Imagine being so talented that you just shit out a track that puts half of Richards catalog to shame. (Not that Aphex Twin makes bad music, but he makes a lot of music, and not all of it is good)
digital love Imagine you’re so talented that you just invent a style many people trying to get close to but never really nail it like you do. Still really like the track no offense 🙃
I acknowledge the standard psychological time deviation encountered by all through natural aging, but there is something else going on. I don't know if it is merely the internet and its inherent ability to create time consensus ripples and pockets, naturally occurring time (our consciousness exists in a half of a single dimension, the unidirectional experience of a single dimension of time) echos propagating in the other half of the single dimension of time we experience, the echos of a near future event of profound magnitude reflecting back at us from that near future event, possibly 7 years away, or potentially the worst scenario, man's artificial manipulation of time in other potential dimensions or axes, off of the unidirectional single dimension of time we traditionally experienced in the past. Any of these can lead to very strange outcomes, and may explain some of our more outstanding misperceptions, or difficultly, perceptions of time that some of us are experiencing. Food for thought. Drink Orange Fanta, very cold and undiluted by melting ice. I recommend a stainless steel, double walled container and a ratio of ice to Orange Fanta of 3:1. Oh, also only Orange Fanta from a 2 liter plastic container, no cans or bottles.
@@alphanumeric1529 Terrance McKenna talked about the phenomena of time speeding up in his last interview. It's available on RU-vid, very interesting stuff.
Aphex Twin in the title is what lured me in, but what you create is very creative and amazing on its own merits. Playing with that Synth seems like a ton of fun
I like how your jam had a polyrhythmic aspect to it that felt like a weird time signature but really only had a five-beat measure feel in the middle of it and was actually just 4/4 with funny "phrasing." Cool.
Every time I go into one of your videos I just expect history, but I'm always pleasantly reminded that you're quite the composer/keyboardist too. Great stuff!
You made it sing Alex, what a beautifully wonky and warped lump of primitive modular madness. Great tone and depth, sure Richard mangled some melodies with this.
@@AlexBallMusic Well worth getting into if only to nerd out about their techniques. Geogaddi is a masterpiece. Would be great to do similar with Autechre's synths.
@Alex Ball there's plenty to enjoy, Music Has The Right To Children is timeless. The pre-MHTRTC unreleased stuff is worth tracking down to see where they were coming from, the so-called "Old Tunes" and "Tape for Marcus' Uncle" stuff is easy to find - at times its like a 1990s Vaporwave. DJ Food did a mix a while ago as a tribute to their early style, starts with the O is for Orange and Aquarius samples that were used in Aquarius off MHTRTC, then with bits of BOC and other random stuff chucked in for fun... DJ Food mix: vimeo.com/69721622 ...the bass and voice sample in Aquarius: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nxByyoMynZA.html a couple of worthy mentions... Left Side Drive ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8ot4pIzb7Vc.html Nlogax ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WmZaMmGxSVo.html For me MHTRTC was the highpoint though, full of gems: Open The Light ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-643nXJGHH7E.html Anyway pardon the fanboy transmission and thanks for another great video. Met and had an odd conversation with Mr Twin once, quite a character.
The track you made rules. And, I think it gets overlooked by people watching RU-vid sometimes, the way you massaged the colors on the video to match the tone of the track and synth is rad too. Awesome!
Hi Alex, I immediatey recognised this synth after watching another fine video of yours. I have owned a four cabinet Theis Modular Synthesizer System for eleven years. I had it custom made in 2009 (the front was available in two build qualities) and picked it up at Horst Theis' place in Duisburg. His business was managed by a friend (Tronique on RU-vid). He has no website. I was particularly keen on having this system for its voltage controllable envelope generators and interesting lfo waveshapes. The price was, let's say, competitive. The original vco's used CEM 3340 chips. Mine has discrete components because when I bought it, Theis had run out of these chips, so he had to design his own vco, which according to Theis, sounds much better. If you want to see a picture of my system, read through my musical biography in English on my website, where I posted one, and if you want to hear the music I made with it, buy any cd of mine from "Sense of Urgency" to the latest, called "Deadlock". Website is www.akikaze.nl I use the TMSS, as any modular system, with few exceptions, for sound effects that can not be made with my hardwired synths. Yes, some shameless promotion of my music in return for this background information.
Hi Pepijn, thanks for dropping by and giving me the backstory. It seems quite a niche club of people who have owned and used these synthesizers and there isn't much info online (no website as you mention) so this is very interesting. I'll have a listen through your tracks and try to look out for it in action. Have you sold it now then?
@@AlexBallMusicThanks for your reply! Ask me anything you want to know and I'll try to answer your questions. No, I will never sell it if I don't have to though I was asked once to sell it by the artist Cosmic Force.
What a rarity you have there, probably have a interesting history too, good music as always! PS: The screaming zombie has a heavy distorted LFO, VCF and White Noise, LOL!
Btw, the build quality of the later models was more than ok. The TMSS was never a truly commercial effort in the first place, but Horst Theis' private project, to build a modular synth the way HE likes it. If you own one of the few out there, you are lucky. ;-)
Alex Ball The briefly told history of this system is that I asked Horst in summer 94 if he could bild an analogue filter box for one of the outputs of my casio fz1. Horst had built some analogue synths for himself, built Midi-CV Interfaces and also repaired synths. So he created a filter and also built an adsr. And he did it directly in that format. Thats how the tmss was born. It was more a friendship-business 😉. He built four different filter types: three different Lowpass (Softsound, Hardsound, Moog :-D - SSM, Curtis, discret) one Hipass (with a switch between 12/24 dB) You know the digital retriggerable LFO, but another interesting module is the Octave-Ranger - with CV-In for controlling octaves and also intervals. A Trigger-Seq. wich allows independent resets of the tracks. A feature wich was rare 15-20 years ago in analogue Sequencers. A Dual Skip Sequencer with different types in functionality. And as Joerg said, the building quality over the years has clearly improved.
Alex Ball Fun fact: Yesterday evening I spoke to Horst on the phone as I saw your video in my yt timeline with the tmss Synth on it. And I said to him: „Hey, one of your synths was used by Aphex Twin!“ He answered: „Fine, who is that?“ 😁
Lovely tune at the end, even though it's really hard to tell what sounds the TMSS was in charge of. Amazed to see that one of these ended up in the possession of AT but then again, there was the occasional TMSS popping up in some auction. I have known Horst for almost 30 years, witnessed his very first attempts at building a (modular) synthesiser based around Curtis ICs salvaged from a broken Sequential Sixtrak, and -- of course -- he was a member of the infamous commune at Ruhrorter Strasse 59 in Duisburg, together with Klaus "Cosmic" Hoffmann-Hoock (the man behind the Memotron) and the unforgettable Herbert Schmidt, of course. BAH!
This is the best synth demo I’ve seen this year, if only a deeper dive into every part of it, maybe one sleazing bored day we can indulge your wizardry to go long form min 30 minutes on each part of this creature cheers!!
So I'm assuming shortly after finishing this video, a black tentacle monster slithered out of the thing and proceeded to chase you down the hall, till you were forced to extinguish it with a fire axe and home made flame thrower. On a lighter note: Love the chill ambient you had playing in the first bit. The end piece was really cool as well. Always neat to see odd historical bits of kit.
This is something that should belong in a museum. I mean the way it was structure it's so futuristic. I believe he uses this synth around the analord EPs and during the time banding with the tuss. And i may think he uses this way earlier before it was finalized.
I heard his armoured tank was kitted out with a soviet era synthesiser that belonged to Stalins sister and uses the earths orbit as an LFO all run through a delay unit that actually sends you back in time… aeon flux is actually a cheeky reference to the flux capacitor that powers the whole setup.
Great video love apex twin sound & there music videos takes me back in the day watching MTV after a night out 😉 Alex you are very talented sounded awesome 👏
Thank you Alex that was such a great vidéo ! Loved the running gag and the ending song as well :D Will you keep it ? It must be so weird to touch a synth used by Richard, considering the huge amount of life we all spend listening to his wide number of song !
@@rthe0 Yeah I hesitated when trying to put a correct word on his pieces, some of those could even be called "noise" or "soundtrack" or just "sound" XD ; joke appart, english is not my nativ language, does songs have an obligatory voice/singer on it ? as opposed to tracks that are supposed to be mostly instrumental ? Your pseudo is very Afx as well ^^
Yes, was quite a surprising one. I'd never heard of this synth and the history of it makes it intriguing. It's not mine, so it will return to its owner.
