Aphex Twin So, no more Aphex Twin?

I take it if his Warp contract was fucked as the rumours suggest then he would not be able to use his name again? I'm not sure where I stand on this one... has it been confirmed that his contract is over or is it simply not true.

Where have you heard/read this rumor? and like he cares, he'd just use afx or teh tuss...

Why, did Warp own the Aphex Twin name?

I'm pretty sure they owned the name, and also I heard it here on WATMM a while back but I'm not sure what became of it.

aphex twin is but a name. richard d james, the man, lives on, looking for the next battle, roaming the rocky shores of cornwall, pondering barnicles while his fancy electric automatic rhythm progamme-machine toils away relentlessly in his bank vault. a knowing sourire stretches across his pale, sea-weathered face, revealing teeth and gums, an expression ever-so-subtly twisted by squinted eyes and sharpened eyebrows. suddenly a gust of wind blows his cape into the picture! like a bolt of ginger lightning he crackles through the sky over the celtic sea! a festival in iceland perhaps? an impromptu DJ set on a viking ship in the middle of the atlantic? analog jam session in africa? digeridoo clinic in australia? melodies from mars: live... ON MARS?

the world may never know.

  Fred McGriff said:

aphex twin is but a name. richard d james, the man, lives on, looking for the next battle, roaming the rocky shores of cornwall, pondering barnicles while his fancy electric automatic rhythm progamme-machine toils away relentlessly in his bank vault. a knowing sourire stretches across his pale, sea-weathered face, revealing teeth and gums, an expression ever-so-subtly twisted by squinted eyes and sharpened eyebrows. suddenly a gust of wind blows his cape into the picture! like a bolt of ginger lightning he crackles through the sky over the celtic sea! a festival in iceland perhaps? an impromptu DJ set on a viking ship in the middle of the atlantic? analog jam session in africa? digeridoo clinic in australia? melodies from mars: live... ON MARS?

 

the world may never know.

Directed by John Woo

hey caustic can we get some sort of aphex superhero photoshop?

i started this subject a while ago and the theory is that "Aphex Twin" had two more releases under contract with warp, either Drukqs counted as two releases (which he would have reached an agreement with warp about), drukqs counted as one and 26 mixes counted as another, or drukqs counted as one and 26 mixes did not count as a release (since it is a compilation of remixes warp probably commissioned, but greatest hits compilations usually count as a "release" under record contracts), in the latter case RDJ would still owe warp an "Aphex Twin" album before his contract would be fulfilled and he could use the alias under his rephlex label. of course Analord 10 was released as "Aphex Twin" which would further suggest that he owns that name again, but it is a minor release and might have not feared reprocussion from warp.

which superhero do you want me to Aphexize?

captain america

i cant find any good Cappy images. find a good one and ill do it.

man what a fucking chore

yeah you see now.

i liked freds first post on this

snare rush?

Thread can't be saved, it's been fully derailed.

In other news: lol

WARP does not "own" the Aphex Twin name... Richard does. Just because he isn't releasing under that moniker doesn't mean he's still not releasing music (Analord, The Tuss, etc.). Nobody's screaming because there hasn't been a Caustic Window or Polygon Window release in ages (well, inside, I am, but that's beside the point).

I heard this Tuss fella is really Polygon Window in a lame comeback attempt.

yeah but aphex twin has the superior logo and the superior tracks

god damn i just completely bonerized my weener thinking about aphex twin

i love aphex twin so much, i'm such a fanboi

  Josso said:

um hi does anyone know about the aphex-warp relation atm

Not much has been reported on the subject. The only recent tidbit I am aware of is the vague mention of a release by a warp employee in an interview. I believe a scan of it was posted here at some point in time.

But Come To Daddy was Apex Twinz! Clearly that makes it the most important moniker.

26 mixes was definitely the contractual obligationer.

Warp doesn't own the name Aphex Twin, but Aphex Twin was signed to warp, so no Aphex Twin tracks on other labels (w/o warp's permission) while under contract.

It's kind of like how George Clinton had "Parliament" signed to Atlantic and "Funkadelic" signed to Revilot, but they were totally the same dudes.

AFX has always been the coolest RDJ pseudonym.

Please go find the converted bank in Cornwall and ask him. This should be easy to locate.

The bank was in London. He lives in Scotland now.