Why do redditors love Reddit D. James so much? Literally anyone can make his music in a cracked FL using the sampler and presets? Lay out some pads, add a simple hi hat with a few other random drums then wham you have a I Reddit because you Reddit album.Meanwhile his contemporaries like Mike Paradinas and Venetian Snares mog him in every way and have a far more memorable catalogue when you listen to a Reddit Twin song you kinda just hear some pads and loops and that's the entire song for around 4 - 8 minutes.Without marketing he would've been swiftly forgotten as "just another white d00d making ambient."
>>131592279You could not make something like Drukqs because you're a retard who spends his time talking shit on the internet
>>131592299>>131592299nopedrukqs is literally just drums with tension and release and then literally basic ah stock pads or from a sample library.i'll give Reddit James this he at least is efficient as any redditor typing up a copypasta would be at least.
>>131592347You don't know what you're talking about
>>131592361>install daw>take a few hours to make a sound bank>build a song in a few hours>mix it for a fuck long while>live record/sequence certain tracks off the songwham there you go that's how you make a modern day saw 85 - 92, anyone can do it with the tiniest bit of effort.
>>131592279>Venetian Snares>Another random amenbreak parts with eminem samples track #4614>Panda>Another shitty UK technoAt least have the grace to troll mu by comparing RDJ to really talented musicians like Luke Vibert or Squarepusher
>>131592279i fucking HATE aphextrannies
>>131592396and if you have money financially rape yourself with obscure equipment and learn every piece of equipment in a few days.
his music is very pop music coded to the point some songs have a very vers chorus pop structure.he also has a very public image right from the start with his face being all over everything very different from early 90s techno scene which was lot more about the artist being faceless and unknown.
>>131592279>Literally anyone can make his music in a cracked FL using the sampler and presetsGo on then
>>131592453well alright then, ahem, not to t00t my own horn or anything but ive been cooking up this ambient masterpiece for months now...here is a snippethttps://vocaroo.com/15nkN1jCBp2P
>>131592449aphex was like "woah i can be a le heckin contrarian by le heckin putting my face on le heckin techno"aphex is very "not like the other trannies" when it comes to uk techno
>>131592484That doesn't sound like either ambient or Aphex
>>131592510but it has drums n pads and vibration like twin it ih basically death grips without the testosterone (but not tranny coded)
>>131592279He's made some very good tracks but out of all the people who came out of the IDM thing he's by far the most overrated. My guess is normalfags are easily impressed by him because of the cheap contrast between mildly abrasive drums and le cutie vulnerable ghibli piano pieces. It gets boring fast, but of course this people never dig deeper and if they do they've most likely allowed themselves to grow emotionally attached to Afx.
>>131592609i suspect in within the next decade or so Luke Chadvert will get more recognized and "IDM" might get more normiefied overall sorta like how Jazz Rap(e) did.Once normies get their mits on the rest of IDM you'll have their kids saying shit like "I love IDM because it, like, reminds me of the past or something bro, VLC player and Lain figures bro."
>>131592279zoomers pretending they know shit about electronic music is adorable>Mike Paradinas and Venetian Snarescan't even troll properly
>>131592654Mike n Snares have at least 10 memorable LP's each, AFX has like maybe a few side EP's along with his main stuff backing him up.Syro wasn't even made by Rich though, it was made by a few people he knew using his name, there is no way that shit is the same as everything that came before by the same person.
https://archive.org/details/AphexTwinLukeVibert19970922USAWashingtonSeattle>>131592643much as i love him there’s only one vibert track that could catch on these days… https://youtu.be/F8BgfqVE-kYbecause of the pretty video and vocals.
Reddit Twin vs Boards of 4Chanada
>>131592675I think a lot of his newer work is more "I need a new kitchen, release any old half finished stuff I have lying around" because he knows there are people who will buy anything with his name on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlv1lAP7Srkthe best luke vibert song is a afx remix
I've listened to so much Vibert stuff but only a few albums have stuck with me over the years, like Throbbing Pouch and Drum n Bass which aren't exactly representative of the Vibert sound
>>131592279Nowadays he's mainly seen as a pioneerAlso, his music has a particular, playful, comfy feel to it that makes it stand out, which by now is nostalgic in a 90's Britain kind of way too
>>131592279You sure you couldn't have said reddit a few more times?
>>131592279>dude Dylan wasn't special lmao just but a guitar and a microphone, he wasn't playing any notes anyone else couldn't play
>>131592347Everything is just literally what it is
hell, maybe the music maker of selected reddit works is a freemason or something artificially boosted compared to his contemporaries
>>131592279He hard as heeeel.nigga
The average person has an unbelievably tenuous grasp on how sound design works. They want to recognize "brilliance" in audio engineering as a musical skill but they don't have any fucking clue what's difficult or clever or novel. A typical person understands guitar or piano or voice well enough to hear a performance and be able to clock "wow, that person must have some serious chops" but the average person "critiquing" electronic music just doesn't have a fucking clue.AFX has been cargo culted to hell and back. You say you like him because you understand that he is meant to have some serious talent, some serious prowess behind the knobs of a synthesizer, and how the fuck would you know one way or the other? Therefore he must be good, pleb. Please don't ask me to explain why though.
he's praised too often but i still like his stuff
>>131592279>reddit snares>reddit-ziq
>>131593618this might be why afx imitators get called out easier then, or why the average FL beat can be detected as slop a few seconds into listening even if it is structurally well made.the so called redditor razzle dazzle magic behind his music is the hidden barrier behind understanding music as a whole fully, understanding the framework of making music for the sole intent of just making something... that sounds good.his work ethic is compulsive, but behind the compulsiveness lies a formula only he would ever understand, but part of the understanding is that you most likely never actually know what you're doing for most of it, hence his statement on that one article.this sounds like a trans youtube essay.
>>131592484For months?Please tell me that's 5 minutes a monthAlso, give batfinks ep futt a listen
>>131593774Or, and hear me out, he scored big points for novelty and most of what he pioneered has been outshone by people who came after him, but you're not supposed to say that because having an opinion that disagrees with dogma will put you in a position where you're expected to defend it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgoAgYR4584Benn Jordan would not have the ego to declare that he's better at what RDJ was doing than RDJ. He is though. There are plenty of musicians in the space who have both the musical and the engineering chops to outshine Generic Weird Noises Guy. But to say that is like saying "I'm a better musician than John Lennon" even if you are, it's heresy.
>>131593824>the redditbulb
>>131593835Or you have shit like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaOxz3dr4BT did This Binary Universe and Nuovo Morceau Subrosa which were as interesting or more than anything in the RDJ discography, but BT also had the ability to make shit likehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnVes0yYXmkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWZKw_MgUPISo that becomes the thing he's actually recognized for.
>>131593824Flashbulb is literal Dove commercial music
>>131593824that track is boring dogshit
>>131594018Yeah so is 90% of RDJ's discography, that's the point.
>>131593824benn is a great youtuber but never heard a lick of his music.when it came to all the big IDM names the one i fell in love (gay) with first is... autechre out of them all. by the time i got onto tri and chiastic up until untilted might be one of the greatest album runs OAT.afx balances the cerebral and emotionality while ae balances the cerebral and more hard-cold logic more. ironically enough i'd say i got into IDM sorta backwards since most people say ae is too hard for casuals, but honestly, no, not really, those first 3 ae albums are pretty easy to slip into if you're already familiar with game osts.but boards mhtrtc is still possibly my favorite piece of music overall, it is exactly how i imagined music sounding as a kid in my head perfectly transcribed, it made me so depressed that i actually may never find music as good as early boards ever again, inferno is pretty nice though.i got into music as a whole pretty late to most people i know though, listened to my first album fully at 15 and by then it was a pretty late discovery process and music peaked when i found all those 90's - 00's IDM records, some indie and hip hop caaaan get close but not quite. most 2010's IDM i heard sorta loses in the ideas department and by now most 2020's idm is just dead nostalgia for 90's video games and anime, which i like as much as the next person but it's a bit too overdone by now, something like boards using old children educational videos and 70's broadcasts give them a slight edge in eeriness whereas le heckin anime opening sample is a bit too on the nose, like yea bro im pretty sure everyone has watched their share of tranime what happened to finding nostalgia in more obscure places again? anyways idk what im saying anymore i swear im not trans
>>131593877>not linking his magnum opushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo23icOf9fE
>>131594141To me most IDM feels like someone figuring out some parts of a good song and not really having any idea how to put them together to actually make the good song. A series of interesting ideas held together by pads and hopefulness. Most modern IDM is dead nostalgia because the only worthwhile thing it ever represented was the cutting edge of sound design, and sound design moved on decades ago but IDM artists didn't, so now anyone with access to a granular engine and knowledge of chord extensions can make it if they take the time
>>131594258or a loooot of artists sneakily reuse patterns in multiple songs which s tier for resourcefulness but i noticed mike p. did this a lot which ends up having a ton of bloat almost like the guy needs an editor like how a mangaka would need an editor for their story lel.planet mu as a whole may as well possibly be the greatest money laundering scheme of all time in the nicest way possible, v snares does that whole thing u mentioned in the first sentence a lot.the big names of IDM having the most bloat though follows the cycle of any other music genre i suppose.
>>131592279I appreciiate Venetian Snares' dedication to detail but I've gotta be in a particular mood to enjoy it.Aphex is simpler but the vibes are impeccable.
>>131592279>Literally anyone can make his music in a cracked FL using the sampler and presets? Lay out some pads, add a simple hi hat with a few other random drumsLet's hear your work, OP.
>>131592484Plot twist: this is Richard trying to "troll" us
>>131592279>Literally anyone can make his music in a cracked FL using the sampler and presets? Lay out some pads, add a simple hi hat with a few other random drums then wham you have a I Reddit because you Reddit album.is that so? all right post your music then. don't expect me to go lightly on it either.
>>131592279the drums are not at all "random," what are you on about?>>131594364SOPHIE re-used bits of drum patterns so much you could argue a big chunk of her tracks are the same ideas remixed and reworked over and over in a series of refinements and explorations like Arthur Russell did sometimes, soooo many of her beats have the same triplet phrasing at the end of every bar or every two bars I'm surprised more of my friends who listen to her (yeah I am, before you ask) haven't noticed it when I point it out to them
>>131592279he's the definition of "i'm so quirky cringe lmao xD"also he's hugely overratedafx is very good but overrated. people claiming he's the goar are ignorant or tourists.bandwagoner of detroit techno, ambient, breaks, jungle: not an innovator
>>131592279>Literally anyone can make his music in a cracked FL using the sampler and presets?Let's see OP do that
>>131592279Haha no u couldn't even chop a break to save your life
https://vocaroo.com/17VoS2Yp3Dvm4th track on the new album :)
>>131596309everyone can put some piano on fl studio that doesn't mean Beethoven was shit. Are you retarded?
>>131592279you really wanted to use your "Reddit D. James" joke so bad you made this thread
>>131592347>basic ahwhy do zoomer retards do this pathetic self-censor tiktok shit here? this is 4chan, there is no censorism here
>>131596781i bet yroue a grapist pdf file
>>131596309Ngl bro this is fucking awful. But I also think you're trolling now with those scream and boing samples
>>131596814It makes me genuinely happy your generation is so fucked.
>>131592484>mfw
https://vocaroo.com/1heBEGPWpqFzsee, drukqs and analord but betterthere is more where that came from...
>>131597463Mix this with the overdrive organ quieterI actually really like the out-of-tune background synths, both in Aphex and hereAphex's best songs actually have great melodies btw, which is what sets him apart from most IDMslop
>>131597491im gonna name this one "national grapist pdf file anthem" after that one doofus above mehttps://voca.ro/1nNGlNABcxms
>redditYou're an even bigger slave to their whims than they are, hipster douchebag.
>>131597669struck a nerve there ay, we are the reddit makers enjoyer?
>>131597710I don't use that site. I don't even know what they like or dislike there. They could be complete white nationalists with patrician taste and put 4chan to shame now, but I have no idea. You, however, are a hipster douchebag to care one way or the other. >this oxygen everyone's breathing is REDDIT>this chicken and rice is REDDITIt's childish, desperately trying to be cool behavior.[spoiler]that said Aphex Twin is kind of meh outside of a few tracks[/spoiler]
>>131597929no way in hell calling something reddit is "trying to be cool"calling words other words and labeling it trying to be cool, you sir have won the internet here is your reddit gold!
>>131597964go back
>>131596781Look at this unc
>>131597710Get a real personality
>>131592279I don't know that dude or his music but god damn i hate his fans, obnoxious queers
>>131598255You could still listen to and enjoy the music, and ignore the fans. I have never seen a fanbase that wasn't pure ass cancer
>>131592396>compress years of musical learning and experience with live DJing into a few hours>make 8x as many tracks as you need so that you can curate the good ones for an albumOh, of course, it's so simple. Post your own groundbreaking album that you made today so that we can learn from you, anon.
