Listen to (apparently) new Aphex Twin material



The above clip of Aphex Twin performing at Parc de la Seille in Metz on May 15 recently emerged online [via Pitchfork].

The consensus seems to be that the floaty six-minute breakbeat number you hear playing is a new production from Richard D. James, and the audio quality is, thankfully, much superior to YouTube’s usual going rate.

With a number of further European tour dates lined up for the summer, it seems like James is preparing the ground for a new Aphex album; if the above is a genuine taster of what to expect, then consider us duly excited.

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  • MM

    Why excited? Sounds pretty unremarkable to me. Brings to mind contemporary library music, or a weak Chemical Brothers B-side, when they're in a New Order mood.
    AFX: the man, the myth, the underwhelming music.

  • JAK

    cool, but afx has been playing unreleased stuff in live sets forever so what makes you think this is going to be on a new album? Do you know something we dont Fact? if so do spill! ;)

  • paranormal achtung

    “AFX: the man, the myth, the underwhelming music”

    except he's not, really, is he? he's made some of the best albums ever.

    what's a chemical brothers b-side even sound like? a chemical brothers a-side minus the vocal? got better things to do than know that, frankly.

  • MM

    “He's made some of the best albums ever”

    Depends what you like, 'Paranormal Achtung'.
    He's made some really great stuff [for me, bits of "I Care Because You Do", all of the "Richard D James" album and "Boy/Girl" EP, the Baby Ford/808 State/Philip Glass remixes etc]. There's good stuff there, but we're not talking about a jaw-dropping consistent run of brilliance like, say, Eno from 1973-1985.

    I don't dislike his stuff, it's just not really breaking any boundaries or surprising any more. Which you kind of need to do if you want to earn your 'legend' status, and consistently deserve the breathless excitement that fans greet your latest releases with.

    It's getting a bit Mark E. Smith now: the same tics repeated over & over propped up by an oddly mythic status. The last time I was genuinely excited by one of his tracks was “Windowlicker”, because it sounded like he was doing something a bit different, but making it sound his own. Then we had a five year wait, and the tedious step backwards that was “Drukqs”. And not much of real note since then, for my money.

    Chemical Brothers B-sides sound wishy-washy and don't have enough ideas in them, generally speaking. There – you may have better things to do, but now you know.

  • vladimir

    wtf are you dickheads talking about. did you not listen to drukqs or the analord series.

  • dfgzegr

    MM has a little dick.

  • NO

    lol @ aphex twin fanboys

    Dude is totally irrelevant. Call me when he is making REAL dubstep (must be filthy and wobbly and massive)

  • YES

    Why would he make dubstep? He's a shepard, not a sheep.

  • MM

    @Vladimir – yes, I did listen to “Drukqs” and the Analord series. And The Tuss. And I think bits of them are quite good, but I get a real treading water feeling. As I said, depends what you like. You twat.

  • Vladimir

    a “tread water feeling”? you must be getting confused with drexiciya surely. i’m not in the slightest bit convinced you actually listened. perhaps you heard. it would be painfully obvious to most sentient human beings that the recordings you mention are intricate, original and compelling. you may not “like” them per se. but you have to accept that the artist responsible deserves an awful lot of respect for at least attempting to create something that sounds like nothing else. perhaps you should go and listen to craig david, brostep or an equally derivative, punishing and drugerous cacophony, and leave the electronic music criticism to those of us with an open mind.

  • Mm

    Ok, well… boring round here. You try & express a counter-opinion as lucidly as you can, but predictably you just get insults for not going along with the “OMG the man’s a genius” consensus”. Not hearing any defence of his stuff beyond “it’s just amazing” – type hype. Zzzzzzz bye.

  • axin pedaxin

    sounds like the tuss;)

  • MM

    Cheers. Loving the playground bullying feel round here. Cunt.

  • tom lea

    are we really talking classic Aphex albums and not bringing up SAW 1-2?

    actually scrap that, just keep calling each other twats and cunts – much more enjoyable.

  • NO

    So that sheep from The Tuss pictures is actually his?

    That's kind of massive, actually.

  • Adam

    i can't believe you put irrelevant and Aphex in the same subject. do you have any idea what you're talking about? i suggest you do some research.

  • ricardo david

    lol dubstep

  • http://caca.com cac

    dubstep is for stoned dumbtards.

  • http://infowars.com robbie

    I find it funny how lazy these journalists are, Aphex has been continuously playing unreleased tracks in his life sets since 2003. Many of them ended up being released under the Tuss. This track could be pretty old actually.

  • turkishdelight

    hence the “apparently”, robbie

  • Jacob

    Dude plays real Dub not Dubstep.

  • Yes

    ahahahahahahahahaha

    You dont even kNOw what real dubstep is you trend following, bandwagoning, hipster wannabe ;)

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