Aphex Twin: Read part 1 of SYROBONKERS! - an interview with Aphex Twin

  On 11/3/2014 at 9:39 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 7:44 PM, Bordie said:

I REALLY, REALLY hope Aphex is joking about all this conspiracy stuff

really hope he's not, as richard said

 

 

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Im really, really sorry to all folks who might be reading this but if you believe the ridiculous story that is being pedaled about 9/11 from the mainstream media then you are absolutely gullible, some very clever people are also very naive and very gullible

and he's right

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 9:42 PM, Bordie said:

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 9:39 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 7:44 PM, Bordie said:

I REALLY, REALLY hope Aphex is joking about all this conspiracy stuff

really hope he's not, as richard said

 

 

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Im really, really sorry to all folks who might be reading this but if you believe the ridiculous story that is being pedaled about 9/11 from the mainstream media then you are absolutely gullible, some very clever people are also very naive and very gullible

and he's right

 

 

Whatever, I've lost a big deal of respect for him

 

What, as a musician? Fuck off, that's ridiculous. He has a disposition to not trust people, and it makes him say some wacky shit. Who cares? I mean, he's right about the general public being gullible, even if he's wrong about some specific claims about world affairs. When it comes to world affairs, I'll turn to people who have Ph.D.s in international relations or political science or some similar field. When it comes to fucking killer music, I'll turn to Aphex or people with his spirit. He's coming from the right place when he says this shit, though.

As for your respect, who needs it? See ya later. Bye-bye.

nice read ! so much tech talk !

  On 11/3/2014 at 10:25 PM, Perezvon said:

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 9:45 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

not sure if mentioned yet (didnt read whole thread) but the break in Xmasevet10 seems like it was done with one of his logo foundations robot drummers. 'Metz Pa ha break' sounds just like the Xmasevet10 break to me, it is right (just through more reverb)?

It makes sense unless someone has already identified/sample spotted that break.

 

That's what I thought too.

 

yes! and this beast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj5oXyeEXXc

i can't wait to hear that shit, listening to pusher's music for robots recently was so depressing that only aphex can redeem the travesty of it

he sounds like a fried acid casual at times

and i think he has kids, they are just not with anastasia, so they made up their own. thats how i read it at least.

this is great.

aphex overload

part 2 steinvord

pls

  On 11/3/2014 at 11:25 PM, qnio said:

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 10:25 PM, Perezvon said:

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 9:45 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

not sure if mentioned yet (didnt read whole thread) but the break in Xmasevet10 seems like it was done with one of his logo foundations robot drummers. 'Metz Pa ha break' sounds just like the Xmasevet10 break to me, it is right (just through more reverb)?

It makes sense unless someone has already identified/sample spotted that break.

 

That's what I thought too.

 

yes! and this beast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj5oXyeEXXc

 

wow I haven't heard that one, sounds great! I hope he'll release this soon

seinverb was a ninj sidejob

after listening to Steinvord the other day it became obvious to me that its a Tom J record solo but the concept being a challenge 'how good of an aphex impression can I do' and he did a pretty damn good job

man he reminds me of me, rambling, lying, ginger mental acid causality contradicting mess that i am.

been telling people i have kids or i am married [even when i'm single], that i have unreleased tracks [or novel]s and rambling about how deprogrammed i feel since way before i got into afx [infact my first music was compared to afx by a friend before i even heard any [to my knowledge]]. it's a way of avoiding further probing questioning. shuts people up.

i'm much more of a fail than him though but i've decided this is some kind of ginger neanderthal autism gene.

most of all i wanna be his friend now

"I always kinda fantasised about what it would be like to have kids"

"we had an imaginary wedding and have imaginary kids."

...then throughout the interview he mentions he does have kids, haha. make up your mind RDJ!

Fantastic interview overall, looking forward to the next part.

  On 11/4/2014 at 1:30 AM, fenton said:

most of all i wanna be his friend now

haha same, especially after knowing his politics.

edit: it's very rare these days for any electronic musician to a) take the risk and say something politically controversial in an interview b) have seemingly any ideology beyond just wanting to get a lot of pussy and get famous on a repressed adolescent ego fantasy trip (like from rags to riches, but from laptop nerd/tinkerer to club celebrity). Hugely refreshing that one of my favorite artists of all time, RDJ is of this rare breed, which makes sense since his artistic output has always been one of a confident trailblazer who isn't hugely concerned with what the rest of electronic music is 'doing' .

It take serious balls to be an already existing 'famous' person and to talk about shit like this.

hrm i think most people who took a lot of acid chat this kind of anti-etsablished[world] viewpoint, musicians, writers, directors, man in the pub, hobos.

or maybe they took the acid because of how they thought.

always been a question of mine, chicken / egg etc etc

did i take acid because i already felt something was wrong and wanted to prove it?

obv it's not all about acid because some people with certain neurological or personality traits/disorders are already 'enlightened' [i'd prefer to call it disabled... not everyone had a tank to play around with while they realise how fucked up the world is and buy another few hours of chinese girl genius brain time.]

but i'm just jealous

i used to think psychedelics in and of themselves contributed heavily to anti establishment thought, and maybe they do but i've met a surprising amount of psychedelic users who are into the whole hedonistic lifestyle angle (polyamorous, partying all the time, freelance work or no work at all ethic, etc). but not a spec of anti establishment anti-system ideology whatsoever at the core (maybe a hint of it but only as a springboard to fuck and die like rabbits). IT can breed both types of mind states from what i've seen. Of course there's the third type of person who might reflexively become more conservative or sheltered as a result of trying to escape from whatever LSD unlocked in their mind.

  On 11/3/2014 at 11:27 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

i can't wait to hear that shit, listening to pusher's music for robots recently was so depressing that only aphex can redeem the travesty of it

Music For Robots? Why do you hate Music For Robots?

after reading this I completely lost all respect for myself

i dont want to bash it too much but compositionally it sounded like classic dad rock vibes, strike 1. strike 2 and 3 were just the way he recorded all the tones, they were recorded in such a way to not emphasize that these were indeed live instruments. The guitar was recorded super clean like a jazz guitar, besides a few hyper-fast hammer-ons and other cool tricks the technical aspect of it wasn't impressive. Dont get me started on the wasted opportunity of Pusher with a robot drum. I don't mind Tom's jazz improvisational sound, but its this weird overly safe almost in your face easy listening pop vibe that I don't gel with at all in his newest compositions. Even his electric bass solo album, if it was just him wanking the whole time id have probably dug it but again with those really overly familiar 'happy' chord progressions, they just do nothing for me.

I don't think anyone who was too acid-fried could get their shit together enough to make something as complex as Syro.

Also, this interview is a bit of an embarrassment of riches for an AFX fan. It never seemed like there would be such an in-depth discussion of gear and techniques -- along with the gear list on Syro. Quite amazing, really. I like the idea of resampling so much and I've done it like three times on my projects. Feeling inspired now.

  On 11/3/2014 at 9:52 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

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Another thing I read on ytube about 1 of my traks was ' this is art not music' ! Ha they meant to be nice but I think this reflects how a lot of people see music these days as some kind of utility that just does expected things, its very, very sad, sad shit., spiritually lowest point of humanity vibes..

 

fucking lol

 

makes no sense to me though.

how is that sad?

how is he able to have a conclusion lke its sad to say art rather then music.

seriously, I thought he was more mature then dat. I think I prefer the mysterious, silent type aphex twin.

  On 11/4/2014 at 2:15 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 11/4/2014 at 1:30 AM, fenton said:

most of all i wanna be his friend now

haha same, especially after knowing his politics.

 

edit: it's very rare these days for any electronic musician to a) take the risk and say something politically controversial in an interview b) have seemingly any ideology beyond just wanting to get a lot of pussy and get famous on a repressed adolescent ego fantasy trip (like from rags to riches, but from laptop nerd/tinkerer to club celebrity). Hugely refreshing that one of my favorite artists of all time, RDJ is of this rare breed, which makes sense since his artistic output has always been one of a confident trailblazer who isn't hugely concerned with what the rest of electronic music is 'doing' .

It take serious balls to be an already existing 'famous' person and to talk about shit like this.

 

agreed.

he talks about psychadelic and he is a huge public personality. mad props to him, but some politic subject he shouldnt get into that. or also talking about how most people are sheeps and all that. judging people was not something I thought aphex did and this is dissapointing.

  On 11/3/2014 at 4:14 PM, Blue Calx said:

Fantastic read, mad all this stuff's coming out now after years and years of over-analysing every little thing. Can't wait for part 2!

It really is overwhelming and exciting with that in mind. Relentlessly seeking every little tidbit about RDJ and his peers is what lead me to this forum to begin with.

  On 11/3/2014 at 10:47 PM, apriorion said:

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 9:42 PM, Bordie said:

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 9:39 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 7:44 PM, Bordie said:

I REALLY, REALLY hope Aphex is joking about all this conspiracy stuff

really hope he's not, as richard said

 

 

  Quote

 

 

Im really, really sorry to all folks who might be reading this but if you believe the ridiculous story that is being pedaled about 9/11 from the mainstream media then you are absolutely gullible, some very clever people are also very naive and very gullible

and he's right

 

 

Whatever, I've lost a big deal of respect for him

 

 

What, as a musician? Fuck off, that's ridiculous. He has a disposition to not trust people, and it makes him say some wacky shit. Who cares? I mean, he's right about the general public being gullible, even if he's wrong about some specific claims about world affairs. When it comes to world affairs, I'll turn to people who have Ph.D.s in international relations or political science or some similar field. When it comes to fucking killer music, I'll turn to Aphex or people with his spirit. He's coming from the right place when he says this shit, though.

As for your respect, who needs it? See ya later. Bye-bye.

 

  On 11/4/2014 at 3:16 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

i dont want to bash it too much but compositionally it sounded like classic dad rock vibes, strike 1. strike 2 and 3 were just the way he recorded all the tones, they were recorded in such a way to not emphasize that these were indeed live instruments. The guitar was recorded super clean like a jazz guitar,

Aren't you just slave to your repressed adolescent guitar fuzz fantasies.

Also, i'm not an acid person but all these people used to say 'oh he's such a tripper' and such like, probably because when they encountered me they found that i don't converse in the normal analogues, i just riff on issues of diversity that take my fancy. "oh yeah you said blah dee blah, wouldn't it be intresting if" ... (goes off on tangent exploring ideas). Most peoples minds are dead to this kind of thinking, it's alien to them. Their main conversational capacity centres around use of memory, so regurgitating concepts that they've read or experiences that they have had. These usually relate to what others mentioned earlier in the stream of conversation. It can bounce around, from topic to topic, but there is never any experimenting or bending of preconceived ideas or conventions. People tend to get quite annoyed too when you question their precious learned 'wisdom', they've become quite attached to it, somehow i spose it helps define them, this stream of memories. It's depressing, as you realise that this is why these people are still trapped with such a terribly limited worldview, given that they rely so much on learning approved knowledge, rather than figuring things out from themselves through experimental inquiry driven by a natural scepticism and a long experience in sifting through information with an open mind able to draw parallels to past pitfalls, etc wtfeva.

-sie-ro

Anyway, this mental state probably has nothing to do with drug taking. I too have found plenty of avaricious, untrustworthy, self aggrandising 'mind expanding' drug users.