And many may not be aware but this is very much reckoned to be RDJ -



Excellent stuff.

mistercrayon wrote:

Is this to do with Superfreak?

Chappelle's Show got added to Netflix today. UNITY!

Avril 14th is lovely. Has it been used on an ad or anything? I noticed a while back when browsing Spotify that it had far more listens than any of his other stuff. Like a good 10x more or something.

I used to use the Ambient Works Vol2 to get to sleep in my insomniac years. It still lulls me a bit when I put it on.


My fave has to be windowlicker, but the vid for Come to Daddy is a classic:

Although, I just googled it, and it seems more likely that this is the reason for its popularity.

And this was another more recent piece of piano + ambience -

In the 13 odd years between the Druqs and Syro albums, there were still plenty of releases like the 13 Ep Analord series, with some gems like Crying in Your Face kinda defining that 'Cornish Acid' genre sound - 

Will get to this thread this arvo, hopefully :sweating:

I might need a month.

Springsteen, Aphex ain't worth my time.

This is a good source of Aphex - https://aphextwin.warp.net//  Pretty much the full catalogue available, plus tons of bonus and previously unreleased stuff for most of the albums and EPs, check it out.

I suggested Aphex Twin because I've been listening to Selected Ambient Works II a lot over the last few weeks, really great bg music to work to imo, and drift off to sleep to. #7 has always been a track that'll circulate back into my head at times over the years so that's probably going to be my pick, but he's got so many tunes for different moods that I wouldn't fault anyone's choice tbh. Gonna drop a few of my faves, sorry for the spam, although there's loads of his stuff I haven't heard either (it's great to know there's so much more to dig into, not even as Aphex Twin or RDJ). I think in general I prefer his older stuff or ambient stuff to the breakcorey kinda stuff, but again it's whatever mood I'm in.

Could have so many tunes from this album it's hard to pick one, but today it's this:



Love this one:



One to rouse you:



A classic, never lost my shit in a field to this but would love to:



Better tracks on this album for sure but the 'come on you cunt let's have some Aphex acid' at 2:49 was regularly shouted at uni, particularly when driving around Nottingham in my mate's Kevscort:




...but yeah, been really into Selected Ambient Works II lately and the 'soundscapes' (if you'll excuse me) he makes on that album just linger and keep returning at random times, so as strange as it may seem, I'm going to finish by dropping a few from it, with my pick for the best Aphex track #7 at the end:












...and the daddy, used to enjoy walking back through central London late at night after a long day at work, this in the ears, a drizzle of rain as you shuffle past the drunks and degenerates, streetlights and shop fronts lighting up the rain soaked paving. It's unsurprising that it's been used in stuff like Jam and the Curtis docs, really creepy and stays in my head for days. I could wake up with this in my head tomorrow, presumably from some dream I'll have later tonight. Brilliant stuff:

#7 for me pls Moot, mark it down.

Yossarian wrote:

Aphex got me to open this thread, Springsteen will get me to go back to ignoring it.

This. But y'know, different strokes and all that - 2 geniuses at completely different ends of the musical spectrum.

nick_md wrote:

Better tracks on this album for sure but the 'come on you cunt let's have some Aphex acid' at 2:49 was regularly shouted at uni, particularly when driving around Nottingham in my mate's Kevscort...but yeah, been really into Selected Ambient Works II lately and the 'soundscapes' (if you'll excuse me) he makes on that album just linger and keep returning at random times

I was at Notts Trent Uni around that time too (graduated in '99)  

SAWI will always be my favourite for being my intro to Aphex but SAWII is special in a whole other way. When it came out I remember reading how Aphex was sleeping in his studio and using lucid dreaming or something to help with the composition – whether that's true or partof the usual bullshit mythos he likes to spin is part of the whole appeal too.

Vastik wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Better tracks on this album for sure but the 'come on you cunt let's have some Aphex acid' at 2:49 was regularly shouted at uni, particularly when driving around Nottingham in my mate's Kevscort...but yeah, been really into Selected Ambient Works II lately and the 'soundscapes' (if you'll excuse me) he makes on that album just linger and keep returning at random times

I was at Notts Trent Uni around that time too (graduated in '99)   SAWI will always be my favourite for being my intro to Aphex but SAWII is special in a whole other way. When it came out I remember reading how Aphex was sleeping in his studio and using lucid dreaming or something to help with the composition – whether that's true or partof the usual bullshit mythos he likes to spin is part of the whole appeal too.

Ah I started at Trent in 2001, had a great time. Used to enjoy going to the Namco arcade in market square.

So, still #7 from SAII for me, but man what a choice to make.