Word: aphex
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...Considered a linchpin of the avant-garde, Sulumi - the working name of 26-year-old Sun Dawei - cites Yellow Magic Orchestra and Aphex Twin as his influences, and his music correspondingly moves between the genres of 8-bit (electronic music that mimics the sounds of outdated computers and gaming consoles) and IDM ("intelligent dance music"). Live shows can be geeky affairs, with Sulumi hunched over a laptop, a hooded sweatshirt obscuring his chiseled cheekbones...
Despite this difficulty, the amount of good music that has sprung from the crucial innovations Schaeffer made 60 years ago is remarkable. As its name would suggest, the importance of musique concrète—influential in the work of The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Aphex Twin—is very much set in stone...
It’s there that the music gets all Aphex Twin on us, while Missy throws in a titillating rap about how her homeboy was sexually inadequate (even pre-mortem) that makes Toni look like Celine Dion. Oh, wait, Toni Braxton actually is kind of like the Celine Dion of R&B. Wait, didn’t Celine Dion also have a video about her boyfriend dying in a car accident? For that matter, has anyone ever seen them in the same room together...
Chris Cunningham is more of a true visionary, foreseeing an apocalypse brought down by four horsemen who all look suspiciously like Aphex Twin, a.k.a. Richard D. James. He imagines societies overridden by ultraviolence and emotions propelled by automation, then complements his vision with tonally appropriate pieces from artists such as Autechre and Portishead. The marriage is always perversely poetic, culminating in a video for Björk’s “All Is Full of Love” replete with erotically charged robots...
While Whitman also uses found sounds and environmental noise to compose “sound art” under his given name, his real claim to infamy is as Hrvatski. With that alias, he slices breakbeats in a way that sounds informed by both IDM luminary Aphex Twin and original junglist soldier Remarc, earning credibility from both music circles...