twenty one pilots >intriguing, introspective lyrics >genuine emotion >confuses plebs like fantano >multiple genres, incredible skill with merging them >real instruments >hit singles
>gay for eachother probably >literally just noise/fart sounds >they like young thug literally all positives imo desu senpai
Logan Gomez
fuckin pleb
Gavin Ortiz
Obviously a bait thread, but I legit grew out of IDM and I'm kind of sad about it. IDM was my favorite genre for a good 5 years, but in the past few years I've been unable to enjoy it at all, and even relistening to my old favorite tracks do little for me anymore. I'd go back if I could
Jaxson Taylor
>but now I'm insecure, and care what people think How did they come up with this?
Carter Nelson
what do you enjoy listening now ?
Isaiah Bell
only plebs will disagree
Sebastian Gutierrez
I never will. It's my favorite genre and is in many ways a positive force in my life. No other genre gives one solitary person so much room for creativity.
this album always had that tribal feeling that vaguely cropped up on incunabula (like on basscadet)
Andrew Cox
Squarepusher probably has the most sensible, basic name of any producer. Its alluding to literally pressing pads on a drum machine you normie
Aaron Taylor
but it's a reference to an acid dealer
Benjamin Hall
karlheinz stockhausen criticized aphex twin, among other contemporary edm artists of the day, in a magazine interview where he was given sample's of the day's electronic music.
if i recall, his specific criticique of aphex twin was that it was too much dance beat stuff, too much repetition. he challenged aphex twin to compose something without repetition. it seems that his criticism got to richard james, since he fired back saying something like "at least my mates can dance to my stuff", but clearly it shook him up a bit and you can see a change in some of aphex twin's stuff after that point.
anyway, stockhausen was right, and would've loved merzbow. any kind of beat becomes boring and tunes the mind a certain way. a beat is like an anchor to the world of physical bodies; remove the anchor and you can soar into the cosmic skies of sound.
maybe i'm just biased because my friend is a drummer and literally cannot appreciate any music without a rock beat to keep his .1 second attention span active. it's pathetic and it annoys me to be around such lowbrow ruffians.
Elijah Richardson
I've heard the former. Source?
Levi Turner
>muh drone
Adam White
What kills me is that I make really dense poly rhythmic syncopated beats and all the people I know all seem to think it's just random shit
Levi Evans
100% true
Carter Jones
literally the truth
William Miller
pusher of square tabs, pusher of acid
Grayson Walker
Is it bad if i like Aphex then Sup Forums
Ian King
it's bad if you like aphex, autechre, squarepusher or boards of canada, but don't like twenty one pilots
David Torres
yes
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Ian Morris
Aphex Twin is probably my least favorite of the big four. I'd go so far as to say that Squarepusher is the best, and that Hard Normal Daddy is the best IDM album.
Jayden Lopez
only forgivable if you like 21p more. now do 5 hail scaruffis
Thomas Long
"Big 4"?! Squareshitter is not even in the "Big 5".
Jacob Brooks
what's the big 5
Oliver Moore
are you new?
Austin Howard
aphex twin boards of canada autechre squarepusher andy morin
Aaron Thomas
digging it thanks
Parker Scott
old fags, remember when slsk was about idm? lae ninties , earliy 00 was the time for idm, then minimalist house was hot, i think; the talent of idm ran out of "revolutionaryu" things to propose, ish, and the "thing" moved onwards. so itgoes
Dominic Lee
>andy morin this
Thomas Rogers
literal hack
shit sounds like ableton presets
Christian Wright
>he can't into andy morin and self-imposed limitations to promote creativity i'm LMAOing at your life
Connor Hill
nobody addresses the question. i did: early 00's things went all sorts of fun way. acid came back. disco punk , are you kidding me? house music, the whole history of it, let's dig. detroit. chicago. sheeeeeeeiiit. and it goes on and on. and that was what the early 00's when the internet got it shit together and non-trustfund people could start to get some serious knowledge about music without dedicating their whole life to it.
Wyatt Garcia
there is literally nothing creative about him.
Oliver Howard
false
William Walker
his instrumentals vary from sounding like 2001-2002 grime clash instruments or kouhei matsunaga or shit you'd hear on perc trax or, yes, even watered down autechre. i've never heard an instrumental where i've thought "wow this is totally fresh"
Carson Hall
>anti-vaxer Since fucking when?
Owen Carter
oh boy...
Leo Price
This. Once described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music", Richard David James, more commonly known by the name Aphex Twin, is nothing more than an irritating, lying ginger kid from Cornwall (his words, not mine) who has someone managed to achieve near unanimous praise from critics and fans alike for blatantly ripping off other people's styles (Biosphere, Brian Eno and Squarepusher just to name a few) and convincing us this is some totally ground-breaking material we've never heard before, and most people are stupid enough to believe it. His debut full length album Selected Ambient Works 85-92, undeniably the most disgustingly popular and highly praised work in his career, is often considered to be a pioneering effort in the world of "IDM" and Electronic Dance Music as a whole and is considered "the most important electronic album of the 90's", often by people who have obviously yet to hear any other electronic albums from the 90's. It's a blatant attempt to play off of the popularity of all the emerging dance music genres at the time (Namely Ambient music, Acid House and Industrial Techno) with Richard throwing the most common elements from each of them into his own melting pot and presenting us with the foul smelling excrement which he claims is his own creation, and of course nerdy millennial white kids everywhere who probably know as much about electronic music as they do anything of importance in the world (that is to say, absolutely nothing at all) eat it up and parade it around as some magnum opus of a genre that never really existed in the first place, "IDM". A term which, ironically enough, Aphex Twin is often considered a figurehead of despite the fact he refuses to acknowledge it whatsoever.
Ryder Peterson
it was ironic
Dylan Richardson
Now lets talk about that for a second, there have been multiple occasions where he has shot down the term IDM over the years, often in favour of his own, even more repulsive, term "Braindance" (I mean honestly, what is that?). Yet despite this, just about every major release of his after (and including) I Care Because You Do has been specifically designed to appeal to the IDM community. Richard D James album is his attempt at cherry-picking the style of label mate Squarepusher (who is by far the superior musician) and integrating his own signature "funny/light hearted" sound from the time (haha guys I made a song about milkmen and boobs, haha isn't that just totally RANDOM? I'm so whacky!). It's absolutely abhorrent, how anyone genuinely enjoys this I will never understand, yet still it became immensely popular and propelled him even further into the limelight, as expected.
Lincoln Gray
Come To Daddy and Windowlicker followed, both following the trend of silly yet "experimental" Drum and Bass work from the previous album, although this time he actually attempted to make the most commercially approachable work of his career, a fact he has openly admitted multiple times. Windowlicker is quite literally Aphex Twin "selling out", it was a single designed to be a big hit, which it very quickly became. Once again he'd jumped on yet another electronic bandwagon to propel himself even further into the spotlight, and once again his entire fan base ate it up without hesitation. The album Drukqs followed, an album which, thankfully, was quite panned by critics at the time for being an unapproachable incoherent mess. Despite this it has achieved a cult following amongst his most devote fans, usually those who believe technical ability surpasses actual musicality and talent in importance, or those who fail to realise the meaning of quality over quantity. Richard took something of a hiatus from the music industry after that before, sadly, making a big return in 2014 with the album Syro, which is so bland and unimportant that it isn't even worth talking about. But on top of his music being nothing more than straight up copycat work under the façade of "originality", Richard David James is the most pathetic excuse of a human being I have ever seen. Constantly harassing and toying with the very fan base that gave him the ridiculously overblown cult status he has achieved, refusing to give out solid and reliable information on just about anything, and worst of all, being an absolute sexist, racist misogynistic scumbag.
Sebastian Morgan
Just read a single interview with the guy and you'll see what I mean. Or if that doesn't convince you, try reading through the absolute barrage of nonsensical crap he spat out on his unofficial soundcloud account last year. If that still doesn't convince you that the guy is an absolute braindead moron with no moral code whatsoever, do some research into the meaning of the word "Windowlicker". So, in closing, Aphex Twin is the single most overrated electronic musician of the 21st century. Just try and prove me wrong.
Angel Ortiz
Written by a feminazi who was dripping wet for RDJ's cock, only way to explain that obsession and denial.
Tyler Allen
All that shit sounds made up
Benjamin Allen
If you've not heard of those genres then you have next to no knowledge of electronic/dance music, I'm sorry to say....
Wyatt Gomez
>hit singles damn good reason
Adrian Price
this
Thomas Edwards
it would be so hot to see an autechre soundtrack with new autechre tracks as the soundtrack
Andrew Walker
what
Mason Lopez
it would be so hot if there was an autechre sextape of sean and rob fucking with brand new autechre tracks as the soundtrack
Adrian Reyes
this board is officially fucked over
Colton White
"no" twenty one pilots are the future
Austin Reyes
got you my man B12 - Time Tourist Higher Intelligence Agency - Colourform Biosphere - Microgravity Orbital - Brown Album LFO - Frequencies FSOL - Dead Cities
Nathan Bennett
Like whoever the hell you want
Unless it's twenty one pilots
Ryder Garcia
i feel like banging to ae would be difficult
Nathaniel Howard
aphex is loads more genres
Lucas Rogers
good tunes like xtal and rhubarb and 4
Kevin Watson
>21 Pilots >Band only has two members, neither of them are pilots
Fuck off
Leo Carter
i know this thread is bait but holy shit does this trigger me
Xavier James
Autechre is literally just straight Arca
Oliver Walker
Andy Morin Literally who?
If all you listen to is warp, you're going to be dissapointed. Even opn got fucked by their contract and hasn't put anything good out since he joined.
Try out out some stuff on the old merck label. Ilkae,kettel,vim,drum machine etc
Kevin Bell
Hip hop producer for Death Grips
Dylan Green
Autechre came out before Arca you know?
Christopher Long
sure but they are an inferior and straighter product
>>gay for eachother probably >>literally just noise/fart sounds >>they like young thug All good things
Hunter Harris
You know a board has gone to shit when the shitposters copy other shitposts from the exact same thread
Jason Barnes
Its the only way to teach you retards.
Nolan Turner
jesus fucking christ, OP.
Evan Clark
who do you think is on top, sean or rob
Bentley Brown
how are they shitposts when they're true?
Juan Garcia
sean, obvs
Ryan Peterson
Rob for sure
Charles Reyes
...
Gavin Myers
if u disagree with this ur dumb
Wyatt Bell
winner
Tyler Russell
winner
Isaac Murphy
>you can see a change in some of aphex twin's stuff after that point
for those wondering, Stockhausen's criticism came in November 1995.
aphex had released the I Care Because You Do album and the Donkey Rhubarb EP recently before that, and a year later had released the RDJ album and the Girl/Boy EP
I think he was thinking "shove this 'repetitive beat' up your ass mr stockhausen" when programming the drums for stuff like 4 and bucephalus bouncing ball
Kevin Long
bitch he Didn't Get Trips
Carter Wright
plus sean is definitely overcompensating for something. obviously the bottom.
they're on warp and the "big 4" refers to the "warp big 4"
Wyatt Bell
someone explain me the 21 pilots meme
Anthony Rogers
OP is Richrud
Austin Brooks
they're the new my chemical romance or evanescence for suburban white kids who think their life is hard, and had a couple of annoying as hell radio hits. long story short they trigger Sup Forums
Camden Phillips
test
Brandon Walker
whats all this about then??
- richard
Easton Hughes
you win
Connor Wilson
wew
Nicholas Kelly
Boards >sappy >Geogaddi ??
Ryan Gutierrez
tru idm is shit I just listen to dubstep
Kayden Hill
dont worry about this lol if it's really you i love your music man
Mason Cooper
Dude I know right. Dude I know people who listen to rap/hip-hop/pop constantly, top 40's, that sorta shit, they LOVE Boards of Canada. I understand that a lot of that shit is an acquired taste (Autechre, Aphex, Squarepusher), but for real who in the fuck can hate Boards?