Brian Eno must be spinning in his grave over this guy from what I've heard of his sounds. Admitedly that's only one piece called Blue Calx.

way to judge a book by its binding and not even bothering to look at the freaking cover.

there's no denying Eno had an influence on AT.

but does THIS actually sound like Eno?

I was only goofing around:)

ahh... the lack of smiley face or something in the initial post had me shooting from the hip hehehe

Ha that's an awesome video, never seen it.

Does Chris Cunningham actually animate these or just conceptualize?

Not to mention that Mt. Saint Michel is an epic song. One of Aphex Twin's best songs, IMO.

Yeah it's definitely a top song.

as far as i know he does the animating as well. Cunningham has worked closely with AT for decades now. you can see the progress on the 'Aphex Face Technology' (for lack of better terms) in the 4 or so years between the 'Come to Daddy' and 'Windowlicker' clips.

so it's not like he's jumping into things without having been fully involved and immersed for a few years.

also remember hearing rumors back when i was in college around 2000 that Cunningham had been pegged to direct an adaptation of Neuromancer as some sort of sequel / prequel to Blade Runner with Aphex Twin being the obvious choice for an original soundtrack. never happened though, apparently the studios refused to give him final approval on edits.

Goddamn this could have been awesome. :yeah:

^ it's the only movie i've honestly WANTED to see for the last 10 years hahaha on top of that according to William Gibson, Cunningham is his ONLY choice for directing.

instead we get endless Harry Potter and Twilight sequels :(

Richard D. James Album.

I couldnt say which album is best,but everyone whos into electonic music should try out each of his albums because all his music altogether is really verry diverce.

as mentioned ,some stuff is just noisy abstractisme but at the other hand this artist has made some of the most beautifull music ever

ow and the thing is,mostly every album has those 2 extremes in em so its hard to choose a best album.

That would be weird, basing a sequel to a film adaptation of a book on a book by a different author.

Aphex Twin
 

I can't help but listen to Selected Ambient Works Volume 1 over and over again. It was inspirational when I was writing electronic music. One of the best stickers I've ever seen on album was for Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 where it said that it would be the music that the monolith from 2001 would play. It thought it was brilliant and never more accurate

Looks like he's too cool to release his last 6 albums.
Aphex Twin 'has six albums' of new material, but will we hear them? | Music | guardian.co.uk

Defiantly come to daddy
Bucephalus bouncing ball is genius

I've still got a soft spot for the drukQs album.

That's fine, I could care less. I mean, I love Richard's music, but I'm not going to beg the poor man for more music. I'm sure he'll make a wonderful followup to "Drukqs" eventually, but in the meantime I'll be waiting patiently tasting other flavors of electric music.

[QUOTE]Looks like he's too cool to release his last 6 albums.

Maybe he'll release them all at once?

Just watched the video for this...CREEEPPPYYY!!

^^^^^^^^
I love that video it's one of my favorites.

I've been binging on Aphex Twin latley. My favorite album by him is the Richard D. James Abum. Pretty off the wall material on there. I dig it, a lot.

If you think that's off then watch Rubber Johnny.



The song is "Afx237 V7" which is off of "Drukqs".

That music video really unnerved me when I first saw it, but it is still a really damn cool video. It's sad that interesting and original vids are few and far between these days.

DrukQs is definitely a favourite of mine. His wilder, more abrasive tracks are the best (IMO) out of his long, winding discography. Though, I can't deny loving songs like Polynomial C and Alberto Balsam.

It's pretty intense, I like.

Just getting into this guy, but I'm really enjoying the songs I've heard. I think I'm gonna buy the Selected Works from 87-92 album.

Omgyjya Switch7 off Drukqs is sensational. Absolutely love Aphex Twin only just got into him in 2010. Would be nice for some new material in 2011 just to see what he does next. Everything he does is very artistic, creative and completely different with it's own story and atmosphere.

Just listened to Drukqs again today. Some of the tracks on there reach a VSnares caliber of abrasiveness, and contrast beautifully with the piano solo pieces.

Surfing on Sine waves is my favourite Aphex stuff, but then I love Quoth to death :)

I ail got my hands on all the analord stuff recently and I have to say there are some pure analog gems on there. Unfortunately this being AFX I cant remember any track titles. Tracks like RX554$y3_11"! are not conducive to easy brain access :)

EQUALS:

WHICH IS:

Am I the only person who's noticed this? my mom was listening to Cage The Elephant (ew) in the car, and it sounds like it borrowed heavily from Fingerbib in the intro.

They sound really similar. So not cool how Cage the Elephant stole another influence. Especially coming from one of my favorite Aphex Twin tracks.

yes... let's all look down on the simple plebeians who've now heard some of the purest music only our refined ears have been capable of grasping. let us hope that no other upcoming pedantic musicians borrow from visionaries and reapply their glory in a way that would sing to the ears of the masses in turn exposing some sleeping listeners to new directions of sound and music.

no... we should keep crawling up our own pretentious buttholes instead.


and people wonder why he stopped releasing new stuff...

I would say Druk Qs is Aphex's best album. Come to daddy is good too. Some people would argue these albums are too commercial but I don't agree. I think his other albums are OK but theyre a bit boring. If youve never heard vordhosbn, come to daddy, film, fenix funk five, **** ver 10, taking control, ziggomatic 14, zeros and ones (remix), spotlight (remix) you should check these tracks out...

That may or may not be true depending on how you look at it (I would say not). But I wonder when people claim things like this whether they have actually heard everything that came before or if they are just relaying received wisdom. Personally I'm one of those who didn't like 85-92 when I heard it, he may have done some very good stuff elsewhere but I don't get why that album is so acclaimed by critics.

No-one was implying that, what people were implying is that it's not cool that someone effectively stole some of Aphex's music, although I can't really hear too much of a similarity.

Also, Ambient Works 85-92 would be so much better if it had been produced better. Xtal is far too crackly for my liking. He should remaster the whole album.

Some of the tracks on Selected Ambient Works 85-92 were mastered from cassettes that he had. There were remasters in 2006 and 2008 with apparently cleaner sound but there's only so much that can be done when the source tapes are so limited.

**** sucks :(