From DzrtMusic Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 23:02
From DzrtMusic Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 23:02
In a message dated 2/24/99 8:14:41 AM Mountain Standard Time, xxxx@xxxxxx.xxx writes: > I hesitate to jump to Richard James' defense on this list. 1. Because > fundamentally he ESPECIALLY doesn't care what a group of Internet mailing > list dweebs with too much time on their hands think. 2. I am not and don't > want to be seen as an Aphex Twin sycophant. > > But: > > There is a long tradition of music that both has intrinsic musical value > and has the aspect of a piss-take: Bach's Coffee Cantata, Brahms' > Academic Overture, Eric Satie, Charles Ives' two-colliding-marching-bands > music, Sir Edward Elgar's Facade, etc. > > Aphex Twin music is occasionally brilliant, sometimes sloppy, a bit > messy, and reflects a gnomish sense of humor that is either engaging > or annoying. But whether or not you listen isn't really an issue to him, > so if you don't like it, buy something else. He'll be judged with > the rest of us, long after he's gone. > > And I don't think that he's "just messing around." Or rather, perhaps > just messing around is something he hopes to raise to the level of an > art form. Even some of the old tracks, that everyone who hates him now > still likes, can be construed to be just messing around. > > If I can see any message to his music it would be "hey lighten up, > enjoy life, take the piss out of pompous wankers, and isn't it amazing > that a tosser from Cornwall can grow up to live in a bank vault in London." > > kent williams -- xxxx@xxxxxx.xxx > hmm, yes.. all I really meant was that he isn't giving as much to his music as he used to. ~allen