Whether it's your first Bonnaroo or you’re a music festival veteran, we welcome you to Inforoo.
Here you'll find info about artists, rumors, camping tips, and the infamous Roo Clues. Have a look around then create an account and join in the fun. See you at Bonnaroo!!
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Post by Nathan Fieldcяab on Aug 1, 2020 10:31:46 GMT -5
I think he obviously could play (fits the date requirement, etc.). Whether he would or should is a different question that voters will decide after the draft finishes
Once described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music", Richard David James, more commonly known by the name Aphex Twin, is nothing more than an irritating, lying ginger kid from Cornwall (his words, not mine) who has someone managed to achieve near unanimous praise from critics and fans alike for blatantly ripping off other people's styles (Biosphere, Brian Eno and Squarepusher just to name a few) and convincing us this is some totally ground-breaking material we've never heard before, and most people are stupid enough to believe it.
His debut full length album Selected Ambient Works 85-92, undeniably the most disgustingly popular and highly praised work in his career, is often considered to be a pioneering effort in the world of "IDM" and Electronic Dance Music as a whole and is considered "the most important electronic album of the 90's", often by people who have obviously yet to hear any other electronic albums from the 90's. It's a blatant attempt to play off of the popularity of all the emerging dance music genres at the time (Namely Ambient music, Acid House and Industrial Techno) with Richard throwing the most common elements from each of them into his own melting pot and presenting us with the foul smelling excrement which he claims is his own creation, and of course nerdy millennial white kids everywhere who probably know as much about electronic music as they do anything of importance in the world (that is to say, absolutely nothing at all) eat it up and parade it around as some magnum opus of a genre that never really existed in the first place, "IDM". A term which, ironically enough, Aphex Twin is often considered a figurehead of despite the fact he refuses to acknowledge it whatsoever.
Now lets talk about that for a second, there have been multiple occasions where he has shot down the term IDM over the years, often in favour of his own, even more repulsive, term "Braindance" (I mean honestly, what is that?). Yet despite this, just about every major release of his after (and including) I Care Because You Do has been specifically designed to appeal to the IDM community. Richard D James album is his attempt at cherry-picking the style of label mate Squarepusher (who is by far the superior musician) and integrating his own signature "funny/light hearted" sound from the time (haha guys I made a song about milkmen and boobs, haha isn't that just totally RANDOM? I'm so whacky!). It's absolutely abhorrent, how anyone genuinely enjoys this I will never understand, yet still it became immensely popular and propelled him even further into the limelight, as expected.
Come To Daddy and Windowlicker followed, both following the trend of silly yet "experimental" Drum and Bass work from the previous album, although this time he actually attempted to make the most commercially approachable work of his career, a fact he has openly admitted multiple times. Windowlicker is quite literally Aphex Twin "selling out", it was a single designed to be a big hit, which it very quickly became. Once again he'd jumped on yet another electronic bandwagon to propel himself even further into the spotlight, and once again his entire fan base ate it up without hesitation. The album Drukqs followed, an album which, thankfully, was quite panned by critics at the time for being an unapproachable incoherent mess. Despite this it has achieved a cult following amongst his most devote fans, usually those who believe technical ability surpasses actual musicality and talent in importance, or those who fail to realise the meaning of quality over quantity. Richard took something of a hiatus from the music industry after that before, sadly, making a big return in 2014 with the album Syro, which is so bland and unimportant that it isn't even worth talking about.
But on top of his music being nothing more than straight up copycat work under the façade of "originality", Richard David James is the most pathetic excuse of a human being I have ever seen. Constantly harassing and toying with the very fan base that gave him the ridiculously overblown cult status he has achieved, refusing to give out solid and reliable information on just about anything, and worst of all, being an absolute sexist, racist misogynistic scumbag. Just read a single interview with the guy and you'll see what I mean. Or if that doesn't convince you, try reading through the absolute barrage of nonsensical crap he spat out on his unofficial soundcloud account last year. If that still doesn't convince you that the guy is an absolute braindead moron with no moral code whatsoever, do some research into the meaning of the word "Windowlicker".
So, in closing, Aphex Twin is the single most overrated electronic musician of the 21st century. Just try and prove me wrong.
There is clearly something wrong with the rules, or people’s understanding of them if one act makes a lineup disqualified for votes.
No act should disqualify a lineup. Just take off points for realism.. I also don’t think you should get to drop/repick. Aphex is eligible. (This this poll being dumb/badly worded).
Aphex Twin is unrealistic for Bonnaroo. The reason you’ve pissed people off is bc Aphex was specifically named as an artist, prior to the draft starting, that was unrealistic under this draft’s objectives. You not agreeing and doing it anyways is the entire point we were making before where we can say realism counts, but people aren’t going to draft/vote that way.
You guys had to know this shitstorm was coming when you made the pick.
There is clearly something wrong with the rules, or people’s understanding of them if one act makes a lineup disqualified for votes.
No act should disqualify a lineup. Just take off points for realism.. I also don’t think you should get to drop/repick. Aphex is eligible. (This this poll being dumb/badly worded).
Aphex Twin is unrealistic for Bonnaroo. The reason you’ve pissed people off is bc Aphex was specifically named as an artist, prior to the draft starting, that was unrealistic under this draft’s objectives. You not agreeing and doing it anyways is the entire point we were making before where we can say realism counts, but people aren’t going to draft/vote that way.
You guys had to know this shitstorm was coming when you made the pick.
sure Aphex, under these rules, should take away some points for realism and add some points for how much you like the lineup, if you like Aphex Twin. But if you think that there is no possible chance that Bonnaroo could book Aphex even in a fantasy world so you want to move the realism instantly to 0... if thats the prevailing thought, then there should be an adjustment to the rules to clarify that.
:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/12414833/Nathan_Fielder_AMA_Cool_Band.0.png)
