Aphex Twin

Gozer · Post by **Gozer** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:12 am

Any Aphex Twin fans around? Nothing can top a Richard D James video.
One of my favorites: http://www.wimp.com/rubberjohnny/

Post by **Icarus** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:18 am

Windowlicker is the the weirdest video I've ever seen. Pretty damn good though, as is the rest of his stuff. (Although I tend to listen to Squarepusher a lot more when I'm in the mood for something different to my usual choices.)

Now, I could never get into Autechre...

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:19 am

Gozer wrote:Any Aphex Twin fans around? Nothing can top a Chris Cunningham video.
One of my favorites: http://www.wimp.com/rubberjohnny/

Fixed. The best Aphex Twin videos all came from Chris Cunningham, that one included.

And I wish he'd release some more normal material, on CD, wide release. He definitely isn't as relevant as he once was, which is probably why he's doing a bunch of small releases to get more attention.

Gozer · Post by **Gozer** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:26 am

Ah. Thanks for the fix. I was not sure who did the videos. I'm glad I now know.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:28 am

The last new Aphex Twin track I heard was on the Wipeout Pure soundtrack on PSP.

subcons · Post by **subcons** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:31 am

I was so very disappointed with the direction that the Rubber Johnny video took. And we waited for it for years... that just made it even worse.

Windowlicker and Come to Daddy are by far his best videos for me.

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:18 am

RDJ was one of my early favorite artists, I have most of the stuff he ever put out on CD. I don't pay much attention to the videos, although I have seen about a half dozen of them.

Not much to say, but yeah, I'm a fan.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:45 am

I actually met him when he played at a friend of mine's bar in Tokyo. The guy that booked him had no clue who he was, but the guy that brought the gig to my friend, "it's only 150,000 yen, and he's famous" so he went with the deal. They only advertised by word of mouth, and they completely broke the firecode by a couple hundred people. It was nuts Good party, and a very nice guy - he said he likes playing the smaller gigs better.

I like the Ambient collections a lot.

it290 · Post by **it290** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:50 am

I'm not half as into his newer stuff, but of course he'll always be known for the tons of great work he's put out over the years. The fact that he occasionally dredges up a long lost single and releases it doesn't hurt either. But yeah, the way I see it, the more experimental side of electronic music has been a bit stagnant for the last couple years, and he's been caught up in that.

MovingTarget · Post by **MovingTarget** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:58 pm

not a big fan of any of the three, although i like them all. They all seem a bit soulless to me.

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:01 pm

Bah, he was a great innovator, but really, after popularizing electronic listening music and establishing the trend of phasing drum loops and collapsing rhythms that basically became staples of IDM, he couldn't keep it up. His later CD's just got to be simple and seemingly masturbatory.

scrilla4rella · Post by **scrilla4rella** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:18 am

Are any of y'all fans of Luke Vibert??
Crazy styles with super tight production + samples.

Mr. James' catalogue cannot be fucked with, while his lattest analord series is just straight old-school tracks he basically invented the bedroom producer.

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