Electronic Music 411 - twenty years of aphex

04/12/08 + jarvis

it dawned on me today that our dear mr. james has a discography spanning over 20 years. that does a few things for me:

*makes me feel old
*impresses me
*makes me glad that much of that work still sounds fresh
*makes me wonder where it'll lead to

the thought interested me because so many of our EM influences have died over the last few years and i don't feel like there are many contemporaries that i personally feel influenced by. what are our musical successors going to be influenced by in 20 years? will it even matter by then?

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04/16/08 + bla

hey! why arent i being ridiculed for this?

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04/16/08 + Roshi

Because I like your version better

Bla the revisionist historian

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04/16/08 + zach

nagrom said: "I'm still looking for mind-blowing ambient music. Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Stars of the Lid, Eno... I find it all beautiful, but crude."

I really like Hecker, Fennesz, and Eno, so take this for what it's worth: Have you listened to LaMonte Young or Charlemagne Palestine? The former's The Well-Tuned Piano and the latter's Strumming Music are two things I just got into late last year. And they are totally amazing. (Rich and repetitive like Steve Reich's stuff.)

04/16/08 + djugel

I like that bla!

"Show me an Autechre imitator" ...... ummm ... Arovane .. duh? What do you think made them get all "edgy" ... they HAD to...

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04/16/08 + djugel

I hate fennesz.. sounds like a guitar playing Maj7th's into a built-in mic on a computer running cool edit pro.

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04/16/08 + flies

djugel said: "I hate fennesz.. sounds like a guitar playing Maj7th's into a built-in mic on a computer running cool edit pro."

why do you hate all my favorite music? :P

but atually i'm not such a fennesz fan, which is to say i plain doon't like endless summer and i find most of the tracks on venice too repetitive, but i find most of is less 'ambient-ish' albums much better. On the other hand he does a lot of things on 4G/Cloud that i find annoying.

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04/16/08 + Roshi

I like tim hecker better than fennesz...I think he has a better grasp on musical structure than fennesz

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04/16/08 + pppeck

I listen to Aphex everyday. Everyday his music inspires me in one way or the other. I was first turned onto him from the film Pi and didn't really dive into his works until about 2006 - years behind of course. Honestly, I didn't even know artists like him or Autechre, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares etc. even existed. It's led me down an extraordinary path in the way I approach my own music and the way I listen and digest music. It's artists like Aphex, Mr. Bungle, Zappa and others that have really carved my musical intellect and fed my hunger for musical genius.

04/17/08 + djugel

^^^ totally agree. I'd include WEEN .. except recently they've returned to their boring "bar-hippy-blues" roots..

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04/17/08 + license

I totally agree with that too pppeck. this music has been such a special thing in my life - it made me realize there are people in the world who have the same kinds of ideas and love the same kinds of things I do, and it has given me so much hope. no amount of information-excess-induced cynicism can take that away.

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04/17/08 + tylth

i hope he'll make another twenty years!

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04/17/08 + hecanjog

nagrom, have you checked out bernhard guenter?

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04/18/08 + packetst0rm

I'd certainly say that Mister Guenters music is angelic.

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04/18/08 + PYVND

Aphex seems like a cool guy, and I like him as a person and respect all the success he has managed to have as an artist and label owner. But I simply can not get into music. Just can't do it.

I have the entire analord vinyl collection including the very limited number 10 (or is it number 1) all in the original binder and sleeve thing that you get if you got the the one that's super-rare. If anyone wants to buy it, contact me. I may or may not sell it (or may decide to hold onto it for sale later) depending on what you offer.

04/18/08 + djugel

The I Care, Ventolin singles, Donkey stuff is my favorite era of him ... madlib'ish lowfi grime before anyone else did it,,.. love those ride cymbols.

95... great fucking year for "ambient techno" music. Never heard anything from any artist since that had the same quality... especially the artists I liked.

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