Aphex Twin - POIII (Pick Only Three)

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..