After killer shows at Bloc, Singapore, Dublin and Sonar, the Aphex AV experience rolls forward. Catch the legend at one of his performances this year:
02/07/2011 London Wireless Festival
17/07/2011 Joensuu Ilosaaririck Festival
11/08/2011 Oslo Oya Festival
12/08/2011 St. Malo Route Du Rock
20/08/2011 Copenhagen TAP1
21/08/2011 Netherlands Lowlands Festival
10/09/2011 With KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI @ European Culture Congress, Wroclaw, Poland
17/09/2011 With STEVE REICH @ Sacrum Profanum Festival, Kraków, Poland
25/09/2011 Ibiza Space Closing Party
28/10/2011 Paris Grand De La Villette (Pitchfork Fest)
18/11/2011 Manchester @ Warehouse Project
19/11/2011 Madrid @ Fabrik
26/11/2011 Eindhoven @ Klokgebouw (Strp Festival)
More to be announced..
* Unfortunately Arvika Festival has completely cancelled its 2011 edition. Check their site for more details > http://www.arvikafestivalen.se/
APHEX TWIN (DJ) - 02.10.09 UK, Manchester @ The Warehouse Project
Florian Hecker's experiments into computer music have seen him workng with software engineers and scientists to develop productions that utilize psycho-acoustics that disorientate the listeners sense of spacial perception. In his 13 years of sonic exploration he has created sound pieces for Angela Bulloch, Carsten Höller, Peter Rehburg and Yasunao Tone. Releasing his music primarily on the Mego imprint, Hecker has also spread to Rephlex with his 1996 release 'Recordings For Rephlex'. These performance are not to be missed as the two sonic maestros go head to head.
Visuals for all shows by Weirdcore > www.weirdcore.tv
Now only looking at nice ideas for 2010 > ned{at}littlebig.org.uk
Bestival Festival hosts a stella line up this year.
we're particularly looking forward to >>
Jamie Lidell on Friday 5th Sept on the Main Stage.
Performing a solo show 17:15 - 18:00.
Aphex Twin on Saturday 6th Sept in the Big Top
Performing laptop DJ set 1:00am - 3:00am
DJ Scotch Egg live band (Drum Eyes) Sunday 7th Sept in Club Da Da
Performing full live band show 19:00 - 19:40
Also look out for the special back to back DJ set from JAMIE LIDELL & N>E>D in the Xbox Social from 11pm - 1am on Friday night.
www.bestival.net
check out a nice clip of AFX djing recently at Coachella Festival, LA.
And a review of Aphex at Oxegen Festival 08, Ireland from www.state.ie
The arrival of Richard D James or the APHEX TWIN onto the Pet Sounds Stage is a moment. The tent is heaving with expectation and it’s all let out as Richard, obscured by strobe lights, drops the first tune of his mammoth 100 minute DJ set to pure elation. Accompanied from the off by hardcore pornographic visuals and heavy old-school electro, the mass of people start to move as one. The excitement comes from not knowing what he will do. Will he play any of his own stuff? Will he take the piss? Evidently, shortly afterwards it appears, he is in fact taking the piss. Either that or really bad sound which has plagued the Pet Sounds stage so far. Richard is either panning a song from left to right speakers to disorientate and piss us off or the sound really is that troubled and it’s about to cut out. After about 10 minutes of this we get back on track with off-kilter electro. The visuals display some rather hilarious footage; from the TV show Monkey, a live audience feed, classic rock performances to strange films like The Executioner which features a man in a wheelchair getting strangled. Nice. Strangely, while the beats drift down rapidly from the stage, the crowd try and put some shape on things by shouting in unison “Whoomp! There it is! Whoomp! There it is! “. It’s odd and State hopes the person responsible is pleased.
As the set starts to take in harder beats, something amazing happens. In a surreal expression of hardcore mongedness, three gurners in AFX t-shirts appear and gurn at the audiences sporadically throughout the show (Youtube example). If heads weren’t chemically unbalanced before they certainly are now. From there on in, it’s jungle and drum & bass highlights including skewed snippets of the revered Squarepusher Breezeblock and a couple of tunes from Druqs including ‘54 Cymru Beats’. The music starts to scare security and mild panic sets in as they block off access with security gates to many of the tent entrances, even though the tent is nowhere near capacity. They relent after 10/15 minutes and the skewed party continues until a shower of drum breaks slowly collapse signalling the end of a highly unusual but totally essential festival experience. Aphex, we salute your unorthodox ways.
As Richard D. James leaves his studio with ever decreasing frequency, so the rarity of his performances climb... and there are just a handful oppotunities in December 2007 to catch him.
Aphex Twin will perform his laptop DJ set at four locations: Rome, Manchester, ATP Festival (curated by Portishead) and Den Haag, Holland. Considered by many as the most influential and elusive electronic artist of this generation, the tickets for these shows are flying...
01.12.07 Italy, Rome - cancelled
07.12.07 uk, Manchester @ Warehouse Project (SOLD OUT)
08.12.07 uk, ATP Festival
09.12.07 uk, ATP Festival
14.12.07 Holland, Den Haag. State X New Forms Festival @ Paard
Aphex Twin is not taking any offers until after these shows.
