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universal indicator. that's like, back from when acid house was limited to a Magnavox Odyssey² correct? other highlights from myspace include: 1) asking mike dred if any of the 303 clones were any good (current scoop: just buy the behringer with all the mods) and he wrote back a teardown of a few 2) dave monolith writing me a DM asking what components he should buy and how because he was interested in SDIY anyways, the vaguely indian name... alright, we're creating some expansive multi-alias afx parody effort, right? we have to cover the bases. we have regretamin hole off classics, and are you sure this is the UI parody? and not the four ragas and a disco turban guy? |
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people have bought this, a bunch? i thot and oh: name your price zero which is an odd twist because doesn't bandcramp charge to let you do that? and before, i was thinking: "i wonder how much this scheme nets. it has to be at least three figures" |
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oh, oh, i get it. exactly like i thought: "i see lots of user icons on this album page it looks like lots of people have bought it" and in a way paying bandcamp to let you give away albums for free is a sort of promotional strategy. particularly if you want to lend something like this cheap legitimacy credit |
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if you want to step it up and put out some fake afx that might fool hyperflake. i can provide consultancy rates |
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"would this fool hyperflake" it's a solid metric. because it wouldn't fool sean booth hyperflake, how hard do you think it would be for me to fool you with fake afx? i think you're in a unique position to judge here |
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Again, I have absolutely 0 to gain from all of this. My name is Marcel de Velde, living in the Netherlands. Just a random music lover who happened to stumble upon this. And being a nice guy I thought I'd share it. That's all there is to it. You can agree with my assessment that it's RDJ or you can not. All fine with me. Hope you enjoy the music in any case :) |
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Analord jams (with simplified setup): |
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i just saw this in the news "I was handed Aric’s wedding ring in a plastic bag at the hospital, five hours after Sam placed it on his finger and they read each other their vows," the groom's mother wrote on the page. "Aric has lost the love of his life." A GoFundMe page identifies the bride as Samantha “Sam" Hutchinson, 34, and her new husband as Aric Hutchinson. "The golf cart was thrown over 100 yards and rolled several times," the page says. ...and i'm nodding, like -- you see? that'll bring a much better return |
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i don't care for these tracks at all, really, but i'm having great fun arguing about them. thanks for stopping by |
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The tracks'll grow on you ;) |
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1) rephlex signed monolith off myspace, in some part, i feel, because i don't even think he was trying to be aphex, it just got to a point where he was sobbing in a corner saying "i'm not aphex, i'm not aphex, they can't tell me who i am" because so many people came at him on myspace thinking he was. myself included. but then i'm talking with him a bit, and stuff about SDIY, and he says he's found two labels, one of which i'll have heard of -- rephlex, obvs. and maybe he used a goat picture or something but this was as lots of people were trying very hard to be fake aphex on myspace so rephlex and warp would say hullo. maybe that still works on myspace. haven't tried the site recently B) when i made my exai parody, my sole aim was to troll people pirating the album. that the first few minutes had to sound quasi-serious. that i wanted, like "oh, slow start. ok. ok. ok, what. what. WHAT. WHA- oh you asshole" and i'm not sure it ever worked but that was still a fun afternoon Q) what is left in 2022? maybe it's a fart stored in tupperware from a decade ago. maybe it's a sekret collective watmm project. or someone like mermaidman with a drug-induced superiority complex getting off on fooling anyone not joking, though -- you'd make a lot more cash just running a basic GoFundMe scam. given that this feels a scam, and the money makes no sense, it's got to be ego. then ijonspeeches is commenting that how some of these pun names actually seem sort of mean, and so it's an indirect sort of ego: it's personal if you keep bothering me on the matter i might go and actually figure it out. be careful |
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Sure, go figure it out. There's a whole web of Soundcloud accounts by Rephlex artist aliases. Also check out the IDM compilation on Midievil Records. If you figure out who's who please let us know. |
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Btw, the wannabes are on Soundcloud and Bandcamp these days. Colour records or something like that. Many names. Sometimes there's a good track made, most often not. Never a convincing Aphex impersonation though plenty plenty of tries. |
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Ah color squad records. https://soundcloud.com/colorsquadrecords You may feel at home there :) |
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Of the aliases I wrote about, Loneist often sounds least like any Aphex we know. Still gold tracks among them: |
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shit maybe its me and i forgot im actually him. |
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Btw, I never thought Steinvord was Aphex. Sounds like someone who's good with Renoise but doesn't have the mixing / composition style / creativity / sensibilities of Aphex. |
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unless it's been changed recently, you don't have to pay to let people download your bandcamps for free, but it is limited. maybe 250 free downloads a month for a new account, maybe more if you sell more. people who haven't paid for the album can't add it to their "library" and their little icon doesn't appear on the release page. i don't remember if the same applies for promotional codes. i think so? you do get some free codes as well and get more as you sell more. anyway all this to your scheme idea wouldn't quite work, but maybe you can make fake accounts of buying customers. |
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I think Richard probably doesn't have to do it for the money anymore :) Btw I was just checking out the piano pieces. Perhaps it is a real Yamaha Disklavier. Richard is known to have one. Don't think a copycat would.. |
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This certainly isn't a sample library. And not Pianoteq. Could be a Disklavier or Arturia Piano V. Beautiful music regardless. |
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Notice the Aphex Twin reference picture again btw with that song. |
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Copying and innovating on Aphex in one of his styles.. well perhaps possible. But copying almost every one of his past styles and innovating on them? Not possible. It's really him. Just listen to this: |
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first track of ragi arinbjornsson hits it |
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Btw, I never thought Steinvord was Aphex. are you replying to me? because i thought it sounded like squarepusher, if you go back, oh, to the previous page of this here forum-thred. you never thot¹ steinvord was aphex? that doesn't sound like you, mang, are you ok? i mean -- you think monolith is aphex. you think chris moss acid is aphex Monolith = The Tuss = Richard D james. The Tuss and Monolith are made on thesame new Roland gear, V-synth and you're really making me bang my hed on the wall with some of this, i have to say v-synth showed up as this Very Expensive thing when roland was making dreadful things like the SH-201. the SH-101 was more in my budget, and, well, banging on it in guitar center, i found it to be a lot of fuss for a rather bland synth. i looked at the VASTly unaffordable V-Synth and saw more D-Beam crap and said to myself: "oh they've just expanded this nonsense into a workstaton and added a zero to the price" and ppf crap about "time warp" but since it was so overpriced i never actually got ahold of one and maybe it's actually good, and, ugh. everything about me says "lol no that's crap" but i really cannot be. sure i'll hold on to my first impression and say: lol no that's crap Sounds like someone who's good with Renoise but doesn't have the mixing / composition style / creativity / sensibilities of Aphex. and, uggghh. that, alright, this could be a renoise tracker jam, and the mix in tracker stuff can be... fragile, and... no, i'll go with my first take, again: this is how it sounds when you mix/record a jam with the monitors WAY TOO LOUD on a lot of chemicals. next morning, with only hazy memories of recording it, you're all "fffu i had the monitors too loud again" if you crank steinvord loud the mix sounds fine. ¹yoink |
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tbh i liked aphex twin better when his recordings were shit or had terrible clipping |
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Aphex or (probably) not, still fun to see dutch people posting on Xltronic.com. I like some of the stuff you posted. Tnx for sharing. |
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tbh i liked aphex twin better when his recordings were shit or had terrible clipping he worked tirelessly to find the brand of cassette that sounded the best level of shit, thank you very much (yeah seconded, i think i might have actually started overdriving my mixer channels because he mentioned it in some interview. and go back to doing that it sounds good) |
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How do you know that? Are you aphex? |
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Well denial has come in the form of an album name and cover lol. https://midievil-records.bandcamp.com/album/nah-mate I don't know what to think anymore.. MintSauceMilitia is surely Richard, Loneist = MintSauceMilitia and therefore also Richard (also several tracks give it away, though others I wouldn't have guessed) Midievil Records is linked somehow.. And Beathaven + Sean Revell (on his Soundcloud) + Ragi Arinbjornsson (secret Rephlex album = Universal Indicator) do sound like Richard jamming / experimenting with a simple setup in several ways. But there are others involved too for sure, Rephlex / Warp artists on the Midievil Records IDM compilation, a web of Soundcloud account aliases, etc etc. Oh and in the comments made by Beathaven / Sean Revell on Soundcloud they sound a lot like Richard's comments through known accounts. And there's the Devon link (just like The Tuss, now known to be Richard). So make of all that what you want. I can't say anything 100% sure. Perhaps I'm mistaken about Beathaven, perhaps not. Great tracks nonetheless! |
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Ok, maybe I messed up.. Perhaps I shouldn't have mixed up Beathaven with MintSauceMilitia and Loneist.. MintSauceMilitia and Loneist are Richard for sure. Perhaps Beathaven and other aliases on Midievil Records are not. Maybe I should make a new thread. |
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How do you know that? Are you aphex? we are all a composite. you are born and there are just sounds that make no sense at first but then there are your parents voices and words start to come into focus. then comes grandma's voice, then sesame street, the president's voice () your parents are a product of their parents voices and their parents from their parents and so on, and, like, oh, this finally feels like something that could... power all this, you know? that we're all the product of many other people who are the product of many other people etc etc. and i guess what free will boils down is which voices you choose to listen to |
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one of my aunts, in a more candid moment, said: "...your dad dated so many funny, smart, gorgeous women... and then he married your mom" and then we were both very confused, because, like, really? while she's all "aww fuck." and i wasn't upset at all, because it just... sense... and why... her, anyways? but i thought a moment, and out of the back of my hed fell some random moment, easily fifteen years before this conversation, where my dad said: "your mum, she's amazing. she can instantly recall conversations she had 20 years ago like it was a few minutes ago" and now the world has another one. |
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i'm worse than trying to fake aphex. i'm out to take him apart to understand what's working so well. along with quite a few other musicians after drukqs, early 00s, i just compulsively scoured the web for interviews. he talked in(t[win]t)erviews about how not all brands of cassette sounded as good for tape saturation. and overdriving channels. and the drukqs interview, i stole the word "fings" from this and, actually, did he come up with "thot" or was that me riffing off "fings" ? so i'm not him. i'm just a tape recorder playing back what he said |
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while i'm here -- because i'm not sure i'll ever have license to bring it up again what bothers me beyond compare is when i want to cite a twinterview i read, and i can't find it. that there's one in particular that really feels like it went down the memory hole proper -- the interviewer describes him taking voluminous bong rips in the afx tour bus as the interview was conducte, whilst simultaneously destroying said interviewer in 80s memory toy game "simon" it's gone. it's so gone. easily ten, fifteen years. maybe he sued over it. wouldn't surprise me, given how weed was back then. but i felt like that was a moment of genuine character, and actually not unflattering at all. and very illustrative |
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didn't people use to think chris clark was aphex twin at one point? we've come a long way |
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ya, #02627119 i'm on about... oh, essentially how "this isn't 2009 anymore, alright?" |
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you know i haven't really listened to the... charles singh, was it? the turban acid album. i'm not a huge fan of "oh this is not bad for 40 years ago" stuff unless it's, like, psyche rock by pierre henry -- when fatboy slim remixed that, well, it was his weakest remix ever, simply because everything was already done and he had nowhere to hide. so it sounds very similar to the original ...and, yeah. this is more just out of precedent; ears haven't voted -- but this would be exactly the sort of thing that was complete horseshit. a giggling, "let's rewrite the history of techno; they're too dumb to figure it out" and perhaps that's true |
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whatever this is, im not finished with listening. while i had a laugh at some parts i hugely enjoyed parts of this aswell, so wtf also i feel like mdv or somebody else, posted them before, at least the ragi acid soup |
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i'm not a huge fan of "oh this is not bad for 40 years ago" stuff unless it's, like, psyche rock by pierre henry -- when fatboy slim remixed that, well, it was his weakest remix ever, simply because everything was already done and he had nowhere to hide. so it sounds very similar to the original and i just went back and played both for the first time in two years or such, because i wanted to see... holy shit, yes. this is the only time i can definitely say "fatboy slim's remix made this worse." it's just like a half-length reader's digest version of the original. that i saw a vid of fatboy slim talking about rockafella skank, and he's like "...but something was missing. and then one day i went to the beach, and i saw a bunch of people surfing, and i thot: oh yeah! surf guitar! that's it" so one does not really see him a tense remixer; generally all smiles and going off to the beach when he's stuck rather than flipping out. but i can totally see him having a meltdown over the psyche rock remix: "i have shit. shit" and if i had 20 minutes with the man, well, my questions about what he's doing with panning would still win out, but this just shot right up the list |
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i have just one question about this: if he got fat again, would he change his moniker? |
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no |
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but i can totally see him having a meltdown over the psyche rock remix: "i have shit. shit" that i'm just simulating this from earnest, careful study of the man from a distance.... anyways, about this point, when he's freaking out, finally, when he never flips out, what the heck what am i doing? and it hits him that he's gone up against psyche rock, and he's lost -- badly. at that point, the worst is over, and he simply wants to get rid of the remix as fast as possible and move on to other situations where he can actually be effective. |
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the charanjit singh album is wonderful, you must open your mind to the world of music |
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perhaps if you feel so strongly you're willing to paypal me money to listen to it. that's my new business model |
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that, i dunno, i never heard until ~2014 and perhaps singh is the penultimate rephlex troll and notable for as such, but i've quite a backlog already |
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...no. shit, shit. i got that, actually, off what.cd in 2009-10. then i forgot about it for a few years and i said 2014 because i got quite into that album that summer. does it make any sense to say that my memory is incredibly good, but then i get things wrong until i sit down and sort it out properly? |
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the first portishead album. portishead in general. utterly missed it until re-watching the wire during the pandemic, and "glory box" caught my ear. something like, "we wanted to make a record that would just have a reliable place in peoples' record crates" and holy shit, mission accomplished. that i would cite this album above... most any other, really... for just doing things with how the bass stretches itself about the room and vibrates your toes or whatever. only better one i can think of is saw II. and it took me until, like, 2020 to get to that. sorry singh. there's just so much |
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just aggressively shove a pillow over your ears and it's SAW II there you go |
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air put out an album in 2012 and i still haven't heard it halp |
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