AFX_L15ngc///b - the Aphex Twin listening club - Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008 at post 583

we’re going to do some serious bleepbloop listening ok? all the main albums, most of the EPs, loads of the aliases, none of the soundcloud stuff unless someone wants to curate it for us. ive also tried to generally get it in order of the date it was recorded rather than released, as i feel like that makes more sense for the listening club format.

here's the plan, and i'll include jump links to the first post about each record as we go along.
Listening order Title Release date Artist Rating
1 Selected Ambient Works 85–92 09-Nov-92 Aphex Twin Rating
2 GAK 06-Jun-94 GAK
2 Classics 30-Jan-95 Aphex Twin Rating
3 Compilation 01-Jun-98 Caustic Window Rating
4 Surfing on Sine Waves 11-Jan-93 Polygon Window
4 Quoth 22-Mar-93 Polygon Window Rating
5 Selected Ambient Works Volume II 07-Mar-94 Aphex Twin Rating
6 Ventolin 27-Mar-95 Aphex Twin
6 Donkey Rhubarb 14-Aug-95 Aphex Twin
6 Girl/Boy 19-Aug-96 Aphex Twin Rating
7 …I Care Because You Do 24-Apr-95 Aphex Twin Rating
8 Hangable Auto Bulb 16-Oct-95 AFX Rating
9 Expert Knob Twiddlers 24-Jun-96 Mike & Rich Rating
10 Caustic Window 16-Jun-14 Caustic Window Rating
11 Richard D. James Album 04-Nov-96 Aphex Twin Rating
12 Come to Daddy 06-Oct-97 Aphex Twin
12 Windowlicker Jan-99 Aphex Twin Rating
13 Drukqs 22-Oct-01 Aphex Twin Rating
14 26 Mixes for Cash 24-Mar-03 Aphex Twin Rating
15 Chosen Lords 10-Apr-06 AFX Rating
16 Confederation Trough 07-May-07 The Tuss
16 Rushup Edge 25-Jun-07 The Tuss Rating
17 Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008 21-Aug-15 AFX Rating
18 Syro 19-Sep-14 Aphex Twin Rating
19 Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 23-Jan-15 Aphex Twin Rating
20 Cheetah 08-Jul-16 Aphex Twin
20 Collapse 14-Sep-18 Aphex Twin
20 Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In a Room7 F760 28-Jul-23 Aphex Twin Rating
21 Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023) 17-Dec-24 Aphex Twin Rating

new record/s every monday, and then we’ll rate them on fridays. let’s have some aphex acid!

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Am I already part of two listening clubs? Yes
Am I also doing that daft 1001 albums generator project? Yes
Am I extremely overwhelmed by trying to catch up with new releases on top of that? Yes
And trying to listen to my old favourites between all that? Yes

Am I ready for the Aphex Twin deep dive? Bring it the fuck on.

Can’t wait for this, thank you so much for putting it together.

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hell yeah!

oh my oh my I’m here for this

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sweet. not gonna do ratings but hell yeah up for this, hoping to discover a few gems i’ve overlooked

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I am normally terrible with listening clubs (both partaking and running), but I’ll do my best to keep up with this one! I seem to be doing ok with the Stereolab one, so :crossed_fingers:t2:

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Not done one of these before, but well excited.

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Yes

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I’m gonna try and break my never-keeping-up-with-a-listening-club-i-wasn’t-running duck with this

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I hope that those in this thread more knowledgeable about Richard D. James than me can drop some fun facts as we go through.

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there’ll def be fun but not necessarily as much verifiable as facts

https://x.com/ZeroSuitCamus/status/1935837224597438892

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In the spirit of his 90s interview I think we should just make up anything that makes him sound cool.

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Great idea. Let me clamber aboard.

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posted in the main thread but i’ve listened to this about 5 times, some absolute classic in here. what a very weird dude he is.

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Sounds like a good way to explore his work. I’m in.

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VentolIN

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IN

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mINipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]

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