every aphex twin album is the best aphex twin album
― Bo Johnson Overdrive (crüt)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 December 2019 08:38 (four years ago) link
syro is awesome, but it's possible that many people conceive of the criteria for good aphex as prankster persona plus ababcab nursery rhyme roedelius + industrial raspberry beats.
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Sunday, 15 December 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link
I love all his personas but Syro is the one I've realistically listened to the most, ahead of the two SAWs.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 15 December 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
Syro is accomplished but dull
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Sunday, 15 December 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
syro is accomplished and fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm1XwkOHxx8
― based grandpa (noz), Sunday, 15 December 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
def not top 5 aphex tho
― based grandpa (noz), Sunday, 15 December 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
Had no idea it would be such a challop.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 15 December 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
I don’t think it’s a challopseemed like not a lot of enthusiasm for the soundcloud dump here... lots of “oh no so many songs how can I even begin to deal with this”
― brimstead, Sunday, 15 December 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
here = ilxsorry, I’ll stop posting shitty
― brimstead, Sunday, 15 December 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Syro rules it’s top tier Aphex
― omar little, Sunday, 15 December 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
I also love Syro a lot. I think "XMAS_EVET10" is really beautiful. I like sappy RDJ.
― Bo Johnson Overdrive (crüt), Sunday, 15 December 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
It’s not in his top, like, 15.
― beard papa, Monday, 16 December 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
I don’t have them ranked or anything, but I’ll take everything he officially released in the ‘90s over Syro (I realize 15 is an exaggeration of the actual number).
― Inapt Authority (morrisp), Monday, 16 December 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
(I guess ICBYD would be my fave)
― Inapt Authority (morrisp), Monday, 16 December 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
The best Aphex-related project is Power-Pill
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 16 December 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
one thing about the Aphex stuff from drukqs on is that it all sounds incredible
― frogbs, Monday, 16 December 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Discovery is still a front-to-back amazing album. Still think Homework sounds like a bunch of okay-to-decent dance 12"s that would sound better with the pitch adjuster notched up a couple of tempos
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, December 6, 2019 11:43 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
A-fuggin'-men!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 16 December 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
xp I'm listening to Syro now on headphones, and I agree the production is (as they say on that WATMM messageboard" lush
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Monday, 16 December 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
My 13-year old son is a big fan of Random Access Memories, and he didn't get it from me. Based on this, I predict Daft Punk will be rehabilitated by the zoomer generation!
― Johan Lif, Monday, 16 December 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
The recent Aphex I find myself reaching for most often is Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments.
― beard papa, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
Syro is my favorite Aphex ever, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2 is close behind
― Dan S, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
― Johan Lif, Monday, December 16, 2019 5:36 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
basically what previously happened with the redditor subset of the millennial generation
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 04:39 (four years ago) link
(them and/or kanye)
big boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, December 6, 2019 12:27 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
Much better record than anything Drake or Kanye did this decade imo
That was is a bit strange because Outkast seemed to have a sort of resurgence this decade.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 04:56 (four years ago) link
i like how literally every single album mentioned itt came out in 2007-09
― flopson, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 05:58 (four years ago) link
That is literally the worst abuse of the word literally I have ever seen.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 10:46 (four years ago) link
thanks thread for getting me to revisit syro which sounds way more wonderful to me rn than it did when it came out
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
Can we skip ahead to an AFX ILM ballot poll in 2020 or do we have to wait until 2022 at our current pace?
― octobeard, Thursday, 19 December 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link
Cheetah is very beautiful sounding also.
― kraudive, Monday, 23 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
Interesting thread, honestly. I’ve been less struck by “vanishing canon” and more caught up in a new “emo extremely matters” movement of the past five years, bands I skipped in the 2000s revealing themselves to be hugely popular/influential.
In terms of “vanishing canon” I’m still sore that Max Tundra/Blechdoms/Kid 606 (all 2000s, not 2010s) seemed to be erased from having any modern day resonance but nerds lose the game in the end I guess; still listen regularly to those records
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 23 December 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
I always assumed no one took Kid606 seriously even back in the day, but I guess that was mostly because of the ridiculous record and track titles.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 December 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
I also think the emo thing is interesting bc it’s a scene I know nothing about. Though I just learned a couple days ago about the FACGCE tuning which I think is very cool & might be a window for me to explore that more
― oncle rasélonguebite (crüt), Monday, 23 December 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
Kid606’s we love you mark bell thing from a few years back was pretty good, chill detroit-y, electro-y stuff
― brimstead, Monday, 23 December 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
I still rather enjoy role model by Cex
― brimstead, Monday, 23 December 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included)
max tundra was really involved in last year's daphne and celeste record, and that one was great!
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 01:58 (four years ago) link
a decade ago in the middle of mp3 blogs & meticulous jaxon-style ilx threads i thought, like, everything wd be corrected by the passage of time, all these souljazz reissues & obscurities being uncovered ... now it feels like the opposite is happening, just completely awash in content
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
what was the name of that band that ripped off led zep that everyone was talking about like a year or two ago
― oncle rasélonguebite (crüt), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:56 (four years ago) link
Greta van fleet?
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 08:11 (four years ago) link
https://loudwire.com/greta-van-fleet-interview-breakout-artist-decade/
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 28 December 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
At the end of 2009 it looked like Girls was poised to be the next Big Indie Rock Thing, and judging by these decade lists that definitely didn't happen. I still rate Album very highly
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
well they broke up after their second album which was maybe even more acclaimed than the first and then the main guy went on to make some kinda strange solo albums
― ufo, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
How is War on Drugs' stock these days?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
boring
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
i’m so glad girls didn’t happen, one of the worst bands in recent memory. their second album is on the pfork decade list regardless though
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
Are about to open for Metallica.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
Damn surprised you hate Girls so much Brad. I kinda liked the first album, like Elvis Costello as performed by Jesse camp
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
Not sure which canon Greta Van Fleet is being written out of. One that includes Daughtry maybe
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
like Elvis Costello as performed by Jesse camp
ouch
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
― Paul Ponzi
i thought they went on to form viet cong but it turns out i was thinking of women
i hate band names like those, transition or gtfo
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
possibly one to chalk up to sexism but I don't get a sense that st vincent or neko case or bjork are getting any end of decade attention. but maybe i just read the wrong stuff.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link