Music Any Aphex Twin fans?

[Bloodporne]

I've been on my annual massive Aphex Twin binge and was wondering if there are any other fans on here?

 

What are your favorite, most memorable, whatever tracks by Mr. RDJ? His catalog is so fucking vast, I always find new tracks so I'm curious.

[Keyser_Soze]

I was a pretty big fan, I don't listen to him as much anymore. Drukqs is probably my favorite album, 54 Cymru Beats is my jam.

I also like AFX which is also him.

[Bloodporne]

21 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I was a pretty big fan, I don't listen to him as much anymore. Drukqs is probably my favorite album, 54 Cymru Beats is my jam.

I also like AFX which is also him.

I actually never really listened to that one somehow. My favorites are Selected Ambient Works Vol. II and ...I Care Because You Do. 

 

I recently discovered all those "leaked" Soundcloud (or whatever service it was) tracks people have made various compilations of. Some of that stuff is really fantastic. I was just listening to Richard D. James Album and felt compelled to make this thread after enjoying the fuck out of Fingerbib several times in a row.

[SuperSpreader]

I only like the one where that weird thing screams 

[Keyser_Soze]

6 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

I only like the one where that weird thing screams 

 

I woulda pegged you as a Milk Man kinda guy 

[SuperSpreader]

1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I woulda pegged you as a Milk Man kinda guy 

No pegging. 

 

 

 

 

 

Also I haven't listened enough to know what that means!! My other bands are The Armed, Behemoth, Dillinger Esc Plan, Car Bomb, really enjoying Judiciary. I will listen to more Aphex Twin today! It will be a priority.

[Keyser_Soze]

3 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

 

Also I haven't listened enough to know what that means!! My other bands are The Armed, Behemoth, Dillinger Esc Plan, Car Bomb, really enjoying Judiciary. I will listen to more Aphex Twin today! It will be a priority.

 

Well expect Aphex Twin to sound nothing like those bands!

[SuperSpreader]

1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Well expect Aphex Twin to sound nothing like those bands!

That's cool. I don't discriminate. 

 

 

 

 

 

I judge.

[Chris-]

I would like some milk.

[Bloodporne]

4 hours ago, 2user1cup said:

I only like the one where that weird thing screams 

Ironically that song was apparently made as a parody of Heavy Metal, as a joke essentially, and became his most well-known song. 

 

Basically everything else he's done in his absurdly vast catalog and musical variations is nothing like that song. 

 

Edit: Assuming we're talking about Come To Daddy

[SuperSpreader]

12 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Ironically that song was apparently made as a parody of Heavy Metal, as a joke essentially, and became his most well-known song. 

 

Basically everything else he's done in his absurdly vast catalog and musical variations is nothing like that song. 

 

Edit: Assuming we're talking about Come To Daddy

We are, I'm listening to other songs and none if it is like that.

[Bloodporne]

1 minute ago, 2user1cup said:

We are, I'm listening to other songs and none if it is like that.

He's done anything from very stripped-down and tranquil Ambient to borderline pure noise but definitely nothing like Come To Daddy funny enough.

 

 

[Nokt]

I've heard Aphex Twin dropped around some discussions of The Flashbulb. Every time he pops up I try to find a song of his I like, but just never get into it. 

Maybe I'm just looking up the wrong songs. 

Can someone recommend me an album to start with?

[SuperSpreader]

10 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

He's done anything from very stripped-down and tranquil Ambient to borderline pure noise but definitely nothing like Come To Daddy funny enough.

 

 

For that I usually play rain or ocean sounds on Spotify

[Keyser_Soze]

5 hours ago, 2user1cup said:

We are, I'm listening to other songs and none if it is like that.

 

10 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Well expect Aphex Twin to sound nothing like those bands!

 

[Keyser_Soze]

5 hours ago, Nokt said:

Can someone recommend me an album to start with?

 

Richard D. James Album is probably the easiest to get into.

 

Or Windowlicker for that music video

 

 

(NSFW language)

[SuperSpreader]

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

 

No one warned us! Who could have known!?

[Keyser_Soze]

52 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

No one warned us! Who could have known!?

 

TBH that was kinda the song that got me into Aphex Twin, or at least drew my attention. When I listened to his other stuff I discovered that Come to Daddy is basically the only song of his that sounds like that.

 

But I got heavy into IDM, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, etc so yeah I didn't really mind.

 

I found when I was younger I was mostly disappointed in albums because I had expectations of what I was going to hear and when the album was not what I expected I generally was turned off of it.

These days I don't really have any expectations of what I'll hear, so when a band totally changes up their sound from album to album I generally enjoy it on it's own merit rather than comparing it to other albums and getting mad it doesn't sound like Album I like part 2. That being said there are exceptions.

[Bloodporne]

18 hours ago, Nokt said:

I've heard Aphex Twin dropped around some discussions of The Flashbulb. Every time he pops up I try to find a song of his I like, but just never get into it. 

Maybe I'm just looking up the wrong songs. 

Can someone recommend me an album to start with?

 

I would recommend this to start with as it covers a lot of...bases...of his sound. Some heavily Ambient-veering tracks mixed with great percussion. Besides, the opening track is one of my favorite songs of all time. 

 

Or maybe this as it's also kind of a perfect cross section while his later albums are a bit too "glitchy" for me personally. This is my personal favorite:

 

 

[Bloodporne]

10 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

TBH that was kinda the song that got me into Aphex Twin, or at least drew my attention. When I listened to his other stuff I discovered that Come to Daddy is basically the only song of his that sounds like that.

 

But I got heavy into IDM, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, etc so yeah I didn't really mind.

 

I found when I was younger I was mostly disappointed in albums because I had expectations of what I was going to hear and when the album was not what I expected I generally was turned off of it.

These days I don't really have any expectations of what I'll hear, so when a band totally changes up their sound from album to album I generally enjoy it on it's own merit rather than comparing it to other albums and getting mad it doesn't sound like Album I like part 2. That being said there are exceptions.

I love Boards Of Canada and (older particularly) Autechre. 

 

Honestly, I got into this kind of stuff in my "drug experimentation" days. A great friend of mine who is a painter and tattoo artist used to drop acid and paint for like 10 hours to all this kinds of stuff and I thought it was fascinating. One of our go-to albums was this compilation Artificial Intelligence:

 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

No love for Blue Calx?

 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

@Bloodporne Have you heard the new Fennesz album? It's really good!

[Bloodporne]

21 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

@Bloodporne Have you heard the new Fennesz album? It's really good!

Never heard of that actually, what should I check out?

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

No love for Blue Calx?

 

 

This is yet another favorite of all time tracks and probably my favorite Aphex track actually. Just brilliant, he has a knack for making these really beautiful yet eerie pieces.

[Keyser_Soze]

12 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Never heard of that actually, what should I check out?

 

The new album is Agora, just check that out.

 

Then check out Venice and Endless Summer.