From Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid On Earth Sent Sun, Jul 19th 1998, 02:11
From Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid On Earth Sent Sun, Jul 19th 1998, 02:11
I think it is a fake. Here's why. -The mix sounds bad. There's something lacking, like some reverb or EQ. -The voice sample is suspicious. It's definitively not the kind of sample he usually uses, and it doesn't bring anything to the track, unlike his usual sample. -The beat sounds too much like his Hangable Auto Bulb era. I think you can hear an evolution from HAB (mettallic crazy chaotic beats) to RDJ album (metallic crazy beats somewhat more organized) to CTD (typical techno percussions and samples from real drums crazily sequenced). Whenever Aphex moves on, he doesn't usually come back. I could be wrong of course. Maybe he's parodying some of the cheap jingles you can hear on kid TV. But I certainly hope not. I really enjoy his drill'n'bass stuff (HAB, RDJ, CTD) and I hold no grudge against them, but I think it would be a good time for him to do something in another style. It seems to me like everybody is doing it the jungle way nowadays, and it has been so for more then a year now, it's not like it is original or fresh anymore. Frankly, I get more of a kick listening to Puff Daddy beats then those on essex. I wouldn't mind if he wouldn't feel like breaking the barrier of insanity with every track and go back to making simple great music with normal beats, like "The beauty of being numb". I'd enjoy a whole album like this, but maybe not everybody and the kids... Of course it is a little unfair to expect him to completely reinvent the whole genre on every release, so even if essex is aphex's work... well there will still be 7 other tracks on the EP.