Aphex Twin 6 Songs That Were Decades Ahead of 'Groundbreaking' Music

[WaxenPith]

Cracked.com funny yet sometimes interesting, someone brought this to my attention because she knows I'm an Aphex Twin fan. So I thought i'd post it here:

 

6 Songs That Were Decades Ahead of 'Groundbreaking' Music

 

Fingerbib is the track they link

 

at least Aphex ranks before NIN and Radiohead!

[mcbpete]

Why they didn't include this I have no idea ...

 

 

I remember the first time hearing it on a FSOL DJ set and assuming that it must've been something like an early 2000-era Chemical Brother remix of a Beatles track rather than the untouched original

[Guest Stoppit]

I'm pleased Kid Baltan got a mention, I immediately thought 'Song Of The Second Moon' when I read the the title of the article (although they actually used the track 'Syncopation'). Anything that gives some much deserved credit to Dick Raaijmakers is ok by me.

[ilt17]

Woohoo that's what can be called a useful article finally, that was fucking good

[Guest Wall Bird]

Nice find.

[joshuatxuk]

Why they didn't include this I have no idea ...

 

 

I remember the first time hearing it on a FSOL DJ set and assuming that it must've been something like an early 2000-era Chemical Brother remix of a Beatles track rather than the untouched original

 

It's an amazing song, especially considering they way they recorded it. The Chemical Brothers had a single called "Setting Sun" that was an admitted homage, and they've used this cover of the song in their DJ sets often.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1YKfu5sD24

[Dan C]

at least Aphex ranks before NIN and Radiohead!

 

Wut?

[ganus]

Jean-Jacques Perrey is the fucking shit.

[triachus]

don't forget Silver Apples

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzLF-LpQw4M

 

 

1968 mofos

[The Green Kingdom]

Glad they gave Delia some props, she was all over tape loops and making weird "electronic" music in some really creative ways.

[Guest MrSparkle666]

Why they didn't include this I have no idea ...

 

 

I remember the first time hearing it on a FSOL DJ set and assuming that it must've been something like an early 2000-era Chemical Brother remix of a Beatles track rather than the untouched original

 

Before I even clicked the link, my first thought was, "Well, 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is obviously going to be in the top slot," and then I was like "WTF, it's not even on there?" That's a load of bullshit right there. How could they miss that one. Tomorrow Never Knows is like the posterchild for music that was far ahead of its time.

[awepittance]

pretty good article actually but it hurts my eyes and makes it hard to read the rest when they fill it with Tabloid esque pictures of daft punk and thom yorke.

[Guest sickboy]

that junior parker tune is fukking mad, & i was thinking about silver apples too for some reason

maybe i have a lazy music journalist living in my brain.

[J3FF3R00]

1940s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzKZ7lJRUc&feature=related ftw

[DerWaschbar]

Had never heard of Silver Apples before, thanks! Nice article.

[mcbpete]

1940s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzKZ7lJRUc&feature=related ftw

Hmm, to me that sounds exactly like the kind of music to come from the 1940

[Guest disparaissant]

i'd add the monks

and definitely definitely the silver apples

[luke viia]

the monks for sure!

[Zephyr_Nova]

Wow, goldmine article! And I've already found almost all albums mentioned... why is there no pirate emoticon? Oh, nm:

[J3FF3R00]

1940s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzKZ7lJRUc&feature=related ftw

Hmm, to me that sounds exactly like the kind of music to come from the 1940

um, it's rap.

[autopilot]

That's racist.

[Guest MrSparkle666]

1940s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzKZ7lJRUc&feature=related ftw

Hmm, to me that sounds exactly like the kind of music to come from the 1940

um, it's rap.

 

Hardly. I'm with Jefferoo. It doesn't sound any more like rap than a lot of the vocal lines from flapper era jazz:

. I honestly think if this had been 4 white guys, nobody would have even thought twice about it sounding like rap. I can think of half a dozen things that should have made the list before this. Lame.

[Braintree]

I actually really dug the Francoise Hardy and Lothar and the Hand People tracks.

[Guest Stoppit]

For anyone that doesn't know it, this is Song Of The Second Moon, by Kid Baltan (Dick Raaijmakers) and Tom Dissevelt. Their idea was to make the first ever electronic pop song. This was released in 1957. (starts off very jaunty, from 2.25 it's got some Parhelic Triangle thing going on)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoAzONw-a4

[DerWaschbar]

This is some early rapping which is perhaps the first to feature misogyny, a staple of the genre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ZEYPQKAsw