What's the best song he ever wrote?
xtal
aisatsana is a good runner up
The couple songs off of Cheetah are amazing, not sure if it's his best ever though
>>66184487
Rhubarb
Flim
>>66184510
But that's like the worst of his Piano works.
>>66184530
i feel bad for Skrillex
>>66184546
which one whould you say is his best piano work?
Windowlicker.
>>66184530
>>66184557
forgot image
>>66184570
I'm partial to Nanou 2
Also Aisatsana isn't exactly bad but it's just not very engaging or emotional at all in my view at least.
>>66184576
man, dubstep is so stupid. And the fans even more so.
>>66184576
>Skrillex tries to remix Aphex Twin
>His fans demands he add a drop, which ruins his original artistic vision
Zig 17
>>66184652
To be fair that screenshot is edited to show only the worst comments there were, most of them (80-90%) weren't nearly as bad.
>>66184570
I'm partial to avril 14th even if it's the most pleb of his works
>>66184570
Jywenthek ylow or something
>lol so randumb sounds
>songs
>>66184715
There's nothing pleb about it, it's an excellent composition for what it is and works just as it should in the context of the album. Popular doesn't equal pleb (necessarily).
Avril 14th
my answer changes all the time but goddamn Synthacon9 is lit af
>>66184576
Im not saying skrillex is bad but hes nothing compared to aphex twin. My question is how does skrillex deviate so far away from rdj if that's his 'favorite'? Like shouldn't he pay his respects or somethin?
>>66185437
Money
Alberto Balsalm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XlTjeNHv-8
Crying in Your Face
Rushup I Bank 12
Alberto Balsalm
Every Day
>>66185601
This.
Or CIRCLONT14
>>66184487
>song
pretty sure almost none of his tracks have vocals/lyrics
Rhubarb or Stone in Focus
>>66184487
Music to Walk Home By
His albums have good sounds, but not good songs. In 15 years, Aphex Twin, Autechre and their peers will be all but forgotten. People will only remember those that appropriated those sounds and applied good songcraft. The process started with the wild acclaim for Kid A.
>>66184512
This, or IZ-US
>>66184546
I like the idea of the live performance of it, but the recorded version is a bit lacking
>>66185888
Yeah the performance is a wholly another feat. Would probably be a lot more interesting as a pure sound installation anyway.
on
4
Avril 14th
Windowlicker
Xtal
Pulsewidth
Heliosphan
Hedphelym
Cliff
Rhubarb
Stone in focus
Acrid Avid Jam Shred
Vordhosbn
>>66184487
Shiz Ko E or Heliosphan
It's Xtal desu, but I do like Isopropophlex
>>66185820
Any track off the On EP
>>66185978
this guy gets it
>>66184487
4
Xtal
Avril 14th
These are his 3 undisputable masterpieces.
>>66185820
you are so fucking dumb
>>66185820
This is exactly what I think of Arca
4
>>66186457
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKJ2CeVEzPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWnUuosQwZY
>>66185601
Good choice
>>66184487
avril 14th
nothing he can or will make can top it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpDmZVYC8KU
Girl/Boy Song
>>66186608
mine too
Vordhosbn by far.
Cliffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqRoA32ZzL8
It's so eerie and serene at the same fucking time. When I hear it I imagine some great view of a dreamlike purgatory dimension. Such a beautiful song.
Finger Bib
Mt. Saint Michel + Saint Michael's Mount
also this video is pretty neato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZGIrNf71Q
>>66187708
>>66185601
Winners
>>66185993
>>66187634
Plebs
You teenagers need to let go of this over the hill grandpa. It's all about Arca now.
>>66188062
Nobody is buying your Arca meme. Now fuck off.
Lichen is the only answer.
Heliosphan
Any love for the Girl/Boy Song?
>>66188296
it's the first trap track, hence the title
>>66185694
>What is Come to Daddy
>>66185694
>I WOULD LIKE SOME MILK FROM THE MILKMAN'S WIFE'S TITS
>>66188081
>Best electronic music in over a decade
>meme
Stay pleb friendo
>>66188396
This one is sick as fuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQceBpIOU-E
>>66184575
works best with the chris cunningham booster
>>66189277
The music video is gr8 but try listening to it at ur birthday party whilst candyflipping.
>>66188396
He had potential but Mutant and Xen were disappointments
That one 20 second song off cheetah
>meltphace 6
>meltphace 6
>meltphace 6
>meltphace 6
>>66185855
Yeah
His cover of Blame Game.
>>66184576
>tfw this image makes you nostalgic for the early 2010's when you were still in high school
Fuck the mid 2010's man
Thampex
>>66186608
Sounds like BOC
one of the deeper cuts but i fucking love curtains with a passion for some reason. idk the really sparse melodies are just beautiful
we are never ever getting back together
>>66185798
Nigger u wot
>>66189528
Lol are you retarded? Mutant is the best thing in its genre in years
girl/boy
aisatsana
rhubarb
xtal
fingerbib
my favs
>>66184487
alberto balsalm
>>66190955
nah
fork rave
>wrote
>>66190955
Agreed
>>66191347
>>66190955
if you like a total lack of songwriting, dynamic tension, and progression maybe. watered down musique concrete for kanye babbys
>>66191397
Don't feed the troll.
>>66184487
XMAS_EVET10 (Thanaton3 Mix)
XTAL
and he didn't "write" this but still of my favorites
Nobazaku takemura- Let my fish loose(Aphex twin remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGKrqHz_RRA
>>66191397
I do like that stuff
>>66184487
Cockver10 from Druqks is probably my favorite. I like Grass, IZ-US and Ventolin a lot too.
>>66191791
lol arca fanboys
>>66185437
You don't have to sound like someone to like them or be influenced by them.
>>66184487
Favs from him are
Flim
Kesson Daslef
Windowlicker (best dance tune imo)
Weathered Stone
Cock-Ver 10
And i don't know if i'm alone with this one, but i really really like Bbydhyonchord, it's so simple but fucking catchy
minipops 67
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo3StFtLIlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgT0GQWIZpU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M8sIzLNVT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbOqgWifXgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfmaALfxVGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBwUJMZNOgQ
this is my personal favorite top afx
>>66192460
you fucken' despicable pleb
>>66192523
sorry i meant to say
objectively best afx
>no one has mentioned Mt saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount
plebs, the lot of you.
>>66185694
Well, in that case. I'll choose Cock/Ver10.
>COME ON YOU CUNTS LET'S HAVE SOME APHEX ACID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg3P2NJN48U
This one doesn't get enough love.
>>66193324
oh, that's better
you're excused
To Cure a Weakling Child or Boy/Girl Song
My personal fav is Cow Cud is a Twin
>>66184645
skrillex is not dubstep retard
>>66184576
those comments were cherrypicked
>>66184645
>pardners
Alberto
Balsalm
>>66188062
It doesn't even make any god damn sense comparing them and I don't know who is trying to push this meme. It's like living in 1998 and saying Moby is the new Derrick May for fucks sake.
>>66184487
the one where his face is on everything.
>control+f
>only two stone in focus citations
Full stream of Cheetah here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p040bgtg
What do you guys think?
I like it. Definitely Analord type stuff, which is always nice.
No way I can pick a single favorite, but I always put on Analord 2 when I'm going to be reading stuff online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsUUviefQSM&list=PLF185FAA5F930EA32
>>66196411
I know that feel anon.
>>66184510
>>66185601
>>66192385
great choices, minipops doesnt get enough love. people give it shit cause it sounds like windowlicker 2 which is fair but its a fucking great sequel, as good as the original imo
not enough SAW1 up in this shit:
Ageispolis is the track that got me into aphex and it's still one of my favourites.
Ptolemy is incredible too
>>66196588
SAW is so overrated that it's now underrated on this board desu
>>66196588
>Ptolemy
ma nigga
Ive honestly only ever listen to SAW1 and I'm wondering where to go from here, it sounds like he grew a lot as an artist. Any recommendations?
"On" is definitely his best
>>66196746
Go Richard D James album and I Care Because You Do next. That'll give you a taste of his faster stuff before you move on.
>>66197030
will do thanks.
>>66196746
I personally just listened to his stuff in release order, as I do with most artists.
But if you want his best stuff, listen to SAWII, I Care Because You Do, and ON (I liked RDJ but I think it's somewhat overrated).
>>66194542
holy shit are you a detective?
you guys he cracked the case!
>>66184530
>>66185601
>>66185855
Good selections
Vordhosbn
drukqs was his best work
>>66184510
Reminder that Xtal is pronounced "Crystal" and as X is the greek letter.
>>66197777
obey.
Aisatsana's pretty overrated. Piano un10 It happened is a much better piano piece.
https://soundcloud.com/richarddjames/piano-un10-it-happened
>>66187881
This is correct
>>66190543
>being nostalgic for the 10's
>while still in the 10's
>>66200087
Really, though
>>66187881
This
>>66200287
i'm too poor to afford cheetos
My top 5 Aphex
5. 101 Rainbows
4. Fingerbib
3. Alberto Balsalm
2. Xtal
1. Windowlicker
>>66200684
Pretty generic selection for the most part, but I have a soft spot for Windowlicker so I'll let it slide.
Finger Bib, Xtal, Alberto Balsalm. All very moving.
Blame Game, featuring John Legend
*cough*
Rhubarb
Windowlicker
Heliosphan (live edit)
/thread
>mt st michel
>rushup bank 12
>grating metal
>didgeridoo
>ventolin
>rhubarb
a couple favorites, no real order
Come to Daddy desu
every track on Melodies from Mars.
i dig his AFX sound more
>>66197777
The song name is Xtal though so I don't get why you're saying this.
>>66190048
>5:30 ( and throughout )
Those note repeating drums/ voices kill me every fucking time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTpO2SD7XpY
>>66184487
>Bucephalus Bouncing Ball enternius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igTsgYKYDHQ
Wow...no Bucephalus Bouncing Ball ? ( or maybe i missed it ) Come to daddy was my first Aphex Twin purchase. Bucephalus was so unique. I never heard anything like it before.
ALSPACKA
vordhosbn for sure, that song is something else. there used to be a cool live vhs glitching video set to the song but i can't find it anymore....
Where's Your Girlfriend
Ageispolis
Didgeridoo
>>66203587
merry xmas
most underrated afx tbqh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_x7X5Re3Kk
>>66204054
for sure
Avril 14th, Fingerbib, Flim, Ventolin, Cliffs, Rhubarb, Anything Caustic Window,Cornish Acid, Xtal, Boy/Girl Song, Polygon Window, Quoth, Entrance to Exit, Analogue Bubblebath...
There's just too much awesomeness to list
Pulsewidth, Produk 29 [101], Jynweythek, Flim and Xtal. Recently learned to play Avril 14th, which is one of his best works too and such a nice song to play. Also Every Day (which he made under the name AFX) deserves to be mentioned here.
>>66185694
Tons of them do but yeh OP shoulda said piece or track or summat init marn.
>>66186457
Arca's not really doing anything new although the textures are unusual.
Aphex in the 90s/early 00s was widening what people thought electronic music could be.
He'll be studied in schools (already is in some).
>>66190543
>2016
>mid 10's
shiggy diggy b8
Has anyone listened to any of his works slowed? I think they sound really nice.
A few for reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaD3qC6kDUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exDqm7xv2As
As for his best, it's hard to choose just one.
cannot ever pick one favorite from RDJ because my favorites depend on what mood I am in ut here are some of my favorites are: 4, Blue Clax, Flim, Rhubarb, Stone in Focus, Xtal, Tha, I, Actium, Parallel Striples, Lichen, On, Analogue Bubblebath 1, Isoprophlex, Acrid Avid Jam Shred, Alberto Balsalm, Milk Man, Fingerbib, Jynweythek, Vordhosbn, Avril 14th, Hy a Scullyas Lyf a Dhagrow, Kesson Daslef, QKThr, Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount, Ziggomatic 17, Nanou2, aisatsana, minipops, produk29.
this is just scratching the surface, these are just populars and easiler to vibe with and on top of my head. his more intense stuff is harder to get into and not that popular. havent even entered into analord and tuss + i cant remember tracknames from Computer controlled. Man is a genius.
>>66205536
yes I love his slowed down version. Flim sounds excellent.
>>66184512
Agreed
man threads like this make me realize how much amazing music this man has released. Probably the only artist who has so much of variety with emotions and production. I wish he never stops releasing music ever.
how metal is tossing someone in a pit full of poisonous snakes?
>>66205536
James said that he thinks his music can be played at every speed and still be his music. Some of his newer records also state that it can be played as 33 and 45 rpm.
>>66206679
Ziggomatic 17 is the winner
>>66184487
Alberto Barbosa
>>66206852
kek
>>66206852
i don't get it
>>66206906
>>66203849
This pic actually looks more unsettling without James' face
>>66205536
This is a fav of mine from his soundcloud output
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QfSEIH2WEk
>>66184487
>wrote
electronic "musicians" don't write anything jackass
>>66207001
>le electronic isn't music meme
>>66207001
I'm confused, what would we say they do?
>>66206939
is this a wayne coyne action figure?
where2cop?
>>66207064
if we're autistic: they produce tracks
>>66207064
composed :^)
>>66207064
program? sequence? they fiddle with electronics, but they lack the sense of mind and austerity that writing connotes
>>66207142
>they fiddle with electronics
They fiddle songs.
Aphex Twin is a real good fiddler and twiddler
Somewhere between i'm self employed, flim,alberto balsalm
Seriously no love for Peek 8423475228?
>>66207142
>sense of mind and austerity
>wut
>>66207868
he's probably a german economist
>>66207868
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/
there you go
>>66207142
>I don't know anything about electronic music but let me tell you about what they actually do
Fuck off shit head
>>66208984
go cry to your soundcloud support group you no talent loser
>>66207142
>writing
dude, that's a painting
>>66187881
This is the correct right answer. It's one of his songs where he applied great songwriting and not just great sound and texture making
Helps that the melodies are gorgeous
I genuinely think he is the closest thing we have to a modern "Classical composer". He deserves to be remembered in the same way that Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky etc. are for his contributions to music.
Has Cheetah leaked in lossless yet?
