Daily Jam - #3

In this humble blogger's opinion, there may not be a better Sunday morning album than Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works Volume II," with the untitled track "#3" in particular giving my mind, body, an soul a certain feeling of Zen.  Listen to the track below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Xtal

I have been posting Daily Jams for almost six years now, and i'm starting to feel like i've completely run out of things to say other than "Here's a song...listen to it."  Maybe that will change.  Maybe not.  Anyway, here's a song...listen to it.  Check out "Xtal" by Aphex Twin below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - At the Heart of It All

This column was originally published in August of 2018.

A whole lot of stuff happened yesterday (yesterday being August 21st as I’m writing this column well before I intend to publish it). It was a lot to take in. A lot of guilty verdicts, guilty pleas, and possible ramifications for a neverending stream of even more stuff to come. But, the inner cynic in me doubts that there’s really much to be happy about or excited for. The inner cynic in me has no expectations for anybody to finally get their comeuppance. The inner cynic in me lost faith in this broken system a long while back. And the inner cynic in me is usually right about that kind of stuff.

So I guess we’ll all just wait and see as everything crumbles around us…turns to dust.

And while I wait, I’ll let some haunting and cinematic music score my mood, soundtrack the encroaching clouds as they black out the light. I’m going to listen to “At the Heart of It All” from Nine Inch Nails’ 1995 remix album Further Down the Spiral. And I’m going to watch the world go grey.

The bleak, 7-minute instrumental was created by Aphex Twin for Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails to use on said remix record, and it sounds like a harbinger of some sorts. A crusty electronic beat pounds and hisses while a loop of an eerie horn section rises and falls, a dead fog laying over a cold and dying valley, like something out of a Cormac McCarthy novel. It sounds like a processional for the end of all things, a final dirge to play our souls to eternity. So, maybe it’s not so much a harbinger of things to come as it is a stark and icy denouement.

I guess that’s where we’re at these days.

Listen below, our Daily Jam.

Aphex Twin

Getting all kinds of big release news the last couple of days, and now it appears we've got a new EP from the enigmatic Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin, coming our way next month.  Check out new tune "Blackbox Life Recorder 21f" below and pre-order the "Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In a Room7 F760" EP here from Warp.

Daily Jam - Rhubarb

It' rough out there folks, so here's some selected ambient work from Aphex Twin to calm the nerves.  Listen to "Rhubarb" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam (October Edition) - Come to Daddy

Whenever Richard James, aka Aphex Twin, photoshops his face onto something, be it buxom bikini babes or homicidal children, i find it absolutely terrifying.  Coupled with the nightmarish imagery in the "Come to Daddy" video, it's really almost too much.  Check it out below, our Daily Jam.

I want your soul!  I will eat your soul!

Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse

New music from Aphex Twin.  Far out.  Watch the video for "T69 Collapse" below and pre-order the new "Collapse" EP here from Warp.

Aphex Twin - CIRKLON3 [ Колхозная mix ]

Aphex Twin videos were always kind of an event unto themselves back in the day, albeit generally a kind of creepy event.  Whether it was buxom, bikini-clad women with terribly mutated Richard D. James heads dancing by pools or in limos, or a gaggle of mutant children...with terribly mutated Richard D. James heads terrorizing your grandma, each video was certainly unique, entertaining, and...creepy.  While the latest video from Aphex Twin, his first in almost two decades, is not quite as sinister or scary as previous outings, it was directed by a twelve year old.  And it's weird.  Watch "CIRKLON3 [ Колхозная mix ]" below and get the "Cheetah" EP from Warp next month.

Aphex Twin

I know this came out a couple of days ago, but i would be remiss not to make mention of it here at the Incubator.  Aphex Twin's new jam "minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]" sounds like...well, it sounds like Aphex Twin.  Listen below and grab the new album "SYRO" later this month from Warp.