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Aphex twins
Why this style of music what do they want to teach us?
There style of music is a kind of clean drum and bass mixed with a grimy trance, the reason why they've used this two genres is to get a hard hitting hard sound affect out of it and also with the clean drum and bass it can bring out sounds affect which blend into it. Listening to one of their songs " come to daddy" it covers that what I've just said I think it a song which will grow on someone and you either like or hate it situations, and if you don't like the urban side of life and sound quality then you will not like the aphex twins.
Also their style of music is a dark and looks upon the main errors in life and what it has done and affected us to believe what we think, their message through a video has a very powerful meaning, in the video come to daddy its showing a abstract horrific face that's saying "i want your soul" the music is setting the mood of the person in the TV and the atmosphere around the place. But looking at the emotions in the video and also the words they want your soul as it is wondered off into a world of errors and misfortune and to see into it in as much horror as you can to maybe realize and change their ways in life.
Their beliefs are very graphic and strong in the video "donkey rhubarb" their are dressed as teddy bears and the music is a lullaby to kids, but then looking more into the video they show faces where they are in dark smile and u wouldn't want to no that they thinking, also when the kids are with them we stereotype as pedophile as most of the people comments on youtube refer to this. So so it like a opening to a horror film listening to it more in depth, so what they want you to do is to get drawn into their music and find out why the video is in such a unique and different video compared to your common one on the radio e.g. beoyonce and Rhianna, take that etc.Also they want people to known about changes in life and if they are good in a way but bad in way too, their basically saying every decision we make there's an error and you can't escape it for e.g. come to daddy their also a video called Ventolin and what looking at the video the first time its very complicated as you are trying to get used to the music and the how it links to the video, but then looking at it the second time the directors Steve Doughton by John Bush where exploring the experimental possibilities inherent in acid and ambiance, the two major influences on home-listening techno during the late '80s."
Why use these video to describe emotions and the meanings:
I think the reason why aphex twins has shown their video and wanted as much graphic video and detail through the meaning they want the express out to their audience, i think looking at video the age rating would be much higher in the 16-28 range as it higher graphical and also it talks about the worlds society and environment wee live in e.g. come to daddy donkey rhubarb and Ventolin.
Also they want to use the emotion that you feel when you listen to a type of song "didgeridoo" uses bright colours and a kind of professional styles of art to make it look like someone is on drugs but they properly say that if you listen to this song you'll feel like this inside, so they use affects in their videos in a strong why to crawl inside the persons mind when watching it and to say this is what your going to feel after watching this and this relates to nearly every video song. Also looking at their directors they have a strong research in society and life's conditions when they were filming looking at "Richard D. James I think he used these techniques to express his emotion of their song didgeridoo:
As Aphex Twin Studio albums Selected Ambient Works 85–92 · Selected Ambient Works Volume II · ...I Care Because You Do · Richard D. James Album · drukqs
EPs/singles Digeridoo · On · Ventolin · Donkey Rhubarb · Girl/Boy EP · Come to Daddy · Windowlicker · Analord
Compilations Classics · 51/13—Aphex Singles Collection · 26 Mixes for Cash
As AFX Analogue Bubblebath Vol I · Analog Bubblebath Vol 2 · Analogue Bubblebath Vol 3 · Analogue Bubblebath 4 · Hangable Auto Bulb · Analogue Bubblebath Vol 3.1 · 2 Remixes by AFX · Smojphace EP · Analords 1–9, 11 · AFX / LFO · Chosen Lords
As Polygon Window Surfing on Sine Waves · Quoth
As Power-Pill Pac-Man
As Bradley Strider Bradley's Beat · Bradley's Robot
As Caustic Window Joyrex J4 EP · Joyrex J5 EP · Joyrex J9i · Joyrex J9ii · Compilation
As GAK GAK
As Mike & Rich Expert Knob Twiddlers
Unreleased . Q-Chastic EP · Green Calx · Caustic Window album · Analogue Bubblebath 5 · Melodies from Mars
Related articles Discography · The Tuss · Universal Indicator · Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound performs Aphex Twin · Warp Records · Rephlex Records · Chris Cunningham So from my rsearch i found out that aphex twins want to get thier meaning across in the best graphic and possible way to express how powerful a error can be in the world due to one little thing and also how it affect the world and the person watching the video and this attracts a fan base and seeling off thier ablums.
