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)

As always you killed it again! Also what did aphex say when you got a hold of him???

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 🙃

@@GuyGamer1 what is your good music i musty havs it

Really like this track, would love to hear a whole album in this vein

Yes.... Yes it is

It makes me think that Jesus Christ might have been someone having a laugh.

I'm printing those labels for all the gear I want to sell.

We worship Dick

@@greenie2600 yeah I get what you mean, elevating a artist to god like status seems a bit fan girly or occult

The man himself. Glad you enjoyed it. Many thanks for dropping by.

Dude seriously, is that available for download somewhere?

@@evanbarnes9984 Yes. alexball.bandcamp.com/track/theis-modular-jam

Ancient Juan!

Agreed, that was dope!

Haha. Sorry to be the one to break it to you...

Right? Time flies

That feeling when you're getting older and realising life is... what it is.

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 KZfaq, very interesting stuff.

Pretty much.

Holy fuck how does he do those fucking snare rolllssssssss

@@gribo.9543 One way is by getting a digital delay to self oscillate with a fast delay time so you get a stuttered, glitchy sample. I show the principle at 6:20 in this video and then do it with a TR-606 at about 7:00. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9R_dqef3ZumlJc.html

@@gribo.9543 This is also a pretty wicked machine: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obd2fMd-0ti9gWQ.html

Lol

Yes! Alex a lot of your tracks are great, you should post them on KZfaq

Thanks. I'll stick it on Bandcamp when I get a moment.

@@AlexBallMusic That's great man.

Done: alexball.bandcamp.com/track/theis-modular-jam

@@AlexBallMusicSpotify too please :(( Great track

Or do...

Is it acid dipped like a buchla?

Thanks very much!

Thank you. Glad it wasn't a disappointment. :)

Thanks mate. Yeah, he keeps things very private, so any little glimpses like this are very interesting.

A Man of Honor.

A national treasure.

An absolute window licker

The holy grail of gratitude and good greetings upon arrival & exit

a splendid astral entity

It's borrowed. ;)

@@AlexBallMusic Damn you lucky :)..theres something about these modular synths...like classic cars

@@NirSharma1 So if this is something like an old sporty compact, what would Emerson's wall of moog be ;)

@@AlexBallMusic I have mentioned more than once to people who get trusted to demonstrate gear that could or would never own that if they have people that want them to exercise things andor see them demo'd a lot then they should get together with their other assumed investor buddies (because who can afford such things) and get curators set up with tone museums where we can have a living custodianship of events in musical history, as well as the significance of other art related things/tools. I mean, imagine how inspiring it would be, for a painter, to paint with picasso's actual brush? How inspiring would it be to merely *see* that on the internet, for other painters who for whatever reasons didn't have access and believed they probably never, ever would?

@@russellzauner Look Mum no Computer has a video od such a place, head to his channel, is a must watch

Yeah, it was outstanding! Good job, Alex!

Thanks very much!

+1 to that!

Thanks, yes all in 4/4 but I sampled the Juno chords and then moved them around into something unexpected so it has a falling-forward kind of vibe.

Cheers

Cheers

I totally agree ! 👏

Cheers Bobby, glad it was passable.

That would be cool. I'll be honest I've only listened to a handful of their tracks so I'd have to do a lot of research.

@@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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pN5yrNygst_SinU.html a couple of worthy mentions... Left Side Drive kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btWkZ9N638ibhpc.html Nlogax kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jdOKlLCerN63hqM.html For me MHTRTC was the highpoint though, full of gems: Open The Light kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJpjobt7rK6sZ3k.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.

@@grahamphillips3099 Never heard the DJ Food mix, but this is mint, thanks!

@@AlexBallMusic tracking down their gear list....just go to a local carboot and look for Casio''s :P

Thanks. 🙂

It was. Thanks

Thanks Zack, much appreciated.

My Aphex spin. ;)

Cheers

Maybe I am Aphex Twin? I mean, have you ever seen the two of us in a room at the same time?

@@AlexBallMusic I used to know J Majik and his Mum told me that Richard often came over to their house so pretty sure he's not you!

Did you read that article about the guy who was fixing an old synth and then an hour after getting his hands in there started tripping balls on acid 😂 like damn who had this thing

WATMM is still alive

@@natbvm1880 it was an original Buchla that had been in storage at a university for decades. He found the red panel 🙃. Unwittingly he's one of the few people on the planet to experience 60's era San Francisco acid. There's a news interview with him out there somewhere.

Cheers Ned. :)

Cheers

Feels more like his Tuss and syro projects combined

Cheers. :)

Thanks!

Cheers

same

Definitely no VCF on that zombie. Full spectrum. 😉

same except for me its the "Raw Demo Sequence"

Aphex Spin 😉

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.

Haha. Nice.

Does it so sad melodies, too?

Aphex Twin's old synth. insane Aphex Twin synth. The old synth. This synth is insane. I GOT YOU.

@Vicious Suspicious You want a beautiful arpeggiaton???????

Missed a trick there!

Or "rdj barclay" haha nice vid

"There's an awful lot of shit..."

Ya’ll are corny

Thanks. I find the shorter and tighter the videos, the more views and interaction they get. As much it is fun deep diving a synth.

@@AlexBallMusic yeah that's fair and true, but I really would appreciate a longer video as well if you're ever up for it haha

Quite possibly. Maybe we'll never know.

I love The Tuss, have the album on vinyl.

@@lardosian which ep?

@@rthe0 Rushup Edge triple vinyl, I might have confederation through 12 inch as well actually.

@@lardosian lucky

Cheers Kevin. :)

joerg721 we shouldn‘t defraud this example of the Theis Sound: vonhallgath.bandcamp.com/album/intersection 😉

Thanks for the info and the link to your system in action. Looks much sleeker this old prototype.

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?“ 😁

@@tronique This is gold. Thanks so much!

i was :(

😉

Thank you

Thanks!

trax u mean

@@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 ^^

@@LouisSerieusement lol

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.

Yeah, was one hell of an experience watching those videos!

ton pseudo est exceptionnel XD

Cheers

Juno - old faithful. Just always works.

Thanks Danny.

I'm sure Richard isn't remotely threatened by my Mickey Mouse attempt. 😉

Interesting. Which synth is it?

@@AlexBallMusic Teisco 60F.

Oh right. I've seen one of those but not played it. Interesting to know he had one (and sold it).

😄 be a funny scam if somebody is just finding old synths and attaching labels with Richard's details on them for profit 😄

@@_cloudface_ Haha. If so, didn't work kn this instance, as neither I nor the seller noticed the sticker until AFTER I'd paid for it! :)

Many thanks once more. :)