I thought it was a pretty decent rant.
I like alot of aphex's stuff, but i don't really
count on him as the pinnicle of any particular style
or movement. There' spenty of other electonics
artists doing that w/o his level of noteriety...
- cutups
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From: "EggyToast" <youn0394@umn.edu>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] [rant] sorry, new aphex record blows
quoted 19 lines Hey, are you a staff writer for Rolling Stone?> Hey, are you a staff writer for Rolling Stone?
>
> I think we need more unsubstantiated cynicism in our lives, don't you?
>
> derek
>
> At 12:36 AM 10/31/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Last week I picked up the latest full-length from Aphex Twin.
> >Unfortunately, post-millennium, he has done exactly what Autechre did:
> >gone from being one of the major innovating electronic artists of the
> >1990's to being a complete joke. There are precious few tracks worth
> >listening to on this record, and none of them equal the melodic skill
> >or production quality of his "middle period". Aphex's little sample-reuse
> >problem gives the "ambient" tracks a very samey feel (vaguely oriental
> >chimes in the vein of "Nannou") and the orchestral piano pieces just fall
> >flat.
> >
> >The rest of the album is tired, mediocre drum-and-bass. The originality
in
quoted 5 lines drum arrangement, rhythmic composition, and sample creation that graced> >drum arrangement, rhythmic composition, and sample creation that graced
> >most previous efforts is gone here---the drum sounds are ripped from some
> >old tracker's sample pack you might find on an obscure Scandinavian FTP
> >site. And that shrill, dissonant "sample-rate conversion" effect is
> >everywhere, hanging like a pall of smoke over the melodies---the
obsession
quoted 2 lines with certain facile, sonically homogenizing DSP effects that killed> >with certain facile, sonically homogenizing DSP effects that killed
> >Autechre circa LP5 has finally snuffed out the last of 90's IDM's
original
quoted 15 lines megastars.> >megastars.
> >
> >The awful truth for the elites who shunned melodists in favor of more
> >"difficult" music: the glitch disease was terminal, the patient has died
> >with the release of this album. Glitch-fetish and DSP-fuckery sapped
> >attention from the first commandment of what we do---the idea that melody
> >*is* music---and led the greatest electronic artists of a generation into
> >the sorriest work of their careers. Bouncing-ball percussion and granular
> >wank are as worn-out as The Cher Vocal Effect.
> >
> >Sitting in a dark, hollowed-out building somewhere under the Manhattan
> >Bridge last year, at a show where a friend and I had played a set
> >earlier in the evening, watching kids actually try to dance along to
> >the-latest-hot-shit-from-warp, realizing that he'd been hovering over
> >that PowerBook for more than an hour without producing anything
resembling
quoted 9 lines melody, chords, or steady rhythm----I knew, this can't seriously last.> >melody, chords, or steady rhythm----I knew, this can't seriously last.
> >Well the iMac has crashed and all our Max patches are lost. Our Metasynth
> >license expired, the Kyma's power supply burnt out, and glitch has
> >imploded----in Helvetica Bold, leaving nothing but the smell of burnt
> >Atari logo t-shirts and an angular plume of smoke rendered in cubist
> >fracture courtesy of The Designer's Republic (with a few symbols
> >of Katakana thrown in for luck).
> >
> >"Drukqs", like Autechre's awful "Confield", will probably have its
staunch
quoted 21 lines defenders among the elites. But don't be fooled--- don't waste your time> >defenders among the elites. But don't be fooled--- don't waste your time
> >with this flaccid and uninventive record.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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