No.87965
I absolutely love AFX, but I've noticed a lot of Richard's new music is rather, well, bland.
I had a listen to the Ventolin EP and Rushup Edge and compared them to CCAI among his other recent releases, they don't even compare.
Is this just me? Is there something I'm not seeing with his recent releases? I enjoy them, but they don't have that spark he had.
No.88077
It's not something new, his albums have always been hit or miss.
No.88104
>>87965
>CCAI
Yeah, something seemed off to me about that release too.
No.88116
I think I listened to CCAI maybe once, other than that nothing newer than Syro. It's become so bland that I can judge it without listening to it.
No.88119
I really wonder why James never made another song like Windowlicker or Come to Daddy, he mostly stuck to making acid or experimental music.
No.88120
Orphans was pretty solid, even if the two good tracks are Vibert remixes.
No.88121
CCAI does lack easily recognizable melodies and it isn't a noticably harsh or"groundbreaking" EP compared to his earlier stuff. I really liked CCAI, it's probably my favorite release since Drukqs.
No.88122
>>88121
I meant to say that I still like the EP besides all the things I mentioned
No.88139
Can we talk about other artists that were on Rephlex too?
No.88212
His early shit was great. Age takes a toll on you
No.88214
I remember the days of 'Richard D. James' mind you
No.88216
>>88119
>I really wonder why James never made another song like Windowlicker or Come to Daddy
Come to Daddy was basically a joke that no one else got, it as taking the piss out of the way jungle was going at the time.
No.88218
I wish he would just make more piano songs, that was the best part of Drukqs
No.88227
>>88122
I thought that CCAI was the shit, I listen to it still sometimes
No.88567
I do find it funny how it took over 23 years for SAW II to be reissued digitally with "Stone in Focus" which is one of his best ambient tracks.
>>88216
Wasn't it making fun of Death Metal?
No.88609
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>>88567
Prodigy in '92, just fun loving mellow techoheads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eav7dFvc8
Prodigy in '97, suddenly they're angry scary punks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw
All of techno was going in this direction past the mid-nineties. Because britbong jungle was being surpassed in popularity by dutch gabber which was hardcore as fuck. So suddenly all the bongs who had previously played the role of cute hippiesque raveboy turned into pro-wrestlers overnight.
No.88661
>>88139
kek that picture. I enjoy sea facts more than squarepusher tbh, at the very least his more recent output.
No.88662
>>88661
I enjoy most of sea fact's stuff more than squarepusher's more recent output I mean
No.88664
ELECTRONIC MUSIC IS NOT MUSIC
No.88670
No.88671
>>88664
"So you think electronic music is boring? You think it's stupid? You think it's repetitive? Well, It is rep-repetitive. I don't know, skip a beat. We use special tricks with a computer."
-Clean Bandit
No.88678
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>>87965
The Ventolin EP is so fucking underrated.
No.89276
>>88661
>>88662
Shobaleader One redeemed Squarepusher's output for me. Damogen Furies bores the heck out of me but Elektrac was great and I got to see Squares playing his bass live when he was touring. We'll see where Squarepusher goes after this. Hopefully not another Damogen Furies, although I think he's said he's done with jazz so get ready for another album that sounds like venetian snares with synth stabs instead of drums and even less melody.
No.89277
No.89278
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>>89276
I hate it when Squarepusher tries to be VS, because he's not a good VS.
No.89295
>>89278
Venetian Snares is breakcore for fucking plebs, honestly.
No.89299
>>89295
He makes other genres of music, you know.
No.89418
>>88227
CCAI was druQs part 2 sept minus the lush high-production tracks like vordhosbn and cockv10. the prepared piano stuff is nice but without any change of pace for a while it gets kinda drab.
No.89461
>>89295
My problem with VS is that he has no idea how to make tracks that are listenable. It's like he slaps together a track in an hour and an album in a week and it's just luck that X amount of them are good. Even on albums like Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett (personal favorite), you have tracks like Masodik Galamb which start perfectly, build well into the middle with swirling strings and drums and ends with fucking BZZZT BZZZT BZZZT BZZZT noise blasts. I have to skip ahead at the end of the track when I play that album for people because it ruins the whole buildup.
No.89584
>>88216
It may have a been a joke, but that doesn't stop it from being an absolute banger.
No.89588
yes, after listening to Autechre, Aphex Twin is becoming bland
No.89597
>>89588
>aphex becoming bland
>after listening to autism
No.89619
>>89588
My problem with Autechre is that after awhile all their songs sound the same.
At least Richard has extreme variety in his music.
No.89621
>>89588
Well,i would say that too but somehow i feel the same with autechre like this one >>89619
Even Syro becomes dull…excepte for THAT SONG…fucking song..anyway,they are just used to make music the way is convenient for then.Autechre is only a thing because they are duo up.AFX is a thing because he music theory and does "experiment".
Anyway,they are all entry level enough for countrys where the education is not 3rd world level and interesting to people get "deeper".
I do like sc playslists because of the level of randoness and dull things(i love this dull things but i reconize it is) and that fucking song of syro 10''. (but i only listen to it in 33rpm,even if it says its already 33'..anyway austism)
No.89904
Fuck i will bump this shit.
Acid Weeks is to soon to talk about?Is this half already?
No.89907
>>88609
In response, britbong junglists then established the drum and bass genre which quickly spread out as several subgenres.
No.89922
>>88609
>>89907
The Prodigy mostly changed their sound because they hated being considered kiddie rave.
No.90395
>>88664
Electronic music is the finest artform ever invented that is capable of creating things nothing else is.
No.90550
I tried getting into this band, but they seemed like generic electronic rap music or v a p o r w a v e shit.
Any albums that don't meet these categories?
No.90599
>>90550
high octane shitposting
No.90728
>>89922
What you said applies to the change between the first and second album. The third album was carefully designed and engineered to be an eclectic mashup of genres so that almost anyone could be expected to buy a copy, no matter if they normally listened to techno, metal or hip-hop. And the late 90s were where Prodigy jumped the shark and whereafter their heyday pretty much came to a close, similarly to other 90s edgelords such as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Tool or Rammstein, all hung somewhere between pop and the underground, too heavy/edgy to be straight pop but way too mainstream to be considered actual underground music. Nothing any of these bands released past 2002 was particularly interesting or relevant.
No.90749
to be fair you have to have a very high IQ to understand Richard D. James' music……
No.90750
>>88216
I wish it would've gone farther….
No.90751
No.90755
>>90728
>Nothing any of these bands released past 2002 was particularly interesting or relevant.
The height of Rammstein's popularity was after the early 2000's and NIN released some pretty successful albums up until Hesitation Marks.
No.90757
>>90750
Aye, it's unironically a really great song.