April 14th saw a load of Aphex Twin articles published across the net, in honour of his 2001 track Avril 14th. I had a vague plan to post Avril 14th but forgot about it so here I am, two days late.
Avril 14th
Avril 14th has been used in Hollywood films, sampled by Kanye West and streamed 38 million times. It is a beautiful, minimal piano piece, two and a bit minutes long, Erik Satie-like, that sounds like a robot has been left with a piano in the small hours.
This is Avril 14th slowed down by 1000% by Evan Chapman, twenty minutes of ambient noise.
Thank you for bringing this slowed down version back to my attention SA. It is still amazing after all the years.
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ReplyDeleteJust had the required time to listen to this and I agree with the other two that is beautiful. Wow!
ReplyDeleteThanks for explaining the whole thing to me...I'd seen if referenced in a few places but had no idea why!!
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