aphex twin - I care because you do
 

Acrid Avid Jam Shred
The Waxen Pith
Wax The Nip
Icct Hedral
Ventolin
Come On You Slags
Start As You Mean To Go On
Wet Tip Hen Ax
Moo Kid
Alberto Balsalm
Cow Cud Is A Twin
Next Heap With


Just listened to the whole thing for the first time in 2 years. I really think it's his best. Only songs I don't like are Slags, and Start as you mean to go on cause the beats are way too fast and clanky. But the rest of the album is so ingenious.

I can't help laughing when I hear Ventolin. I can't believe someone made music like that. It sounds like death

I like that album alot. Yeah, very creative stuff. what's he been up to, b/c i haven't heard much from him over the last couple years.

fantastic album
great cover art too

i agree to you, good album.... my favourite song is: Acrid Avid Jam Shred....

I read a review in a music mag (I think WIRE?), that he took off some time recently to go on a southpole expedition with some friends.
Typically Aphex.
Maybe someone has read about it and can elaborate on that?

It's a wonderful LP (although, amazingly, it's bettered by the next release Richard D James Album):

Acrid Avid Jam Shred
The Waxen Pith
Wax The Nip
Icct Hedral
Ventolin
Come On You Slags
Start As You Mean To Go On
Wet Tip Hen Ax
Moo Kid
Alberto Balsalm
Cow Cud Is A Twin
Next Heap With

Not a wasted track (such is the man), and the LP covers an impressive variety of styles. THere's a nice video on youtube for Alberto Balsalm that someone's put together. Worth checking out.

I recalled your thread of old, Hip Priest, and decided to bust out a few albums the other day for reminiscing. Time and contemplation have led me to change my previously held opinion, and I now conclude that Come to Daddy far surpasses Richard D. James. Windowlicker, despite its technical non-album status, is a close second.

This unsolicited and irrelevant opinion was brought to you by your not-so-local self-important American.

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self obsessed more likely.

to be honest i have a love hate relationship with aphex twin. although i do like windowlicker and come to daddy etc if i listen too much i end up watching the videos and scaring myself.

I hate the cover art of this album SO MUCH.
When it came out, I didn't get it solely because I didn't want anything that ugly in my home.
Not a bad album, but not my favorite of his either.

He is undeniably a good musician but wayyyyyyy overrated.

indeed that is correct porkmarras. very overated. i do like him though.

lol

I think the finest, most accessible track he ever produced has to be Alberto Balsalm.

I wish he would look more like this:

Gabba.
On another note, why do people here seem to ignore Selected Ambient Works 85-92? That album is a classic Aphex Twin album... The almost tribal, naturalistic beats, layers upon layers of texture and melody... It's about as far removed from cheesy, typical Euro-trash as is humanly possible... No offence, of course.

I love aphex twin but i haven't heared that album yet.

It's quite different musically from ICBYD, or any of the Twin's other albums, but the spirit of Aphex Twin, nonetheless, is ever-present.

Quite right. That is by far my favorite Aphex Twin album. Richard D. James just gets a higher place in the hierarchy than I think it ought to, but that's simply down to my personal preference.

That being said, I agree with porkmarras (as I've bitched about before) that while I do like him, he is overrated. If he went back to his ambient 'roots' and ceased his quest for shock value, I'd appreciate his music much more.

But I do appreciate his scare tactics. It's spawned the whole Venetian Snares breakcore thing as well as squarepusher drill and bass... The man basically invented modern electronic music(for better or worse); and his moving in a different direction from his initial forays are; to me; a commendable effort. I mean, if he had stayed and done Selected Ambient Works 3... Bleargghh... We would never have had Come To Daddy or Richard D. James Album.

True to an extent; I simply think his motive is getting in the way of his music. He's more than proven his capability of diversity, so I'd be interested to see him stray from his current tactics.

He's definitely spread his influential seed; Squarepusher, in my humble opinion, is a copycat, but one I delight in - Big Loada gets a lot of play on my end.

Squarepusher is an incredible bass player.

And his output has been much more innovative than Richard James's has in a long time

Which also is true... In a sense... I suspect it's the 'legendary artist's consistency syndrome' which also afflicts Sonic Youth, if Pitchfork were to be believed. In other words; expectations are high and patience is low and musical ears everywhere feel shortchanged when something is not the Second Coming (which reminds me of the Stone Roses... but that's a different story). It's true we expect more from Aphex Twin, but I think in the end, he's the sort of artist who wouldn't be buggered by what we expect. Which is exactly part of his appeal. And I loved drukqs, by the way.

aphex twin is cool, he sleeps upside down in a bat cave for 2 hours a night and lives on oats and wheat and shit.

I think he used to live with his parents until he was like, 28, or something.

He lives in Elephant & Castle now

Really? I thought he lived in a bank vault.

Yes in Elephant and Castle wich is in south London

Well, as long as he doesn't try to live in my bat cave, them aight.


I just really started getting into him recently. I've heard RDJ and selected ambient workd vol1/ I think both are fuckin great, changed my veiws on electronic music. Before it was either techno or boring.

Yeah I saw the pictures on Wikipedia of the underground station. The naming conventions in England are 'quirky', to say the least. It looks very urban. How do people in London manage the underground? It seems like a massive nationwide maze of intersecting tunnels that is not humanly possible to navigate without GPS.

Alberto Balsalm is so good. The only two tracks I never listen to are Come on you slags, and Start as you mean to go on. They just have such awful beats but Start has such a cool melody in the background. Makes me wish I could just get rid of the beats

Mookid, Next Heap With, Cow cud, Waxen Pith, Wax the nip, and Avid Acred Jam shred are all amazing as well. Mookid is crazy when you listen to Wet Tip Hen Ax right before it. With albums like this I don't usually listen to them in order, I listen to ICBYD backwards alot