Aphex Twin - Collapse EP

  On 9/23/2018 at 12:10 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

I totally don't get it. The percussion in abundance sounds really lazy to me. No surprises, easy to count off, 1,2,3,4, add slightly arpeggiated bass note, few high hats, few more counts, predictable atmospheric pad, etc etc. I find it really boring.

 

The bass even sounds like it's "saying" "one two three four one two three four one two three four".

yeah whoops sorry for having an honest opinion RE one track on the release and not just fanboyjizzing over the whole EP

I fanboy jizzed over the whole EP and it fixed my surface noise issues.

lol I'll have to give that a... "shot"

  On 9/23/2018 at 1:11 PM, BCM said:

This thread just keeps rolling lol.

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pthex in particular has so much surround sound I notice when riding dirty through the farmlands in my automobile compared to when I'm listening on 2 monitor speakers at home.  The bass on this ep is crushing, and is so good for cruising at 15mph across desolate autumn countrysides.  A fitting progression from the gorgeous low khz bass on produk 29.  Also noticed the attention to surround detail listening to the ep on spotify while playing diablo last night on ps4. I must have listened thru a dozen times, each time was an adventure.  Beautiful attention to detail.  A cornucopia of blessings.  

cloud RN

(but yeah the detail and imaging in the percussion and some of the fx in these tracks is p nuts. Really enjoying it.)

opinions sans frontieres

why do people keep posting that Craig David meme?

The bass is sexy on this.  I've only listened through twice so far.  Once on a walk, once through my studio monitors.  Haven't fully absorbed it yet, but I'm liking the more complex drum programming direction.  Curious if there was a lot of computer edits this time, or if he's somehow making that insanity through hardware alone, as Syro was allegedly made.  Allegedly.

Programming Allegations - new moniker for someone.

Abundance is great but I’m just not feeling the rest of the EP at all.

afx good

when the pads kick in in "1st 44" it's like falling into another dimension. minimalistic but yet so huge, love that track!

I held a one person RAVE in my kitchen last night

Ate mushrooms and put collapse ep on big speakers

Connected with my Higher Self and received answers to my questions

Danced and had Fun:)

abundance10edit[2 R8's, FZ20m & a 909] made my emotions flow and tears fell:)

I had already heard the rest of the ep except abundance10edit[2 R8's, FZ20m & a 909] and pthex before then because I didn't want to run out of new aphex and the Awesome first time listening to any of his new songs that Always collapse my mind

Woke up early this morning and took my best friend to the bus for the airport

I handed her a 1994 walkman (hers that she hadn't used in decade and a half, Ha!), sennheiser cans and an unopened collapse cassette to relive the 90's:)

Thanks for all the Healing RDJ!!!

  On 9/22/2018 at 10:08 PM, lickneonlights said:

 

It might be the most important electronic release of the decade, I think. Something about the middle of abundance or those sci-fi synths in pthex transcends time and feels like total bliss. Can't even describe that feeling in words. Like this music is just timeless. We should record it onto a golden disc and send to space.

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  On 9/24/2018 at 9:37 AM, diatoms said:

I held a one person RAVE in my kitchen last night

 

Ate mushrooms and put collapse ep on big speakers

It's your poor old mum I feel sorry for

This one is getting surprisingly lot of praise even on afx fanboy standards. Yes, it's good and all, but I have to confess I really like Cheetah more. imo it's the strongest one of these latest ep's, although general consensus seems to be quite opposite. True, I've had a whole year to let it sink fully in and like I've said, I'm little slow with getting totally in with new music so not giving my final judgment too soon. T69's, both of 'em, have become my favorites from the EP, passed even the holy MT1 track.

I felt Cheetah was just a collection of semi-boring Minimalistic 4x4 IDM Dancefloor Bangers. Колхозная was great though. 

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I must say I do really like the ep. Wish there were more tracks. 

The intro on 1st 44 is just crazy. Pthex is off the wall, reminds me of the analord feel but the updated version. 

This thread is pure cancer

#afxgood

Have received my bleep physicals

But not my aphex store physicals