Aphex Twin has shared “Blackbox Life Recorder 21f,” the primary new music from the producer born Richard D. James in 5 years. Test it out beneath.
Final week Aphex Twin carried out at Sonar 2023 in Barcelona. A post from the Aphex Twin Twitter account instructed followers to “LOOK OUT FOR SOMETHING SPECIAL IN SONAR +D PROJECT AREA AND AT THE MERCH DESK.” Posters with QR codes had been reportedly put up in Los Angeles yesterday (June 20). The codes result in an augmented actuality app known as YXBoZXh0d2lu; when the QR codes are scanned with the app, music and an animation begins to play.
Earlier this yr, Aphex Twin introduced that he’ll headline London’s Field Day Festival on August 19. He made a uncommon social media look in three images Arca posted in June.
In 2021, James joined the early wave of NFT gross sales, collaborating with Weirdcore and Freeka Tet on a graphic that sold for more than $128,000. Freeka Tet revealed that the NFT’s seed file had further materials buried inside it, explaining how you can entry the opposite information in a video on Instagram. Followers who adopted the steps found “April 14” within the information, based on NME.
Previous to the NFTs, James shared a handful of new tracks within the spring earlier than Aphex Twin posters and billboards started showing with out rationalization in London, Bristol, Los Angeles, and Berlin in October. His different current tasks embrace growing a new synthesizer and a software plugin to permit for non-standard synth tunings.
