I don't get it... People love "Melodies from Mars" because it sounds like a
demo... It's not even an official release and people are all over that shit
like bombs in Afghanistan, yet this release is crappy for the same reasons?
It's not as if every Aphex album has been full of brand new tracks... ICBYD
has the dates of tracks listed, SAW 85-92 covers a supposed seven years of
work... Every criticism I've seen of the album (except for the people who
didn't like the piano tracks) knocks it for reasons that his other albums
are lauded. What exactly did Aphex start? So-called "IDM"? The difficult
artist mentality? Nope. As far as I can tell, the only thing he started (or
at least popularized) was the idea of having a billion pseudonyms releasing
tracks on a plethora of labels. Which is now the way a lot of musicians
work. As for the "scene" dying out, Ill be glad if whiners like you lot
stop listening to quote-unquote IDM. Maybe then the beat-y electronic music
genre will gain the academic respect and acceptance that electroacoustic
music has always had.
\
Two fingers my friends,
jA!
At 10:30 AM 10/22/2001, you wrote:
quoted 30 lines wondering what you lot thought of The Aphex Twins'
> > wondering what you lot thought of The Aphex Twins'
> > latest :: Drugks
> >
> > i thought it reAlly sucked, anyone else?
>
>
>Yeah..Really lazy sounding, like a bunch of unfinshed
>ideas and the sequencing of the LP makes it even more
>like a demo...No focus. Maybe hes just trying to end
>what he started but putting out shitty tracks..So then
>everyone will copy him and make shitty tracks,
>thinking they're cool cause they sound like the new
>aphex, and eventually everyone will realize all these
>tracks are boring and suck..aphex will be laughing,
>rolling in the dough and this 'scene' will die
>out..Even if this is true, it dosent make him cool or
>his music good..Its important to have an image and hes
>done really well with that. but only if you can back
>it up with outstanding quality material does it really
>matter. Or maybe hes just out of new ideas. anyway you
>look at it, its just really dissapointing.
>
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