demonstrates the complexity of traditional classical and the minimalism of modern classical, while retaining the freedom of structure of jazz.
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| Is this technique for technique's sake, a triumph of speed-prowess over content? "It's quite similar to guitar solos," AFX concedes, "only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks." His best ones, he says, are those which evoke feelings that can't quite be described, where "you're not quite sure what emotion it is". | ||||||
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| Aphex Twin is one of the great unheralded genuis' of our time, easily as important to electonica/techno as the Beatles are to rock, as Miles Davis and John Coltrane are to Jazz, and as Mozart and Stravinsky are to classical. In fact, Aphex Twin has been compared to Mozart. He has claimed that his major influence is Karlheinz Stockhausen's first record, and bears little resemblance to anyone else. He can be hard and abrasive, soft and beautiful, or incomparably experimental, sometimes all at once. He has pop(softer tracks)and rock(harder tracks)appeal, and demonstrates the complexity of traditional classical and the minimalism of modern classical, while retaining the freedom of structure of jazz. |
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