     

    Funniest thing is that it's objectively not that good. It doesn't suck but there is one really good track and the rest are just "what the fuck?"

    But it kind of reminds me of Nirvana when Smells like Teen Spirit came out: one good track with a bunch of "what the fuck?" but it came out at the right time that made it stand out from everything else. It did a good job capturing the the mood and insanity of being on drugs. The novelty hasn't worn off on it. It's the Ween of IDM.

    So many good tracks on Nevermind, you may need to check it out again

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    What do you think he means "yeah most of them are files though for disklavier, so got to get around to recording them"?

     

    I guess he means that no recordings actually exist yet, so he needs to get them recorded? I didn't know if there was some sense of deteriorating format or something.

     

    He just has the data files that control the disklavier machine, so he has to run them and then record the sound of the disklavier actually playing the notes he programmed

    APHEX TWIN - SYRO

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

     

    I like earth portal too, but it's so.... sloppy. (which I mean I think was on purpose but still, not my favorite.)

    i don't know, it's not often you hear electro/IDM/techno music so plastic and pliant like earth portal. it's really fluid, and yeah, it has a looseness about it. dunno if i'd call it sloppy, though
    I think it's super precise but it's easy to get thrown off since it seems like a whole new track every 5-10 seconds

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    did anybody ever figure out who the brainwaltzera sc was? some of the tracks up there are still tops

     

    Still not sure exactly as it seems there were tracks from multiple people, at least one track was from soundcloud.com/mis-bit, and based on now deleted comments soundcloud.com/ogie at least knew about the situation, but not sure if he provided tracks or not, although the tons of greek lettering and references to macedonia hinted that he did

    All albums best to worst

    in Autechre

    Posted

     

    Btw. I'm feeling Exai will be my favourite AE album for a long time if not for ever. It's just an amazing colorful sonic journey that has no competitor for me. It's great the guys are still able to record something that I feel may be their greatest achievement in their career.

    This! Exai is so great.
    Yes it alternates between detailed programming with a sense of entropy and bouts of extreme ornamentation with otherworldly spaciousness and meticulous rhythms

    So glad they made it a double length album

    Orbus Terrarum

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    I need to listen to this again... I remember hearing this and SAW II around the same time... mind blown.

     

    Still my favorite Orb album, it puts me in a trance as soon as soon as I hear the first few sounds

     

    The first two tracks can transform the atmosphere of a room completely, and then things just get crazy after that, it's a true psychedelic masterpiece

     

    Heard it playing in a tiny record store when it first came out, asked what it was and bought immediately when I saw the cover

     

    DIdn't listen to much electronic music at that time, this launched me into an electronic addiction for life as it lead me to buy ICBYD a month later when it came out, what an amazing summer of music that year

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

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    H E A T Master race signing in.

     

    Are all the Night weirdos American?

     

    Not at all man.

     

    I have always thought it was Heat. Was surprised there was even a debate.

     

     

    I don't know who they are or where they're from, but anyone who forces two syllables into "night" really should get a PET scan, because it's clearly a tumor.

     

     

    Adding syllables happens all the time in songs, it leads to misheard lyrics fairly often

     

    Neil Young forced four syllables into "night" in Tonight's the Night, but then again he's Canadian and he did have an aneurysm 30 years later

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    My only whine is the lack of DrukQs out-takes/variations. Other than that, what we got was more than we could ever have hoped for.

     

    That said....you got any more of those tunes Rich? Just a taste, just dab it on me tongue son :'(

    I'm sure he'll keep dosing it out in the coming months and years, unloading it all now prevents future excitement down the road

    - in the later part of the dump this forum stopped blowing up as much when new tracks were posted, people were getting too used to it

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