Aphex Twin - New album
 

This time it's real.

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yes !

New Aphex Twin [At somepoint this year]
 

According to this anyway. Good news at least:

http://www.planet-mu.com/forums/general?t=54715

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For the dutchies: He's playing at the STRP festival in Eindhoven next month, along with Squarepusher and Venetian Snares.

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Nobody's coming to see them april 9th in Brussels with Tim Exile ?

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brussel? place?

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Are you kidding me? Aphex Twin + Hecker, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares and Luke Vibert on one evening?

edit: Ticket ordered.

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looks like it's for real :)

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Ancienne Belgique :)

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How times change... I'm really jealous now, but back in about '94 I walked out on the Aphex Twin after about 5 mins of what may (or may not, it was kind of hard to tell) have been the legendary 'playing discs of sandpaper on turntables' gig at Megadog.

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Supposedly after 5 mins of doing that, he then put some ambiance on and then blended some mics before switching to machine gun gabber. Seen him play under a typically daft name with a laptop and I was blown away with the sounds coming out of it. Sure stuff released as The Tuss was being played 5/6 before its release.

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i must say, as much as i love the early twin, this is probably going to suck as much as 80% of the stuff he has done over the last decade....

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The Tuss and a handful of tracks from Analord are as good as anything he's ever done.

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so does anyone have any idea what his live show is like these days?

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i saw him 2 or 3 years ago and he was mostly playing some drill'n'bass, mixed up with some pop/rnb (i heard missy elliott somewhere in his set) and some of his more popular tracks. if i remember it was all done with a laptop and seemed more like a dj set. i was disappointed.

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http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=43785
This is missing the first 20 minutes, though. There is another, complete bootleg but it sounds very bad.
The intro is awesome: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1oox01

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The Aphex Twin Mega Torrent on The Mixing Bowl contains live sets from 1992 to 2006. There are some bootlegs from 2008 on there, too (simply do a search for "aphex twin" and sort by date).

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so, me and Stimpee saw Aphex Twin this saturday. We actually also met him in person cause he was staying at the same hotel as us :)
Anyway I was impressed with the show, even though I'm really not all that familiar with his work (I only own the ambient works 1 cd, and he played only one track of that) but the sound was solid and progressed from some calmer electro/breakbeat stuff to absolutely batshit insane loud&distorted at the end. I had to move to the back about halfway trough cause it was getting too hot and too loud in the middle of the crowd. The video screens were showing a combination of a spinning AFX logo, psychedelic patterns and computer rendered versions of Aphex's face being distorted in various ways, and getting more and more evil as the set progressed. For some reason during the last track they were showing what looked like a autopsy/dissection on a human body, which was pretty gross.

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that sounds a lot like his set at Coachella last year.

at that show - it started out with some hiphop (he even played Public Enemy) then it went into electro (even some cheesy stuff) then like... it got a bit more spooky & was stuff more like the "Tuss" album

at that point we left to catch another show... but I heard a boot of the performance and after that - he played harder, more distorted stuff (so probably was good that I left)

he's definitely someone that I think you kind of "have" to see - if at least for a solid 20 min

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I was a little disappointed by his set. Just a few Aphex tracks (Fenix Funk 5, Mookid, some older stuff), but mostly generic gabber/hardcore... Didn't like the visuals either, some fooling around with the AFX logo and a 3D image of his face. And the scat videos were awful... I'm not easily disturbed or anything like that, but I fail to see the artistic value in just wanting to shock people.
Best set of the evening was Squarepusher. He played a good mix of new and old tunes; sadly it ended after just an hour. There is an awesome bootleg of a recent concert floating around and it's pretty similar to his set at STRP.
Close second was Venetian Snares, who played a better gabber/breakcore set than AFX. Of course there were tracks from is recent album Filth, but I also noticed Gentleman and Sajtban from Detrimentalist, Mouth from printf (I had hoped for this), something from Making Orange Things and The Chocolate Wheelchair Album, Hajnal and Második galamb from Rossz, Szycag from Meathole (yes!!!), and Pink + Green.
Vibert gets the third place, his first set was okay (mostly some downtempo stuff, also a few tracks under his Vibert alias). For his second set he played some brilliant drum and bass. I think it was mostly his own stuff, but I didn't know any track names. No Plug tracks. Hopefully he'll release another dnb album in the future.
The AFX set really was the weakest of those I saw. :(

I noticed that most people weren't wearing ear plugs. In the past I've suffered from acute hearing loss (unrelated to music listening, almost back to normal now) and tinnitus for life is not something you want to have as a concert souvenir. There are musician ear plugs (for example the Etymotic ER-20), and they are pretty good.

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Thing with Aphex is, he's cursed for being ahead of his time. No?

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Actually most of his stuff has aged incredibly badly. Drukqs is underrated, though.

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Go figure, Drukqs is my least favorite.

I was referring to the messages he delivers.

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Was he a nice man? I've read reviews saying it was an ok set, but everyone knows he has the ability to piss around or pull something amazing off. Maybe when new material surfaces under AFX or some other name, we'll see a bit more of a serious set.

Does V Snares still just play with CD Decks? Thought he'd evolve his stuff in to something on to a laptop etc. Still, he can move a crowd.

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He was very agreeable, and pleasant yeah. KoS didnt want to speak to him... too shy :) He didnt seem too interested in talking to me, but i got him into a little conversation and joked that we were only staying at the hotel to stalk people like him... I said that the last time I saw him was at Glasto 2002... very drunk. Said i'd like to be a bit more sober tonight to which he replied "i'd get very very drunk if i was you :D"

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Aphex @ STRP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ZpkYdDytM

I was right at the front and it was bloody HOT.

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In a way since music like that doesn't get made much anymore but it doesn't take away from the listening experience IMO. Kind of like how "Crimson King" is obviously around 40 years old but is still unlike anything else. Groups like the Prodigy, Chemical Bros, Basement Jaxx, Fatboy Slim...now that stuff has not aged well!!

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I with you as far as Aphex Twin. Still love the earlier Chem. Bros.

Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, when heard on a good sound system, can move one's body and spirit on the molecular level. I'm not making this shit up.

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STRP Venetian Snares set (soundboard):
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/fil...-STRP-mp3.html

AWESOME


Also, I retract my statement regarding those old Aphex Twin albums. I was just a bit disappointed by his set, that is all.