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April 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 319
Aphex Twin, Come To Daddy (1997) This was the very first thing I heard by Aphex Twin – it sent me down a path. I’ve never returned really. Never backed away. It’s all intriguing and invigorating. And the best of it is the best music I’ve ever – ever – heard. And the worst of it is still better than so much. I bought […]Archive
September 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Aphex Twin: Collapse EP
Aphex Twin Collpase EP Warp Records I’ve said this before but I think it bears repeating: you could imagine that all of the Aphex Twin material – and we’re now talking about a nearly 30-year span of music-making – was created in a single weekend; Richard D. James high on herbal drinks and pills and […]Archive
July 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Aphex Twin: Cheetah EP
Aphex Twin Cheetah EP Warp Records It’s been easy to rush in and declare nearly any and all of the product/activity from Aphex Twin since his return “The Best”. Quality control was there, always. It was usually great stuff – but since a mini glut of releases, many of them no doubt stored up over […]Archive
November 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
AFX: Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008
AFX Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008 Warp Records There were all were, just over a year ago – lost without Richard D. James and Aphex Twin and some of his other pseudonyms. And then that Caustic Window album was made available to the mainstream, a flurry of Soundcloud activity was captured across a slurry of accounts. […]Archive
June 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Palmbomen II: Palmbomen II
Palmbomen II Palmbomen II RVNG International Here’s the latest from Kai Hugo, a self-titled album under his Palmbomen II moniker. He’s been making analog house and dusty old ambient-techno releases under various names and all with a cleaning-out-the-attic feel. Here on album where the strange gimmick is that every track is named after an X-Files […]Archive
May 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Aphex Twin: MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep)
Aphex Twin MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep) Warp Records Last year Aphex Twin re-emerged. We had the very worthwhile Syro album, the eventual mainstream release of his Caustic Window project, then there was the ep, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (to my ears some of the very best Aphex work ever – and who […]Archive
February 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Aphex Twin: Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (ep)
Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (ep) Warp Records You wait a decade for new Aphex Twin music – then you get a previously hard to find album recorded under another name, the now Grammy-winning official new album/return, as well as a stack of apparently unreleased Aphex leftovers under the typically cryptic user487363530 […]Archive
September 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Aphex Twin: Syro
Aphex Twin Syro Warp Records It’s going to seem like closet-clearing time with the release – limited though it was – of Caustic Window and now this: new Aphex Twin material. Richard D. James has been in a form of hiding for most of a decade, release-wise. There’s been music, performances, but he really slowed […]Archive
June 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Caustic Window: Caustic Window
Caustic Window Caustic Window Rephlex Records/Kickstarter/Revolt/YouTube By now any Aphex Twin/electronic music fan knows the story Richard D. James’ shelved album – under his Caustic Window moniker – has been released via a Kickstarter campaign. So, for whatever reason, we still don’t know the real reason – this Caustic Window release was pulled right as […]Archive
January 3, 2012 by Simon Sweetman