Aphex Twin – London 14/09/19

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Some goods tunes but man some of those samples were way too cheesy.

I’ll remain a huge fan of his studio work rather than his live sets.

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me too. Just wanted to share. I would love if he’d only play his own tunes.

Edit:
An analords live session with some Roland machines would be awesome :slight_smile:

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Totally.

thanks for the share! nice raves

Pissed up In SE1, then Crying in your Face, and round it out with Where’s your Girlfriend. Yass!

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Was there!
Printworks is one hell of a venue.
Sound system was great!
Was quite ravey
Would have also loved a bit more of the sideways!

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Nihiloxica was wicked too

Cheesy samples are courtesy of early acid raves. They really fit in the set giving it an old-school vibe. I love it to be honest, cause straight after there’s a crazy futuristic bombastic sound that kills.

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Was there too. Quality ravey set from Mr Twin, great sound in the venue and the most astonishing laser show I’ve ever seen.
Full track list is now in the YouTube video description :smiley:

This AFX set is just brilliant, it’s nostalgic but future rave shit…I say this kat at Day for Night in Houston, I fukn wish this would of been his set that night…this is AFX at his most Proper

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would anyone be that enthusiastic if it was just someone and not aphex twin making some noise?

I do like his studio work very much but the live show lacks almost anything of the fine art of electronic music he is releasing on albums…
The show itself does not even make clear what he is doing… And paying a lot of money for some lasers pointing around and some sort of aphex twin related computer graphics? meeeh… not my kind of show and "live"music… overhyped.

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A bit of a moot point, people ARE going to be more patient and forgiving and interested with someone who’s made some great tracks than look for meaning in someone they have no context for. There’s plenty of new artists who are great, and there’s older artists who have the safety to get even more eccentric.

I love it, unpredictable! :heart_eyes:

I get your point. But I really like this messy way he mixes things. The constant change of vibes and abrupt disruptions. But it fits so well with his work and personality. Would you prefer a neat DJ mixing AFX tracks and waving to the public? Hell no. This is proper AFX madness.

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fair point
I guess I am not the right audience for the way he does live music…

I would like to see and hear Aphex Twin making live music, not on a laptop but on a machine park of strange instruments…

A DJ Set as this seems to be is not my kind of event.

:slight_smile:

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he had a 909, the cirklon, and some other machines. plus another human adding vocal and synth textures via a modular thing. this wasn’t ya standard dj set.

(edit: why does no one mention the other human?..)

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Was mostly DJing, but there’s about 15mins of actual live aphex with cirklon, 909, reface dx, modular and something making squelchy acid lines from approx 1:21 to 1:34 (between Umil and Aqxdm) and it’s ace! A whole set of that would be sublime, but I massively enjoy his DJing too.
Plus it sounds like there is a smattering of live bits and loads of fx over the top of the other tracks.

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I had great expectations from RDJ after Druqks; I thought he’s gonna push things further to new territories but instead he cemented his style, which is fine, but he stayed in the past (with lots of money tho).
Too bad imo bc such talent is extremely rare to find. Genius level, no question about it, and that hurts even more. Still, i like his music very much, especially the analord series.

I don‘t feel that way. I think syro and especially the collapse ep are a progress for him regarding composition, sound design and mixing.
There are such great arrangements on the these two outputs. The most stunning thing to me is that he claims most tracks of syro are not arranged in a daw but live takes of big synth setups running through outboard gear and composed on the cirklon.
He said it took weeks of live takes, to catch the take of Xmas Eve that finally made it on syro. He said he rebuilt the setup for every track. I don‘t know, imo the arrangements are crazy good, especially if it‘s true that these were recorded in one take and pre written on a hardware sequencer.
I also think that collapse EP sounds different. Much darker than syro or cheetah.

Druqks had this crazy over the top breakcore tracker programming which I love but when you closely follow the drum programming on syro and collapse and some of the tracks on rushup edge it‘s sooo detailed. Like it‘s not in your face amazing like druqks drums, but often much more subtle, detailed. No bar repeats twice and the grooves, timing, fills and variations often sound as if a real drummer had played the electronic drums.

Anyway. Druqks was my fav, but imo he still progresses. And still on another level

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