Joyrex Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 ICBYD is by far the best album overall he's ever done - there are some tracks on there that will go down as the all-time best tracks Richard ever did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1000 Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Acrid Avid Jam Shred is one of my personal favs. It's even more interesting if you read the year each track was recorded in. Some of these songs are nearly 25 yrs old! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Business Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 The way Acrid Avid Jam Shred slow-builds into one of the most beautiful tracks in Aphex's entire discography is breathtaking. The two Aphex releases that seem most like "albums" to me in the traditional sense (a specific collection of tracks, sequenced in a specific order (i.e., tracks in dialogue with each other)) are ICBYD and the RDJ album. Personally, I connect with RDJ album more -- probably just because I've listened to it a few hundred times more. You can't beat "To Cure A Weakling Child" into "Goon Gumpas" into "Yellow Calx." Either way RDJ went on an insane run in the mid 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 'Start As...' has some of my favorite drum programming and sounds. That distorted low pass filter combo is pure joy. I always thought he shouted "Alright?!" at the start of Cow Cud. Could be wrong though. Me too. I always figured it was him yelling out to see if the mic was getting a signal so that he could sample the door slam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 My favorite aphex release. I even like the title the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khov Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Yeah, i gave it a spin last weekend, awesome record, really insane how AFX mixed raw sounds, industrial, ambient, strings, evil techno beats and managed to offer a truly personal/intimate mood out of it. The record sounds like a diary, almost private in a way. It must be my favorite AFX record, with the RDJ album. Insane how he managed to release two masterpieces during a course of 2 years (1995-1996). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melancholera Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Glad that many others see the beauty in the build of Acrid. I remember the first time I heard the high sine-wave type portamento synth that comes in at 3:whatever. Pure chills. The Waxen Pith is eerie and unplaceable. Alberto is utterly beautiful and has gotten incredulous reactions (positive) when I have played it for non AFX fans in the past. The whole thing is maybe the last totally alien LP that he produced. It's probably tied with RDJ for my favorite. Although (as someone said in another thread), if Come to Daddy and Windowlicker were combined in a LP, it would be my favorite ever. Flim changed my life a good bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennylogg Bubblebath Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Yeah, i gave it a spin last weekend, awesome record, really insane how AFX mixed raw sounds, industrial, ambient, strings, evil techno beats and managed to offer a truly personal/intimate mood out of it. The record sounds like a diary, almost private in a way. It must be my favorite AFX record, with the RDJ album. Insane how he managed to release two masterpieces during a course of 2 years (1995-1996). His output in the mid 90's was ridiculous. Don't forget the Girl/Boy, Donkey Rhubarb and Ventolin EP's, and Hangable Auto Bulb of course. All outstanding pieces of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mag Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 valleyinaire, do you even sleep? wheres stephenG? why am i here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipple flam Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 I c b y d is the best. First Aphex Twin I ever heard wwhile working in our price. A colleague who used to wear a Nepalese temple ball tshirt said it would be great toking music. I had it on cd but the cover got lost and disc got scratched. Last week my wife bought it for me on vinyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassfreeKid Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 ICBYD is by far the best album overall he's ever done - there are some tracks on there that will go down as the all-time best tracks Richard ever did. That's also my sentiment. I can still play the album 20 years after its release and it works. He was clearly ahead of his time with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 one of the best things about Acrid Avid is just how casually it builds into its crescendo. with such a powerful melody, most artists would sweat and strain as much as they could out of it, stacking up the tension until the finale would just sound desperate and overdone. but what Richard does with Acrid is so carefree and casual, you don't even expect it to rise so high, yet it makes so much sense when it arrives. his sense of direction in impeccable, not only can he create a thoroughly engaging mood out of even the gentlest, most undeveloped parts of a track, but he knows just how to make it rise and flourish into something truly rapturous, without any of the transition feeling forced or overdone. it's a hallmark of RDJ's career, but as has been said it's especially visible in the ICBYD era - Start as you mean to go On, Pancake Lizard, Ventolin (Probus Mix), Wabby Legs, the 1st and 5th tracks on AB5 and pretty much the whole of MfM are good examples. absolutely timeless stuff, and it makes me wonder just what he has stashed away in those mid-90s vaults... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xend0156 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 The first time I heard come on you slags-- when the percussion entered I teared up. It was a moment where you think, "I have been looking for this sound my entire life." It's menacing, low-life, but playful and tribal. Like the works of an evil shaman. The reverberating strings on Icct Hedral sound like the joy of watching a hex succeed. The relaxed tunes like Alberto Balsam are when the illusion falls away and he takes off his cloak and smokes a spliff. Funky free-floating, snapping, dandelions in the wind. That being said, I'm out of metaphors and I'm not in love with every song on the album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricone RC Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 This is the aphex era I enjoyed the most - ICBYD, RDJ, HAB, Rhubarb etc. I would absolutely love for any future releases to be more in this vein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whylessness Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Acrid Avid Jam Shred cured my tinnitus for seven minutes and thirty-nine seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Moo Kid tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 probably the best afx album imho tbqh ffs brb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaler9 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Moo Kid tho Moo kid makes me cry/moo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psn Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 probably the best afx album imho tbqh ffs brb His best AFK at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twelvetrees Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 I. Love. Ventolin. Those sounds are pure pleasure to my ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennylogg Bubblebath Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Acrid Avid Jam Shred is one of my personal favs. It's even more interesting if you read the year each track was recorded in. Some of these songs are nearly 25 yrs old! Coincidentally, the '94 tracks are definitely the strongest on the album. IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ooze Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 i skip tracks and it's one of the best albums i got Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatdylf Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 I did a year abroad at Glasgow School of Art in 2001-2 and this album was part of my soundtrack at the time (and of course Drukqs which just came out), perfect mood for a sort of dreary industrial place but also a time of transition and exploration. I love this album because some of it has kind of a loungy/video game tone that Richard seems to have gotten away from in the last decade or 2 (acrid avid jam shred, cow cud is a twin, mookid, alberto balsalm), kind of similar to Mike and Rich and some tracks off the new Caustic Window (flutey, squidge in the fridge, jazzphase, 101 rainbows ambient mix). Also Start as you mean to go on is a banger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Mookid reminds me of my life at a little town far away of the city in 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennylogg Bubblebath Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 The mrs surprised me with some wax for Christmas. Infinitely stoked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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