Aphex Twin: Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP

mine has been dispatched today too, let's see when it is going to arrive :-)...

Mine has arrived this morning! :)

this should be like the new season of top gear and actually have broadcasted availability at all points on the planet simultaneously. (doesn't mention their snarky comment about blessed NK). Cause i'm getting jacked that i have to wait until friday.

It's good.

This whole EP feels like variations on one idea. It leaves me wondering what other kinds of tracks he makes with his acoustic stuff , I'd like to hear those too plz.

listening to leaked version:

quite tight. Sounds Aphex, no doubt. I think I prefer this over Syro.

Sent out today from Bleep HQ! Going to hold it out until it arrives :)

im listening to it for the first time now

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like it.

It also reminds me of why syntheziers are fun - the palette of sounds are so vast and different! Acoustic instruments are tactile and you can do a lot with direct interaction, yet still... I wouldn't personally like to only use acoustic instruments all the time. A piano sounds like a piano almost no matter what. Probably why I like samplers the most.

It really feels analordish like there is going to be much more

can't resist until friday. master faphex forgive me, i am weak :(

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:11 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

can't resist until friday. master faphex forgive me, i am weak :(

DON'T CAVE MENG!

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:07 PM, o00o said:

It really feels analordish like there is going to be much more

hopefully. It would be odd if this style is his only one concerning his robits

I dont know what to think of this.

it sounds much better then Syro production wise. aphex is definitely back. Its totally experimental, dark, intellectual but there's still no sight of his 94 to 2005 masterpieces kinda of quality. Something is definitely missing. I feel like he wants it like that. Syro and computer controlled sounds like a interlude to a real Aphex Twin album. Like he's really pacing himself.

This is good, but not a masterpiece like we know James can do.

However, this is much more encouraging then Syro: sounds commercial, half the songs are pretty unoriginal, too joyful, too IDM sounding. Vey non Aphex Twin kinda production. totally weird album.

While syro doesnt sound coherent and contains a lot of hit and miss (imo, half the songs are boring while other half is amazing), this album is good from beginning to end and sounds like the good old Aphex in terms of production, darkness, experimentation and originality.

I sounded like a reviewer lol.

But I find that musically, it lacks.

Can we count Drukqs as part 1?

it's good but makes you wonder if he'll ever release tracks that really push it beyond the realm of what a human payer is capable of.

It's funny how i read a review a few days back where some no nothing was stating that BoC and so forth were innovating, whilst syro wasn't and that aphex really was on an innovating hiatus. To me this is the biggest lie that can only be perpetrating by those without the mental scope and historical context to understand that all the shit that they think is innovative and direction pushing can only do so on the terms of their limited understanding of music history.

to reiterate and paraphrase a post of mine from over a decade ago, it's all been done before, and if something is nice that's all that matters. There is no fashion as propositioned by those of note and mention. They are deluded, shadow chasing realitiphobes searching for something to worship as the latest ubermensch ..... gleh.

love the ep so far, they should have made the Ep cover/Inside much more organic like the druqks one with pictures of gears n stuff.

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:21 PM, murphythecat8 said:

 

This is good, but not a masterpiece like we know James can do.

 

the first time I did listen to the analords I had exactly this impression but if I see this EP in context to a single analord it pretty much has the same quality if not better

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:40 PM, delet... said:

It's funny how i read a review a few days back where some no nothing was stating that BoC and so forth were innovating, whilst syro wasn't and that aphex really was on an innovating hiatus. To me this is the biggest lie that can only be perpetrating by those without the mental scope and historical context to understand that all the shit that they think is innovative and direction pushing can only do so on the terms of their limited understanding of music history.

 

to reiterate and paraphrase a post of mine from over a decade ago, it's all been done before, and if something is nice that's all that matters. There is no fashion as propositioned by those of note and mention. They are deluded, shadow chasing realitiphobes searching for something to worship as the latest ubermensch ..... gleh.

sorry, but how is this relevant to this thread? we aren't talking about syro, or boc. and nobody questionned, yet, the innovativness of Computer controlled acoustic.

but this is definitely not innovative one bit. it really sounds like drukqs and could have well be done in that era. maybe CCAI2 was done years ago?

and I would agree that TH from BOC isnt innnovative at all, and syro isnt innovative either imo.

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:42 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:21 PM, murphythecat8 said:

 

This is good, but not a masterpiece like we know James can do.

 

 

the first time I did listen to the analords I had exactly this impression but if I see this EP in context to a single analord it pretty much has the same quality if not better

 

not really, because I like the acid aphex, and theres nothing acid in CCAI2.

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:21 PM, murphythecat8 said:

Something is definitely missing.

What's usually lacking is the time you need to spend to get to know the music. I bet this EP will sound better and better (as usual)

Then again it might not.

question: why does aphex have to be innovative and totally new with every record? he's still making some of the best electronic music out there. i wanna hear music i like and enjoy. if he's going to release his dancey tunes like he said in the latest interviews, i would be so happy. i'd even love to hear his version of today's club music.

so all in all i think: syro was a great album. the ep seems to be very different and i don't expect "choons" like minipops etc... but i think i'll like it. and if not, it's not my favourite style of aphex. full stop.

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:50 PM, murphythecat8 said:

 

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:40 PM, delet... said:

It's funny how i read a review a few days back where some no nothing was stating that BoC and so forth were innovating, whilst syro wasn't and that aphex really was on an innovating hiatus. To me this is the biggest lie that can only be perpetrating by those without the mental scope and historical context to understand that all the shit that they think is innovative and direction pushing can only do so on the terms of their limited understanding of music history.

 

to reiterate and paraphrase a post of mine from over a decade ago, it's all been done before, and if something is nice that's all that matters. There is no fashion as propositioned by those of note and mention. They are deluded, shadow chasing realitiphobes searching for something to worship as the latest ubermensch ..... gleh.

sorry, but how is this relevant to this thread? we aren't talking about syro, or boc. and nobody questionned, yet, the innovativness of Computer controlled acoustic.

but this is definitely not innovative one bit. it really sounds like drukqs and could have well be done in that era. maybe CCAI2 was done years ago?

and I would agree that TH from BOC isnt innnovative at all, and syro isnt innovative either imo.

 

 

 

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:42 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:21 PM, murphythecat8 said:

 

This is good, but not a masterpiece like we know James can do.

 

 

the first time I did listen to the analords I had exactly this impression but if I see this EP in context to a single analord it pretty much has the same quality if not better

 

not really, because I like the acid aphex, and theres nothing acid in CCAI2.

 

Echo delet's sentiments: it doesn't need to be innovative, and that word is largely subjective anyway.

for e.g, if I've only ever listened to Aretha Franklin then Lionel Richie would probably blow my mind, creatively speaking.

A lot of 'innovators' are just very good as mimicry (see, William Shakespeare) and Aphex is no different really. But he is unique (imparts his own personality into his compositions) and if CCAI has this element - which it most likely will - then I'm all for it.

My point is, Aphex largely gets credited as an innovator, when really it's probably more helpful to think of him as an artist/auteur/visionary.

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:42 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 1/20/2015 at 5:21 PM, murphythecat8 said:

 

This is good, but not a masterpiece like we know James can do.

 

 

the first time I did listen to the analords I had exactly this impression but if I see this EP in context to a single analord it pretty much has the same quality if not better

 

It's a bit fast also to say that as early as on the day you first heard it... Let it grow on you, murphy! :)

"piano un10 it happened"

Wow...

I expected some emotion in here but this one hits damn deep.