Do you think 4 is his best work

I am wondering how many of you think 4 is his best work... do you think 4 is his best work?

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no

it's up there for sure.

'Best' in what way?

  On 6/18/2011 at 2:37 PM, goDel said:

'Best' in what way?

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iiK4MgIPtI

That clip matches the music in so many ways. It's both brilliant and full of amateurism at the same time.

Definately a great track. Probably the best track to open the RdJ Album, it sets everything else up perfectly.

Great track, not his best.

yea because it combines his ambient style with his breakcore drums... when people ask me, hey what music do you like? -electronic music, like aphex twin -Ehmm, I don't know him (obviously) -here, listen... I always put 4 because it is what Aphex Twin or similar artist sound like, and that is the stuff I like

  On 6/18/2011 at 6:31 PM, logakght said:

yea because it combines his ambient style with his breakcore drums... when people ask me, hey what music do you like? -electronic music, like aphex twin -Ehmm, I don't know him (obviously) -here, listen... I always put 4 because it is what Aphex Twin or similar artist sound like, and that is the stuff I like

I know you from real life somehow don't I, stranger?? :shuriken:

it's too kind of obvious Aphex anthem track to me to be even remotely the best. Too jingly jangly. It's all like I'm an IDM nerd I'm so eccentrically cute love me

Girl/Boy for example I think is like the same idea at least 3x better

  On 6/18/2011 at 6:56 PM, Ragnar said:

It's all like I'm an IDM nerd I'm so eccentrically cute love me

 

 

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No, Mt. Saint Mikey is.

If by 4 you mean Bit 4, then yes.

  On 6/18/2011 at 6:56 PM, Ragnar said:

it's too kind of obvious Aphex anthem track to me to be even remotely the best. Too jingly jangly. It's all like I'm an IDM nerd I'm so eccentrically cute love me

 

Girl/Boy for example I think is like the same idea at least 3x better

are you joking? girl/boy was the "hit". shit, it was featured on an MTV "Amped" cd back in the day. You trippin son.

  On 6/18/2011 at 9:24 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 6/18/2011 at 6:56 PM, Ragnar said:

it's too kind of obvious Aphex anthem track to me to be even remotely the best. Too jingly jangly. It's all like I'm an IDM nerd I'm so eccentrically cute love me

 

Girl/Boy for example I think is like the same idea at least 3x better

are you joking? girl/boy was the "hit". shit, it was featured on an MTV "Amped" cd back in the day. You trippin son.

... but it was still a much better song than 4 (imo).

not imo :P

Windowlicker > 4.

Windowlicker is almost unbeatable for me.

4 is a really happy go lucky track. full of optimism.

But as with too many Aphex tracks (imo) it comes across as too gimmicky for its own good.

4 is just a really good nugget of brilliance. It was definitely my favorite for a few months back when I first bought the album.

For me, ziggomatic (17) is probably still my favorite overall. I'd like to hear other versions of it if they exist. Perfect fast track wind the album down. The melodies are my favorite in the way they evolve and the ebbs and flows in between these brief ambient sections. 3 minutes in it sounds like it is wrapping up and then it just takes off into madness again. Drum programming is top quality drukqsian work. the build that starts at 4:15 is probably one of my favorite moments in aphex listening history. Around 5:40 again it sound like it is about to wind down but moves brilliantly into a percussive showcase and builds up a perfect counter melody. Wraps up really nicely, with a message at the end to bring us back to reality and realize and take a moment to reflect on what we just heard.

  On 6/19/2011 at 1:53 AM, AJW said:

4 is a really happy go lucky track. full of optimism.

 

But as with too many Aphex tracks (imo) it comes across as too gimmicky for its own good.

i don't know what that means.

  On 6/19/2011 at 1:55 AM, Bubba69 said:

4 is just a really good nugget of brilliance. It was definitely my favorite for a few months back when I first bought the album.

 

For me, ziggomatic (17) is probably still my favorite overall. I'd like to hear other versions of it if they exist. Perfect fast track wind the album down. The melodies are my favorite in the way they evolve and the ebbs and flows in between these brief ambient sections. 3 minutes in it sounds like it is wrapping up and then it just takes off into madness again. Drum programming is top quality drukqsian work. the build that starts at 4:15 is probably one of my favorite moments in aphex listening history. Around 5:40 again it sound like it is about to wind down but moves brilliantly into a percussive showcase and builds up a perfect counter melody. Wraps up really nicely, with a message at the end to bring us back to reality and realize and take a moment to reflect on what we just heard.

reading this inspired me to put this on and reread it, and i fell in love with this track all over again, for the millionth time. yup, this is his best. imo ziggo contrasts his ambient atmospheres with his breakbeats more beautifully than anything he's ever released, no doubt about it, and it just builds and builds and builds and builds, then at long last the serenity that's been hinted at throughout completely shines though.

there are only three drum noises in this song, and they're all annoying. but it's definitely up there in terms of songwriting

fuck this thread. final straw? whoever said 4 was gimmicky.

  On 6/19/2011 at 6:13 AM, sneaksta303 said:

fuck this thread. final straw? whoever said 4 was gimmicky.

I myself would definitely not describe it as such