Tomorrow, Jan. 23, electronic artist Aphex Twin — aka Richard D. James — will be releasing his new EP Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments PT 2, but today he has offered a small taste of the EP by sharing a remix of its opening track "Diskhat ALL Prepared1mixed 13" through his newly created SoundCloud page, which you can check out below. The track is relatively low-key and moody, with some krautrock-inspired percussion and an emphasis on the space between notes as much as the notes themselves. As the title of the EP implies, the track seems to be rooted in acoustic instruments such as drums and piano, which have then been manipulated by computers. You can't really dance to it — do people really dance to Aphex Twin? — but it is still incredible.
You can check out Aphex Twin's "Diskhat ALL Prepared1mixed [snr2mix]" here, via Pitchfork:
Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments PT 2 will be Aphex Twin's first release since his comeback album Syro, which was released in September 2014 and was his first album since 2001's Drukqs.
"Now I can concentrate on some new stuff," Aphex Twin told Pitchfork about his state of mind following the release of Syro. "And you can't quite do that unless you've released something. I mean, you can, but you can't properly. Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out."
You can check out the tracklist for Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments PT 2 here, via FACT:
01. diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13 (5:22)
02. snar2 (0:19)
03. diskhat1 (2:26)
04. piano un1 arpej (0:50)
05. DISKPREPT4 (1:52)
06. hat 2b 2012b (1:25)
07. disk aud1_12 (0:08)
08. 0035 1-Audio (0:26)
09. disk prep calrec2 barn dance [slo] (4:22)
10. DISKPREPT1 (3:29)
11. diskhat2 (0:38)
12. piano un10 it happened (1:48)
13. hat5c 0001 rec-4 (4:46)
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