Autechre vs Aphex Twin

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Postby mascotte » Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:48 am

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Postby anephric » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:12 am

Aphex Twin.

Most of Autechre's catalog after 1997 leaves me cold.
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Postby black mamba » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:14 am

they really aren't similar enough to be able to compare imho but ty for asking user mascotte
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Postby mortimer » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:17 am

autechre's lost the plot IMHO
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Postby tatiana maslany » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:22 am

ive never done sex to autechre but i have bad memories of doing sex to aphex twin

so... squarepusher
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Postby brent » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:23 am

boards of canada

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Postby brent » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:23 am

sorry i couldn't resist
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Postby mortimer » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:23 am

is tatiana malsiany an old boarder's alias?
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Postby mascotte » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:27 am

I agree that they lost the plot, but up to Confield (2001) they were amazing. RDJ's last good album/ep came out in 1999
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Postby hyperbole man » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:28 am

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Postby mascotte » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:28 am

Looks like all once great Warp acts lost their plots. IDM is dead.
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Postby fuckles » Thu Oct 19, 2017 11:34 am

Ae cuz I feel cooler listening to them
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Postby mascotte » Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:06 pm

Squarepusher had the best programming of Warp crew.
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Postby ANU » Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:11 pm

post 00's Ae is amazing while AT got old.
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Postby aladdin pain » Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:20 pm

i listen to autechre more often, and have also done sex to autechre
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Postby harperesque » Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:49 pm

I've definitely listened to AFX more but I agree about how killer the late-era AE albums are, could see the tide turning on this one someday
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Postby blurst of times » Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:01 pm

aphex

i think aphex vs squarepusher would be a more interesting debate
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Postby milknight » Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:14 pm

aphex twin over any of these dudes only because of ambient works vol 1 and 2
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Postby mascotte » Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:20 pm

Ae definitely peaked several times during their career and I seriously respect them for the later albums, even if they are harder to digest than their relatively easy first couple of LPs and EPs. Usually bands take different approach and make more accessible music over the years, Ae evolved from dystopian and accessible forms through romantic glitchy songs towards monstrous, amorphic max msp mutant monsters. I prefer their mid period stuff, but I'm also touched by this

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Postby aububs » Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:28 pm

aphex is like the first half of the paperclip game

autechre is when you release the hypnodrones
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Postby mascotte » Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:31 pm

Name an artist who sounds similar to recent autechre. Noone comes to my mind.

Originality is not the only thing I look for in art but they are now one of the most distinct voice in electronic music, on a relatively mainstream label, releasing albums equally complex and abstract as, say, Xenakis. I bet they sell 5 times less records than 15 years ago.

AFX on the other hand has sense of humor which I connect to, while Sean & Booth are too fucking stone cold serious.
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Postby mascotte » Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:31 pm

aububs wrote:aphex is like the first half of the paperclip game

autechre is when you release the hypnodrones


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Postby fuckles » Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:33 pm

mascotte wrote:Name an artist who sounds similar to recent autechre. Noone comes to my mind.

Originality is not the only thing I look for in art but they are now one of the most distinct voice in electronic music, on a relatively mainstream label, releasing albums equally complex and abstract as, say, Xenakis. I bet they sell 5 times less records than 15 years ago.

AFX on the other hand has sense of humor which I connect to, while Sean & Booth are too fucking stone cold serious.

Have you read their ama on watmm? They’re pretty quirky. Or at least Sean is
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Postby mortimer » Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:34 pm

i don't like listening to their new stuff. it all sounds the same to me, just more unlistenable as they progress. i knew exactly what to expect when the new single came out and it sounded just like what i expected... i guess that's not really a negative but i don't like it.

im a simpleton

wish they'd try something else out
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Postby harperesque » Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:41 pm

I feel like AE tries something different with every release

AFX is the only who I feel got a little stale lately, although I've come around to the recent releases more. otoh I love early RDJ way more than early Autechre
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Postby all day breakfast » Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:46 pm

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Postby all day breakfast » Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:48 pm

calling autechre serious is boggling to me, they take the piss and mess about all the time in wonderful ways
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Postby dogshower » Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:50 pm

i want to say autechre but both have a ton of material that widely varies. can we compare actual releases?
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Postby black mamba » Fri Oct 20, 2017 5:52 pm

i've always thought of autechre after their early period as the aural equivalent of computer animation while aphex twin seems to me to be more of a traditional composer that works in the electronic mode. pitting them against each other because they are both in the general genre of 'electronic music' and on the same label seems facile but honestly i just made this post to bump the thread so user mego could see it
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Postby forest design » Fri Oct 20, 2017 6:04 pm

Aphex Twin without a doubt. I appreciate Autechre in an academic sense. Richard D. is a storyteller
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