"Knapman, James" wrote:
quoted 2 lines As for Aphex Twin, can't we just forget about him now, at least until he> As for Aphex Twin, can't we just forget about him now, at least until he
> releases something new? Currently he releases novelty records - that's it.
God, THAT's a bunch of nonsense. I mean "Milkman", "Come To Daddy (Pappy mix)" and
maybe "Girl/Boy" are very tongue in cheek, but that's only like 1 or 2 tracks out of
whole albums or EPs. I don't think the "Windowlicker" track would be viewed in the
same way had he not made that video for it. It would just be another Aphex track
otherwise. To me the music on the "Come To Daddy" or "Windowlicker" EPs is really
about as good as IDM gets and really kind of starts to justify the "intelligent" part
of the IDM tag ?
quoted 3 lines But I really think we need to move on from Aphex and Ae for a while. As long as> But I really think we need to move on from Aphex and Ae for a while. As long as
> people continue to talk of them as the be all and end all of IDM no one else is
> ever going to get the recognition they deserve.
They ARE the be all and end all of IDM. They defined what IDM is and they're still
making the most cutting edge music in IDM and expanding the definition of IDM. No one
that I'm aware of can really touch those guys. I mean there are other people doing
interesting things, but they rarely have the appeal and freshness that new records by
Aphex or Autechre have. And I'm talking about IDM as in Warp/Rephlex/Skam/etc. type
stuff here, not the all inclusive any "weird sort of dance music" definition.
Andrei
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