The Batsh*t Software Aphex Twin Used | Weaver Beats Reacts 

I more or less discovered electronic music after seeing The Flashbulb play with Dillinger and BTBAM in Baltimore over a decade ago. Also FYI Benn released music on Aphex Twin's label so it doesn't surprise me that much that the 2 are in touch. I can't believe he didn't make this video sooner TBH

Metasynth should adapt Weaver Beats line in their marketing copy: "Find out what your face sounds like! It's actually kind of dope". Lol

My first RDJ album was surfing on sine waves. (After hearing it on John Peel) After that it was Ambient Works vol 1 & 2. Can you imagine my surprise when I heard Classics!

you made a video with "Benn" - you get to call him "BENN" and you did call him benn the ENTIRE viDEo lol

This is like a Max for Live device on steroids

I felt the same way when he said he was on tour with Dillinger. What a crowd that must have been. Their drummer kinda makes sense.

When I found FL Studio (Fruity Loops at the time) specifically what I was looking for was a DAW that was basically Excel for music. I was also gobsmacked that Benn toured with Dillinger Escape Plan. I also want to know the answer. I would absolutely love to watch you interviewing Benn about that question.

"Everything after windowlicker confused me" drukqs, and syro are confusing? the cheetah ep is confusing? (drukqs is a bit confusing but what is that statement lol.. arguably he has way easier music to digest after windowlicker lol)

My favorite : Caustic Window. Too weird? No such thing. Music should be insane, and creative.

Back in the old days, I wanted to make electronic music but thought it was all instruments, and for some reason had no idea you could make it on a computer, even though I played games that had music. I had absolutely no clue what to do, so just downloaded a bunch of shit on terrible Irish dial up, and as a result ended up using a million pieces of software to make songs. I would have to do the thing where I would command line an effect onto a file, wait fifteen years for it to render, hope it worked, and then copy / paste a bit into a song because whatever the editor I was using could only have one file open at a time. It's amazing how easy it is to make music now, and when I look back at my workflow, from hardware and a dozen cassette decks to multitrack, to what I described, to linear programming, to all the cool hardware and software now, the last few decades has been bananas for musicians and composers.

You might be wrong. Listen to The Tuss "Rushup Edge LP". His finest work (in my opinion)..Very accessible, and just so damn great.

Recycle was the shit!!!

My favorite aphex twin tracks are Night Drive through Babylon released as Model 500 and the Electronic Warware ep with the track Illuminator. Land cruising was pretty good too

Favorite is Windowlicker the 33bpm vinyl version, it's way better!! If you have it on vinyl and slow it down yourself even better. But I prefer Tipper

Metasynth is awesome, when you go deep with it. It's far from difficult or obtuse once you get used to it. The point about it being outside the norm in terms of approach is that it gets you out of established habits, guiding you down the path of creating something you wouldn't normally have done. That, Opus Modus and Numerology, are the reason I want to get a Mac as an additional music comp. I know that both Metasynth and Opus Modus have talked about having PC versions of their products, but until then the second hand Mac jar is slowly getting filled.

Polynomial C. Awesome tune. 😊

I knew Ben was into hardcore/metalcore, or just a 2000’s core kid….

Ooh... ReCycle. That's been a bit

i used to talk to Frankie of Frankie Bones on myspace

yeah, but what if you made sounds with these and then brought them into your daw...

I recommend "Rubber Johnny" (for wierdness...)

Photosounder, is a great spectral synth

syro is next level

"Neeerd, Nerd Shit" lol

SquarePusher

It’s not overly complicated

Ya'll talk as if Richard was dead

I click with all of them

From my perspective, rdj did his own thing, whether people liked it wasn't even on his radar. This is how he is a bit different from all the moronic producers using plugins to sound like the top 5 beatport tracks. He doesn't care. That music was going to be made regardless vs 'what douchey mcstupid can I can I upload to get likes and get that slutty corporate sponsorships'. You will also notice he is a prolific creative, like prince. The tracks are exhaust. They are like polaroids of a moment. < - read that again. What makes him a great musician is that he can convey something with sound, he has access to his voice, so the instrument is irrelevant. He could bang a toaster in a subway tunnel and turn it into a 140bpm dnb track cuz he would also take the thing apart and mic the springs inside. Plugin kids will never do that...enjoy that expansion from VT...hahahaha

There is no such thing as "too weird" music. It's just not for you.

All the guys that call the weeknd just Abel.. Like 😑OK

Favourite song is *_"Tha"_* followed closely by *_"Bucephalus Bouncing Ball"_*

Using a word from my kids, the gushing is incredibly cringy.

This video confirms why I never listen to aphex twin, or know anyone that would, how the F did it get so popular?

I really dig his "The Tuss" (Death F*CK Mental Beats) releases and also Fenix Funk 5. The coins dropping in the begining. Of course all his earlier Ish too will remain forever.

cool video from Ben, I think a friend recommended to me Windowlicker and Come to Daddy like forever ago. I regularly use Milky Tracker for sample chopping for wavwars. the spectral image to audio stuff I played with but never used in a song yet.

I would've never imagined myself as a person that watches reaction video's, but somehow I do really like them. Although he's giving an opinion on people and things I like or don't really care about. I guess it feels like smalltalking in a bar about music stuff and gear and about videos we both saw about music stuff and gear

in the 90s electronics had the race for mind-fuck inherently built-in. RDJ was the undisputed king of that discipline. The world we have gone on to create delivers more than enough mind-fuck.

I first hear and became a fan of AFX when Weaver Beats was a 5 year old boy watching Power Rangers and playing with pogs. I first played with Metasynth years before Windowlicker came out.

As someone who was introduced to AFX via Girl/Boy song + his Nine Inch Nails remixes in 1997, it's weird to me that other electronic music fans took so long to appreciate Drukqs, Windowlicker etc... to me, those were just the logical progression of what he had been doing since RDJ Album/Hangable Autobulb eps I guess my taste was 10 years ahead of the times. 🤷🏻

weaver has anyone ever told you that you have an 8th graders sense of humor

19:48 oh this is Player Pro, I used that, I loved it!!!

his music is weird because he grew up in a part of the uk where only trees exist, and where your uncle is really your dad!!

Pro tracker my first daw on a PC anyway

"It's more like 'Programming' than making music"... Yeah, maybe! But now you have to define what "making music" is... 🤷‍♂

fav album: Drukqs Fav track: Ziggomatic V17

The Dillinger Escape Plan did "Come to Daddy" cover on their "Irony Is A Dead Scene" EP, with no other than Mike Patton on vocals :)

Great video from Benn, but pretty annoying to watch you interrupt it to make dumb comments like “I’ve never heard of these” or calling RDJ’s music too weird.

Bit disappointed that you didn't react on software that's called "Cool Edit Pro"

Metasynth is pretty expensive and Mac only :)

you aint cool unless you used cool edit pro

Who are you and what is the point in this video?

Metasynth is rad

Coil was better

i love r4id

Didn’t aphex twin get sir,d that’s really crazy to me

I felt the same way when he said he was on tour with Dillinger. What a crowd that must have been.

some of the weirder stuff I can't tell if it's serious deep listening music, if richard is just taking the piss, or maybe both. like a little wink he gives his listeners.

Bro you have the goofiest twitch chat that's stuck in 2009 your content isn't even "edgy" how are you attracting these people

this is the only acceptable way to watch ben jordan

Video was just another excuse for Benn jordan to kind of overstate something. Yeah he used pro tracker but there’s tricks to make it easier and 98 percent of his stuff is over 2 bar loops sometimes with a b part .

humans aren't pans. 😂 there are men and women.