the whole "he was building his own synths at 9" shit is bullshit but he's still a great artist.

mont st michel is probably the best tune he ever made
his music is very cold though, i feel this way about most of his contemporaries. i guess it's hard to make 'warm' sounding electronic music but all the 90s IDM stuff sounds especially melancholic. maybe something about living in the UK does that to you

>>130069166
I think he's taught us to assume that he's always "taking a man's piss" (as they call it over there) when he's being interviewed and shit

>>130069125
dude is shit he can't play the piano well enough
mogged to the stratosphere by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Nanou 2 is the most melancholic song ever written

>>130069125
important but overrated (and he knows it)
Drukqs is his best work by far

The best thing he's done is give us Feed Me Weird Things and Squarepusher

>>130070983
yup. belongs up on the mount rushmore of wildly overrated ‘90s artists bolstered by internet memes… the others being
>oasis
>smashing pumpkins
>jamiroquai

>>130069125
His closest friend was arrested for charges of pedophiliA. What a clique!

>Aphex Reddit
got lucky that he started in the 90s so all the retarded faggot boomers can pretend to like it because old good o algo
if he released his entire discography in 2025 he'd be laughed at on /mu/

>>130069125
not going to elaborate but his music is evil

90s Skrillex

he should definitely stop releasing those overloaded songs and release more of these simpler things because they're better for sampling
better yet, he should just make a splice account and release sample packs - that's really what his talent is i think

>>130069125
I love Aphex Twin (his random sound electronic slop and his piano music), but if you only like his piano compositions you should just listen to Satie and Debussy

>>130069125
Tired listening to him years ago, didn't get it. Going through his discog right now and... still don't really gt it. He's got some good tracks here and there but I got no idea what he's so overwhelmingly wanked for. Guessing it was a right place at the right time kind of thing with him. I've heard tons of electronic artists that interest me more.

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For me this is his best album

Most of his music either hits too low for me (long experimental ambient shit) or too high (hyper complex layered wall of sounds) but he has stuff that rides the middle that I love, mostly on Drukqs. Vordhosbn is the best song he's ever made.

>>130069201
Richard D James sounds warm to me, I enjoy listening to it especially on sunny mornings.

>>130072294
>Lumière brother were lucky to make "arrival of a train" in 1896, they would be laughed at on /tv/ today!

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Analord or just AFX in general are good in my opinion

>In a 2001 interview, James said that at age 11 he won £50 in a competition for producing sound on a Sinclair ZX81, a home computer with no sound hardware: "I played around with machine code and found some codes that retuned the TV signal so that it made this really weird noise when you turned the volume up."[37] However, Fact Magazine reported in 2017 that this contest story is dubious,[38] and likely based on a program published in Your Computer Magazine 1982, for which the author (G. N. Owen) was paid £6 (equivalent to £21 in 2025).

it's crazy how easy it was to be a total fraud back then.

>>130069125
He's good with synths

>>130076410
Journalists should be lied to, because they are credulous morons who will print anything they're told and you and your friends can laugh about it after

i think he is as good as everyone and critics say. he's a very unique guy and has an odd brain

>he broke up with his autistic russian wife and is now dating some southern italian 20-something year old

based or cringe?

>>130078024
Based, I bet he fucks with headphones on like Leo