Aphex Twin Extended Poll

I'm tempted to revisit them all in the coming weeks, so why not poll 'em as well?

I love a lot of these but didn't hesitate before voting SAW 85-92, which comprises some of my favorite music ever made by anyone. SAWII does too, but not as much.

real answer saw 85-92
galaxy brain answer drukqs

gonna vote for syro to split the difference

I think I've listened to Syro the most.

I went with “I Care Because You Do”.

II

Richard D. James

85-92

RDJ album warped my brain as a teenager so I might have to pick that. But I’m starting to think drukqs is his most consistently satisfying.

wait is the ballot poll happening soon?

Tough choice between Come to Daddy and I Care for me

Oh there's gonna be a ballot poll?

Come To Daddy
Windowlicker EP
ICBYD
RDJ
SAWII

The the rest is a bit of a jumble.

No Caustic Window in this poll?

It's there.

The Drukqs love here is a bit perplexing. I like it - well, I like a lot of it - but it wouldn't even crack my top 5, and I was always under the impression it wasn't especially well received upon release

It's not my favorite record of his, but in a way, Windowlicker felt like the end of music for several years after its release.

The Drukqs love here is a bit perplexing. I like it - well, I like a lot of it - but it wouldn't even crack my top 5, and I was always under the impression it wasn't especially well received upon release

― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:53 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was his ...

new jersey

(leaves thread, shuts down computer, runs away)

Windowlicker calls to me.

I've warmed up to drukqs in the intervening years but have never completely overcome the sheer disappointment I felt back in 2001, a mere few months after I discovered Afx's music (via the 'Windowlicker' and 'Come to Daddy' videos that occasionally popped up on MusiquePlus, Quebec's now defunct answer to Much Music aka Canadian MTV).

Windowlicker covers a lot of ground in just three tracks, none quite in a style he had done before or would do again.

Speaking of which, that French-Canadian accented talk of dog croquettes in 'Windowlicker' is one of my favourite things about it. I think he got his then-girlfriend to utter that line ('j'aime faire des croquettes au chien')?

Pomenitul, try these alternative druqks sequences I experimented with. Makes more sense to me like this:

1. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ottxyuqVttiufuAQvygva?si=frA7GpkIT9uq4OCIAy_Fgg

2. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5T1VrMYGtIzkbGswl4KZFA?si=azMIW3NDTqyTOG1GzZanRg

Between 'I like to make nuggets for the dog' and 'I like to make dog nuggets', the latter reading strikes me as most appropriate.

xp cool, thanks, will try them soon.

I hear it as "Je vais faire.." but same difference. Similar to Autechre's "Is it washable?"

Isn't croquettes a kind of biscuit?

Oh no I'm thinking being of potato croquettes

Being? Oh man I need to go to bed

There are chocolaty croquettes, but less so in Quebec ime, where it's usually fried breadcrumb rolls with a savoury filling. McNuggets are called 'McCroquettes', for instance. And it can also refer to dog/cat biscuits, yeah, which is what's most relevant here.

It could well be 'je vais faire' btw. I've never managed to make it out 100%.

I loved getting croquettes from the automats in amsterdam

hell yeah

i doubt i'll come up with anything better than that, but i love any excuse to revisit and do some really intelligent but also danceable music thinking about these, do a little braindance and see which ones come out on top

FIBO!

Voted for Analord, but it contains a lot of his best stuff.

I honestly think Drukqs is a great album, I remember buying it at the time and being puzzled at how it got panned. In the end I had to pick SAW II though, because it is such a strange and unique album.

top tier:

SAW I
SAW II
Richard D James alb
Hangable Auto Bulb
Analord
Cheetah
Windowlicker-ish

funny, 85-92 happens to be in my car atm, bumped “hedphelym” & “delphium” on the way back from work yesterday

It's not my favorite record of his, but in a way, Windowlicker felt like the end of music for several years after its release.

yeah I had this feeling too

I wish I could just get over myself and do a deep dive into his post-Druqks material without mentally placing it in the context of his nineties stuff.

Doesn't help that a lot of it is archived in either massive volumes (Analords, Soundcloud dump) or short, disjointed EPs, with not all of it being immediately and handily accessible online.

The main problem though is the nagging feeling that it couldn't possibly move me in the same way his early stuff did when I was first getting into it

it feels so wrong to vote SAW II, but in the end i had to

drukqs was the first album of his I loved from the moment I first heard it. Syro was the second

Dog Latin OTM

here are some faves from the earliest sets he dumped, really only covers about 1/4. there's more great stuff in that 1/4 too!!

suzanne
symbonsad
red alert
sams car
martins car lpf
mental telepathy
donkey rhubarb remix
with my family
high hats tune tamclap orig
2tone[camborne college mix]

sorry, that’s a post of mine about the SoundCloud stuff from another afx thread.. You shall be moved, dog latin

drukqs is sooooo much better than everything he’s done since. never understood the praise for syro at all.

The first two tracks on Syro are great and the last one is nice too, never got into the middle ones as much. They feel a bit overworked to me.

I think it’s really good!!

again, it’s funky

lol

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/AnnexePineHuwgit/reviews

"Questions that will never be answered honestly"

'accidental' lack of comma?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Feel like digging up that thread that asks "what is the best 4 lp run by any artist" and seeing if SAW II -> ICBYD -> TRDJA -> C2D is in there, which is one of the most diverse sequence of 4 megaclassics I can think of. Of those, I care takes it for me because it feels still unreplicated by anyone else, the cheesy and elegiac showing you their lovely little home in a geometrically impossible house with murderous thugs bursting from the closet and drugged out zombies chained in the attic. It feels in parts more like a real rock record than any other "electronic" record I think I've heard, very organic and a bit ramshackle, then goes into full minimalist techno mode but then randomly goth sounding or sabotaging the driving rhythms by stripping out the bass or slowing the tempo a tad halfway through the song. But all of those 4 albums tower above Aphex's peers, much as I love individual tracks by Squarepusher and plenty of Autechre cds. (Yes C2D is an album not an extended play single by any reasonable measure, whatever people like Stereolab and Autechre think).

SAWII is my all time favorite album

C2D for me, although it was very hard to vote against ICBYD. C2D has higher highs (BBB, Flim.)

Should have voted Come To Daddy, overthought it and voted Hangable Auto Bulb, now regret it

I went with Syro in the end because it deserves more love.

went with drukqs. gotta live my truth

'We must suffer into truth', saith Aeschylus.

C2D has higher highs

I feel terrible about this now. How can you even compare "Flim" and "Wax the Nip"?

love The Tuss eps almost as much as drukqs. hard to choose

Man, FILM

Film?

wait wait wait everyone, stop, I've changed my mind, write-in vote for the Flow Coma remix

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i don't know what i would have selected, but yep

RDJ and C2D got robbed! RDJ in particular has seen its stock fall, that album was seen as a big leap from someone who was already worshipped.

favourite single:

https://www.discogs.com/AFX-2-Remixes-By-AFX/release/10444161

RDJ will probably always be in my aphex top three, and sometimes it's my fave. soooo many strong memories, an attachment to it

Mark G:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHkUg-QCwk

Syro tied RDJ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

I recently listened to RDJ album and “logon rock witch” really cracked me up for, all those “BYOOOP” slide sounds.

man, Fredugolon 6 ... eternal

The Drukqs love here is a bit perplexing. I like it - well, I like a lot of it - but it wouldn't even crack my top 5, and I was always under the impression it wasn't especially well received upon release

― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:53 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was his ...

new jersey

(leaves thread, shuts down computer, runs away)

― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:58 PM (three weeks ago)

haaaa I missed this

fuck aphex twin

it’s ok he’s giving money to planting trees

if this goes well enough it could be the last Aphex Twin release

Can't wait for Martin Shkreli to buy it.

Did we ever do a proper Aphex artists' poll? I cn't find it if we did

Nope