Aphex Twin Aphex Twin still considered musics most progressive artist?

I know many will disagree with me but I think he still hasn't been surpassed ( people have tried to copy him, yes, but even though he hasnt released much in the past 5 years ( barring Chosen Lords). I think his combination of chaos and beauty is something no one else can get quite near. ( Im talking about the overall package-beats-melody etc.. not just one or the other).

His legend hasnt faded whatsover,most other artists could not get away with that.

Anyways, just my thoughts..

his legend will never fade.. even if he makes mixes with justin timberlacke.. .. because he created a whole new generation..

i am now music's most progressive artist.

though, that's just my opinion; i haven't asked anyone else's.

Im getting sick of the who is better crap. Just enjoy music. Compettion sucks and it creates a stifiling environment.

if he wants his competition, let him have it. hell, it keeps fred durst occupied.

fackin' newbs

I wouldn't say he's "music's most progressive artist" or anything like that, but he's certainly one artist who has changed the face of electronic music in a pretty major way. I think his most progressive days are behind him, but he sure had a lot of progressive days --more than most.

  marf said:

Im getting sick of the who is better crap. Just enjoy music. Compettion sucks and it creates a stifiling environment.

WATMMS

  Zephyr_Nova said:

I wouldn't say he's "music's most progressive artist" or anything like that, but he's certainly one artist who has changed the face of electronic music in a pretty major way. I think his most progressive days are behind him, but he sure had a lot of progressive days --more than most.

HIS TUESDAYS TEND TO BE MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN HIS THURSDAYS

SO I'VE HEARD

I THINK HE IS THE MOST PROGRESSIVE AT A FULL MOON DURING A MONTH ENDING WITH Y. I HAVE WRITTEN A THESIS ON IT HERE, IT'S DEFINATELY TRUE I CHECKED!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM WORLDS MOST PROGRESSIVE ARTIST

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I think his combination of chaos and beauty is something no one else can get quite near. ( Im talking about the overall package-beats-melody etc.. not just one or the other).

Maybe Datach'i.

MAYBE.

And Plaid, of course.

  HYPERFUKBOT said:

I AM WORLDS MOST PROGRESSIVE ARTIST

I AM ALSO WORLDS MOST PROGRESSIVE ARTIST. NICE MAKE ACQUAINTENCE. SHALL WE DO JAPANESE NOISE ROCK BAND?

datach'i is musics most boring artist

aphex rules, but i think it depends on what you mean with progressive. there are more progressive artists out there, but not alot that don't suck ballsack

  Dr. Elemeno von Hat X: PhD said:

  HYPERFUKBOT said:

I AM WORLDS MOST PROGRESSIVE ARTIST

 

I AM ALSO WORLDS MOST PROGRESSIVE ARTIST. NICE MAKE ACQUAINTENCE. SHALL WE DO JAPANESE NOISE ROCK BAND?

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN, LITTLE MAN

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:omg:

shhh!!! i sleep! :sleeping:

  Dr. Elemeno von Hat X: PhD said:

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I think I'll reserve my opinions on how progressive Aphex is until I hear something new from him.

i've rather enjoyed the last few years of aphex' musical happenings, altho i'm not really counting in the whole analord experience when i think of this post-windowlicker era.

older aphex twinnery was more grandiosely epic in that it essentially "tried" to be great at times. i care because you do and to a cheekier extent the rdj/girlboy LPs come to daddy and windowlicker EPs i think are the most extroverted aphex twin releases out there.

part of the goodness inherent t othe man is that he's sufficiently introverted to keep his head in the game, if you will, meaning that i think he's got a pretty damned good grasp on music as a whole, as evidenced by his track selections in dj sets/... often times when you go out and try to make something that you think will grab people en masse, thats when you fall into overcomplication and consequent cliches (how about a snare rush rush rushhhhsssuuurrrgh)...

so that said, depending on what your semantics for progressive are... and i'm guessing that you read a magazine article somewhere that said that aphex outdid himself on all of his releases and constantly re-invented himself, so when you get an LP like drukqs, well it's not as great at the level where the bar has been set, cuz it's not new: it's just more (aha, the pitchfork review of drukqs. i bet that's where this idea of "progressiveness" came from)

by those semantics, no, he's far from the most "progressive" artist these days... and thats why i enjoy the musics far more. instead of going out intending to further the concept of music in a certain form, he just seems to go out there and make good music that isn't necessarily groundbreaking as much as it's just good head nodding fodder to enjoy for years to come.

now don't get me completely wrong, whereas i think aphex has the mindset to get away with that and still be a pillar of the "underground" electronic msuic world, i hold mindfucks like tommy jenkinson to higher standards of artistic music fuckery so when he drops a "basic" LP like hello everything, i'm kind of like "what the fuck" cuz while it's nice beautiful simpler music, i tend to go for the very hit and miss insane stuff because the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. take the last 2 minutes off of track 9 from ultravisitor... that's some shit right there.

of course the obvious question that could've spared people the injustive of reading this crapfest post was "who cares?" -- but where's hte fun i that? tho that mentality still applies because i don't think aphex twin would be around and as "legendary" or whatever you want to say he is if he spent the last 6-7 years trying to push the envelope farther and farther. stepping back and rocking out isn't a bad thing.

  On 8/23/2006 at 6:31 PM, Dragon said:

I THINK HE IS THE MOST PROGRESSIVE AT A FULL MOON DURING A MONTH ENDING WITH Y. I HAVE WRITTEN A THESIS ON IT HERE, IT'S DEFINATELY TRUE I CHECKED!!!!!!!!!!!

holy shit

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