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Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)
Author : lelandfe
Score : 262 points
Date : 2026-01-08 21:17 UTC (1 days ago)
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| lelandfe wrote:
| Context from the prior year:
| https://pitchfork.com/news/69473-korg-announces-new-synthesi...
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| No archive links please;
|
| Source is available: https://warp.net/editorial/richard-d-james-
| speaks-to-tatsuya...
| lelandfe wrote:
| That is not the source. In their housecleaning they removed
| graphics and anchors from the interview, so I'm providing the
| original.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| ah, weird
| gnatman wrote:
| He still works for Korg! Leads their R&D branch in Berlin.
| enricozb wrote:
| RDJ or Tatsuya Takahashi?
| pan69 wrote:
| > Tatsuya Takahashi is currently advisor for Korg and holds a
| full-time position at Yadastar GmbH to work on technology
| based projects.
|
| It's in the lead in to the article.
| enqk wrote:
| It's also out of date, he leads Korg Berlin now
| windowliker wrote:
| Yup.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsWpmrBN9gY
| BLKNSLVR wrote:
| The depth of knowledge of Richard James surprises me every time I
| come across articles about him.
|
| No wonder Aphex Twin's music stands out the way it does. He's
| always a fair way ahead of the curve.
| milleramp wrote:
| Yes, not to long ago I was looking into the Easter egg in
| Windowlicker, amazing. https://eeggs.com/items/34824.html
| arcanemachiner wrote:
| Wow, eeggs.com. Haven't thought about that site in years
| (maybe even decades).
| spacechild1 wrote:
| He is indeed a very technical and nerdy person. For example, he
| was an early adopter of the SuperCollider audio programming
| language.
|
| Fun trivia: he was trolling the SuperCollider mailing list
| under the alias "eric hard jams" which is an anagram of Richard
| [D.] James. Some of his messages were truely horrendous and he
| got kicked out eventually. He is quite a character...
| publicdebates wrote:
| Was it confirmed that eric hard jams was actually him?
|
| How strange it is that we so easily forgive bad behavior from
| people we love.
| _alaya wrote:
| It's strange but common. I love the music of Miles Davis
| and consider him a genius. I also give him a pretty poor
| review in terms of his behavior as a human being.
|
| People are complex.
| coldtea wrote:
| There's also that fact that Miles Davis doesn't get to
| review our own behavior as human beings. He might not
| have liked us as his audience either. His behavior is
| publicized, and ours (whether it is) is not.
| spacechild1 wrote:
| It hasn't been confirmed 100% but I remember reading a post
| by James McCartney (author of SuperCollider) himself, going
| something like "Shut the fuck up, Richard!". Since they
| both knew each other personally, I assume that JMC thought
| that "eric hard jams" was indeed Richard James.
| mft_ wrote:
| It's not in vogue these days, but rather than forgiving, we
| can compartmentalise and rationalise.
|
| Being a bad person in one domain doesn't mean that someone
| can't generate value in another.
| Kreutzer wrote:
| The genius label we bestow on a select few is often a
| license to behave badly. I always enjoyed Richard's music
| but never quite bought the stories told about him.
| shimman wrote:
| Why are you putting "value" above human decency? Maybe
| you shouldn't be considered to generate any "value" if
| you put misery on others, how can any "value" make up for
| the direct suffering?
|
| There are plenty people just the same, with the same
| capabilities without the quality of being a tarpit of
| suck.
| publicdebates wrote:
| Is there really a distinction? Isn't the altruistic
| concept that we all have innate value also a statement of
| _offering_ value, even by our mere existence?
|
| I find it so odd that people overlook severe faults in
| those whose other qualities they rather love and greatly
| appreciate. It seems so unjust, yet it's universal.
| bigyabai wrote:
| A lot of James' discography is predicated on making other
| people suffer. The album art is offputting, the track
| listings are usually cluttered and useless, his music
| videos are scary and confusing, random tracks are
| designed to torture you (eg. _Ventolin_ ), and half of
| his music is released under unrelated aliases.
|
| If you're not familiar with Aphex Twin, it's hard to
| understand that this hatred does nothing to inhibit his
| success.
| sneak wrote:
| Just because art is challenging and unpredictable doesn't
| mean it's interned to make you suffer.
|
| Is Giger's art created to cause suffering? How about
| Beksinski's paintings? The emotions they invoke are not
| happiness or joy, but neither are they purely dread or
| loathing.
|
| Aesthetic pursuit isn't solely (or even primarily) about
| the emotions it conjures in the consumer.
|
| Remember: the customer is always right in matters of
| taste.
| spacechild1 wrote:
| What? Just because an artist makes artworks that some
| people find challenging does not mean that they hate
| their audience or want to make them suffer.
|
| Also, what you personally find offputting, other people
| may enjoy. For example, I don't find 'Ventolin'
| particularly challenging to listen to.
| gopher_space wrote:
| Hofstadter's GEB is challenging. Francis Bacon's Popes
| are disturbing. Aphex Twin is irritating. None of these
| people hate their audience and they're all pushing
| boundaries.
|
| Andy Kaufman was challenging, disturbing, and irritating
| in equal measure and he _did_ hate his audience.
| coldtea wrote:
| > _Why are you putting "value" above human decency?_
|
| Because human decency is often overrated and hard usable
| value is often underrated.
|
| If we removed the value (changes, inventions, artworks,
| products, etc) made by people which were lacking in
| "human decency" in this or that aspect, billions would be
| poorer, sicker, die sooner, and have much worse cultures.
|
| > _There are plenty people just the same, with the same
| capabilities without the quality of being a tarpit of
| suck._
|
| Understanding is a great component of human decency too,
| as is not being a sanctimonious hollier-than-thou type.
| For example, not labelling someone who "wrote something
| mean in a forum" as "a tarpit of suck", as if that
| defines them totally, or as if the persons making such
| statements shit doesn't smell.
|
| Plus "plenty people just the same, with the same
| capabilities", really? As if the output of an artist is
| interchangeable with that of another, so that we can just
| discard those that have done such grave offenses as
| "being rude on a forum" and just listen to another?
| topocite wrote:
| I know I have made many mistakes in my life, especially
| as a dumb kid.
|
| We can't all be on your level of moral perfection.
| hamburglar wrote:
| You guys are doing a lot of hand-wringing over what was
| likely just tongue-in-cheek trolling among people who
| considered each other friends. I could easily see
| creating a thinly veiled persona to do some annoyance of
| a close friend and call them an ass-licker in my early
| days. It's a form of affection.
| esperent wrote:
| I mean, I haven't even seen any of the messages. Just a one
| sentence accusation and no proof that it was actually him.
| Jumping to the decision that there's anything to forgive
| would be weird based on this.
|
| Even if it was true, who cares? I like the guy's music,
| it's had a strong influence on me at various times in my
| life. But I have never had a strong opinion of whether I
| like _him_ , and I still don't. Why would I?
| bondarchuk wrote:
| > _Was it confirmed that eric hard jams was actually him?_
|
| Nope. By then RDJ (the actual person) was of course known
| for using anagrams so it would be an obvious thing to do
| for any troll.
| coldtea wrote:
| > _How strange it is that we so easily forgive bad behavior
| from people we love._
|
| That's part of what loving someone means. It's easy to love
| someone convenient who never does anything to bother or
| hurt you.
|
| Besides, he was trolling. It's not like it's a big deal. If
| you were on a mailing list or usenet group or forum in the
| 80s and 90s everybody did that, and few if any had an issue
| with it, we could take it!
|
| We not only forgive but tolerate 100000x worse stuff
| everyday that directly fucks our lives that we could
| prioritize not tolerating.
| runjake wrote:
| If you look in the right places, you'll find some meetup
| photos that essentially confirm it.
| spacechild1 wrote:
| He (presumably) trolled a mailing list for a short period
| of time in the early 2000s. If that's the worst thing he's
| done, there's not much to forgive.
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| Has anyone used SuperCollider or computer music framework to
| make anything resembling a pop song?
|
| Look at how easily a producer can make a pop song in Ableton
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=F5CPQ8LU36w
| spacechild1 wrote:
| SuperCollider would be the wrong tool for the job.
| _annum wrote:
| Why would anyone use SuperCollider or a computer music
| framework to make something resembling a pop song?
| bigyabai wrote:
| Ableton includes a fairly comprehensive SDK called Max for
| Live, it's been used in a handful of popular tracks before.
|
| Pure algomusic/tracker setups are usually a poor fit for
| pop music, though. DAWs have indispensable tools for vocal
| processing that you cannot forego most of the time.
| bondarchuk wrote:
| Yeah BT lol.
| topocite wrote:
| Ableton is like the modern day guitar.
|
| SuperCollider and music programming languages are like the
| modern day bass clarinet.
|
| There isn't much bass clarinet in modern pop music either.
| Part of what defines pop music is the familiarity of the
| sound and popular expectation of what music is supposed to
| be.
| Mistletoe wrote:
| Can you link to the horrendous messages or summarize them?
| ideasphere wrote:
| "Ooh look, a girl on the sc list. Let's rape her"
| bondarchuk wrote:
| http://www.audiosynth.com/files/sc-users-archive/v01.n223
|
| http://www.audiosynth.com/files/sc-users-archive/v01.n224
|
| http://www.audiosynth.com/files/sc-users-archive/v01.n225
|
| http://www.audiosynth.com/files/sc-users-archive/v01.n226
|
| http://www.audiosynth.com/files/sc-users-archive/v01.n227
|
| (note I am not personally claiming this is RDJ)
| spacechild1 wrote:
| I should clarify that it hasn't been 100% confirmed that
| "eric_hard_jams" was really him, but many people on the list
| thought so, including James McCartney himself:
| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:20:06 -0600 From: James
| McCartney <---@---.---> Subject: Re: [ OT ]very low
| signal to noise ratio . on 1/17/01 9:18 PM,
| eric_hard_jams at eric_hard_jams@btinternet.com wrote:
| > >> ok boss. i'm really sorry. back to normal now.
| much better. >> my apologies. >> > ass
| licker. > shut the F up already, richard.
|
| https://www.audiosynth.com/files/sc-users-archive/v01.n226
|
| JMC and RDJ know each personally and hung out together.
| Here's a picture of the two together: https://www.reddit.com/
| r/aphextwin/comments/6oheli/screen_ra...
| runjake wrote:
| It's worth little coming from some random HN guy, but I can
| confirm eric_hard_jams was Richard D James. We used to hang
| around similar circles online, and there were a couple
| meetups. There were a bunch of other Rephlex and Rephlex-
| adjacent musicians using pseudonyms, as well.
|
| Richard was sort of annoying at times, in the way someone
| on the spectrum can be. A bit of a troll with poor timing,
| and poor social skills, but a good, kind lad who spent his
| time doing things completely orthogonal to anyone else and
| that made him quite interesting.
|
| I lost touch with him in around 2000-2001. He kinda went
| dark in those circles. I don't know what he's up to these
| days, probably raising a family like me.
| bondarchuk wrote:
| Sure thing, Jake
| runjake wrote:
| Funny useless trivia: Jake is not my actual name. It's
| from a movie. :-P
| spacechild1 wrote:
| That's interesting!
|
| There is also this email from Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:02:12
| +0000 in https://www.audiosynth.com/files/sc-users-
| archive/v01.n225 where he is clearly talking as Aphex
| Twin. He _might_ be just an impersonator, but given that
| he speaks directly to James and James calls him Richard
| has me pretty convinced that it 's actually him.
| roughly wrote:
| That audiosynth link is a fine thread for anyone lamenting
| the loss of civility on the modern internet.
| MomsAVoxell wrote:
| This is probably the best thing I've ever read on Hacker News
| .. seriously, honestly.
|
| I mean, wtf, the mailing lists are astonishing if you think
| about them .. like, how UUCP and mailman and qmail/sendmail
| used to be all you need to get access to the archives ...
| spacechild1 wrote:
| The fact that we can still access and search these archives
| 20-30 years later is really amazing. It gives you a glimpse
| into a different time period. That's why mailing lists and
| forums are so important! Fortunately, SuperCollider still
| has a quite active forum (https://scsynth.org/). It makes
| me sad that so much communication has moved to proprietory
| platforms like FB groups or Discord servers, most of which
| will be forever lost in time.
| tea_cult_1 wrote:
| A different opinion about their music is that it all seems
| rather ostentatious in an aural sense, and leaves a doubt if
| some of the praise being heaped on it is 'perfomative'.
| gilleain wrote:
| Uhm. If I understand correctly, you are saying that some
| people are pretending to like his music because it is over
| the top and showy rather than actually good or enjoyable?
|
| While it is possible these fake enjoyers exist, I'm fairly
| certain a lot of fans of Mr Twin's work like it in a
| straightforward sense of most music appreciation.
|
| Personally, 'Vordhosbn', 'Windowlicker', 'Rhubarb'... etc are
| all great tracks. Are there some that I don't get on with?
| Sure, of course. However I can speak for myself when saying
| I'm not listening to the music performatively. At least, not
| much!
| colordrops wrote:
| I'm an example, in fact I've loved his music since the 90s
| and never played it for friends because I always assumed
| they wouldn't like it. And I'm definitely not being
| performative for myself. It was a bit surprising to me that
| his music became kind of legendary recently.
| lomase wrote:
| Even some AFX fans have the opinion that the stuff on
| Drukqs is "style over substance".
| devin wrote:
| About as powerful a quote as "Even some Beatles fans
| think X album is 'style over substance'."
|
| Who cares? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to crank up
| Vordhobsn and write some code.
| mprev wrote:
| To be fair, he was kinda forced to release it following a
| leak, wasn't he?
| flyinglizard wrote:
| We need to put his music in the right historical context.
| In the time his early works were released he was truly
| different. I don't _like_ his music, but I appreciate it,
| artistically. I like his art, I guess.
| gilleain wrote:
| I believe you, but is that not a strange position to take
| on music? Appreciating it artistically, but not liking
| listening to it?
|
| Am I right in saying you like the _idea_ behind the music
| rather than the music itself? That's almost as strange to
| me as people who do not listen to music at all - it's
| fine, of course! They are your ears, and you can do what
| you like with them :)
|
| _shrug_ Different people are different, I suppose.
| scsh wrote:
| No it's not strange. As someone who enjoys playing music
| I have heard a lot of music that doesn't suite my
| particular tastes, but appreciated the artistic talent of
| the people creating it because I truly believe they are
| talented. If you dig below the surface level you can find
| plenty to appreciate about how something is created, even
| if the product isn't for you.
|
| You can find something to like about a lot of things. I
| also enjoy watching videos about wristwatch repairs and
| seeing the construction of them. However, I do not want
| one and would never wear one.
| poisonarena wrote:
| Agreed, been this way for 30 years, and significant amount of
| effort by him and warp have been adding to cult of his
| mystique(actually many electronic music artists in the
| 90s/early 2000s). He is one of the last popular electronic
| musicians younger generations of "#DAWLESS" guys like now
| because he kept up that mystique which is basically
| impossible to have now in the current social media era.
|
| I remember buying some of his tapes and cd's from Amoeba
| music in 1999 and the feeling they gave me. I often wonder
| what its like to been born in 2010 and never experiencing
| this.
| maccard wrote:
| > I often wonder what its like to been born in 2010 and
| never experiencing this.
|
| It's always amusing to see these cycles continue. If his
| music is indeed as good as you claim it will still be
| listened to - just as so much of the best music of the last
| 75 years is. People have been lamenting the loss of the
| thing they felt was their transformative experince, and
| each generation keeps finding a new generation defining
| experience
| poisonarena wrote:
| Thats actually not what I meant. I meant the experience
| of owning music on cd's/records/tapes. This cant really
| be experienced anymore since every song ever released can
| be immediately streamed. Sure you can buy vinyl or cd's
| at shows but it isnt the same because back then it was
| radio or buy/own the stuff
|
| And my other point was how lots of electronic musicians
| seemed so distant and mysterious because they weren't
| livestreaming and and social media that made them/their
| personality/tweets etc available.
|
| as for AFX, I think like one in 15 of his songs are
| amazing, the rest is just noise/filler
| luqtas wrote:
| your generation never experienced putting your hands, as
| a kid, into a thin block of metal that can play all the
| movies and music and books ever produced (or most)
|
| i installed a pirated copy of Windows XP through floppy
| disks and i had a CD walkman. i was still a teen when i
| got a ipod touch 2gen. the latter was much more magical
| to me. sometimes i stare at my android phone with the
| screen locked thinking how impressive the tech is. termux
| x11 can go a long way. i don't wear rose tinted glasses
| even though my childhood was a freaking blast
| alisonatwork wrote:
| Eh, Aphex fans and IDM more broadly has always been
| pretentious AF. I think there's a kayfabe effect going on
| where both the artists and the fans lean so far into the
| earnestness of it all that it surely has to be somewhat
| tongue-in-cheek. I suspect that's part of the appeal for some
| folks, the delight in being obtuse.
|
| It doesn't bother me too much. Many indie scenes have this
| sort of self-consciously avant garde sub-movement - theater,
| dance, fashion, games...
|
| While I find 99% of braindance to be aggressively
| unlistenable and/or thoroughly tedious, the 1% that isn't
| tends to be truly great. Imo the best thing that ever
| happened to this genre was digital record stores, because
| casual fans can skip over all the limited edition vinyls and
| albums full of abstract noodling and just pick up the
| bangers.
| bondarchuk wrote:
| "I don't like it, therefore everyone else who likes it must
| be only pretending"
| topocite wrote:
| People would say the same thing about Glass or Reich. People
| would say the same thing about Messiaen or Ligeti. People
| would say the same thing about Schoenberg or Webern.
|
| If your expectation of good food is In-N-Out Burger, you
| might think praise of a three star Michelin restaurant is
| performative too.
|
| I am not even much a fan of Richard but he is absolutely one
| of the greatest musical geniuses of the past 50 years bar
| none.
|
| Avril 14th is my favorite. Clearly Satie influenced but maybe
| even a little sweeter than Satie
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTdTaNIUxo
|
| Also consider Satie himself is exactly the type of musician
| people would have said praising is performative at the time.
| He wasn't taken seriously as a real musician much at all in
| his life.
| gilleain wrote:
| I love 'Avril 14th', I had not connected it before to Satie
| (who I've only just heard of, my poor musical background
| knowledge). I see the similarities in the balance of
| sweetness and dissonance (I suppose).
|
| A friend told me a story about Satie, that they found two
| pianos in his appartement, one stacked on the other, with
| unpaid bills tossed on the top. Seems very RDJ-like (or
| v.v.).
| Lio wrote:
| > _their_ music
|
| Richard _and_ James Aphex; the Aphex twins. :P
|
| > _leaves a doubt if some of the praise being heaped on it is
| 'perfomative'._
|
| This sounds rather like someone that doesn't like art in
| general complaining about those that do. I've heard many
| people complain about "modern art" in the same way.
|
| I think it's a valid enough opinion but I still like Aphex
| Twin's music for the same reasons I like Eno's.
| isoprophlex wrote:
| > It's very simple, but do you want your music to be based on
| an international standard or on what you think sounds right to
| you? [...] I'm very glad I trusted my instincts. Listening to
| that other voice is THE most important thing in creativity,
| whether you're an engineer or a musician.
|
| To me, RDJs music always stood out as having uncanny, unique
| melodies and harmonies. As a teenager I fantasized about him
| being some sort of benevolent alien music shaman, beaming
| melodies onto our planet.
|
| Stuff on SAW II where you can't figure out if you're hearing
| single notes or mutating chords and everything is near-
| synaesthetic bliss. The wistful otherness of 'Italic Eyeball'.
| Whatever 'fingerbib', ICBYD, and things on Melodies from Mars
| are doing was very formative to my 16 year old brain.
|
| It's clear that whatever he does, he channels some unique
| creative juices.
| Xmd5a wrote:
| I knew it
| eth0up wrote:
| >>>As a teenager I fantasized about him being some sort of
| benevolent alien music shaman, beaming melodies onto our
| planet.
|
| Fantasized? Facts are facts but I admire your humility.
|
| From my phone to Desktop to remote NUCs, his noises pervade
| them all. And indelibly in my mind.
|
| I think there's still a strong case that he ain't human.
| flippyhead wrote:
| I really enjoyed this explanation of just how amazing RDJ is:
| https://youtu.be/5wIOBBodoic?si=HkR05lAGkSiPZVmS
| zahlman wrote:
| (2017) appears to be the earliest archive snapshot.
| lelandfe wrote:
| Yeah, I didn't link the first archive as the Soundcloud
| playlist fully doesn't load. This one doesn't play, but at
| least the names are searchable.
| publicdebates wrote:
| Tangential:
|
| "Aisatsana - Aphex Twin - Barbican, London 10th October 2012.
| It's a bit dark so it's probably difficult to tell but that's a
| grand piano being swung back and forth across the stage like a
| pendulum."
|
| "Yeah, it's written for my wife. When I first did that, I did
| this installation-y art thing at the Barbican with a remote
| orchestra. [The song] was made on my Disklavier [controlled
| piano], which was swung from the roof at that gig, and there was
| this massive Doppler effect. It is pretty mental. There's a bad
| cameraphone version of it on YouTube, but in the flesh it's
| fucking amazing. To listen to this piano swinging, you almost see
| all the notes stretching out, so it'll hit you at different
| times. I never knew if it was going to work or not, and everyone
| was like, "What the fuck is he swinging a piano for?" But when we
| actually got it going, we were just like, "fucking hell." It was
| so extreme. My friends were like, "Are the strings stretching?"
| The pitch deviation is that big, it sounds like the actual frame
| is contorting. Maybe it is, I don't know!" - Richard D. James
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJHsT8kEyzs
| jacquesm wrote:
| I know the year has just started but I vote this comment of the
| year 2026. Wow. Thank you. Seriously. Of all the things you
| could do with a piano this has to be the most crazy, and it
| just works.
| publicdebates wrote:
| I reluctantly decline and instead endorse
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538574
| jacquesm wrote:
| There's no debating about taste ;)
| defrost wrote:
| Goes a few steps past threading metal nuts that move on grand
| piano strings, that's for ure.
| tnias23 wrote:
| I thought he was just bullshitting again until I watched that
| video
| jacquesm wrote:
| Pure genius.
|
| Now of course we have to know what the rotary speaker
| equivalent of a grand piano sounds like... anybody have a
| couple of very large bearings lying around?
| Rendello wrote:
| Aisatsana, the final track on Syro. For Syro fans, there's a
| song called "end E2" that didn't make the cut, presumably it
| would've been the last song.
|
| > Missing track from Syro, didn't make it for technical and
| personal reasons.
|
| https://soundcloud.com/user21041984001/syro-013-aphex-twin-e...
| 2b3a51 wrote:
| Stage is quite wide so doppler shift could be in the semi-tones
| range depending on microphone placement. Estimating the shift
| at around 3% from that video. The piano is standing on a
| platform that is itself on the hoist so I'd be surprised if
| there was much frame bending.
| TheOtherHobbes wrote:
| Academic electroacoustic music uses large speaker arrays to
| place sounds in different locations, and "flying pianos" is a
| standard in-joke. Because you can indeed make a piano sound fly
| around the room, with or without doppler effects, to taste.
|
| Also, this.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbnb09xAQR8
| geraldmcboing wrote:
| This is also a great deep wide-ranging interview/conversation c
| SYRO release
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20141111015756/http://noyzelab.b...
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20141112205122/https://noyzelab....
| sailfast wrote:
| Programming synths with Scala sounds pretty fun!
| emptybits wrote:
| And before the wrong Scala crowd gets too excited, the Scala
| referred to is the musical tuning software from 1985
|
| https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
|
| (Not the programming language from 2004.)
| njoyablpnting wrote:
| Here's a plugin that he commissioned that you can play with:
| https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain
|
| It's hard to overstate the influence RDJ has had on modern music.
| Maybe even more impressive than his ability to develop multiple
| compelling distinct styles is the way he has taken existing
| niches, completely mastered them and then pushed the boundaries
| all over again.
| jghn wrote:
| I remember once hearing an interview with cEvin Key where he
| described Dwayne Goettel as someone who would have probably
| turned out to be Aphex Twin had he not died, given the era of it
| all. And that made me take another look at Aphex twin, and
| appreciate his work.
| rballpug wrote:
| Placeable.
|
| > _I've since gone on to learn more about this damn 440 Hz._
| SolubleSnake wrote:
| I love Aphex Twin but my only issue is he keeps saying in
| interviews how he hates surfers?!
|
| Being a proud Cornish surfer and one of his earlier fans this
| saddens me. We were his first fans!
|
| There used to be raves in Cornwall like the one in cult UK
| surfing classic 'Blue Juice'. They were 'lush' (i've noticed
| Aphex regularly says 'lush' too so is clearly from a surfer-
| adjacent group of friends and maybe he's just p1ssing about).
| 12ian34 wrote:
| he is known for speaking all sorts of bs in interviews just for
| his own amusement, so I wouldn't take it personally :)
| chungus wrote:
| Very nice read thank you. Still remember very clearly putting the
| Richard D James album CD into my Sony disc man for the very first
| time 22 years ago
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