Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

  On 9/6/2023 at 7:00 PM, Jonny aa said:

 

As you know Richard played Bristol this last weekend, I was unable to attend due to going away for a friends birthday. Whilst away my daughter called me up really excited to tell me that RDJ was staying at the hotel she works at. I have been a fan since hearing Analogue bubble bath in the 90's, the fact that my daughter has seen and Come to daddy and Windowlicker so many times its not a face she will easily forget! Not only did she get to meet RDJ (totally lovely down to earth geez, as to be expected!), his wife and child, he even chatted to my daughter for some time, think she told him about the time I was in nyc at Philip glass studio shortly after his visit, being the amazing daughter she is, she then surprised me, she had taken my donkey rhubarb bear in to work to get it signed Oh and to make the whole weekend even weirder, at my friends birthday someone had brought masks of the birthday boy for us all to wear so the whole weekend was on an Aphex tip (parallel universe?) even though I was unable to get to the gig it was an amazing weekend!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wish I could read this. All linked material just shows up as “” for me. 

sounds like he won twice.. congrats Jonny!

  On 9/13/2023 at 2:25 AM, ryanpetersen said:

sounds like he won twice.. congrats Jonny!

Yes I did, thank you, I want to thank all those that voted, I was so gutted to not be able to go to the Downs to see Richard, last time I saw him was on the Thekla and before that a few times at The glade at Glasto. I feel so blessed to not only have my daughter meet him and for me to share my story but to then to top it off I win this prize thank you for your generosity Diatoms! Big love

  On 9/13/2023 at 6:09 PM, Jonny aa said:

Yes I did, thank you, I want to thank all those that voted, I was so gutted to not be able to go to the Downs to see Richard, last time I saw him was on the Thekla and before that a few times at The glade at Glasto. I feel so blessed to not only have my daughter meet him and for me to share my story but to then to top it off I win this prize thank you for your generosity Diatoms! Big love

ha, just looked up the thekla and its a moored ship in bristol floating harbor! sounds like a show

did you happen to see him glasto 2014 when he played a secret set?

i remember reading this at the time:)

from https://thatfestivallife.com/the-best-glastonbury-shows-ever/

"At our very first Glasto a generous soul tipped us off about a secret Aphex Twin gig, in a treehouse of all places. We knew it would be limited capacity so we left Carl Cox at The Glade early. To say The Spike was small was an understatement, there were about 10 people there including us! It was f-ing surreal, all 10 of us were just standing in front of Aphex Twin who was sitting down with his decks on some rickety fold up table. It was over 2 hours of acid house, techno and mind bending breakcore. 

At the end he chatted with us all as he packed up the CDJ’s."

  On 9/14/2023 at 3:34 AM, diatoms said:

 

ha, just looked up the thekla and its a moored ship in bristol floating harbor! sounds like a show

did you happen to see him glasto 2014 when he played a secret set?

 

i remember reading this at the time:)

from https://thatfestivallife.com/the-best-glastonbury-shows-ever/

"At our very first Glasto a generous soul tipped us off about a secret Aphex Twin gig, in a treehouse of all places. We knew it would be limited capacity so we left Carl Cox at The Glade early. To say The Spike was small was an understatement, there were about 10 people there including us! It was f-ing surreal, all 10 of us were just standing in front of Aphex Twin who was sitting down with his decks on some rickety fold up table. It was over 2 hours of acid house, techno and mind bending breakcore. 

At the end he chatted with us all as he packed up the CDJ’s."

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Not been to Glasto since they reinforced the fence early 2000, that picture looks lush and I love the story, I always remember just stumbling across his sets never having any idea if he was going to be playing or not.  I was also privileged to attend the Warp Lighthouse party and got to see RDJ, BOC, Autechre , Plaid and the rest of the Warp massive!

I cant see Jonny’s story 

please again 

  On 9/14/2023 at 1:40 PM, Jonny aa said:

Not been to Glasto since they reinforced the fence early 2000, that picture looks lush and I love the story, I always remember just stumbling across his sets never having any idea if he was going to be playing or not.  I was also privileged to attend the Warp Lighthouse party and got to see RDJ, BOC, Autechre , Plaid and the rest of the Warp massive!

holy cow, ha!

just found this:

https://imgur.com/a/m1k7QHL

Savage. Do a big fat line off Richards drum machine

I wonder how Ae's set was.. Must be pre-Confield something right after EP7 

What a freaking awesome lineup tho! 

Aphex/Ae/BoC all together. What an amazing era

  On 9/5/2023 at 12:31 PM, diatoms said:

i remember luke vibert also playing synthacon 9, got real excited hearing it twice within a couple of hours. i don't know if he would've known aphex only just played it at forwards. they know each other so well maybe they were on the same frequency

 

best summer of me life

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here's luke vibert dropping fenix funk 5 at lost horizon, ha:) i was feeling good that night and a little mistaken

its vibert's favorite aphex tune as well

^lol at that person passed out in the video. maybe they’re dead?

  On 9/16/2023 at 4:50 AM, diatoms said:

 
here's luke vibert dropping fenix funk 5 at lost horizon, ha:) i was feeling good that night and a little mistaken
its vibert's favorite aphex tune as well
 
from the syrobonkers! interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20141103131334/http://noyzelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/syrobonkers-part1.html
 
dave: so is that a synton fenix in that?

rich: Yes , actually its TWO synton fenix's patched together making that vocal baseline riff, using all the bandpass filters on both machines....
it sounded a bit more vocal on an earlier pass, thats the thing with complex analogue patches in the context of a 'song' and not just fucking about with them in experiments, they just change all the time and its pretty imposs/extremely hard to keep them sounding the same throughout the whole process of making a big track , i like the challenge though, like i say you have to be slightly mad to even attempt it, i have quite a few tricks I've invented to keep things in tune over the years though.
My friend had an argument with luke vibert who likes that fenix funk track, i think he said it was his fave track of all time to me once which is just a huge massive complement coming from him, thanks luke!
but anyway luke was telling my mate it was a vocal sample and you couldn't get a sound like that out of a synth , another top indirect complement, cheers mate!"
 
 

  On 9/16/2023 at 7:14 PM, Mattthegoone said:

I can't remember that, I was running on fumes at that stage, I had been on the piss for 2 days, peaked at afx thankfully, I can remember more of later that night than there, hats off to the back street chemists, they done good, did he also play Synthacon 9 and Universal Indicator Red or was I just so pudding headed that I remember stuff that didn't actually happen?

so far all i've seen are the two videos posted on reddit. luke dropping fenix funk 5 (which i don't remember hearing, ha) and squarepusher - red hot car with some looping. i think i remember universal indicator red spun by luke but just now on reddit someone found vibert's ace of club - classid trax ep uses almost the same acid pattern as universal indicator red a6, so maybe that was it? we need a full upload of vibert's set!

i pretty much remember all the songs of aphex origin that rdj spun during the summer (no matter what state i was in:) and hearing synthacon 9 that night at forwards then again by luke (from my memory) i would've thought i wouldn't get the tune wrong but so far i have:) the mystery of the aphex afters continues...

  On 9/14/2023 at 4:17 PM, diatoms said:

holy cow, ha!

just found this:

 

https://imgur.com/a/m1k7QHL

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dream line up.

  On 9/16/2023 at 7:59 PM, diatoms said:

so far all i've seen are the two videos posted on reddit. luke dropping fenix funk 5 (which i don't remember hearing, ha) and squarepusher - red hot car with some looping. i think i remember universal indicator red spun by luke but just now on reddit someone found vibert's ace of club - classid trax ep uses almost the same acid pattern as universal indicator red a6, so maybe that was it? we need a full upload of vibert's set!

i pretty much remember all the songs of aphex origin that rdj spun during the summer (no matter what state i was in:) and hearing synthacon 9 that night at forwards then again by luke (from my memory) i would've thought i wouldn't get the tune wrong but so far i have:) the mystery of the aphex afters continues...

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I remember the clouds are melting or do I?

I remember playing fff back at the gaf, I remember you stroking the Richard is Coming poster off the wall after the gig but there was an hour at that gig that I can't remember. Overtired

  On 9/16/2023 at 8:13 PM, Mattthegoone said:

I remember the clouds are melting or do I?

  On 9/16/2023 at 8:16 PM, Mattthegoone said:

I remember playing fff back at the gaf, I remember you stroking the Richard is Coming poster off the wall after the gig but there was an hour at that gig that I can't remember. Overtired

 

haha:) it was an amazing ending to the aphex summer   as soon as i saw that poster it was coming down since the festival was over, ha! and started the night before with cruising for burgers, it was a pretty special afx weekend which i'll never forget:)

I wish I met burger

 I was contemplating going to lisbon but flights there were 250, they were less than 50 return to Bristol, I know now that I made the right choice bristol was the best, the rocksteady/ska night on Friday in Elmers was out of this world. 

  On 9/14/2023 at 5:06 PM, cern said:

I wonder how Ae's set was.. Must be pre-Confield something right after EP7 

What a freaking awesome lineup tho! 

Yeah it was... actually not that great. From what I remember they were on pretty late, 3am or so. Energy was flagging a little and instead of the slamming set required there was an extended version of '19 headaches'. Crowd dispersed, by the end of the set there was definitely plenty of room to dance.  Not one of their best sets.

  On 9/14/2023 at 4:52 PM, beerwolf said:

Savage. Do a big fat line off Richards drum machine Pismo 

  On 9/11/2023 at 5:23 PM, diatoms said:

go on...

let's hear em

They're all on here... the last being the infamous Day for Night fiasco and likely my only chance to ever meet Richard in person...

Richard is still replying to comments: 

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  no I didnt but it's ace your asking that, a real aficionado you must be, original reese bass. I guess I put it in the uchoob links...he weirdly looks like my mate mammoth

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Can someone please elaborate this? What does he mean by "Original Reese Bass"? 
 

And oh Blackbox Life Recorder track: "This Track is not Available in your Country"