Is it even possible to produce a new Aphex Twin album?

We should offer The Chosen One a fan made tribute album. Even if all the tracks are just fart sounds played on a different scale. I think he'd like it.

  On 1/17/2014 at 8:48 AM, goDel said:

Mods, please move this thread to the boc subforum...

 

Plaid>RDJ

Clark>RDJ

AE>RDJ

BOC>RDJ

eat me

Weird that no one has even mentioned this yet: Aphex is not about innovation but all about quality. None of his albums introduced all-new elements to their genres or invoked new (sub-)genres themselves. His impact on all sorts of electronic music is based on that unique quality, not production quality alone but rather the quality coming from his immense talent at making music. That being said not every single record of his is gold, of course not. I don't think he even tried to achieve that. But I'm going back to SAW 1&2, RDJ Album, Drukqs, Tuss stuff and especially the Analords and always discover new things layered deep below the surface. He's a master. Do not ever doubt that.

really? SAW2 was pretty revolutionary. Hangable Autobulb was definitely revolutionary. RDJ album also pretty revolutionary.

I'd argue a lot of the other interstitial and alias works were not. And I don't think Drukqs or Analords were (duh).

WAT

Ok, druqks, the analords and the tuss are probably like that, but everything that came before those releases was definitely miles ahead of anything else released in the same period.

Edit: not in response to lumpenprol.

  On 1/17/2014 at 6:19 PM, lumpenprol said:

really? SAW2 was pretty revolutionary. Hangable Autobulb was definitely revolutionary. RDJ album also pretty revolutionary.

 

I'd argue a lot of the other interstitial and alias works were not. And I don't think Drukqs or Analords were (duh).

In which way exactly was SAW2 revolutionary? Don't get me wrong, I love this record. But I don't see him on that record as a pioneer by any means, except for its quality. There were lots of similiar Ambient records before SAW 1&2. Same with the RDJ-album coming out 1996. There have been producers and enthusiasts for new harsh electronic music such as Breakcore all over the place by then. Breakcore was big in 1995. Nothing RDJ has ever done stood out by being something really new (perhaps with the exception of Didgeridoo). He just takes on relatively (!) new or the current fresh things in a very classy way. He found gold where others digged deep in shit. The real pioneers are mostly forgotten. Nah, Aphex is not the father of any (sub-)genre or style or movement. He inspires by raw quality, that's it.

Yes, SAW2 is good, but not groundbreaking. The Eno ambient stuff is arguably better. You have also have Uwe Schmidt and Pete Namlook taking ambient to even more interesting directions at the time and afterwards.

I'd say Hangable, RDJ album and Girl/Boy EP were truly Richard's with little else sounding like them at the time. Really special music happening there.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall, when (if) Richard reads threads like these.

And I'd love to take a shit that gives me full relief.

Right now my shits are satisfactory at best(6/7). It's like there's always some shit left.

I might have to check my diet or something.

  On 1/17/2014 at 8:15 PM, Phoenix said:

And I'd love to take a shit that gives me full relief.

 

Right now my shits are satisfactory at best (6/7). It's like there's always some shit left.

 

I might have to check my diet or something.

Four pints of Guinness in the evening and three quarters of a pint pineapple juice in the morning should (will) sort that out.

hah, good lord. He'll be weeing it out.

Is it LEGALLY possible to relase another aphex twin album? Maybe this has been addressed (so forgive), but what's with the first analord release (10) being under Aphex, and the rest under AFX? I'm sure there are theories, but I don't know them. The onlyl thing I could imagine was that some legal dispute came up where he couldn't release as Aphex for some who-knows-why reason, and so he released all the rest as AFX? Am I crazy? Uninformed?

Or maybe he didn't want to deal with the publicity. But you'd think he'd 've thought of that before releasing the first one.

Agreed.

It's been discussed before, but I cant remember the details. It was either about Warner Bros or Warp, or both even, having rights over the use of the Aphex Twin. Not sure whether those rights still exist.

Joyrex should hire a legal expert to find that shit out. Or we should learn to befriend illuminati and they'd do it for free.

i was thinking the other day: what percentage of rich's music is creative and what is smarts. i think he's a little smarter than creative because it takes a smart mind to make technical music and most of his music is technical.

opinions?

i need a pie graph but fuck it.

black forest gateau graph>cheesecake graph>pie graph>cake graph

  On 1/18/2014 at 8:56 AM, goDel said:

Agreed.

 

It's been discussed before, but I cant remember the details.

Not remembering the details is the lifeblood of this forum.

Who are you again?

I think RDJ occasionally swaps brains with Robert Downey Jr so when he sits down to make a track, all that comes out is witty lines of dialogue and NO FUCKING MUSIC

i agree with that one post where quality was mentioned. the music definitely has some qualities, there is no denying it. values even.

Considering new evidence has surfaced and we now know Richards does indeed own a computer, and not only that; a DAW (Ableton Live with Max for live), the only possible conclusion is this: Yes! It is definitely possible to produce a new (aphex twin) album with those tools.

  On 1/20/2014 at 1:08 PM, Gocab said:

Considering new evidence has surfaced and we now know Richards does indeed own a computer, and not only that; a DAW (Ableton Live with Max for live), the only possible conclusion is this: Yes! It is definitely possible to produce a new (aphex twin) album with those tools.

But the M Night Shamamalon twist is that he made all his albums with an avocado, and armadillo, an old alternator from a '67 Chevy, and a bottle of grapefruit juice. Shit is so trill.

Do you see the slight hope ?

  On 1/20/2014 at 8:33 PM, Seblastien said:

Do you see the slight hope ?

Statistically speaking insignificant.

Hey, is that because of that first EDM compilation?

that slight 'up' is more likely just a bunch of kids seeing what skrillex posted