Apparently the track in the video below, by Mr Twin has more monthly youtube listens than Taylor Swift. What a sellout! Never listening to him again. Ever. Never.
That album could have been the one that made him bigger than Elivis, never mind Taylor. If he’d sequenced it as one “loud” disc, and one “quiet” disc, rather mixing everything up in a jarring fashion, it would have hit harder and lasted longer. An “11pm” and a “6am” disc, if you like. So many great tracks, but can never really be a regular listen as it was.
Yeah, these days you can listen it how you want… but it was flawed for people that listen to albums straight through, as more of us did back then. An opportunity missed, not that he’d care about that one little bit, I’m sure. As a bag of tracks you can throw into playlists it’s still awesome. As an “album”, it doesn’t come close to many of his others.
the track in the video below
What is that : )
I know he's experimental and it's all subjective, but ...
I have Selected Ambient Works somewhere, it's a work of genius but I've not listened to it in a very long time. One of those unique albums so strongly tied into a time in life that I'm rarely in the mood for it now. I might take it on my next bikepacking trip, quite a bit of it could be good on a hillside under the stars.
I have Selected Ambient Works somewhere, it's a work of genius but I've not listened to it in a very long time. One of those unique albums so strongly tied into a time in life that I'm rarely in the mood for it now.
Volume 2 I'm guessing, the one that came on two CDs and baffled everyone with the lack of beats. There are certain tracks on there I used to challenge myself to listen to all the way through. One or two of them never made it until many years later.
Mt Saint Michel + St Michaels Mount on that album is blimmin' amazing.
It's a Tik-tok track ATM so the yoofs are all over it the way they were with Ghost and Mary on Cross a while back.
Thing is.. he's been far too popular for a long time! I mean, 9 replies all knowing who he is? I'll stick with me RS Tangent 12"ers 😆
Did the track name change? That’s Penty Harmonium on my album, purchased day it came out I might add. Unless my mp3 rip has had the wrong meta data all this time…
The album that refuses to sit nicely with all the other albums 🙂
One is from the CD tracklist the other is from the vinyl tracklist.
when i read the thread title i thoguht he was standing for reform or something
when i read the thread title i thought he was standing for reform or something
I have to admit, I thought he’d suddenly become friends with Morrisey, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, and Kid Rock!
Glad to have that unsettling moment dispelled!
Volume 2 I'm guessing, the one that came on two CDs and baffled everyone with the lack of beats. There are certain tracks on there I used to challenge myself to listen to all the way through. One or two of them never made it until many years later.
I’m sure I have a copy of that I made from a friends original disk, but never got around to listening to it.
In a similar fashion, I have the solo album made by Mark Hollis, from Talk Talk, and I really struggle with listening to it - the recording is so sparse, with lots of empty spaces throughout, it makes me twitchy, especially listening through headphones, where you can hear amps buzzing slightly in the background, but you’re never sure when the next part of a track is going to come in.
Definitely rather unsettling.
In a similar fashion, I have the solo album made by Mark Hollis, from Talk Talk...
That's a Marmite album for even diehard Talk Talk fans; it was even labelled as a Talk Talk album for the promo copies, until there was a last minute switch to it being a solo album.
Back to Aphex - I've been obsessed with this track for the last year:
It's a remix of Sci-Fi Staircase by Wagon Christ (Luke Vibert); Luke ran a competition to remix the track when it was released in 2004, and Aphex secretly entered and won it, unsurprisingly. He gave the prize to the runner up, good chap!
Following on from my post about the Mark Hollis album, I listened to it again not long after that, using my Ultimate Ears TripleFi IEM’s, and I found it a warmer, more engaging experience, for some wierd reason; maybe having not listened for ages, I don’t know, but I’m glad I gave it another chance.