It’s not easy pinning down Rephlex, the label founded in the early ’90s by Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin, and Grant Wilson-Claridge. While many labels have clear aesthetics—consistent visual design, a focused signature sound—Rephlex, in its 23-year run, swerved from nosebleed techno to luxuriant lounge pop, musique concrète to blown-out ragga, and of course, lots and lots of acid.
In this week’s Esoteric Modulation we talk to Berlin-based electronic music composer and performer HAINBACH. We talk the beautiful world of test equipment and its creative flow, limitations and minimalism, we all lust after the Cocoquantus and we talk about HAINBACH’s latest release Old Suns!
🔈 Listen…
Dave Brubeck’s ground breaking use of uncommon time signatures on his album Time Out.
Wonky beat / Volca FM melody sequenced and modulated by Octatrack / Antipop //
evaporation & condensation
808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.
Alan Watts
Octatrack percussion while sequencing a 2HP Pluck.
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All sounds made and sequenced with Analog Rytm.
It never gets lonely.
Mutable Instruments Clouds in spectral madness mode.
// Access Virus TI Snow
Made with Animoog.
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// Bleeps / FM Organ / Mark Henry
Dirty analog downtempo.
Texture and repetition.
// Monosynth textures
Because of rain.
Scratching faked using Ableton Live automation.
Claps like waves lapping the shore.
