[quote]come on you slags, let's have your top threes.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:12 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark[/quote]
Which three lovely Aphexes will you choose?
(Also I'm blatantly excluding any stuff not released as Aphex Twin so none of the psuedonymous stuff or the AFXs for the simple reason of, it makes the choice easier.)
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― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
stone in focusxtal????
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
If 3 is too hard, you can do POX or POV if you like. This is ridiculously difficult.
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm going to have to wait until I get home because I cannot remember the name of the exact SAW I want to include, but I'm thinking
-Polynomial C-Girl/Boy Song-mystery SAW track I can't remember the title of (and is probably called something like LLWEORIJ WEIJIOJWERKKK 22)
...but that sucks because I wanted to squeeze in one of the Drukqs era drill & bass things probably 54 Cymru Beats so I might swap that for Polynomial C
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Rhubarb (SAWII d1t3)PtolemyYellow Calx
― dud rock (crüt), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
this will take some careful consideration...
― like a guttenberg, strong with your mane (another al3x), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
At the moment trying to pry the knife-edge between Delphium and Ageispolis... CANNOT CHOOSE WHY CAN'T I HAVE THREE HEADS?!?!?
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Avril 14
(I'll get me coat)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Always found that song really boring. It's not even the best of the piano compositions on Drukqs.
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
nahhhhhh Avril 14th is great!! Such a lovely melody and harmonic structure.
― dud rock (crüt), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
It's just a really obvious and poorly executed Satie rip. Kesson Dalef is way more harmonically interesting.
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
(now I'm sounding like archetypical Comic Book Guy Phanboy OH NOES OH NOES)
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Ageispolis is lovely.
My Three:
Alberto BalsalmBouncing Bucephalus BallFlim
Really really obvious choices and I really didn't want to put more than one song from the same release, but for some reason I struggled today to think of a third option. Not that I don't love me a bit of Aphex, and yeah I used to be one of "those" fanboys; but these days I seem to like his material through-and-through. Only the top two there sit above the rest for me.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
which satie piece specifically does "Avril 14th" rip off? I hear the satie comparisons all the time but I think the melody of Avril 14th sounds very RDJ and very not Erik Satie...
― dud rock (crüt), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Hee...
Actually, the one bit of interview I remember was about Av14, apparently it's all programmed (yeah, whoa!) and it's actually impossible to play on a piano really.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
WindowlickerGirl/BoyThe Waxen Pith
― literally with cash (ledge), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It's one of the Gymnopedies - or rather, just a kind of mash-up of 1 and 3, or just "RDJ doing a gymnopedy." I'll be nice and say it's homage rather than direct plagiarism. I'm just not particularly fond of that song. (Even if it is my brother's birthday, too.)
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
RhubarbAlberto BalsalmFingerbib
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-g0mWbxlE <--this person does a pretty good job of playing it on piano, although towards the end some of the octaves are impossible to play along with the ornamental high notes
xposts nah this sounds nothing like the gymnopedies -- all of the gymnopedies have the same rhythmic theme (and they're all waltzes!) and it's not the same as avril 14th's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBiPQKK1upk
― dud rock (crüt), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ThaNannouMt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the harmonic structure rather than the rhythm that is reminiscent.
And now I am having doubt OH NOES can I swap out On for Girl/Boy Song?
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, fair nuff. I'll buy that.
― dud rock (crüt), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I have no idea what my all time favourites are but currently:
PtolemyMetapharsticLogon Rock Witch
― Duran (Doran), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Logon Rock Witch
kudos
― dud rock (crüt), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I do not like Avril 14, I do not like it, Crut I am, I will not listen to it on a boat, I will not listen to it with a stoat. I do not like it, Crut I am, I will not hear Avril 14 and ham.
(Of course, if he'd named it Avril 10 it would be the best song in the history of the world.)
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
do you think his french canadian girlfriend was avril lavigne
― dud rock (crüt), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
He'd had girlfriends 13 times beforeand every one was an AvrilHe never had a jusy or a Kate (sorry kate)It's her 14th girlfriend Avverilll...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
No, it was named after 14th April which is his mother's birthday but unfortunately also my brother's birthday and I have such a love/hate thing about my brother that anything named with that date is going to be problematic.
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
(I shut up now)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanking you.
(Mind you, that didn't stop me from visiting Lanner and walking up to Carn Marth on Avril 14 this year OMG I am such a terrible comic book guy phanboy it's not funny*.)
ANYWAY CAN WE STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT SUCKY SONG NOW. APHEX HAS 7 MILLION OTHER SONGS THAT ARE BETTER THAN IT, CAN SOMEONE PICK THREE OF THEM PLEASE?!?!?
*trufax tho: I didn't actually realise the date until I looked at my bus ticket
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I only know about 2 others, so Windowl and CDaddy it'll have to be.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Bucephalus Bouncing BallFlow Coma remixThe Waxen Pith
― idm@hyperreal.org (lukas), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
this display name is increasingly feeling like a millstone
Actually, no, as much as I love On, Girl/Boy Song is just too amazing. The drums on that song are like a living creature they're so intense.
I think it shall be:
-Polynomial C-Girl/Boy Song-Ageispolis
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
- xtal- girl/boy song- tha
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
-rhubarb-flim-xtal
hate to leave out alberto balsalm, though
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"On""Phloam""Ventolin"
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
xtalacrid avid jam4
― hobbes, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm going to cheat:...I Care Because You DoWindowlcikerOn + On RemixesAnalogue Bubblebath ISurfing On Sine Waves
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
now i wanna change my 3 to:
Bucephalus BBFlow Coma rmxOn
and remind everyone to check the mu-ziq remix of On if you've never heard it
come on Stevie! you just picked like 30 tracks!
― idm@hyperreal.org (lukas), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
XTALCOME TO DADDYGREEN CALX
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey I don't mind so much that Stevie picked like 30 songs as that he picked a Polygon Window album when we excluded the pseudonyms!
No Polygon Window no Caustic Window no Bradley Strider no Power Pill no Tuss no Madame Curies Cabinet nothing but Aphex releases.
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait when did we exclude pseudonyms??? So no Analogue Bubblebath either?
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i haven't revisited most of the albums so here's the list for now:vordhosbn4come to daddy
― ma/y/aoi (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait when did we exclude pseudonyms??? So no Analogue Bubblebath either?― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Wednesday, May 26, 2010 7:02 PM (21 minutes ago
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Wednesday, May 26, 2010 7:02 PM (21 minutes ago
In the fifth post!
But the first Analogue Bubblebath is on Classics so you're OK with that.
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
XtalInkey$Phloam
― ears are wounds, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
XtalGirl Boy SongRhubarb
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
"Cliffs"Logan Rock WitchVentolin
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
dude needs to drop one big "calx" album. the blue, yellow, and green varieties are all so nice
― hobbes, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, I'll always prefer Pop people who go Experimental to Experimental people who go Pop.
not sure anyone is saying the opposite, tbh
― original bgm, Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
aince yr all ignoring Analords
PWSteal.Ldpinch.DCrying In Your FaceVBS.Redlof.B
― zappi, Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Analords are excluded because they were released as AFX not Aphex Twin.
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Can any friendly mod please edit the original post so it includes this: (Also I'm blatantly excluding any stuff not released as Aphex Twin so none of the psuedonymous stuff or the AFXs for the simple reason of, it makes the choice easier.) in it?
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tatccHVfuhA
― am0n, Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
please don't open that gate
― idm@hyperreal.org (lukas), Thursday, 27 May 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
idm didn't seem to make a lot of sense when minimal was ruling the world. those were lean years - jumping boxcars, avoiding railyard dicks. now that a million dubstep artists with ableton are all trying to invent their own micro-genres, warp's back catalog looks pretty good.
― idm@hyperreal.org (lukas), Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Funny how suddenly IDM is becoming really hot all over again. Autechre emerge phoenix-like from the ashes of their own sphincters; news of a new Aphex release; all the post-dubstep and chillwave crowd channelling the sounds once more. It's so positive for me as I think if one musical entity shaped my own life and tastes it was Warp.
And I was listening to the second disc of Plaid's Trainer, and the stuff from 92-94 sounds very much like a lot of UK Funky House coming out today too.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
idm didn't seem to make a lot of sense when minimal was ruling the world
which is why it's ironic that my entry into microhouse was via arch-experimenter vladislav delay, who, while not part of the idm mainstream, was worshipped on the idm list circa 1999 (Vocalcity is also a good counterexample to kate's dim view of experimenters who go pop)
― idm@hyperreal.org (lukas), Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, I'd rather experimenters who go pop than experimenters who go shit. But given a choice between the dichotomy posed, I would usually go the pop --> weird direction. (Which is the opposite of how I felt 20 years ago, mind you.)
― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
My entry into microhouse came straight from my IDM background too, in the mid 00's when minimal was on the cusp of taking over the world. And I still prefer "IDM-house" to whatever else.
And I don't think this all is neccessarily a consequence of dubsteppers with ableton, though. I'd put my money on the fact that it's just time. The unsexiness of the recent past turning into the sexier-ness of the not as recent past, and so on. It's a force bigger than us all, and IDM's is due for its revindication.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
kate i normally agree with you on that preference, another reason i find luomo so amazing.
― idm@hyperreal.org (lukas), Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Yo dudes, how hot is (CAT 00897-AA1)/(CAT 00897-A1) on AFX's ABIII? Why have I never paid attention to this song before?
― gr80 cab driver (Stevie D), Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
stone in focus54 cymru beatsfenix funk 5
― Palpatean Mists (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Polynomial-CHeliosphanWindowlicker
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 17 June 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Stevie - which track number is that? ABIII is a highly underrated album. I wish Kate hadn't made it Aphex-only.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 17 June 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
OK, then. Come on, you slags, pick your top 3 non-Aphex Richard D. James tracks (yes, you can include the Tuss)
― Cornish Kraffthwyrken (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 17 June 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm thinking...
AFX - Where's Your GirlfriendCaustic Window - Humanoid Must Not EscapeThe Tuss - rushup i bank 12
ARGH but I might substitute Bradley's Beat (Part 2 I think?) for one of those ARGH too difficult this is kind of even harder than just doing Aphex because there's so much variety.
― Cornish Kraffthwyrken (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 17 June 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
hmmmm.. quothlaughable butane bobanalogue bubblebath 5 track 1
― hobbes, Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Starting to reaquaint myself with loads of Aphex at the moment, he seems to make so much more sense now, in the context of the current music scene, than he did five years ago.
This exactly.
Been playing loads of Aphex recently and in a particularly geeky moment did start to compile a best of Aphex/AFX but got overwhelmed. Have a sense that a new release would feel right (and apparently there is going to be an onslaught).
― djh, Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah, onslaught? can you elaborate?
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
dog latin, it's tracks 8 and 9. I still can't tell the difference between them yet.
― cynthia batter blaster (Stevie D), Friday, 18 June 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
LichenRhubarbFingerbib
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 18 June 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
HeliosphanHeliosphanHeliosphan
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Friday, 18 June 2010 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
DidgeridooDonkey RhubarbCunt
― Tuomas, Friday, 18 June 2010 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link
PtolemyAcrid Avid Jam ShredStone In Focus
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 18 June 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
B&W Stripes IICock/Ver10Yellow Calx
― Lardo Calrissian (corey), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
flim tha windowlicker
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
That also makes a fairly logically coherent sentence.
(well, it does if you're me)
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw him live at LED festival at the weekend - my first time! Very different to what I expected. Kinda four-to-the-floor for the most part. Still great!
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel kinda like poo for not going, but TBH the whole Die Antwoord thing scared me off at the last minute. I was of two minds until that was confirmed and then it was like, NOOOOOOOOOOOO. So I stayed home and listened to the albums and felt smug every time it rained.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Cliff
Ageispolis
and...
― Jerome Personnel Cheeses (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
...not sure. Definitely those two, but there's loads I could choose for the third one. Tonight I am torn betweenWhite Blur 2andNext Heap With
― Jerome Personnel Cheeses (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
albetto balsom tha windowlicker
― jed_, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
It was actually totally fun turning this into a poll!
Rhubarb 6Xtal 6Girl/Boy Song 5Windowlicker 5Alberto Balsalm 4Tha 4Fingerbib 3Flim 3On 3Ptolemy 34 2Acrid Avid Jam Shred 2Ageispolis 2Analogue Bubblebath 2Bucephalus Bouncing Ball 2Cliffs 2come to daddy 2Flow Coma remix 2Heliosphan 2Logan Rock Witch 2Phloam 2Polynomial-C 2stone in focus 2The Waxen Pith 2Ventolin 2Yellow Calx 254 cymru beats 1acrid avid jam 1B&W Stripes II 1Bouncing Bucephalus Ball 1Cock/Ver10 1Cunt 1Didgeridoo 1Donkey Rhubarb 1GREEN CALX 1Inkey$ 1Lichen 1Metapharstic 1Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount 1Nannou 1Next Heap With 1vordhosbn 1White Blur 2 1
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Ptolemy wuz robbed!
― magic punani (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
What is it about Xtal that's won two polls now? I guess it's his high girly singing that's so appealing.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Come to Daddy (Little Lord Faulteroy Mix)VordhosbnWindowlicker
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link
XtalBlue CalxFingerbib
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 03:38 (eight years ago) link
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:37 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Beautiful chords, the impossible atmosphere (warm and enveloping but still cold and alien).. and the mournful synth horns towards the end, that's really affecting stuff.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 03:45 (eight years ago) link
also fabulous: the way the vocal sample rubs up harmonically against the synth chords
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
by chords i'm referring to the "main" synth part that's there basically from the beginning. oh w/e i'm hi.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 03:50 (eight years ago) link
I always felt the highlights on SAWI were Ageispolis and Heliosphan.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 09:38 (eight years ago) link
Btw the high girly singing on Xtal is a library music sample, not RDJ's voice.
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_ClJ9nikY
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
How impossible would this POIII have been in the nowadays, after the big tracks chuckout?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
the same
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
the soundcloud rollout was all a bunch of demos & experiments; with a few exceptions none of it came close to the quality of his "official" releases
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
RONG
― brimstead, Thursday, 26 November 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, there were a few I would have chosen..
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 November 2015 07:11 (eight years ago) link