New Aphex Album on Warp 'This Year'

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

What'll it be?

[thembuzz]

i'll reserve judgment

aphex doesn't excite me nearly as much as he used to, to be honest. i can't help feeling he's fallen behind over the last decade. but i'd love to be proved wrong

[Loz]

most of it will be a bit meh, but there will no doubt be a couple of amazing tracks

[V Knid esq]

Everyone will say it's a disappointment and forget about it, then realise it's great in 5 years time.

[thembuzz]

i remember him saying he purposefully left his truly groundbreaking material off drukqz because he didn't want all the copyists nicking his techniques. it was like, yeah, he's lost it

it was a good album, but it wasn't a huge leap forward from richard d james. would've been better as a single album

[Loz]

be cool if this track was on it



but it probably won't be

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Originally Posted by V Knid esq

Everyone will say it's a disappointment and forget about it, then realise it's great in 5 years time.

I'd be inclined to agree except I actually gave drukqz another chance two weeks ago. Still meh.

[V Knid esq]

Originally Posted by Hectic Cum Balthazar

I'd be inclined to agree except I actually gave drukqz another chance two weeks ago. Still meh.

Really? I stuck it on headphones to go for a run the other week and thought it was A1. Aside from the plinky-plonk tracks it's proper rave, I think the adrenalin boost of running helped in appreciating that....

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

there just aren't really many good hooks and too many tracks I thought. Analord and The Tuss were pretty so so but at least they had hooks.

[spoon]

he could just release more analords and that would do me. i loved those and the tuss record.

[Loz]

The Tuss was ok. Alspacka and Synthacon 9 are brilliant, though.

[darrell]

Is he not under the name J.K. i got a 12" from rephlex the other
month and sure its him.

[thembuzz]

Originally Posted by Loz

be cool if this track was on it



but it probably won't be

i think that was the most interesting thing he played that night. i was a bit underwhelmed by his set

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

it sounds like a good aphex b-side from 1999

[Loz]

Originally Posted by darrell

Is he not under the name J.K. i got a 12" from rephlex the other
month and sure its him.

nah, J.K. played Plex last year. He's definitely not Aphex.

[darrell]

Are rephlex only signing people that sound like Aphex then..

[Loz]

nah, think it's just that his music is very good. Which it is.

[thembuzz]

Originally Posted by darrell

Are rephlex only signing people that sound like Aphex then..

hasn't that pretty much always been the case?

[Orang Utan]

anyone going to see him at matter?

[Spandex]

Originally Posted by Hectic Cum Balthazar

there just aren't really many good hooks and too many tracks I thought. Analord and The Tuss were pretty so so but at least they had hooks.

I love some of that Tuss stuff. Enough to buy it and actually listen to it. Crazy shit.

[V Knid esq]

The Tuss is hooktastic, but I'd rather the mania of the Druqks tracks... Analord is growing on me steadily, though, some deep stuff in that. I don't think I've even listened to all the tracks from all the 12"s though!

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

the piano stuff was nice on that recent documentary film

without the hooks I'm just pretty bored of his pallete of sounds.

hopefully analord will pull him out of that digital sameyness.. .maybe the Tuss was the remenants of the old style.. kinda sounded like it.

[thembuzz]

Originally Posted by Hectic Cum Balthazar

hopefully analord will pull him out of that digital sameyness

in favour of analogue sameyness?

[V Knid esq]

The set with Hecker at Bloc definitely suggested he wanted to do SOMETHING different or extreme.... and it worked in parts, though was completely confused in others.

[Yer_Maw]

why warp

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Originally Posted by Yer_Maw

why warp

cos he grew up and finally realised they had been working their arses off for years doing loads of shit he never even thought about...

funny that him and jenkinson mouthed off loads and then went back... probably when they realised just what a ridiculous amount of work the label would have done in their name.

[Spandex]

Originally Posted by Hectic Cum Balthazar

cos he grew up and finally realised they had been working their arses off for years doing loads of shit he never even thought about...

funny that him and jenkinson mouthed off loads and then went back... probably when they realised just what a ridiculous amount of work the label would have done in their name.

I think this is a veiled dig at me. From that time I was on "Jools Holland" and told him I'd outgrown HOTP.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

you've not been the same since you got that 0.5M advance from Sony for the Pleated Lemon album.

[thembuzz]

Originally Posted by Spandex

I think this is a veiled dig at me. From that time I was on "Jools Holland" and told him I'd outgrown HOTP.

i thought you were a bit ungracious in that mojo feature

i'd actually forgotten all about the tuss record. listening now for the first time ever. it's very good. just business as usual, innit

that's my problem with aphex. he's never stopped being good, but then he hasn't done anything very surprising either for 10 years

[V Knid esq]

Originally Posted by Hectic Cum Balthazar

you've not been the same since you got that 0.5M advance from Sony for the Pleated Lemon album.

It was when he did Live 8 that he really started to believe his own hype.