Richard D. James has been on a bit of a freebie spree lately. In addition to sharing outtakes from Aphex Twin’s orchestral performances and a handful of songs he claims were composed by his five-year-old son, now, per Fact Mag:
Aphex Twin has shared more than 30 previously unreleased tracks, including dozens of studio experiments on his modular synthesizer and early versions of Syro tunes, in the follow-up to last week’s interview with blogger Dave Noyze.
Among them is a collection of over 20 completed tracks made about 12 years ago on Buchla and Serge modular synthesizers, which Richard D. James aptly describes as “a fucking racket”
True enough, that. Though some of these compositions have rhythmic elements, nothing on here has anything approaching a “beat” in the dance music sense. It’s a pigpile of bonkers, loopy scary, hilarious electronic noise, and all of it is downloadable free of charge from AFX’s Soundcloud.