New countdown, new release? [Aphex Twin Warp Store]

It was inside the NFT and I think people were hoping that this not-worth-100k thing had more to it than just being a scam. Music will come when it does. In the meantime, it was fun speculating on what/if this was if it were to have dropped today. Still would kill for a drukqs re-issue. WARP, please...

Oh right it’s the 20th Anniversary of Drukqs and there’s no plans for anything 

  On 4/15/2021 at 10:29 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:

No not really. It’s just a really douchey move to intentionally disappoint a ton of uber-fans that have a lot of interest in, are emotionally invested in, and find solace in the artists’ new music. It’s not much different than your bank promising you a high rate of interest only to turn around and be like humph 0.25% har har jokes on you! Ha! You didn’t get what you expected! So brilliant to mislead you! Ha!

 

It’s p shit marketing. Imagine a similar scenario when you buy groceries? You get celery every time you paid for ribeye for the last 31 years?

I just think the day and age of these mystery campaigns and shit are behind us. Give us the the music. Take our money (the same money the faithful fans have shelled out for decades). We’re like ages 30-55 now.

Expand  

Yeah this. It's not like we are demanding music every month cuz we are spoilt brats, we were promised something, that's it. You don't put some mysterious dates just for great banter and hahas.

If this was intentional just to lower my guard down then yeah, tap yourself on a fucking shoulder, you made it! But if you think this will make me even more enthusiastic about anything that will suddenly pop out of warp, weirdcore or this freaka tit guy then no, couldn't care less. Autechre for instance knows how to handle audience and other things, they make you look like a fucking amateurs by a long mile. 

  On 4/15/2021 at 1:02 PM, colunga said:

Oh right it’s the 20th Anniversary of Drukqs and there’s no plans for anything 

Yeah. I Remember the anniversary for all his other albums where we got boxsets with outtakes, b-sides, remixes and alternate takes.

one in a hundred million chance of 14042021 being a random coincidence

we've been trolled

very funny richard/weirdcore

i guess i will have to listen to some of the other millions of good songs stored digitally on earth

but i will choose to cling to the richie sombrero theory that this was a marketing misfire intended to signal an anniversary event later this year, since we are a weird internet stalker club/cult

  On 4/15/2021 at 10:45 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:

For sure - this is the most likely scenario imo. 

It's either that or Steve Beckett said the new record was "quite good" and Rich wont give them the masters now. 

  On 4/13/2021 at 4:32 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

 

Expand  

Is this how British write dates? 

Its not, kind of odd. Maybe... I got it. New Aphex drops December 02, 4140! Exclusively available in the Black Lodge!!!

  On 4/15/2021 at 8:41 PM, T3551ER said:

Its not, kind of odd. Maybe... I got it. New Aphex drops December 02, 4140! Exclusively available in the Black Lodge!!!

Afaik that’s how Americans write dates... so maybe something related to murica (that didn’t happened)

  On 4/15/2021 at 8:28 PM, xox said:

Is this how British write dates? 

Is the song name 14th Avril?

  On 4/15/2021 at 10:29 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:

No not really. It’s just a really douchey move to intentionally disappoint a ton of uber-fans that have a lot of interest in, are emotionally invested in, and find solace in the artists’ new music. It’s not much different than your bank promising you a high rate of interest only to turn around and be like humph 0.25% har har jokes on you! Ha! You didn’t get what you expected! So brilliant to mislead you! Ha!

I just think the day and age of these mystery campaigns and shit are behind us. Give us the the music. Take our money (the same money the faithful fans have shelled out for decades). We’re like ages 30-55 now.

I agree it's a really douchey move. still think it's funny though.. in a very douchey way

  On 4/15/2021 at 9:26 PM, jules said:

Is the song name 14th Avril?

no

but shouldn't it be said 14th OF April if you turn them around? but writing dates with just numbers is much more strict (dunno ... am not an expert in english, but that much i do know)

and Avril 14th sounds better 

there is of course there is the other possibility that its a password to a dropbox/soundcloud/deep-web site that contains the q-chastic dubplate, melodies from mars remake, badger album and Drukqs 2021...

i'll leave that for the BOC fans to work out tho. 

Maybe it was the date the trees were going to be planted.

regarding the date questions, its pretty clearly a date in american format, cant really see it referring to anything else> april 14 2021.  this freeka tet person who posted it resides in nyc so that would make sense as well.  either way in the end we seem to be left with trolling 

https://www.argent.xyz/what-is-a-mnemonic-seed-phrase-crypto/#:~:text=A mnemonic phrase%2C mnemonic seed,this isn't quite correct.

maybe what was up for grabs was just Crypto and not XP4 acid.

my take on this: he's using the NFT format to test whether or not fans would notice/react to things like this, and it turns out we have.

when the soundcloud activity started back in 2015, he tried to upload another artist's track (as "80s tite") to test the copyright algorithm - and it worked, sc picked it up despite it being so obscure. NFT is such a new thing, he'd be stupid not to hide files in it and guage the reaction.

btw, how much did NIN fans freak out about Ghosts 37 and 38 when they were discovered? i wanna get a base line here.

  On 4/16/2021 at 10:24 PM, Dragon said:

my take on this: he's using the NFT format to test whether or not fans would notice/react to things like this, and it turns out we have.

when the soundcloud activity started back in 2015, he tried to upload another artist's track (as "80s tite") to test the copyright algorithm - and it worked, sc picked it up despite it being so obscure. NFT is such a new thing, he'd be stupid not to hide files in it and guage the reaction.

btw, how much did NIN fans freak out about Ghosts 37 and 38 when they were discovered? i wanna get a base line here.

Expand  

Maybe I’d be inclined to agree with that if Weirdcore didn’t upload a step by step guide to unlock a troll 

  On 4/17/2021 at 4:30 PM, jules said:

Maybe I’d be inclined to agree with that if Weirdcore didn’t upload a step by step guide to unlock a troll 

 

 

perhaps not a troll, but a serious attempt to find out how much effort it takes to find a hidden file in there. for all we know, it could've been present for ages before Weirdcore caved in with the instructions

  On 4/17/2021 at 6:24 PM, Dragon said:

perhaps not a troll, but a serious attempt to find out how much effort it takes to find a hidden file in there. for all we know, it could've been present for ages before Weirdcore caved in with the instructions

 

Expand  

That's my new mission in life: checking every video file if it's not a hidden .zip...

  On 4/17/2021 at 7:12 PM, Adamovich said:

That's my new mission in life: checking every video file if it's not a hidden .zip...

*checks the runoff screen on my VHS of Windowlicker for clues*

  On 4/17/2021 at 7:25 PM, auxien said:

*checks the runoff screen on my VHS of Windowlicker for clues*

speaking of, when this will be out:

jfc...

^will be an NFT soon