113: Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (1996)
Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast
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Finish Acid. Straight Out of Cornwall.
Kidda was basically like a giant FX-Twin love letter that entire album. It's somehow both repetitive and unpredictable because it is just the one pattern repeating throughout the whole thing, but he transposes it up and down seemingly at random. I can imagine Tom York hearing this and thinking, everything I do from now on needs to sound like this. Straight out of Cornwall. Lots of hometown representing on this album. This one doesn't have much of a structure. It just goes until it stops. The appeal of earlier FX-Twins and electronic music like it is that it puts me in a sort of like a state of like an eternal present.
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