I mean Vol. 2 was okay
shit dumbasses think they're smart for listening too because of the misleading genre label
>>122555626Song like Xtal are like a warm blanket in musical form, except it's from back when there was no other album you could really get that feeling from.Better understood by people who heard it in the 90s. If you don't get it, you don't get it.
I don't know is good
>>122555626We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams
>>122557118>We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams
>beep beep beep>boop boop >beep>boop>printer noisesI call it intelligent dance music
>>122557322>t. sad cunt spamming his idiotic take for the 374th time
>>122557378>incoherent percussion noises
>vol2 was okaysaw 2 is one of the best ambient albums if not the best ambient album out there.lurk more retard.
>>122557533>lurkfor what? more riveting convos like you're trying to prompt now?
>>122557597>beep beep>boop boop boop>beep >nails on chalkboard sound effect
>>122557419T>>122557419he compositions, sound design and drum programming on SAW85-92 are completely straightforward
>>122555626I will tell you Anon, honestly.He did it with commodity hardware, cheap Roland gear. He made beats. Good beats that people still are interested to hear. Way before “bedroom production” was really a thing.
>>122557870Is that really what he asked, though?
>>122555626It sounds like the time period. Like something you'd hear in a late 80s mall where all the mannequins have shoulder pad outfits.
Afx is mid for idm and ambient.Grouper is where it's at for ambient and drone.
>>122557927Nah stuff like SAW85-92 was pretty underground at the time. All malls had generic muzak playing in the 80's.
>>122557887I think? It’s like why do people have a hard on for Homework? The technique is primitive by “today’s standards”
all your opinions are invalid listen to Ziggomatic 17 https://youtu.be/rUru3u6DreQ
>>122558038What gear it was made on is secondary trivia that only terminal fanboys obsess over.
>>122558038Yeah, Homework is primitive, you can turn off your brain and just have a good time dancing to it completely drunk with your friends. You've answered your own question. Normal people don't give a shit about "techniques".
>>122555626I can understand someone new being puzzled by this album's reputation. It became a celebrated masterpiece in retrospect.
>>122555626>sound unique and fresh to this day after 30 yearsYep, it's very rare because electronic music ages quickly in general
>>122559220The first time I heard SAW85-92 somewhere in '97 I thought it sounded dated and already a bit out of step with the current times. It was still a good listen but there already was nostalgia baked in.I feel like there is a strange phenomenon that these tracks may sound more relevent and fresh today than they were in the late 90's., just a few years after they came out.
>>122559220https://youtu.be/UaallC_MFL8 Neutron 9000 - Butterfly Holocaust (1990)
>>122559402https://youtu.be/UaaIlC_MFL8
>>122557960>Sausages are not that great>Golden Grahams are way better
It's mostly because of the unique sound design for the time that the tracks had for the time
>>122562153are you talking about SAW85-92?
Yes
>>122562285ah yes the unique sound desogn of SAW85-92 that dropped out of nowhere in 1993, with the deep 808 kicks, 101 bass, FM pads, occasional samples and digital reverb. it had never been heard before. they had to put stickers on record sleeves to warn zhoppers because there were multiple incidents of people's heads exploding when they went home and listened to pulsewidth, their brain just couldn't handle the cognitive shock from the novel sound design.
I always liked SAW 2 better. It's so dreamy and creepy.
for me, it's Cheetah
idk if you cant fuck with xtal electronic music just might not be your thing
Why does their logo look like a valve game icon? lol
>>122562483Lmao. I think they didn’t mean sound design.Maybe like, some composition that wasn’t so party-centric. Or something.
>>122555626I like how anonymous it sounds. It's futuristic & dated at the same time. It either clicks or it doesn't, try Syro or Drukqs and if those don't work you probably won't get into AFX
>>122567729One of the images used for Aphex's soundcloud uploads is pretty much that
>>122557615>le ebig /mu/ snob shits on everything to distract from the fact he has never composed anything in his liferound of applause everyone
>>122555626Carl Craig ripoff
>>122555626>What's the appeal of Aphex TwinIt used to be shocking hard to make unusual and interesting sounds using computers. The skill curve was steep as fuck, going so far as required people to have to use commandline tools to generate strange noises. Most producers at the time would opt for traditional techniques and therefore their music could sound better, but less interesting. Aphex Twin started introducing strange noises and effects that nobody had ever heard before and it was captivating. Nowadays making noises like his is trivial and any daw can do it with ease, but at the time it was fresh and inspiring. In more cringe terms, he literally pioneered a new sound with his autism.
