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PostModernVancouver from Vancouver on 2001-04-29 00:44 [#00005004] | |||||||||
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I personally suspect that he is doing (in some ethereal, cosmic way..) to musical paradigms what Weird aL does to lyrics. That each album is simply him looking at a type of music, saying "no, no, that's all wrong.." and then slashing the type up, rearranging the pieces into a blissful incoherent sonic soup, and then stepping back and smiling from the knowledge that he can do someone else's style better and more innovatively than they can. I'd have to say that Aphex Twin is just about the most sophisticated, consistent and truly artistic composer in the greater genre of techno operating today. in his music you hear roots of the late great John Cage however in a much more presentable and accessible format. Every track here is perfect, in that it captures entirely different moods than their counterparts. They are all brilliantly structured. It's no wonder Richard D. James is being hailed one of the greatest composers of our century. Aphex Twin is probably the most unpredictable artist with any relevance in music today with each of his discs abandoning the goals of the previous one. Aphex Twin is not for the faint of heart, not for the listener who is looking for a catchy tune to bounce around to in his car and most of all, not for the listener that does not want to be challenged. It is often said of an artist, that he/she is a genius and rarely is it actually the case. Aphex Twin is a genius and therefore, like you would imagine carrying a conversation with Stephen Hawking might be, he is difficult to relate to for all but the most cerebral people. You don't have to be a genius to appreciate Aphex Twin, but you have to be willing to think. Aphex Twin has no interest in giving you a cathartic experience. Aphex Twin has always stood alone in the techno world, unparalleled by any other techno bands. I Care Because You Do is a perfect example of how amazing this guy really is. IM glad hes making music, if he wasn't, he'd be an axe murderer for sure. Who knows the depths of RDJ's insanity and self-indulgence... such beauty and paranoia all in one place. Great stuff. From start to finish this master-work of genius Richard D. James is compeling. Sounds and emotions created by this album are comparible to nothing. R.D.J. is the Bach of the future. No one should pass this album up. Although the title track isn't the Aphex Twin we're used to hearing, it may be interpreted as a tongue-in-cheek satire of mainstream cookie cutter electronica and industrial such as Prodigy: He eats the soul of those who copy his style and makes them acknowledge who the real deal is. Multiple whipping snares and cannon volleying bass over screaming deep synth waves blow the listener away from second one. Almost as if he's telling everyone in his field: "Anything you can do, I can do 1000% better". |
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Ross from scatterheart0@mailcity.com on 2001-04-29 02:47 [#00005018] | |||||||||
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some interesting stuff there |
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PostModernVancouver from Vancouver on 2001-04-29 04:02 [#00005021] | |||||||||
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BJORK pays homage to the Aphex Twin (NME article March 20-'99) "I could speak for hours about his programming or his capabilities with technology, or about his humour, or about how he manages to deal with anger so gracefully-he's one of the few people who can do that.And about his energy and how effortlessly he does everything. And his unpredictability and how he'll always surprise you. But I think all that isn't really important. "What I personally like about him is probably a lot more selfish, but it's because he's one of those people who'se gonna go on and on; he's one of those guys that's just the tip of the iceberg. And these dodgy moments I'm probably gonna have in the year 2008 or 2023,they're gonna be rescued by me going into the record shop and finding the new Aphex Twin album.It's for security value, because I'm pretty secure that that he's gonna save so many days in my life. It's his incomparable talent, he was born that way.He's just the king." |
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[REFLEX] from Canada on 2001-04-29 05:32 [#00005022] | |||||||||
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thats some good stuff.. i like to hear lots!. if someone would like to give me some stuff I can use on my aphex twin homepage then let me know! i need more info/odd stuff about RDJ! gimme something I can use! |
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PostModernVancouver from Vancouver on 2001-04-29 13:12 [#00005047] | |||||||||
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Is it the work of an insane man? Quite possibly, but I at least hope Richard D. James keeps himself out of a straightjacket long enough to make some more albums. Whereas his last album was an exercise in quirkiness, Come To Daddy is an excursion in freakiness. Although it's just an EP of eight songs, it once again crosses the board of musical extremes and goes right for the mindflip. No one on earth programs like this guy does. No further proof is needed after spinning the fourth track "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball". One wonders if the twin bouncing beats were MIDI sequenced or, being the inventor and soundwave shaman he is, manipulated through mikes and actual spheres. We'll never know, since he's very secretive about his method of play, even live. Forget Beck: this is true child-like creativity put through an 808 driven washing machine of a mind. This is music for the wrong kind of haunted house - not Disney's, not the funny Halloween kind, but the one down the street from where you grew up that you were warned about. Dripping, moaning, odd sounds that repeat just until you've noticed them, all float in and out of earshot on this double-CD collection of Aphex Twin's better ambient material. This music might seriously unnerve the anxiety-prone listener, but at least there's no such thing as ghosts. When I first purchased this album I was fairly shocked, not only that it was extremly different from other Aphex Twin works but that it could instantly takes me to places that I have never gone before. People say that the average human uses about 4% of the overall brain power, I think when listing to this you can increase your thinking capabilities and your attention span, it's quite amazing. Like I said before when most people first buy the CD they are shocked and maybe don't like it all that much, I personally thought it was unlistenable but it grows on you dramaticly. It has this charater about it that can change the way you feel in quite dangerous ways. It can make you Relaxed, Angry, Sad, inspired, confused, happy etc. You must open your mind to it, if you can your in for a great time. As number one implies, your not really listening to music. Your listening to the sound of Richard's mental psyche aphex twin/polygonwindow/etc. has mastered it. this music sounds like the music you'd hear in the computer game myst; wandering around on a desolate alien island, not knowing what trouble or pleasure is around the turn. it's quite a piece of work if you like quiet, eerie music... i have yet to find an electronic/ambient artist that matches his talent; yet i've noticed that similar musicians in the ambient/techno genre (particurely autechre)-- have borrowed some of his sounds...and they -still- don't have it. , I went into my dark room, put in SAW II in my discman, and donned the headphones. As I listened to it more attentively I noticed deeper, more intricately layered rhythms I never noticed before. Sounds seemingly coming from outer space, whispers and flutes and woodwinds and deep string instruments seemingly played by deities in a soft atmosphere. I ended up loving this album; Richard can make music that can sink you into his imaginary world for over two hours. imho, this album makes The Orb's works seem like anything but ambient. Richard, Richard, Richard... how do you do it? Every Aphex release is beyond explanation. I hated this cd when I first got it (about 7 months ago), it just didn't sound like music to me. Then I did what I do whenever I try to connect with music, I listened to it on headphones right before I slept. Wow, this cd has more stanima than any other thing I've ever heard, I still listen to it almost ritually before bed. It kind of puts you into a daze, half-asleep while half-awake and it paints pictures in your mind. I don't know what I would do without it. SAWII is without a doubt the most valuable piece of music I own, how else can I persuade you to get it? And when you do, don't put it off after first impression because it is likely to be a disappointing one. It´s hard to find words that can explain the sensation that surrounds you every time you put your full attention to the sounds that slowly touches you from the speakers. I think that, without a doubt, Richard James is the best artist under the sun nowdays, a fact you can easily certificate by listening to all his albums and specially this one. Regards I'm convinced that this album is composed completely of sounds stolen from behind the gates of Heaven. These are the sounds you didn't realize you heard in you sleep. Beautiful doesn't begin to describe what comes from your speakers when this album is cranking it out. This is due to the fact that the whole experience transcends most ideas you probably have about music. There were landscapes, then soundscapes now mindscapes. Listening to this album is like listening to your own soul; Aphex Twin somehow uses his sounds to communicate with your deeper self. This is intimacy beyond all else; you must give yourself over entirely to the sound. A brilliant composer of electronic music, sound, and noise. Aphex Twin creates the classical music of the future. Richard D James is no longer making music. He now makes films. A musical genius with truly original song themes. With samples like "daddy's little boy" and "I would like some milk from the milk man's wife's tits" one begins to question his sanity. The pioneer of intelligent jungle. Pen-name for Richard D. James, one of the most brilliant musicians alive. Usually grouped into the genre of electronica. Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works II Sire/Warner Brothers Released: April 1994 If you can listen to the first track of this album and not have to own it, well, I guess we were never really friends. Whoops, I meant, "this album isn't right for you, but I would never judge you on the basis of your musical taste." It's a rippling hypnotic mix of half-phrases and what sounds like a harp being played underwater. What is she saying? Once, in an altered state of mind, I tried transcribing those beautiful repeated syllables. It went something like : "vanya, vanya dala, vala vala, dala dala . ." forever on into a darkened sky. Eventually her voice fades down and that beautiful harp is all that is left. One repeated trill that slows, grows tired, but keeps coming back like a warm hand brushing your hair as you drift away into sleep. It goes on so long, so long. You keep thinking, oh, it's gone now, this is the end, but it keeps coming back to soothe you into an easy sleep. After I die, if I am given the option to come back as four seconds of music, I have already made my choice. |
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po{e} from the uk on 2001-04-29 13:57 [#00005048] | |||||||||
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some of you guys are writing interesting and very true, but some of sound as if u wanna get in bed with the guy.... FFS, there are other musicians that are good, aphex is my favourite artist, but imo there is no reason to sound as if u are in love with him |
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PostModernVancouver from Vancouver on 2001-04-29 14:27 [#00005049] | |||||||||
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Erm, these are not my writings , all I did was compile crttique from others over the years for others to read. Since we presumably all like RDJ here, I think nothing is more fascinating how other people view, analyze and picture him, besides the others who might be naysayers about him. If anything, hes vastly underrated IMO.. |
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po{e} from the uk on 2001-04-29 14:35 [#00005050] | |||||||||
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read the thread 'popular music' that is why he is underated |
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mindaugas from vilkaviskis, lithuania on 2001-04-29 17:43 [#00005053] | |||||||||
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yeah. richard is really strong in his music. it's quite interesting how he doesn't take a shit about releasing his stuff, but everybody buys it though. i don't think he is genius (i don't know what does it mean - genius), but richard is just one bloke, who really borned with sound and understanding of sound. it's very important. he is not making music, music is getting out of him. |
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I wonder what sort of response this fella would have got if he posted this today. We've become so much more jaded. I probably would have started by making fun of his name. |
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which 'popular' music thread |
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Bollocks. |
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long posts are boring to read |
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All biological species live in their own species-specific world, delimitated by their sensors. They acquire knowledge in their species-specific manner and construct their own species-specific reality. The human species is no exception. Humans live in a world of medium dimensions (macroworld). The worlds of small dimensions (microworld), of large dimensions (megaworld), and of great complexity (multiworld) are inaccessible to them, lying outside Kant’s barriers. Humans are the exceptional species on Earth due to artefacts: artefacts empower humanity to gain knowledge on the world that exists behind the boundary erected by human biological sensors. To describe this unfamiliar world, humans use the concepts of their life world, and these concepts function as metaphors. Science is replete with metaphors no less than is art. Biology of the second half of the 20th century has been dominated by the metaphor of information. It has been customary to consider cognition at the exclusive property of humans, with the human mind as an organ of conscious perception, thinking, and memory, busy with “information processing”. Cognition has often been analyzed in terms of formal systems, and, accordingly, it has been thought that, in principle, cognition might be embodied in any kind of “hardware”, including the human-made computers. Upon new discoveries in biology (restricted number of genes, not much different in flies, plants, and humans; organization of genes, proteins and metabolites as scale-free networks; histone code; the heredity of frames; multiple controlling roles of small RNAs) the paradigm of information in biology may need a revision. |
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long post |
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be more specific |
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you asking too much! thats between the most specific random copy/paste i ever did |
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cool |
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glad you like. the boss gave me a page to do and the word 'neurobiology' pops up in my visual field, i found it interesting so i googled it and it comes out a pdf with this info. TACITURN made the rest. |
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you suck reflex |
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