Aphex Twin - POIII (Pick Only Three)

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?

stone in focus
54 cymru beats
fenix funk 5

Polynomial-C
Heliosphan
Windowlicker

Stevie - which track number is that? ABIII is a highly underrated album. I wish Kate hadn't made it Aphex-only.

OK, then. Come on, you slags, pick your top 3 non-Aphex Richard D. James tracks (yes, you can include the Tuss)

I'm thinking...

AFX - Where's Your Girlfriend
Caustic Window - Humanoid Must Not Escape
The 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.

hmmmm..

quoth
laughable butane bob
analogue bubblebath 5 track 1

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).

oh yeah, onslaught? can you elaborate?

dog latin, it's tracks 8 and 9. I still can't tell the difference between them yet.

Lichen
Rhubarb
Fingerbib

Heliosphan
Heliosphan
Heliosphan

Didgeridoo
Donkey Rhubarb
Cunt

Ptolemy
Acrid Avid Jam Shred
Stone In Focus

B&W Stripes II
Cock/Ver10
Yellow Calx

flim tha windowlicker

That also makes a fairly logically coherent sentence.

(well, it does if you're me)

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!

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.

Cliff

Ageispolis

and...

...not sure. Definitely those two, but there's loads I could choose for the third one. Tonight I am torn between
White Blur 2
and
Next Heap With

albetto balsom tha windowlicker

It was actually totally fun turning this into a poll!

Rhubarb 6
Xtal 6
Girl/Boy Song 5
Windowlicker 5
Alberto Balsalm 4
Tha 4
Fingerbib 3
Flim 3
On 3
Ptolemy 3
4 2
Acrid Avid Jam Shred 2
Ageispolis 2
Analogue Bubblebath 2
Bucephalus Bouncing Ball 2
Cliffs 2
come to daddy 2
Flow Coma remix 2
Heliosphan 2
Logan Rock Witch 2
Phloam 2
Polynomial-C 2
stone in focus 2
The Waxen Pith 2
Ventolin 2
Yellow Calx 2
54 cymru beats 1
acrid avid jam 1
B&W Stripes II 1
Bouncing Bucephalus Ball 1
Cock/Ver10 1
Cunt 1
Didgeridoo 1
Donkey Rhubarb 1
GREEN CALX 1
Inkey$ 1
Lichen 1
Metapharstic 1
Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount 1
Nannou 1
Next Heap With 1
vordhosbn 1
White Blur 2 1

Ptolemy wuz robbed!

What is it about Xtal that's won two polls now? I guess it's his high girly singing that's so appealing.

Come to Daddy (Little Lord Faulteroy Mix)
Vordhosbn
Windowlicker

Xtal
Blue Calx
Fingerbib

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, 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.

also fabulous: the way the vocal sample rubs up harmonically against the synth chords

by chords i'm referring to the "main" synth part that's there basically from the beginning. oh w/e i'm hi.

I always felt the highlights on SAWI were Ageispolis and Heliosphan.

Btw the high girly singing on Xtal is a library music sample, not RDJ's voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_ClJ9nikY

How impossible would this POIII have been in the nowadays, after the big tracks chuckout?

the same

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

RONG

Yeah, there were a few I would have chosen..