@TodePond @yaxu let us not forget stockhausen's advice to rdj

"I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work Song Of The Youth, which is electronic music, and a young boy’s voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it were varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations."

@TodePond @tehn @yaxu

As someone that used to hang out with Rich back before he was being celebrated in the Guardian, I can say pretty confidently Rich would say this is bollocks.

@PeaEyeEnnKay @TodePond @tehn @yaxu

Aphex Twin's response to Stockhausen was pretty good:

"Mental! I've heard that song before; I like it. I didn't agree with him. I thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: "Didgeridoo", then he'd stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to. Do you reckon he can dance? You could dance to Song of the Youth, but it hasn't got a groove in it, there's no bassline."

https://blogularsynthesis.blogspot.com/2008/10/stockhausen-on-aphex-twin-and-vice.html