Aphex Twin's Soundcloud page- registered to user18081971- saw a spate of excitement and activity a few days ago when said owner, user18081971 (Richard D James/ Aphex Twin), uploaded a pair of new tracks, or rather two versions of one new track. The first was Zahl am1 live track 1. At first it was download enabled but he seems to have cut that and they're just at Soundcloud to stream. I got this one but not the other...
It's a very lovely thing indeed, a spongy sounding synth track, layers of sounds, a sort of reflective ambience but with a murky edge, beautiful but a little on edge with a long fade out.
Zahl am1 live track 1c f760m1 unfinshd starts with the same synth chords and sounds, those spongy chords the basis of it, but it adds drums and stretches things further- the ambience is weirder but set against a pretty dynamic rhythm. The drums stop and then change pace halfway through too. You could probably actually dance to it.
Where/ when they date from is anyone's guess. They seem to be fairly recent. Richard said that he 'got many requests for this one from a few years back' and that he thinks 'there's better mixes, will upload them if I find them'. To call these tracks sound design or sound construction is to do them as disservice- there's too much human emotion, too much soul poured into them for them to be that.
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