This week Richard D James has been flooding Soundcloud with unreleased recordings. More musicians should follow his example and explore the creative opportunities of the web
For fans of Aphex Twin, the outside world stopped on Monday when a mysterious Soundcloud user started uploading tracks purporting to be early unreleased Aphex Twin demos. Four days in and the giving continues – at current count more than 100 tracks have now been added. Who knows how many it will be by the time you’re reading this – or whether they will still even be there.
While this is symptomatic of a new move to openness by the Cornish producer – as symbolised by this truly remarkable interview from late last year, in which he shared intimate details of his recording process– it is also the latest example of a new willingness on the part of Aphex Twin to embrace digital media in very unexpected ways.
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by Stuart Aitken via Electronic music | The Guardian
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