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Does Richard D. James trip?
#7678477 - 11/25/07 03:15 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Richard D. James is also known as Aphex Twin, AFX, Polygon Window, etc.
I was just listening to Analord (a very long series he made of acid house music, pretty minimalist but insane as well) and I'm having a very hard time seeing this guy not having taken a lot of stuff.
Wikipedia and all other sources I can think to check are silent on the matter, however. Does anybody know for sure?
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Is it important?
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7678594 - 11/25/07 03:41 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you look at the track listing for his album Drukqs, all of the titles sound like things you'd say if you were on Salvia and Acid at the same time.
1. "Jynweythek" – 2:14 2. "Vordhosbn" – 4:42 3. "Kladfvgbung Micshk" – 2:00 4. "Omgyjya-Switch7" – 4:46 5. "Strothatynhe" – 2:03 6. "Gwely Mernans" – 5:00 7. "Bbydhyonchord" – 2:21 8. "Cock/Ver10" – 5:17 9. "Avril 14th" – 1:55 10. "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount" – 8:02 11. "Gwarek2" – 6:38 12. "Orban Eq Trx 4" – 1:27 13. "Aussois" – 0:07 14. "Hy A Scullyas Lyf Adhagrow" – 2:09 15. "Kesson Dalef" – 1:18
I'm going with a yes.
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Syntaxerror]
#7678621 - 11/25/07 03:46 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm pretty sure some(most) of it's Cornish, an old Celtic language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drukqs
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7678677 - 11/25/07 04:02 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Adagio said: Is it important?
Nope, I'm just curious as hell. Analord in particular just straight-up sounds like an acid trip to me. Last time I tripped on acid I listened to it on the comedown, and it just made all the visuals I'd been seeing over the past few hours come back in full force because it was like listening to them after I saw them.
And yes, that is Cornish, not psychedelic-induced glossolalia. There are a couple songs names that are made up but they have a reasonable grounding in actual language as well.
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7678684 - 11/25/07 04:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah, probably. Songs like "cornish acid", "windowlicker" etc.
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"I never wanted to big up any drugs, because I don't reckon they deserve it. It's just something that you choose to do. I probably come across as, like, 'Yeah, acid and weed are amazing.' But I don't think that at all, really. And if I did, I wouldn't want to say it in an interview. Plus, I'm never under the influence of drugs when I make music. Whenever I have been, it's always been totally rubbish. It's a real disciplined thing, making music. When you're tripping, you're just fucked. You could never get it together to make a track. When I'm stoned, I go to bed."
http://www.aphextwin.nu/learn/100261068661634.shtml
I'm sure he has a good understanding of that world, but like so many great artists, its just a piece of the greater whole and not a mandatory, all-revealing, necessity.
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: toastandjam]
#7678702 - 11/25/07 04:10 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Aha... sounds about right.
Thanks for the info, I've been curious about this for a while.
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Indeed, thanks for that. I never really knew what James' stance on psychoactives was. Now I do
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After seeing window licker I'd give a definite maybe.
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I've always wondered this about many artists. Radiohead, for instance. Something tells me that although their albums are amazing while high or tripping, that they aren't huge drug users.
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7679000 - 11/25/07 05:12 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Adagio said: I'm pretty sure some(most) of it's Cornish, an old Celtic language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drukqs
Ah, I stand corrected. Very good, sir.
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Syntaxerror]
#7681770 - 11/26/07 12:59 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: DreamSignals]
#7681802 - 11/26/07 01:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't get it
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7681808 - 11/26/07 01:12 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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AFX logo = Eye of Horus...
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: DreamSignals]
#7681813 - 11/26/07 01:14 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yea I guess it kind of looks that in a way...
Was this intended?
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7682187 - 11/26/07 03:09 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm not sure, I've listened to his stuff while tripping hard and I swear it's almost like MORE stuff is added unto it. I think the music becomes a "portal" to the subtle layers of reality, so it might be intentional, although it could also be mere coincidence. But ask yourself, say he didn't mean it to happen, does it mean the coincidence isn't significant?
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: DreamSignals]
#7682193 - 11/26/07 03:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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You can go back through some of his stuff and find things you didn't hear before someitmes, it's cool.
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7682205 - 11/26/07 03:14 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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True that, but also the windowlicker video shows people becoming him, ego transcendence, psychic harmony, stuff I find hard to believe he didn't trip to embrace.
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: DreamSignals]
#7682212 - 11/26/07 03:16 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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He's just one of those naturally artsy,creative,spiritual people maybe
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7682220 - 11/26/07 03:19 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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He never said he didn't like substance use completely, he just sounds like he thinks its no good to the creative process for him personally, that's all. I'm sure he's tripped many a time in his life. But what he said was he can't make music while under the influence, he never said he wasn't inspired by it
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7682469 - 11/26/07 04:18 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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in one interview he said, that his favourite drugs are: weed, mushrooms, coffee, tea, ventolin, aspirin
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: epilectric]
#7686503 - 11/27/07 03:38 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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refer to this thread
http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=28530 now including allegations of meth use
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: goonstock]
#7686507 - 11/27/07 03:39 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: goonstock]
#7687457 - 11/27/07 06:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Richard D. James smoking a spliff, haha
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: Robo]
#7687775 - 11/27/07 07:31 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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He had to have done something. His music is pretty much the only music that makes me feel different.
I don't even have to be high to have really lucid images when hearing most of his stuff. Maybe he just understands conciousness really well, who knows.
By the way, To Cure A Weakling Child (Contour Regard) is the only song that can consistently bring me to tears or at least make me feel really sad.
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: PyroBurns]
#7688178 - 11/27/07 08:55 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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PyroBurns said: He had to have done something. His music is pretty much the only music that makes me feel different.
I don't even have to be high to have really lucid images when hearing most of his stuff. Maybe he just understands conciousness really well, who knows.
By the way, To Cure A Weakling Child (Contour Regard) is the only song that can consistently bring me to tears or at least make me feel really sad.
Have you ever listened to Sigur Ros?
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Yeah. I don't think they are really my thing though.
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: DreamSignals]
#7761478 - 12/15/07 11:24 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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DreamSignals said: I'm not sure, I've listened to his stuff while tripping hard and I swear it's almost like MORE stuff is added unto it. I think the music becomes a "portal" to the subtle layers of reality, so it might be intentional, although it could also be mere coincidence. But ask yourself, say he didn't mean it to happen, does it mean the coincidence isn't significant?
Excellent observation. I think that in music, electronic music especially, sometimes its about what you don't play, or where you don't put notes and how that can be used to deliberately influence the listener and their imagination into filling in those anticipated spaces on their own. Each time will be different and the music takes on this expanding existence of its own relative to each listener. That's on top of all the subtlety built into the track to begin with
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Re: Does Richard D. James trip? [Re: toastandjam]
#7761738 - 12/15/07 12:54 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Indeed. Several times now I've listened to Analord on acid, and I begin to hear melodies filling in the blanks, until I'm practically listening to classical music instead of acid house. Other electronic music does this too, but not with nearly the same subtlety and complexity. James is a genius.
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