Aphex Twin

[DJourg]

I was listening to an electronic music compilation and heard the track 'Girl-Boy Song' by Aphex Twin. It was the only tune I liked. The drum track was amazing. I messed around on the V's trying to cop some of it. Very inspirational. One of the things I liked best about the track is that it didn't rely on other electronic sounds...it's basically a string section with a hopped up percussion track (if the strings were synthesized they were very convincing). It also wasn't beat-heavy like most dance-oriented electronic music...the percussion became a lead instrument, it seemed, rather than a static, song-length throbbing.

Anyway I think a few of you on here are into this kind of music...svook I think you play in a drum & bass kind of band, and I remember Postnukklear mentioning AT before...is all his stuff like this? I wonder if you can make some listening recommendations.

DJourg

[MPCman]

IIIIIIIIIIII WANT YOUR SOULLLLLLLLLL

[Schmunk]

IIIIIII WIILLLL EEAATT YYOOUURRRRR SOOOUUUULLLLLLL!!!!!

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[szvook]

[Schmunk]

Well, the tracks from the 'Richard D James' album, which is probably my favourite stuff, but you've also got to love the 'Come To Daddy' EP (8 track version is best).

Generally, his earlier stuff as Aphex Twin is more ambient, his later stuff more techno and 'drill 'n' bass' (his version of drum & bass). He's also done loads of side-projects under other pseudonyms, which tend to be more wacky, occasionally veering into 'happy hardcore' territory. Lastly, he's done many remixes. Check out 'Richard's Hairpiece', his version of 'Devil's Hairpiece' by Beck (I think it's a B-side on the single) or his spooky remix of the Philip Glass orchestration of David Bowie's 'Heroes'.

Anyway,

COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY, COME TO DADDY etc. ad nauseam

Tee hee

Schmunk

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[MPCman]

I think it's kinda funny that Aphex Twin did a remix from Mescalum United(hope I said that right). Mescalum United is Marc Acardipane and he is seen as one of the starters of the hardcore/gabber music style. When you listen to his old music and that from Aphex Twin too, it sounds pretty much the same. I think it's cool that from that point their music developed in quit a different way.

[mcconaghy]

Also give Squarepusher a listen, very similar music, slightly more "normal" compared to Richard's stuff, but no less entertaining and challenging.

I LOVE APHEX TWIN!!!!

Stu

[szvook]

Come to Daddy is a phat project indeed. I still warm up to that track with the low and mids dropped.






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szvook

[szvook]

Originally posted by mcconaghy:
Also give Squarepusher a listen, very similar music, slightly more "normal" compared to Richard's stuff, but no less entertaining and challenging.

I LOVE APHEX TWIN!!!!

Stu

[szvook]

[szvook]

[Schmunk]

So, szvook, who are your band? DO you have any recorded output which I could d/l from the 'net?

Schmunk

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TD-8, Pintech pads, Pearl rack, PM-3, Behringer 802 mixer and DSP1400 UltraMizer

[DJourg]

I am actually quite familiar with many of the artists you mentioned, Svook, particularly the WaxTrax industrial bands, plus original industrialists like Test Department and Einsturzende Neubauten, and electronica stuff like Orbital and the Orb (the Orb's 'Orbus Terrarus' has been getting heavy rotation in my CD player too).

I started to get into electronica but the throbbing beats wore out its welcome real fast with me. But James has something else going. The way he's using those drum machines seems to be like a lead instrument, with little regard to timekeeping or groove....a connection I make to some of the free-jazz drumming I've become familiar with over the last few years. drum machines could come into their own as an instrument.

I strongly urge a listen to Ikue Mori, a Japanese-American woman who works exlclusively with drum machines. However, she dispenses completely with kick-drum/snare-drum backbeat-based patterns and uses her set up to work with a creative set of signature sounds, offering rhythms based more on organic feel than strict, computerized machine music. Her work is quite abstract but no less exhilarating.

A good way to start: On Napster I found a track named 'Rock On' credited to Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, and Jim O'Rourke. Look for this; I haven't found this anywhere else. It's wonderful...if baby computers could dream, this would be the soundtrack...I believe it may be my favorite electronic music track of all time.

Also, I recommend 'Death Praxis -- Mystery' which is a good bargain...two albums in one. That's my favorite, other good ones are 'Hex Kitchen' and 'One Hundred Aspects of the Moon', off of the Tzadik label(www.tzadik.com, also avail. on Tower, Amazon, etc.);

[This message has been edited by DJourg (edited May 27, 2001).]

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[DJourg]

[Alicks]

Amon Tobin is pretty interesting too but I guess he's more kind of Drum and Bass using sampled loops. Still that's a type of electronica that us drummers might like to get into (and some do).
You might like to check out Lamb too. Their album Fear of Fours is worth a listen. I think only about two or three of the songs are in 4/4.
szvook, I'm with Schmunk, I'd love to hear some of your stuff. Any chance of that?