Aphex Twin: Overrated?

I second The Richard D. James Album - I think it’s simply his best full-length record.

Also, the 8-track Come to Daddy EP plays like a perfect “sampler” of Richard’s many styles - from the drill-n-bass electro punk of the title track to pretty piano ambient (“flim”) to the single most jaw-droppingly insane piece of rhythm programming I’ve ever heard (“bucephalus bouncing ball”) and so on. It makes a great introduction to him.

Definitely pick up that Windowlicker single - the title track (and video included on the CD) is life-changing, but the other two tracks are great, too, especially the third one, a really gorgeous little music box piece.

It’s also got really scary cover art.

Windowlicker is phenomenal. Thanks jayrot. The last time I listened to Aphex Twin was Selected Ambient Works and I thought it was rubbish at the time. But Windowlicker is impossible not to like.

Someone should start an electronic music thread sometime soon maybe?

I’d be into it!

Amon Tobin anyone?