squarepusher The consequences of a new Aphex Twin album

I don't think it would be a bad thing at all, maybe skrillex would start making better music or something. Anyways, I think it is kind of silly at this point to worry about idm being tainted by mainstream interpretations. I mean, I'm subscribed to reddit.com/r/electronicmusic and literally every 2 weeks somebody makes a topic about aphex's windowlicker being the greatest electronic music video of all time and it gets on the front page and everybody jizzes all over it and mainstreamers get into stupid arguments about aphex twin in the comments section saying how his only good album is selected ambient works and come to daddy or something. He will always be on the mainstream radar but I will never actually be a problem because people are stupidly wrapped up in their own music world and don't really understand most decent artists and what they are trying to do, so unless there is a big hit or some big artist does a remix of his new album we don't have to worry. Even then, it isn't going to matter and more exposure isn't a bad thing and maybe it will just mean more interesting electronic music in the future.

this thread isn't about the tainting of IDM, it's about the tainting of aphex twin, and conjectures as to why he might not want to release another album, or why he has taken so long.

well first you say everyone argues on about SAW and other crap all the time but then you go and say it only matters if some other big artist does a remix of his new album. i dont think that's really necessary if the first part of what you said is indeed true.

but then again, ignorance is bliss. maybe i should just accept all music with open arms and just force myself to like everything ,because i dont like to think that much and i need other people to form my opinions for me.

I don't think Aphex Twin really needs to make an album. People's expectations for anything he releases in the future will be so exuberant that nothing will impress anyone. Most people will be disappointed because Aphex Twin didn't release some monumental album that matched people's own idea of what they wanted to hear.

i think hardcode has a valid point. if/when aphex does release something new there will inevitably be copycats (yes hardcode, probably me lol) and no doubt artists like skrillex will be influenced by it to some degree. i think we're reasonably safe in that respect though as skrillex is now a brand in his own right, has record-label commitments etc and i guess is not a free to release pretty much whatever he wants in the same way that aphex is.

  On 11/23/2011 at 8:46 PM, Jur said:

I don't think Aphex Twin really needs to make an album. People's expectations for anything he releases in the future will be so exuberant that nothing will impress anyone. Most people will be disappointed because Aphex Twin didn't release some monumental album that matched people's own idea of what they wanted to hear.

all the teasers and little snippets of work from his shows are begging for release. Peoples expectations can gtf, quite frankly sounds so damn refreshing.

It'll come when it comes.

This place is filled with some hardcore whinging :P

Go for a walk, listen to other musicians, try write your own music, work or maybe even study?:P just suggestions

Personally I just pretend it's got a HELL of a long time to go before release, so if it gets announced anytime soon or whatever then it'll be a pleasant surprise

i know this is an Aphex twin fan forum and all but some of you are quite delusional, music is music, going by some of the (so called) unreleased tracks his played, his got nothing to worry about, quite warm and excellent tracks that are fresh, his been in the business many moons now and has some amazing gear which he knows how to use very well, his a leader, he should lead and let the sheep follow!!! Release the music!

Dont even get me started on that photo thread, thats just scary, i could understand if it was women posting the pics but it would apper the vast majority are men!!

Man up lads!

ahahaha

I think with the internet and how fast word spreads on it, that if Aphex releases another album under his name, just about anybody into techno of any sort will jump on it. So if anybody blatantly copies anything on it, they will probably get called out on that.

If anything, if some hipster dubstep dude so much as namedrops RDJ it will get more kids looking him up. It probably has already, I'm under the impression he has name dropped before.

Think about how many people found RDJ and subsequently other idm artists thanks to NIN Halo 10. You can count me in that crowd, and I know I've seen that been mentioned before here. The same for Kid A too.

  On 11/23/2011 at 8:28 PM, hardcode said:

Skrillex's production is irrelevant, it's his status as a mainstream artist and what he says in interviews that is linking mainstream idiots to underground art that they never would have bothered checking out themselves, but now do so through mainstream-proxy.

let me tell you about a little band called radiohead.

also, shut up.

  On 11/23/2011 at 9:55 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 8:28 PM, hardcode said:

Skrillex's production is irrelevant, it's his status as a mainstream artist and what he says in interviews that is linking mainstream idiots to underground art that they never would have bothered checking out themselves, but now do so through mainstream-proxy.

 

let me tell you about a little band called radiohead.

 

also, shut up.

/thread

The thought of dudes like skrillex or that wave of new 'dubstep blah blah' producers hearing a new Aphex album, especially if Metz and Manchester trax are any indication, would be funny as they stare at their laptops running massive in ableton going "how the fuck did he do that"... this would be a good thing to me. Maybe they'd finally end up either making better music w/a sense of melody or give up all together. If the hoards of fanboys on WATMM and related try their whole music-life emulating Richard without too much success, what makes you think other producers will get on his level? Rushup Edge came out and was pretty well known for a rephlex record mostly because anyone who'd heard Rich's old work would be able to hear the obvious audio brushwork of the ginge... but still only a handful of artists craft their music to be as complex, nit-picky, and beautiful as his work.

I think either he'd release, it'd do a flop market-wise, but be everything that is holy in music. Or, he will release, it will be awesome, and yes, popular electronic music may shift to a more melodic, ambient, acidy, tussful feel... but would that be a bad thing really? I'd rather people hear good music at this point, even if it is popular.

  On 11/23/2011 at 8:37 PM, hardcode said:

this thread isn't about the tainting of IDM, it's about the tainting of aphex twin, and conjectures as to why he might not want to release another album, or why he has taken so long.

Do you really believe this? That he doesn´t release music because of potential copycats?

consequences schmonsequences. I just hope it'll be somewhat in the style of Tuss, i.e smoothely produced funkyness.

Aphex Twin hasn't released a new album because he hasn't gotten his shit together enough to release a new album, and also he's been too busy recording as Skrillex and getting six inches deep in the emotang.

  On 11/23/2011 at 9:10 PM, Macca said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 8:46 PM, Jur said:

I don't think Aphex Twin really needs to make an album. People's expectations for anything he releases in the future will be so exuberant that nothing will impress anyone. Most people will be disappointed because Aphex Twin didn't release some monumental album that matched people's own idea of what they wanted to hear.

all the teasers and little snippets of work from his shows are begging for release. Peoples expectations can gtf, quite frankly sounds so damn refreshing.

 

It'll come when it comes.

 

This place is filled with some hardcore whinging :P

 

Go for a walk, listen to other musicians, try write your own music, work or maybe even study?:P just suggestions

 

Personally I just pretend it's got a HELL of a long time to go before release, so if it gets announced anytime soon or whatever then it'll be a pleasant surprise

Interesting point.

  On 11/23/2011 at 9:55 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 8:28 PM, hardcode said:

Skrillex's production is irrelevant, it's his status as a mainstream artist and what he says in interviews that is linking mainstream idiots to underground art that they never would have bothered checking out themselves, but now do so through mainstream-proxy.

 

let me tell you about a little band called radiohead.

 

also, shut up.

i never listened to radiohead unlike you which im sure "creep" was your little high school personal anthem. i dont really care. radiohead is a stupid band.

  On 11/23/2011 at 10:40 PM, hardcode said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 9:55 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 8:28 PM, hardcode said:

Skrillex's production is irrelevant, it's his status as a mainstream artist and what he says in interviews that is linking mainstream idiots to underground art that they never would have bothered checking out themselves, but now do so through mainstream-proxy.

 

let me tell you about a little band called radiohead.

 

also, shut up.

 

i never listened to radiohead unlike you which im sure "creep" was your little high school personal anthem. i dont really care. radiohead is a stupid band.

way to miss the point.

point being that radiohead were responsible for exposing aphex and autechre to a huge chunk of people.

aphex twin, if you read this, let me tell you something:

long time ago i was born in some place. life was boring and meaningless. well not really, everything was cool. anyway, you came into my life like a meteor, huge and hot. suddenly i could hear the birds singing, the grass was green and petrol flowed. i bought a motorcycle, and visited mars. my psychiatrist told me that everything would go back to normal but the youth center detention wouldn't let me out. i stabbed a guardian in the leg, and ate a chocolate cake. then the big black fairy came one night, majestic and covered with poop, and she said there was nothing to worry about, we were going to win this war.

it was a cold grey morning, i was walking in the mud of vietkong, some goblin jumped out a bush and i shot him in the face. president roosevelt would never sign the retreat, we were warriors and we would die in this bloody land shitting rice until the judgement day. i'm deranged. i'm happy. life is long. there's a fly in my room people are strange and deformed what's that thing in the sky oh no i left my wallt in the car i'm thirsty help me i'm a dyslexic

  On 11/23/2011 at 10:41 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 10:40 PM, hardcode said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 9:55 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 8:28 PM, hardcode said:

Skrillex's production is irrelevant, it's his status as a mainstream artist and what he says in interviews that is linking mainstream idiots to underground art that they never would have bothered checking out themselves, but now do so through mainstream-proxy.

 

let me tell you about a little band called radiohead.

 

also, shut up.

 

i never listened to radiohead unlike you which im sure "creep" was your little high school personal anthem. i dont really care. radiohead is a stupid band.

 

way to miss the point.

 

point being that radiohead were responsible for exposing aphex and autechre to a huge chunk of people.

dude not to be rude but it's irrelevant. first of all it was a whole different time period and the people being exposed werent shitting all over the internet with corny electronic music.

  On 11/23/2011 at 10:44 PM, hardcode said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 10:41 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 10:40 PM, hardcode said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 9:55 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 8:28 PM, hardcode said:

Skrillex's production is irrelevant, it's his status as a mainstream artist and what he says in interviews that is linking mainstream idiots to underground art that they never would have bothered checking out themselves, but now do so through mainstream-proxy.

 

let me tell you about a little band called radiohead.

 

also, shut up.

 

i never listened to radiohead unlike you which im sure "creep" was your little high school personal anthem. i dont really care. radiohead is a stupid band.

 

way to miss the point.

 

point being that radiohead were responsible for exposing aphex and autechre to a huge chunk of people.

 

dude not to be rude but it's irrelevant. first of all it was a whole different time period and the people being exposed werent shitting all over the internet with corny electronic music.

kid A was 2000. amnesiac was 2001. that was a whole different time period? what age are you, 12?

secondly they're a whole different genre

it's like trying to hammer nails into butter.

who are you talking to, your imaginary audience?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_audience

Can people just say, 'the one that shall not be named' instead of 'Skrillex'.

Cheers.