DEEP DISCOG DIVE: Aphex Twin
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:46 Prologue
04:48 Selected Ambient Works 85-92
08:16 Selected Ambient Works Volume 2
13:34 ...I Care Because You Do
17:05 Richard D. James Album
21:35 Drukqs
28:49 Syro
34:42 Where Are They Now?
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Captions will be up and running in a new few days. Thanks for your patience on this one, now I’ve got some arson charges to dodge (jokes jokes jokes I do not commit arson)
wait it was a joke? that's a bummer, I was happy to see another fellow pyromaniac (I do commit arson)
Yo
Can you do Black Sabbath at some point dude
Also your vids are fucking awesome
I think Aesop rock would be interesting :)
Please do Joanna Newsome I beg of you! She has an amazing discography even if she only has 4 releases, they are expansive!
Shucks, I guess we'll have to wait a LONG time for the Eno dive.
If you noticed, after a certian point Richard's face is on every album cover. That's cause someone told him once an unwritten rule of EDM/IDM is being anonymous. Naturally he immediately refused and trippled down.
Good for him
@@LegendOfSilkeF come to daddy, lick his window at saint michaels mount and find out.
great for hik
Goodness addressed towards the male person
I love that
I don't think I've seen a single person talk about IDM without complaining about the genre name at least once
I like "braindance" a lot better as a genre name.
@@carolyns4519 Yeah I've heard that term used before, but imo it still has the same issues that "intelligent dance music" has, in that a) the brain part still implies that it's somehow a "smart" genre of music, and b) it's not really dance music
@@WiloPolis03it makes your brain dance!
I never thought of the word "intelligent" as a smug word, it's descriptive and that's how i describe it. I say: IDM requires focus to listen to, if it's on in the background and you're not focusing on it, it won't sound good because you're missing what's going on. IDM requires your attention. i suppose "intelligent" means clever but words sometimes have multiple meanings so why focus on one and ignore the other - Pun intended
Given I've also not found an IDM artist who *likes* the genre name, that's not surprising.
Kinda weird this was just 37 minutes of footage of you smiling creepily but nice video as usual Mic!
Oh no, the fantanoheads
@@honestlynuts__ WE COMING BOI!
@@honestlynuts__Always been here
dw, it was just promo for the smile sequel
32 years ago I was in my favourite basement rave vinyl record shop and the girl behind the counter handed me a 12" saying I put this aside for you because I thought you'd like it. It was Annalogue Bubblebath! Alysa if you're out there - I'm forever grateful!
Ahh the basement vinyl record shop how we miss thee!
Great days, loads and loads of 12"s to sift through and work out! I miss them too. This one was below the coolest clothes shop in town too! @@bronxcartel6193
@@bronxcartel6193there’s one near me
Now that's personal customer service - she was your 90s human algorithm.
Remain in Light remains Aphex Twin's best album to this day
that's a Beatles album dummy 😂😂😂😂
Quick note: Cornwall is a county, not a town. It was actually a country separate from England made up of the indigenous Celts of Britain until it was gobbled up by England over the middle ages (similar to Wales, and Brittany and France over the Channel at around the same time). The language and national pride still survives to this day.
Are you a member of the Cornish National Liberation Army by any chance?
Yeah and what he mentions about him signing his first release happened in Plymouth too not Cornwall.
pirates...
FREE KERNOW !
Bloody Cornish. 😂
I've never clicked this channel faster, RDJ is my favourite electronic composer of all time and his catalogue goes so deep that it's nearly impossible to keep track of everything he's done. It makes me happy to see you covering him!
You wrote my comment for me :) Just the other day I was thinking if this exact video would be made.
He was also great as Ironman
Didn't know Robert Downey Jr was an electronic artist
He is a man of many talents
what wouldbe your top 10?
I understand your take on Selected Ambient Works Vol. II. Personally, it's my favorite album of his, I love ambient stuff! And #20 is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.
I agree saw 2 is my favourite too, but ambient definitely isn't everyone's thing lol
For me, not just favorite album from him, favorite album of all time (the proper full version). SAWII is pure beauty and brilliance. I hate to use this term, but for this, I don't. It's a fucking masterpiece.
"Stone in Focus" on loop, forever.
ngl the vibes of that album scares me. It’s the only aphex twin album I don’t really come back to
#13 is incredible.
I feel like Mic the Snare should do a "Double Discog Dive" where he takes two bands that have short discographies (like Derek and the Dominoes, Neutral Milk Hotel or The Stone Roses) and do two in an episode
Oh boy I can’t wait to hear what you have to say about my favorite ambient album SAW vol. II!
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@@p1nh3dlarry72sorry man
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Great job not getting lost in the weeds on this one. Between the official and unofficial releases, his discography can be pretty difficult to get your arms around but I think you did a good job navigating through.
i have been waiting for this day for YEARS. thank you mic.
Big fan of how you don't say anything about the album covers but make it 100% clear about what you think about the album covers.
I think a lot of people miss all the non-Aphex Twin named projects and it’s hard to cover his entire discography mentioning all his projects under those names but you did an amazing job! The Tuss, Caustic Window, Polygon Window, the Analord EP’s plus the collab album with µ-Ziq, Expert Knob Twiddlers are all just as essential as his mainline studio albums.
Such a deep yet rewarding discography, fantastic video!
Gotta keep the video under 3 hours lol
AFX.
Don't forget Universal Selector...despite the music being pretty forgettable.
@@gengraded You mean Universal Indicator? I Don’t recall seeing selector as one of his names although that name wound fit his live shows.
Oh I think you are right on that name. Been a while since I heard it.@@Wil_Dsense
selected ambient works volume ii is still the best ambient album ever imo
you're gonna hate me in about 11 minutes i'm so sorry
Mr. Twin is basically the whole reason Breakcore exists.
The fact that ICBYD existed in the mid 90s is crazy.
I’d say he shares the credit with his friend Tom Jenkinson.
AKA Squarepusher.
i feel like this is very untrue but also i dont care enough to actually look into it at all
@@comprehensiblehorror It is partially untrue. Him and other artists (such as Squarepusher) push forward with IDM/Jungle music. Breakcore is just that but with an added edge of mental breakdown.
@@n.c.3011songs about cats sounds like a breakdown so true
We’ve Aphexed many Twins to get Alberto Balsalm to where he is. Perfection to the most beautiful degree
this video is beyond surreal to watch as someone whose entire life is electronic and ambient music and who's so immersed in this particular 90s IDM scene that I just got finished making videos reviewing every Mike Paradinas (u-Ziq) album earlier this year, but I'll always be happy to hear this kind of stuff get more coverage
He grew up in the village next to mines. He has a very proud mother.
His parents both died within the last few years. He added a tribute to them at the end of the BBLR music video recently.
But his milkman is hesitant.
sad story: I once found a cassette of the first Analogue Bubblebath album at my local record store for $5. When it started to make a weird noise while rewinding I opened it up to try and fix it and immediately snapped the tape in half. I was so distraught I threw it all in the trash. I still regret everything (especially since the tape is like $100 on Discogs)
I only got spaghettu, sounds like hii story brub
So glad you're covering this! Aphex Twin is my favorite artist and SAW 85-92 is one of the first albums I ever loved. I still vividly remember the first time I heard Xtal.
Man I'm close to finishing a 3 hour review of Richard's discography and you come in here and do it 10 times better! I was even planning on making that Wonderful Christmastime joke too.
I hope you still drop the video anyways, I'll check your channel out
Extreme but I’ll allow it
I agree whole heartedly with Richard about the "On" video. It absolutely does the job and definitely feels like what happens when you get Jarvis Cocker to direct a stop motion video for your heady, instrumental dance track. lol.
This was the DDD I don’t know I needed until I saw it in my subscription feed, I think Mike’s lighthearted approach to reviewing albums that still digs super deep is exactly what I needed to get me inspired to check out more from Aphex, something I’ve wanted to do for a long time now 🌈
P.s banging thumbnail btw
Hearing a lot of songs from the Bomb rush cyberpunk ost being used in the background makes me so happy it’s so awesome that these artists are getting more recognition
Im surprised after Prince, Mic chooses to make a ddd on another artist also known for his enourmous discog. Major props bro
I think this has got to be the funniest DDD you’ve made so far. Good job dude. Also, I feel like Aphex Twin is one of these artists where you always get a different answer on what the favorite album or project is depending on who you ask. Honestly you could call any of his 6 main albums your favorite from him and I would completely agree with you to some extent
Ok, I could not have clicked on a video with a title like that any faster. I am a devoted acolyte of SAW 85-92.
EDIT:
Really appreciated the Girl Talk shoutout, All Day is such a great mashup album.
Had the fortune to do some VFX on the "Come to Daddy" music video and it made me cry for my mother. It's an improvement on "Windowlicker", which just made me cry.
Good times!
aphex twin helped me thru some of the darkest times in my life, the way the music blends to tell a story thru so many layers still blows my mind every time i listen, and while i get your take on the ambient stuff, i find that for me personally, the ambient tracks are swelling with emotion that i can’t really even put into words, it just makes me feel so much lol
aphex twin means so much to me and i’m such a music nerd, i am so happy this video popped up in my feed. definitely got my sub man, awesome video
Great video, Druqks got done so dirty though, that album is a 10
Correct, Drukqs is perfection.
A lot of the tracks are 10/10 but the album as a whole is probably a 7/10, maybe even a 6/10. Druqks is particularly offensive when it comes to balancing the hard, soft and experimental tracks. It's like being on a roller-coaster that stops and starts constantly; it gives you whiplash. The tracks do not lean into each other and the tone is inconsistent. I know you're going to say something along the lines of "well that's the point, they're supposed to juxtapose one another!". Wrong. Richard himself said he compiled the album with the intention of the listener being able to construct his own playlist. So therefore, the juxtaposition is completely moot point because it may not exist based on the playlist of a given listener. In my "playlist" the vast majority of tracks are removed in order to keep the tone and theme tight. If the majority of tracks need to be removed in order for it to become good, is it really a 10/10?
@@user-og6hl6lv7p thats actually why i love the album though, i feel like im being chased through a forrest and sometimes come upon little oasies of beauty. i love all of his other projects but druqks gives me an experiance i cant find anywhere else, and knowing he released it in a schitzo-paranoid state is so cool to me as it really adds to the feeling i get. if i did what you do id be sucking the soul out of the album, its a 10 by complete accident but i find that so facinating, im sorry you dont enjoy it as much as me because its genuinly one of my favourites of all time.
Man couldn't even pronounce it drug use
SAW II is my all-time favourite by him. I almost never listen to it all at once though. If you're the sort of person who goes to galleries and looks at each painting for a really long time, I recommend it massively.
‘Ambient music can be great - for background noise’. Er yeah that’s what ambient music is in its origination - like ambient temperature - as Eno explains. It mixes and merges with the sounds of life.
Selected ambient works vol II has some of the best and most original ambient sounds I’ve ever heard and is a masterpiece as far as I’m concerned. Especially considering many of the sounds come from rewriting the equipment to get new sounds out of it - if that anecdote is true. It certainly sounds like it.
Very enjoyable vid to watch though, nice job.
I only wonder how fans recognize certain songs from his catalog. "Holy shit fellow Aphex Twin Fan, Richard is performing 's950tx16wasr10 (earth portal mix)"
An artist on the "haven't heard yet but know of his reputation and legacy" group? Alright, I'll surely learn a lot of new stuff here.
Oh boy I hope the Autechre vid is coming up, I know you love long albums!
If he's not a fan of Aphex's weirder stuff Autechre is going to kill him.
Been having an extremely rough day and this was a pleasant diversion that I really needed. Thank you.
USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THIS!!!! THANKS MIC!!!!
I absolutely loveee that you keep doing deep dives of my FAVORITE artists! not only because I appreciate the journey through my teens years but also your humor & research makes everything SO FUN!!! 🤗👍🏾
Releases of his that you left out: Universal Indicator Red, Universal Indicator Green, Smojphace EP, Analogue Bubblebath Vol 5, MARCHROMT30A edit 2b 96, Korg Trax+Tunings For Falling Asleep, Orphans, Peel Session 2, Mt Fuji Tape, 3 Gerald Remix, plus the 6 festival exclusive vinyl records (so far).
Also fact check: Bradley’s Beat is not from 1991. It came much later, 1993 at the earliest but probably not until 1995. They liked to put an earlier copyright on some of these releases to establish 1991 as the starting point of Rephlex. The actual Rephlex promo sheet for the record is from 1995. czcams.com/video/Pa1OfT0hfCc/video.html
Also the songs on SAW 85-92 are not as old as he wants you to believe. There were much older tracks in the SoundCloud dump, where you can find his first moniker: Phonic Boy on Dope. Here are some of those earliest tracks: czcams.com/video/Kr5sS6mfEyo/video.html
The track you called “Mashed Potatoes” is actually called “Children Talking”. czcams.com/video/cLAb-ZIFsGQ/video.html
The track Thom Yorke cited as most influential to Kid A and Amnesiac came from a Warp compilation called We Are Reasonable People, and was a collab between Aphex Twin and Squarepusher called “Freeman, Hardy and Willis Acid”. czcams.com/video/p24VtXcy4ws/video.html
The most thorough summary of his discography I’ve found is on Reddit here: reddit.com/r/aphextwin/s/PejKkaLuNM
Who cares? It's terrible amateur rubbish.
that john cage mindset, the brian eno grindset
today i learn "film" from come to daddy ep is actually "flim"
No artist has filled more of my life with beauty, joy, catharsis, and whimsy than RDJ. I fucking love this man's work.
Drukqs has become one of my favorite albums by Richard
Syro is so fucking good and really encapsulated all of his best skills. I hope he releases another full length album again sometime. Xmas_eve10 is his absolute masterpiece IMO.
I absolutely loveee that you keep doing deep dives of my FAVORITE artists! not only because I appreciate the journey through my teens years but also your humor & research makes everything SO FUN!!!
Absolutely great timing. I've *just* started a dive into the Aphex discography lol
Have you fallen asleep yet?
Oooh! I literally just did the studio album run a few weeks ago! Great timing
Fun fact: I first heard Windowlicker through a furry dance competition video. A fursuiter actually danced to this in front of an audience. God I love the furry fandom.
What
@@AsparagusTheFirst I said *"I FIRST HEARD WINDOWLICKER THROUGH A FURRY DANCE COMPETITION VIDEO. A FURSUITER ACTUALLY DANCED TO THIS IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE. GOD I LOVE THE FURRY FANDOM"*
@@PopLaddoh thanks, now i get it. Yeah dude 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Can you send the title or link of the furry dance video? I am honestly intrigued!
I don't.
Very nice to see a Mic The Snare video pop up in feed. Good seeing you again!
this will be a banger episode! thank you so much
hell yeah mr, the snare. i’m finally gonna understand my friends’ jokes
Drukqs is a very very complex album, I think alot of people just dont realize its greatness.
This is one of the few DDDs I've gone into knowing only the basics about the artist and I have to say, they're so much more fun this way! I feel like I've gained such a deeper appreciation for music in general this year and it's helped me get closer with my brother, who has a degree in music and has played in bands for the past 15 years. Something tells me you two would get along really well.
Also, perfect timing yet again (seriously how??) on this one as I just started grad school and usually turn to electronica/ambient music when I need to focus on studying.
Congrats on the new place, btw! The old background was nice, but this one has a much more homey feel. Totally digging it!
(Also also, the haircut really suits you. Long hair was fabulous too but this look is especially striking! Hope you're taking care of yourself with this fresh start 😊)
Thank you so much for mentioning that Girl Talk mash up it’s SO GOOD, Also my favorite track by Aphex is Bucephalus Bouncing Ball, my Dad introduced me too it and it was one of the first hard electronica songs I loved!
Yo, arson’s been dropping some fire cuts lately - Especially to mic’s hair
(Thank you Mr. The snare, great to see you again ❤)
I love how Mic pronounced 'cymru' as if it was a made up word when its actually the welsh name for wales aha
He also referred to Cornwall as a town... man, the Celts are being done dirty by this dude from over the pond!
At least he acknowledged the existence of the Cornish language. I still remember Rolling Stone calling the Drukqs track titles “indecipherable” in their 1-star review. They put it just below Vanilla Ice on the 25 Worst Albums of 2001. Then 3 years later they gave it 4-stars.
@@anti0918classic music critic stuff!
Great attitude towards your own perspective on SAW2. I appreciate where yer coming from, and yeah, a multihour chill soundtrack is very much for me.
I gasped when i got the notification!!!! So excited!!!!
Love these deep dives
All dance music is Intelligent Dance Music because is always a smart idea to go out and dance and have some fun
85-92 is undoubtedly one of the best albums, of any genre, of all time. it takes you somewhere.
This is a great video to put all these EPs in a timeline along with the albums! He also did a "remix" for Nine Inch Nails in 1995 on "Further Down The Spiral", the track "At The Heart Of It All" which is a dark, brooding and incredible track with industrial overtones.
Yeah that track is awesome, glad that someone noted it!
Ventolin used to be available on the Touch Tunes internet jukeboxes 😂. I only played it a couple times, but it was definitely at bars where we were treated poorly by staff or patrons. It's too bad they must have got clued in. I need new sonic weaponry and I doubt they'd pick up Merzbow for their catalog.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the track on the Windowlicker EP that's a really long numerical equation (which is why it's usually just called, 'Equation'), which if you run it through a spectrogram you get a stunning self portrait featuring Richard's smile we all know and love and get nightmares from.
Thanks, great overview!
Dank video! Will be following for more material!
Literally got done exploring Aphex's catalogue myself! Never clicked faster
I was wrong about this being Talking Heads but this is even BETTER
I love how absolutely matter of fact and blunt Richard is in interviews
I LOVE APHEX TWIN THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE VID MIC THE SNARE
I am gonna say it, this series is my cocaine and I need it directly injected in my bloodstreams. NO, I AM NOT ADDICCTED, I just dont want to stop watching all of the DDDs on repeat, and u cant stop me!
Ok, I'm being honest here: I saw the announcement vid with the "burning down the house" remix playing in the background, and now I'm both surprised and somehow not surprised. AFX was going to happen at some point when you least expect it. ^^
Love, love, love Aphex Twin
Love this series!
I purchased my first Aphex Twin album when I was 14. It was Selected Ambient Works Vol. II and I hated it. Over the years I have gone back and it has since become one of my favorites. I definitely don't listen to all the tracks. But there's about 12 or 15 that are wonderful.
I'm lowkey convinced the story about his name coming from his stillborn older sibling is true cause the same thing happened with my Irish grandmother- older sister died in infancy and when she was born they just reused the old birth certificate for her. Idk they're wild out in old Aran.
I've pogged SO HARD when I first saw the thumbnail. Great Dive Mic!
(DrukQs is Richard's best idc)
Perfect timing for my newfound obsession with aphex twin
I was introduced to Aphex Twin when a friend of mine showed me a fanmade music video for his remix of Let My Fish Loose by Nobukazu Takemura, which is still one of the weirdest and creepiest songs I’ve ever heard
To this day I still have no idea how my friend found it, and he doesn’t even know who Aphex Twin is
love the video, slight correction:
Cymru is the native language name for Wales, pronounced "kum-rhee"
Amazing time i had watching this thank you
I HAVE BEEN WANTING THIS VIDEO FOR SOOO LONG AND NOW ITS FINALLY HERE!!! i am so unbelievably happy
(now I just have to wait for the Ween DDD and my life will be complete)
Just a random thought I had: Do you snare the mic or do you mic the snare?
One of the most influential and important artist in music. Bro was so versatile, he created side quest artists and projects.
YES!! APHEX TWIN!! I'll be looking forward to watching the first video you did about A.T.
Love your channel ❤️❤️❤️
I think it's worth pointing out how important the internet in the 90s and early 2000s was to spreading the word about Aphex Twin, especially early shock and video sharing sites. A lot of AT's video output and visual material, the stuff made in collaboration with Chris Cunningham especially, was widely shared out of context, or as purported "supernatural" or snuff content, on places like eBaum's world, etc.
Except in UK and Europe where Cunningham's video's were all over MTV for years. In the UK and Europe dance scene Aphex was a well known artist from 93 onwards.
I thought watching this video before sleeping wouldn't be so bad...
Boy, was I wrong
Great video Mic. The Elephant Song gag was hilarious. Let's get a Pretty Lights DDD please!
YOOO LETS GO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE. DUE IN NO SMALL PART TO WANTING TO HEAR MIC TRY AND PRONOUNCE APHEX TWIN SONG TITLES!!!! (oh yeah I like his music too)
Radiohead is my favorite band and I listened to their albums in order. I heard good things and started with Pablo honey. Loved the Bends, and OK Computer slowly grew to be one of my favorite songs of all time. When I first heard Kid A I was like “what is this?” It felt like there were no hooks and it was meandering and ambient and I just didn’t get it. I must have given it like 20 listens to come up with a review and I actually began to love it and now it’s one of my favorite albums of all time and I also love Amnesiac.
🤔
autechre
Hah this probably the first time I've already digged through a musician's discography before you cover it in a video 😂
Love the pop edits ❤
I’ve been waiting for this
I stopped watching when you described Cornwall as a town.
Aphex the goat! A pretty fantastic deep dive bro icl, SAW VOL 2 best album ever made!
What a great video, thank you!
Thank you for this ❤