This guy is without a doubt the most overrated electronic musician to ever make it "big." The way his fanbase and critics alike have built a cult of personality around treating him like he's the most influential person in the history of electronic music is nauseating and dictatorish. The people that listen to him fucking refuse to accept the fact he too, like any other musician, was influenced by his contemporaries as well as artists before him, giving him titles like "The Godfather of Electronic Music" (which is an insult to so many other people that he wouldn't even be here without) and likening him to classical composers he shares nothing in common with. Not one of the releases he has put out since his "return" have contributed anything new or original and yet his cult treats every release like another groundbreaking milestone in history. He makes stagnant pop music for people that don't listen to electronic music and his shitty, de-tuned synth pads killed IDM.
>like any other musician, was influenced by his contemporaries as well as artists before him
people dispute this?
Kevin Lee
>saw2 >not the best album ever made
Christopher Sullivan
Half of the artists on Warp are objectively better
Elijah Rodriguez
I think maybe half jokingly, like haha (forgot his name) is literally god xS
Parker Torres
>quirky idiosyncratic song titles man xd
Angel Flores
t. pleb
Christian Fisher
lol I knew I'd get a response like this. Warp isn't exactly an obscure or underrated label, tons of people who rate aphex highly have heard that stuff
Gabriel Lewis
>Syro was shit I spotted the Fantanodrone guys!
Jack Diaz
Nice pasta fag
Charles Gray
Pleb
Sebastian Jenkins
They're anagrams you cunt
Adrian Rogers
>Implying overrated = bad K y s faggggggggggg
Caleb Garcia
The new stuff is named after synths and analog shit. He is a nerd.
John Flores
shit like minipops 67 is an anagram? and even so, anagram titles are still quirky
Aiden Russell
youtube.com/watch?v=RhHkUg-QCwk 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.
Eli Adams
The name is based off the Korg minipops, woah is that bad?
Easton Cox
youtube.com/watch?v=uIeA2ct5Sew 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. 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.
Thomas Scott
Come On You CUNTS!
Brandon Taylor
youtube.com/watch?v=8XuF6ttoUQA 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. 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.
Evan Smith
I'd like to see any of you make an album that's as mentally stimulating and consistently interesting as Drukqs
Christopher Wright
Nice pasta fag
Nicholas Nguyen
i believe you, OP, are a massive poseur and a hipster
Elijah Myers
His post its literally a big laughtable copypasta.
Isaiah Butler
rich here
fuck off m8
Joseph Adams
I like other IDM artists more than him but it's hard to deny that his compositions are more dynamic both within and between songs than artists like The Flashbulb or Venetian Snares.
