Aphex Twin Is "Endless House Foundation" actually Aphex Twin?

[ventolin68]

There is a really obscure "compilation" album out on new label Dramatic Records called "Endless House Foundation", which I strongly suspect might be a new alias for Richard James.

Or at least it sounds like he was strongly involved in the making of the music on this "compilation".

 

You can hear a couple of samples here and here.

 

The press release offers some rather odd info:

"An obelisk of noise that rose rudely above the treetops of the Bialowieska Forest, the Endless House project shone for a mere six weeks in the spring of 1973. The outlandish brainchild of wealthy audiophile/maniac Jiri Kantor, its stated mission was "to become the cradle of a new European sonic community... a multimedia discotheque" that should "surprise and delight" artists and dancers alike. For all the wide-eyed optimism of its manifesto, however, the enterprise was never unknowing in its flirtation with disaster and self-destruction. The brilliant Czech may have made his millions as the midas-touched entrepreneur/taste-maker behind Paris-based magazine Otium International, but Endless House was always a vanity project as irredeemably vain as its maker..."

 

The more I listen to this record, the more I am convinced that this whole "compilation" is actually an Aphex Twin recording.

The harmonies, instrumentation, sounds and rhythms on this release sound so much like Richard James, that it must be either him or someone trying very hard to imitate his style. The only thing that confuses me are the vocals. But maybe it's Richard collaborating with someone else?

There is even a hidden Aphex reference in the notes that come with this release. One of the cards says that Earnesto Rogers (one of the artists on this "compilation") was "famously expelled from Stockhausen's lecture group for playing repetitious African rhythms". That is actually almost exactly what Karl-Heinz Stockhausen said about Aphex Twin's music when UK magazine The Wire played him one of Aphex Twin's pieces in 1995:

 

 

"I heard the piece Aphex Twin (sic) of Richard James carefully: I think it would be

very helpful if he listens to my work Song Of The Youth, which is electronic

music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then

immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look

for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat

any rhythm if it were varied to some extent and if it did not have a

direction in its sequence of variations."

 

I'd like very much to hear other people's thoughts on this...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDklTR3Cd1Q

[J3FF3R00]

No.

[Guest ruiagnelo]

Endless House Foundation

 

Yes. Definitely him.

[beerwolf]

Not convinced

[skotosa]

If your eyes aren't dilating, its not Richard D. James.

 

So no.

[zazen]

Could _possibly_ be a collab between RDJ and some others, but its hard to tell. The Stockhausen reference certainly seems like a clue, but it could be a red herring.

 

More likely its a bunch of other people.

 

But this stuff certainly wasn't recorded in a forest 30 years ago.

 

Earnesto Rogers crops up again on this blog post:

http://stadiumsandshrines.com/?p=2398

[Guest Ranky Redlof]

this sounds really like something legowelt would do

and for some reason this sounds like legowelt with a fake german accent to me

[Guest tonfarben]

What has this to do with RDJ? Anyway, nice release, worth a listen... :) the first tune in the player reminds me of infoporn by ditone:

 

[nicola]

to me it's not. but i notice this:

 

FELIX URAN

APHEX TWIN

[Chris Moss Acid]

to me it's not. but i notice this:

FELIX URAN

APHEX TWIN

 

omg i think your on to something there!

[Guest ezkerraldean]

to me it's not. but i notice this:

 

FELIX URAN

APHEX TWIN

THEY BOTH HAVE AN X IN!!!!!!!11

[noise]

hahaha you're either fucking thick or a promoter

[solarion]

it's just some blog person trying to get people to listen to their music (and who knows that aphex/stockhausen reference)

 

this is pretty much it, yes.

 

I am sure a lot of people have read that interview. So you've probably got a strong Aphex influence from the reference, which makes for the similarity in sound.

[amnesia]

If you even think this is RDJ you neeed a bullet to the ears

[Guest hahathhat]

endless house foundation is ventolin68

[futureimage]

This sounds far more like early Ae than Aphex. And even then, comparing this to Ae is near impossible. So pretty much, definitely not Aphex.

[schlucharski]

Melody from that posted track sounds a bit like this:

 

 

Imho its not him

[Jaffa]

Definately not RDJ, although it's a brilliant album, been listening to it all day.

[ventolin68]

If you even think this is RDJ you neeed a bullet to the ears

 

What's the point getting rude about this?

 

hahaha you're either fucking thick or a promoter

 

Manners, please.

[Guest spike]

nice music! does have the aphex vibe going. the only way we'll ever know if there is admission, until then just enjoy the jams and relax.

[soundwave]

mr76ix is RDJ ;-p

[saikobjorn]

Definetly not RDJ. The posted track is the one that reminds me most of him ( The Tuss), but it can't be him. I can feel it.

[Guest tidbit]

top 3 hoaxes

1. ursula bogner

2. this

3. jurgen müller

[manmower]

Can't listen to it right now, but LOL at a 1973 project using the term "multimedia" in its manifesto.

[Guest Retrig]

Can't listen to it right now, but LOL at a 1973 project using the term "multimedia" in its manifesto.

 

The term "multimedia" was coined^{[citation needed]} by Bob Goldstein (later 'Bobb Goldsteinn') to promote the July 1966 opening of his "LightWorks at L'Oursin" show at Southampton, Long Island. On August 10, 1966, Richard Albarino of Variety borrowed the terminology, reporting: “Brainchild of songscribe-comic Bob (‘Washington Square’) Goldstein, the ‘Lightworks’ is the latest multi-media music-cum-visuals to debut as discothèque fare.”^[1]