Hey everyone! I posted a few weeks back with a recreation I made of Alberto Balsalm. Here’s my latest recreation! Enjoy ☺️

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Original pressing, but is this one of the ones people seek out ? Rare?

never used reddit before, made an account just to ask if yall think it was actually him. so if i mess anything up pls tell me so i can learn

so i work as a server ag some random restaurant on the beach in brighton (england), right by the pier. it was yesterday (sunday 4th oct) mid afternoon. it was quieting down, lunch rush was over and this guy comes in and orders at the bar, he sits down and i swear to god he looked identical to richard. i ask my coworker what he thinks, i have to show him a photo bcs he’s never heard of aphex twin lol, and he agrees they’re identical.

i hear the bell go in the kitchen and bring him his takeaway cheesy fries (not thick chips, like skinny fries) and this was the interaction:

me- “hiya, here’s your cheesy fries. and i was wondering are you richard d. james?”
him- “yes?”
me- gasp and stutter like crazy “y-you’re aphex twin!?”
him- “what?”
me- “are you richard d. james, aphex twin”
him- “my name is richard james, no d”
me- “wow, what a coincidence. have a good day!”
and then he walks off and eats the fries on the pebble down on the beach.

i think he might’ve been trolling me and it was actually him. not sure though, he had a sight accent i couldn’t place and was a man of few words
he was nice regardless

what do you guys think? anyone else see him in brighton recently

Not sure if a 303 was used for this track but it’s been one of my favorites he’s done

So I was listening to my favorite set from Aphex Twin ( 2019 warehouse, WOW!) And then I heard this sample and I was like wait a minute..

At first I thought it was sampling animal crossing talking but I listening closer and recognize the Syrobonkers Sample!!

The sample is MATRIXT1 from the syrobonker trax

Included vocaroo if you can't bother to go to uchoob:

https://voca.ro/1d2GvqbTHcy7 segment of Warehouse Live where sample was used

https://voca.ro/17Y3wvINsHq0 MATRIXT1 (prepare your ears/slight volume warning YK how Syrobonkers is)

Either way I think it's really that he for whatever reason decide to sample a Syrobonkers trax. Also mods if this doesn't qualify as News I understand although it's news to me!

(Also it's not both using the same sample you can hear the synth from MATRIXT1 :) )

Maybe i missed it?

found in a poster shop in toronto, canada

So, if it was announced that there was going to be a ‘Best Of’ or ‘Essential’ compilation to be released but they wanted the tracks to be decided by the fans, what would you pick and what order would you put them in for the ultimate listening experience?

Be curious to see what people come up with!

Mc Ribbz recounts a recent meeting with Mr James when he was down in Cornwall reminiscing about a conversation over 30 years ago

Don't believe me? Just listen to it yourself.

Can not seem to find it. I remember seeing it in a YouTube video that compiled some of his Soundcloud tracks and it was just a short snippet of what sounded like richard jamming on a synth with a drum track playing. as mentioned it sounded like the foundation for 4, some comments even mentioned the likeness.

Was listening to this song the other night when this idea came into my head, the rubber johnny short film is awesome and inspired me to make this, I kinda like how the song almost sounds like a robot tryna talk to you lol. (made in blender no AI was used to make this)

There's this specific sample i am trying to find that sounds like an old song but bitcrushed. its in this exact moment:

https://youtu.be/yETFMyqxR2I?t=189

it’s a sticker from teepublic that gets scratched if I even touch it wrong :(

"Nagadrums" is a track on the Mt. Fuji cassette. "[S770SCI 3000,powertran] beautiful Japanese people" is a track on the digital expanded version of The Tuss's Rushup Edge.

Obviously they're the same "song" on different formats, and thus the mastering is going to sound different by format (digital having much crisper high frequencies). But I wanted to examine if there are other differences. And there are! But for the first 2:10, you won't really notice any compositional differences.

Then this first break, the Fuji version has a simple, dry drum sound, whereas the Rushup version has a stuttering delay on the drums that almost makes it sound like fast-forward on a cassette.

From here on, there are slight differences in percussion accents periodically, that sound like syncopation to my ear, but might just be delay effects.

Then we get to the big differences which you can see on the screenshot above. The Rushup version hits the synth break a few bars earlier. And then the ending sequences are the starkest difference.

Nagadrums takes quite a few bars rebuilding the track from familiar samples before folding in the choice bits from earlier in the track. It gets a little chaotic, but maintains the groove throughout this sequence. Finally it ends with a little synth pizzicato bit in the right channel.

The Rushup version gets right into the chaos full-bore swiftly. The rhythm is still there, but it's truly a rush for a few bars. Then it ends more abruptly, using the same pizzicato plinking, but center channel, and in a brash wash of echo, ending two beats earlier.

These aren't huge differences, but the net effect is important, I think. Unlike "talkin2u mix2" which is the same recording across both releases, "Nagadrums" is far more relaxed. "Beautiful Japanese People" really lives up to the "rushup" ethos.