is Analord sad?

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AFX / Chosen Lords / Rephlex

 

 

Sounding amazing in this sequenced order, Rephlex bring on the highlights from the Analord series. Even if you bought the vinyls this is still worth having as ordered like this everything locks into place and makes perfect sense. From track to track you get to appreciate the incredible quality and depth of the music that's come from these self imposed limitations, the strange and unusual sense of sadness that was present makes itself even clearer. This music is unlike anything Richard has ever done before but it still manages to achieve the feat of not sounding like anyone else could have made it.

did you find there to be a "strange and unusual sense of sadness" in the Analord tracks? maybe some of them, but i find AFX's other work to have this much more, esp. SAWII stuff.

encey

definitely.. i count pissed up in se1, phonatacid, crying in your face as some of the best tracks he's ever made. three's still a playful undertone to his analord tracks but i dont think they're as positive as his other stuff.. they feel more mature in a way. then again he's said every track he makes is made with a smile and that he's totally unserious abotu the whole thing..

but i and other music makers would probaly agree on the fact that you always expose yourself through the music you make.. thats why i hate playing my music to some of my friends for instance

  encey said:

did you find there to be a "strange and unusual sense of sadness" in the Analord tracks?

yes, in most of them (but not xmd5a, for instance).

yeah.. definitely. something about the "out of tune" sound reminds me of broken shit, like, maybe this is the last gig, or the death of an era or something stupid like that. especially analord 5

  encey said:

did you find there to be a "strange and unusual sense of sadness" in the Analord tracks?

...and i was thinking that i was just a fucked up person lol yes definately depressing songs

all of the songs are emotional though, not just depressing. Redlof is very inspiring and where's your girlfriend makes my kung fu stronger...

i'm self employed has some kind of weird desperate feel to it. definitely my favorite analord tune though.

  Derelic7 said:

definitely.. i count pissed up in se1, phonatacid, crying in your face as some of the best tracks he's ever made. three's still a playful undertone to his analord tracks but i dont think they're as positive as his other stuff.. they feel more mature in a way. then again he's said every track he makes is made with a smile and that he's totally unserious abotu the whole thing..

 

but i and other music makers would probaly agree on the fact that you always expose yourself through the music you make.. thats why i hate playing my music to some of my friends for instance

yeah well he's a bit two faced, cause i remember him saying that he likes music that is emotional that will move you. that was in an interview.... yeah, i think a lot of the music of analord is emotional but not necessarily sad

edm for sure

  sisforawesome said:

i'm self employed has some kind of weird desperate feel to it. definitely my favorite analord tune though.

I know what you mean, real weird mood to that track... sort of sad and optimistic at the same time, hard to pin down. I was gonna mention it myself. Beautiful track for sure, I listened to it today for the first time in ages

sometimes sad. but only through the middle set of discs 5-8, i found it turning to energy and even a little anger with 9-11.

  ieafs said:

i can always sort of hear an aphex melody... even if i didn't know it was him i'd recognise that.

absolutely.. i haven't heard anyone who can copy this.

i hear the melloncollie too, it makes me think that the reason we see less aphex is because there is a lot of emotion going into everything and only wants to let us into his mind a little bit at a time.

  chaosmachine said:

  ieafs said:

i can always sort of hear an aphex melody... even if i didn't know it was him i'd recognise that.

absolutely.. i haven't heard anyone who can copy this.

Completely agree!

Yeah some of them have a really weird kind of atosphere to them that I can't really explain. I'm not sure how he's acheived it but probably with the really old equipment.

  Skytree said:

I always find it hard to believe that musicians who don't play instruments (IE, RDJ and Wisp) are able to come up with great, emotive melody almost by second nature.

don`t you hear music in your head...????

do you need to play an instrument to be able to hum or sing???

surely knowledge of instruments can hinder you as much as help you when writing music...as they can tend to lead you into certain familiar things / progressions / intervals etc

I think a lot of Analord is sad, something to do with the detuned analogueness that somehow sounds broken or distant, and the sparser drum progamming (well more sparse than anything hes done for the last 10 or so years) and lower bpm.

Hes very good at sad though, especially the middle section of Arched Maid Via RDJ or Rhubarb. Klopjobs chord sequence, Pissed Ups wonky melody and Cilonens synths are all up there with these moments for me. I cant really add anything to the thread other than to concur that its down to Mr James' ear for a minor key melody.

msot of it is sad, the rest are some really bizarre ass acid stuff lol :grin: :laughing: :omg: