In a message dated 2/24/99 8:14:41 AM Mountain Standard Time, kent@avalon.net
writes:
quoted 29 lines I hesitate to jump to Richard James' defense on this list. 1. Because> I hesitate to jump to Richard James' defense on this list. 1. Because
> fundamentally he ESPECIALLY doesn't care what a group of Internet mailing
> list dweebs with too much time on their hands think. 2. I am not and don't
> want to be seen as an Aphex Twin sycophant.
>
> But:
>
> There is a long tradition of music that both has intrinsic musical value
> and has the aspect of a piss-take: Bach's Coffee Cantata, Brahms'
> Academic Overture, Eric Satie, Charles Ives' two-colliding-marching-bands
> music, Sir Edward Elgar's Facade, etc.
>
> Aphex Twin music is occasionally brilliant, sometimes sloppy, a bit
> messy, and reflects a gnomish sense of humor that is either engaging
> or annoying. But whether or not you listen isn't really an issue to him,
> so if you don't like it, buy something else. He'll be judged with
> the rest of us, long after he's gone.
>
> And I don't think that he's "just messing around." Or rather, perhaps
> just messing around is something he hopes to raise to the level of an
> art form. Even some of the old tracks, that everyone who hates him now
> still likes, can be construed to be just messing around.
>
> If I can see any message to his music it would be "hey lighten up,
> enjoy life, take the piss out of pompous wankers, and isn't it amazing
> that a tosser from Cornwall can grow up to live in a bank vault in London."
>
> kent williams -- kent@avalon.net
>
hmm, yes..
all I really meant was that he isn't giving as much to his music as he used
to.
~allen