 |
|
You are not logged in! F.A.Q Log in Register |
 |
|
 |
 (nobody)...and 141 guests Last 5 registered Oplandisks nothingstar N_loop yipe foxtrotromeo Browse members... |
 |
Members 8025Messages 2614128 Today 0 Topics 127542 |
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Here goes... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I'm a slow typer bare with me...Q is quite long... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Are you typing in the whole contents of Q magazine? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Can't you scan it, or even that OCR technology that came out in the last century. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
From Q: "HAVING BRIEFLY found himself in the spotlight in the late-'90s thanks to the Come To Daddy and Windowlicker singles, Richard James decided he liked it better in the shadows. His next major release, 2001's Drukqs, was a deliberate attempt to allienate both curios newcomers (thanks to its impenetrable mesh of drum n' bass breaks) and loyal fans (who had heard him do much the same before, omly better). "I think it's bad to be well known", he said later, "because you end up in people's faces whether they like you or not. That's a horrible thought." Post-Drukqs, James again disappeared from view, hiding out in his home - an old bank in London's Elaphant & Castle. It wasn't until a series of vinyl-only EPs, entitled Analord, started appearing on his Rephlex label in January 2005 that it became clear that he'd actually been doing some work. next paragraph to follow.... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
fuck off dog-belch, un grateful bastard... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yes please do so |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah scan it, it shall be mad |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
"RECORDED ON analogue equipment (hence the Analord name), the tracks brilliantly recycle elements from classic house and techno. Reunion 2 melds furious acid scrawl with synth harmonics; Klopjob revisits Detroit electro and the melancholy melodies of Jame's ambient works; and while PWSteal.Ldpinch.D takes its name from a computer virus, it offers more incitement to dance than anything on the last Maddona album. It's true that none of the tracks here quite scale the hights reached early in his career. But following the dead-end of Drukqs, and in contrast to many of the laptop/electronica producers he inspired, James is at least tring to move beyond what he's achieved already" RUPERT HOWE 4/5 stars D/L: fenix funk, reunion 2, klopjob, PWSteal.Ldpinch.D Interview to follow.... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
"it shall be mad" ... What does that mean???? I don't have a scanner, feel free to chip in and by me one... Do you mean the typing will be mad???? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I said I was slow...man, people here are so sarky.... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
keep it up fine sir, it's appreciated=] |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
It is. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Q: It's been five yrs since Drukqs - what happened? RDJ: "I just got back from an expedition to Antartica with some friends. I've got sunburn under my chin." Q: Did using analogue machines for yor Analord releases bring back any memories of your rave days? RDJ: "Yes, but I use this stuff all the time and it always does that. The equipment has it's own smell." Q: Were the Analord tracks recorded in the bank? RDJ: "Yes. Like any place it puts you in a certain frame of mind. I record in the vaults a lot and other parts of the building have been wired up for use as echo chambers." Q: A lot of the reverb effects have a dream like and melancholic quality.... RDJ: " I tried quite hard not to make the tracks too intense. There was a gap in my music listening collection I wanted to fill. There are actually about five times as many unreleased Analords from the last few years that will probably never come out, but I still want to make more. Actually, talking about it is getting me excited again." Q: So we won't have to wait another five years for the next Aphex album? RDJ: "I just finished one but it probably won't be released. Why? I can't be bothered to do any artwork." |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I'm going to type up all the other mags reviews as well.... you know he's playing in London 5th May? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
no. where? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
thanks, heh |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
From Mojo: 'first new album in five years from Richard D James - aka Aphex Twin' "Though apparently lying low since 2001's difficult to pronounce, easy to love Druqs, Richard D James has actually been busily - if quietly - releasing 12-inch singles under his AFX brand. In fact, there have been eleven volumes in what James has dubbed the Analord series - featuring no less than 41 tracks (many of them recorded using his own home-built synthesizers). Chosen Lords compiles the cream of the crop in their first non-shellac manifestation. As with anything Aphex-related it's an album proffering a broad stylistic church, pitching Doctor Who theme techno (Pitcard) against dodgy plumbing house (Batine Acid), playful ambient pop (the slickly titled PWSteal.Ldpinch.D) and moments whose only precedents are a decade and a half's worth of head-scratchingly original Aphex Twin fare. When it come to making smart, mischievious electronic merry, no one can touch him" 4/5 stars |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
mojo did a really nice piece a few months ago, I'll try and dig it out...he's playing London ICA sometime between 5-7th may, as part of the Cut And Splice: Acousmonium thing.... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
arre you richard, himself |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
From Knowledge: "If the sprawling, bloated and oddly souless Drukqs left many long-term Aphex Twin fans worried that their hero had irrevocably lost the plot, then the eleven Analord 12-inches that he released over 2005 went some way to restoring people's faith. However, as anyone who forked out 50-plus quid to collect the entire set will tell you, there were more than a few substandard, half arsed tracks in the series - making this 10 track 'best-of' CD a useful bit of kit. If you like the early, pre-jungle Aphex sound - all acid bleeps and electro beats- you'll lap this right up." (they don't give stars etc) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
some one did another one comparing saying he was one of 'the greats' of music, maybe the Guardian or something... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
RDJ: "I just finished one but it probably won't be released. Why? I can't be bothered to do any artwork." HAHAHA!! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
few more to go...just having a drink... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Those writers are bunch of fools imo, but it's always interesting to read a new interview with god. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
that looks interesting but it doesn't list aphex...where did you hear about that? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
from Clash: "Recent years have seen the lank-haired Aphex Twin take on an aural assault stature akin to Chris Morris' comedy output; yes we all agree it was great in the day and yes we agree it bears repeated visits, but why have they effectively disappeared only to remerge with disappointing side-projects? Seemingly aware that a new vanguard of electronic types are poised to overrun the citadel (dig Ceephax's Hardcore wick for home work), RDJ has combined recent vinyl-only Analord series for highlights and trimmed/compiled them on the iPod-friendly Chosen Lords album under the vowel-less AFX noun. Far less convoluted than his proper full lengths Drukqs, it benefits from a brusque immediacy that declines any unnecessary sonic frippery in favour of acid-drenched missives that knee you in the nuts before kissing your forehead. With particular highlights including the incendiary Fenix Funk5, Crying In Your Face and its noir-frayed machinisations, plus the cobalt break-synths of PWSteal.Ldpinch.D, AFX proves he's lord of the manor." |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
cobalt break-synths for the win! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
"vowel-less AFX" someone's never watched countdown. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
swingpusher |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
nice :D thanks for the info !!! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah, I of course agree impakt, but I'm just putting 'em up as it's an interesting read for some...me included |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I agree impakt, but i'm putting 'em up as it's an interesting read for some people (myself included). I like to know what 'proffessional analysts' think so I can bask in the warm glow ot their aura of ignorance. These people influence the record buyers who buy things that 'sound like it could be interesting'... so it's a nice little window... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
thnaks for your work duppy,have fun:O) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i agree so much i had to echo myself with an eloquence these critics can only dream of... it lists the Aphex live thing at the ICA in The Wire magazine, along with quite a big picture of the elusive hero...they're usually quite reliable, but I don't know for sure... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
add to the xltronic gallery,it seems to be dead.. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
thanks for the nice comment |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Yeah, I appreciate your effort here man, just annoying to see what kind of bullshit actually gets printed :p |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Thanks for sharing this read! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Thanks for all the info duppy. Anyone know if afx will be back in italy this year, i've promised myself i'll go next time after missing torino last summer. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
the afore-mentioned piece on all the Analords wasn't by Mojo like I said, it was Uncut. It is very long so I'll post it in paragraphs as I don't know if there's a limit on how long a message can be....wait for it.... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
here it comes.... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
any minute now.... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
he's got techniques drippin out his butt cheeks |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
It's coming! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
from Uncut (October 2005): 'Reviews' section 'The Specialist' occassional sub-section, "PIERS MARTIN uncovers the latest manoeuvers of The Aphex Twin ---------------------------------------------- IT'S TYPICAL. You wait nearly four years for a new Aphex Twin record, and then 11 turn up at once. This has been a bumper year for Richard D James fans, the most devoted of whom have shelled out around £100 over seven months to get his hefty Analord series on Rephlex. Unleashed without fanfare or promotion, these 12 inch vinyl releases mark a privately ebullient return to James' prolific "Analogue Bubblebath" heydey in the mid-90s, when this electronic marvel casually contributed to the rave cannon with every offering. Unlike 2001's Drukqs, which was a hodgepodge of styles. James chose to limit his pallete and compose these songs in the key of acid using vintage analogue equipment, hence the (rather imperious) Analord title, borrowed from a recent Luke Vibert number. A retreat, perhaps,and some tracks, notably on the first and sixth EPs, find James squiggling away, cautiously nostalgic. Thankfully, he hasn't included any flashy drum n bass work-outs. It seems James resisted the temptation to harvest this latest crop from the thousands of unreleased tracks from his rusty hard drives. Analord sounds like a cohesive project, with the aim of applying his new skills to his own machines, getting the best out of both. Even with these self imposed restrictions, James still dazzles, confounds, infuriates and astonishes, producing some of the wildest floor-fillers ("VBS.Redolf.B", "PWSteal.Bancos.Q" [names of virus-causing/ info-stealing computer programs]) and sweetest harmonies ("Home Made Polysynth", "PWSteal.Ldpinch.D") of his extaordinary career. more to follow........... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Like those De Agonstini part-work hobby mags that appear in newsagents after Christmas, the first mail-order only Analord 10, arrived from Rephlex in January inside a £40 faux-leather ring-binder embossed with a golden AFX logo, containing 11 empty slipcases. For the binderless, the 10th was released as a picture-disc. Aphex nuts - and there are tens of thousands judging by Analord's figures - obviously bought both. That's understandable: 10's pair, "Fenix Funk5" and "Xmda5a" are deleriously dramatic, the latter elegantly suturing Satie to demonic funk. Elsewhere, James squidges malevolent new beat ("W32.Mydoom.AU@mm"), blissful house ("Laricheard" and "Phonatacid", from the excellent second EP) and enough of those signature pastoral reveries to quell the bores who sneer he's past his prime. He's just entering it, if the even newer tracks he's playing out live are anything to go by. Analord is Aphex Twin doing what he does best: refreshing electronic music in such an effortlessly inventive way that you pity his peers. Once again, James dissolves the boundries between disco, electro, techno and pop, and stimulates the parts other musicians don't know exists. Pure synthesized heaven, divided by eleven" in the caption on the pic it says "Twin peaks: the Analord series finds Richard D James coming into his prime" |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
RUPERT HOWE is a twat if he's calling Drukqs a "dead-end". IT'S FUCKING CLASSIC YOU FLAPHEAD. See what I did there? lol |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
no, I don't see what you did there, sorry! He is a prick, Drukqs is one of my favourite ever albums and my favourite Aphex. Professional Critcs anoy me... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
BTW, duppy, have you just bought WHSmith out or something??? "someone's never watched countdown." I'm sure he got the Drukqs names from that! Buying Q tomorrow. Don't know why. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Messageboard index
|
|||||||||
