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offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2008-11-12 18:28 [#02251936]
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greetins, been a while. i LOVE this sound. in my opinion
awesome awesome awesome

:F


 

offline pigster from melbs on 2008-11-12 19:22 [#02251944]
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new ep samples
:G


 

offline jules from United States on 2008-11-12 19:44 [#02251946]
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wow, glad he ditched everything that sounded like aphex....


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2008-11-12 21:09 [#02251952]
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people say he is the tuss


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2008-11-12 23:38 [#02251966]
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that's the most boring formulaic shit i could conceive.
rephlex must be criminally lacking in inspiration to have
signed wisp, i can only imagine tusschard did it to try and
make his own releases seem hold a bit more spark by
comparison.

god i'm so old and wish it was 1998!



 

offline pigster from melbs on 2008-11-13 00:52 [#02251977]
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either that or richard actually likes wisp (he's played his
tunes live in dj sets on at least TWO occasions, that makes
him a fanboi right?)
i think the samples are awesome. they are afx-ish, but then
again it is wisp, and he's been sounding more and more
afx-ish with his releases. still though, i'm really looking
forward to this :)


 

offline Quaristice on 2008-11-13 01:43 [#02251985]
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It's good to have more aphex-sounding music for aphex fans
to enjoy. Aphex hasn't released much music recently. This is
a pretty good simulacrum.


 

offline Quaristice on 2008-11-13 01:45 [#02251986]
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But personally, I think he should stop listening to IDM
totally and listen to some other music for the next few
years. Then let's hear what he will come up with.


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2008-11-13 02:26 [#02251991]
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maybe wisp will fill the actual acidrill afx space in
rephlex, and then aphex will move on to a new sound new
style... thatd be great...


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-11-13 05:49 [#02252013]
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Why is it just an EP now, surely the world needs a whole
double LPs worth of derivative APhex-lite?

This is like Music 70 signing Tycho.



 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2008-11-13 05:53 [#02252014]
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wispcho

anyway the actual tracks are nice, but it's hard to get past
just how shamelessly aphex-ripped they are. if rephlex
released this anonymously, there would be no question that
99% of people would think it was an aphex record.

thats not a bad thing in itself and shows that wisp is a
capable producer.

just one completely devoid of his own ideas.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-11-13 06:01 [#02252018]
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Not bad. I see the Aphex connection but nothing in the
samples really shout Aphex. It's pretty decent and certainly
a lot better than most other peoplesnares.


 

offline chaosmachine from Ottawa (Canada) on 2008-11-13 06:35 [#02252024]
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nothing really wrong with making stuff that sounds like
other stuff. as long as it's good, who cares.


 

offline pigster from melbs on 2008-11-13 06:45 [#02252025]
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i duuuunno. have you people listened to honor beats? it's
just as aphex-y, only difference being this one is on
rephlex.
example being > when aphex played hnipian in a dj set,
people were all like UNRELEASED AFX OMGZ


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2008-11-13 06:50 [#02252026]
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Honor Beats had at least a sense of uniqueness about it.
This is almost indistinguisable from The Tuss in my
opinion.

As I say, theres nothing fundamentaly wrong with that and I
actually really like the tracks, but it's obvious that he
made these with the intention of sounding as close to Aphex
as possible.

Wasn't The Tuss' myspace page made by Wisp? I guess it makes
sense that his actual release on Rephlex sounds like this.


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2008-11-13 06:51 [#02252028]
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I'm surprised one of the tracks isn't called Rushup Hedge.


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-11-13 07:51 [#02252038]
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Whatacon 9
Last Cashin As F
Shit Kop E
Laughing On the way to the Bank
Dead Horse
Goodbye Credibility



 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2008-11-13 09:41 [#02252054]
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I do kinda agree with lupus- this is a little generic. Still
pretty good, but it's been done. A long time ago. Melody
sounds like AFX, but not rhythm.

I would prefer something original but badly executed, than
derivative and well made. Therefore I am not excited by
Wisp.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-11-13 09:43 [#02252055]
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?


Attached picture

 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-11-13 10:24 [#02252067]
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I would prefer something original but badly executed,
than
derivative and well made.


I agree with this statement.


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-11-13 10:36 [#02252068]
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These samples have the pervasive odour of Desperate,
Cluless, Personality-Free Wanabee, just the sort of limited
demographic that will buy it. Music is a near inifinite
entity yet Wisp "just so happens" to sound like Aphex's poor
relation, on his very own label. What were the odds?


 

offline rad smiles on 2008-11-13 11:18 [#02252073]
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haha thats why they only made 500 of them


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-11-13 11:31 [#02252077]
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First track.... Tuss no surely? lol imagine that if all RDJ
relations to The Tuss were all wrong...


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-11-13 11:54 [#02252080]
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Well let's hope Wisp has 500 friends as no one else out of
his sphere will bother with this odious display of arse
lickery.


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-11-13 11:56 [#02252082]
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Shut up, twat.


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2008-11-13 12:21 [#02252086]
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i'd rather just listen to the music i like, and i don't owe
you any explanation you aging grampa fuckwad.

j/k


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-11-13 12:33 [#02252088]
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well, if you have spent any significant amount of time
listening to aphex twin, and then listen to the tuss, i
don't see how you can dispute hearing rdj in there. i
listen to this wisp stuff, and while i can tell he really
really likes aphex twin, i can also tell that it is
someone else.

that being said, i can hear parts in the tuss that do not
sound like rdj to me. for instance the shuffle on last
rushup 10 with that bass funk does not sound like something
he usually would do (vibert or jenkinson maybe). it could
be just because it's a different project, or it could be
because there are others involved. the tuss sounds
like the name you would give a crew or posse. i think the
tuss is rdj with guest artists from rephlex and other
related labels. final answer.

also, about wisp. if he really wants to faithfully recreate
the music that he listens to and wear his heart on his
sleeve, so what? some people want to pioneer a new sound
and hit people with something in a way they never heard it,
and others hear some really good music and say that is
the music i like, i want to figure out how to make music
just like that
. it is what it is, and its like that in
any genre.


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2008-11-13 13:09 [#02252093]
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Here is an idea:
Aphex signed Wisp because he wants to hear Aphexey music,
which he hasn't made.

Background:
I once saw a documentary about Pink Floyd. David Gilmore
said he is really sad that he could never experience Dark
Side of the Moon like the rest of the world. Everyone else
plays the LP for the first time and it was amazing
experience, but for him he had heard all bits of it over and
over beforehand, it could never be anything like a music
lover returning from record shop and listening to it first
time....

For Aphex, all the decent aphexey style music comes from
him. He can't hear his own music for the first time, like
Gilmore couldn't. So he likes Wisp to make music in the
style he likes, and it is brand new. He doesn't listen to it
thinking "hhhmm maybe I need to EQ that a bit different" or
whatever the hell he thinks.

However, I have a sneaky suspicion I may be talking absolute
bollocks.

Finally, I would like to add my support to this great
statement:
"I would prefer something original but badly executed,
than
derivative and well made. "
Indeed.


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-11-13 13:13 [#02252094]
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Haha, your new fave is Wisp, fuckwad. Have you had an
opinion you've not picked up out of a Self Help book?


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2008-11-13 13:48 [#02252119]
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my impression is that it sounds like spam from 2005

i'll leave it at that


 

offline PORICK from fucking IRELAND on 2008-11-13 14:23 [#02252132]
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I don't think it sounds anything like aphex at all.

I don't think it sounds very good, either. Disappointing. In
track 1, the melody, rhythm and rhythm samples are 95% the
same as another wisp song which unfortunately I can't find
at the moment.

I think it was on the Math & Science live set he did, so
maybe it's just a new version of a song that wasn't
released, which is alright I guess, but if not.... :/


 

offline big from lsg on 2008-11-13 14:51 [#02252134]
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i can see him for free this weekend, so it's all good


 

offline nacmat on 2008-11-13 15:12 [#02252137]
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i imssed threads like this

thanks dog belch, you are still one of the bestssss


 

offline cyrstal dude from LA all day! (United States) on 2008-11-13 15:41 [#02252143]
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the fresh sound of 2001


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-11-13 16:58 [#02252190]
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Anyone who says it doesn't sound like AFX has either
listened to so many Aphex-derivative artists that this sound
has become just one more genre to be plundered, or they're
listening far too closely to an element I can't hear. This
says "I wish I was Aphex Twin, I've dedicated a good part of
my life to copying him and now I'm on his label..
yipeeeeeeeeee"



 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-11-13 16:59 [#02252192]
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Sorry, that wasn't meant to be a follow up, though I wish
he'd had the balls to call his ep "the fresh sound of 2001",
that would have displayed some much needed humour and
humility.


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2008-11-13 17:21 [#02252198]
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hopefully wisp and clark can do a collab so clark can
compress wisps one druqks beat until it's as relentlessly
wearying as turning dragon. At this point space/time will
probably turn to slitscan as we all morph into confused old
men/babies.


 

offline entelechy from Brisbane (Australia) on 2008-11-13 18:43 [#02252221]
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I like Wisp, but a lot of Aphex pisses me off.

Is this a bad thing?

I think Wisp makes good music in a certain style. I also
think that his music can be identified as his own. All the
people slagging him off are being rather ridiculous


 

offline jules from United States on 2008-11-13 18:43 [#02252222]
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there it is. i was waiting to see how long it took for
clarks name to be dragged into this. i for one love clark
and i think wisp makes clark sound super original. clark is
dope. wisp is analogous to tycho.


 

offline jules from United States on 2008-11-13 18:46 [#02252223]
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plus wisp uses an old english style typeface. clark goes
with gil sans. enough said.


 

offline cyrstal dude from LA all day! (United States) on 2008-11-13 18:50 [#02252226]
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you're meant to wait at least 15 years before ripping
something off, then it's an affectionate, retro homage.


 

offline cyrstal dude from LA all day! (United States) on 2008-11-13 18:51 [#02252227]
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i mean, dmx krew waited til at least 1996 to start rocking
all that man parrish shit.


 

offline transfer on 2008-11-13 21:21 [#02252241]
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Rephlex has always had a problem with people saying that
their artists sound like Aphex. When the Scharlach Eingang
EP by Bochum Welt came out the first thing my friend said,
in the store, was that that it sounded like Aphex. This is
old news. Mu-ziq sounded like Aphex, Kinesthesia sounded
like Aphex, Bochum Welt sounded like Aphex, D'Arcangelo
sounded like Aphex, and Chaos A.D. sounded like Aphex or
etc. like maybe Ovuca, Lory D, Astrobotnia, etc. Old news. I
don't want to offend anyone it's just that this is an old
topic.


 

offline PORICK from fucking IRELAND on 2008-11-13 21:38 [#02252246]
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haha, just went back to listen to the samples again and
noticed the caption in the audio player window...

how many times do they mention that it sounds like aphex?
amazing


 

offline midgetbridget from Bouvet Island on 2008-11-14 02:13 [#02252279]
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I wish YOU could display some much needed humour and
humility.



 


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