Richard D. James Album

The Richard D. James Album is an electronic music album by Richard D. James under his pseudonym Aphex Twin. It was released in 1996 on Warp Records.

Survey

This album contains at least two sounds from Spectrum home computer: a program that is loaded from a cassette and sound effects from the game Jetpac. The noise in the track " Carn Marth " comes from the game Sabre Wulf and sounds from the track " Peek 82454201 " come from the opening screen of Star Strike 3D. In " Logan rock Witch" James Children toys sampelte as percussion instruments. The track " Fingerbib " contains a backwards played violin. Some of the tracks, such as the single " Girl / Boy Song", to sample children's songs. Also, many songs were intentionally kept short. In interviews James confirmed that his attention span was very short and he could no longer more than 30 minutes to focus on something.

" Fingerbib " and " Logan rock Witch" were for the unreleased CD " Melodies From Mars " composed .. The bonus tracks " Milkman " and " Beetles " contains a little bit of singing, and manipulated vocals can also at " Milkman " as well as in the two " Girl / Boy" remixes will be heard.

Style and reception

The album makes use of software synthesizers and unusual beats. It is his fourth official studio album. The album was praised by professional music critics and was ranked 40 in Pitchfork 's list of Top 100 Albums of the 1990 's. The NME placed it at # 55 of the Top 100 Albums of all time list, which was published in 2003. 2009 coverte Born Ruffians the track " Milkman " and " To Cure a Weakling Child" for the Warp20 ( Recreated ) compilation album.

Reviews

Pitchfork Media awarded 8.4 out of 10 and recorded the album at number 40 of the 100 best albums of the 1990s on. The website allmusic gave it 4.5 out of 5. Entertainment Weekly gave it an A, the professional music critic Robert Christgau a B . The RS Album Guide awarded 4 out of 5 points, the Rolling Stone 3.5 out of 5.

The time ruled:

" Abruptly, and without preamble begins the Richard D. James Album, after short thirty-two minutes journey through the ten seemingly arbitrarily grouped pieces as abruptly to an end. From the LP format aroused listener expectations will be disappointed - no epic thread, not a continuous voltage build-up, no increase in the sound development. And yet - in the act of liberating Auflachens a particularly irr engineered a break point between the crackling beat thunderstorm and down sausendem String Orchestra - a pause: No, this is not a joke, but an exquisite listening pleasure, a masterpiece of resolution at the right moment. "

In the media

Songs of the album have been used in several different television commercials. " To Cure a Weakling Child" was Orange used in a British television advertisement for the mobile phone company, the track " 4" was used in an anti -drug spot of the U.S. government and a U.S. commercial for the Special Olympics. " Girl / Boy Song" was used in an advertisement by Bank of America. It was also " Logan rock Witch" remixed by the UK Noise Artists V / Vm as part of its helpaphextwin series. The song " Beetles " was used in the film shot list.

Title list

Song Title

" Carn Marth " is often incorrectly titled " Corn Mouth", probably because of James' poorly legible handwriting on the album covers. The track is named after a mountain in the UK in Cornwall. The Logan skirt is also a well-known rock in Cornwall - and this track is sometimes erroneously titled with " logl / Rock Witch" or " Logon rock Witch". The track " Goon Gumpas " takes its name from a village near Redruth in Cornwall.

The songs " INKEY $" and " Peek 82454201 " were named after programming language commands Sinclair BASIC ".

Chart positions

Mid- November 1996 took the album for a week number 62 in the British charts. In 1997, there was number 20 of the U.S. Heatseekers.