Unfortunately, many of the great artists were shit heads. But unlike my
millennial counterparts, I refuse to throw everything made by a problematic
figure, in the garbage.
That said, I can't wait for many of my favourite parks to revert to
indigenous names, in place of racist shit heads, if for no other reasons
than they have waaay cooler names than the Brits.
I recall one track by Loscil being Khanamoot, which was the local
indigenous peoples name for what the brits renamed New Brighton Park, and
still think that's a WAAAAY cooler name.
But good art is good art, whether the artist had problematic views or not.
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 7:05 a.m. kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 68 lines I could go through the whole litany of his assholishness - threatening
> I could go through the whole litany of his assholishness - threatening
> women with violent rape on bulletin boards in the 1990s "as a laugh,"
> his divorces, yadda yadda.
>
> I know people who know him, and my impression is that he's at turns a
> complete gentleman and a complete ass. It's best JUST to listen to the
> music.
>
> I love the work of Richard Wagner too, despite him being an
> antisemitic dog-kicker. In both cases I think they're neurodivergent
> weirdos who weren't properly socialized.
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 8:56 AM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Toxic sexist awot now?
> > What'd our mad Dicky boy say
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 9:43 AM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> It's so weird to still be buying new Aphex Twin music, but I can't help
> it.
> >>
> >> It's important to realize that if he's working in the studio, he's not
> >> being a toxic sexist conspiracy theory crank. The more music he
> >> releases, and the less he speaks in public, the better.
> >>
> >> Oh, you want to know what I think of the music? It's more of his
> >> obsessive drum programming and melancholy chord sequences. "Blackbox
> >> Life Recorder 21f" at the beginning has a weird scraping sound that if
> >> I'm not mistaken is a filtered version of the chair squeak from
> >> Alberto Balsam.
> >>
> >> It isn't as elaborate a harmonic composition as Alberto Balsam, but it
> >> is a catchy beat with that vaguely sad harmonic lushness.
> >>
> >> zin2 test5 sounds like a continuation of Life recorder, with a similar
> >> chord progression, but the beat is more persistent, really a 140bpm
> >> breakbeat, but hand made (as opposed to sampled and chopped), sounding
> >> like he might be back programming his 30 year old Roland R8.
> >>
> >> "in a room7 F760" is more weepy chords and subtle acid bass with
> >> beats. It's odd that he's essentially made a 160bpm breakbeat track,
> >> with the shape of a Drum & Bass tune, but with a vibe that's miles
> >> away. There's a whole aesthetic world in the choice of swing
> >> strength. He's gone past the customary 5% swing of house music, into
> >> something that actually recalls the swinginess of 1960s cocktail jazz.
> >> His touch is light, in contrast with the bombast and drama that drive
> >> the top drum and bass tracks.
> >>
> >> "Blackbox Life Recorder 22 (Parallax Mix)" really only shares drum
> >> sounds and swing quantization strength with the first version.
> >> Imagine an ambient piece from SAW II being disrupted by a deeply swung
> >> TR606 beat.
> >>
> >> Overall impression: I really enjoy these tunes, but its clear that
> >> whatever rabbit holes Aphex Twin has been down in the last 30 years,
> >> he's still fixated on the sounds and vibes he constructed in the early
> >> 90s. This isn't a bad thing, but you can no longer expect anything
> >> shockingly new from him. Instead, he's focused on refining and
> >> extending that legacy.
> >>
> >> If you want the new new you can look elsewhere, but if you want to be
> >> both lulled and disturbed by familiar things made strange again, this
> >> is a great release.
> >>
> >> https://bleep.com/aphex-twin--blackbox-life-recorder-21f
>