That's where you're wrong - Aphex Twin recently revealed in an interview that this track, and several others scattered throughout his career, were actually composed by Portsmouth goalkeeper David James.
Damm, another RDJ track that kicks like hell!! I love the contrast between the GX1 arpeggio / patterns and the pad sound in the background. Richard has such a rich musical capability, he can create Ambient, Acid, DnB, Techno or a Piano track, but you can always "see" his handwriting. This man will have his place in the Musical History.
1. RDJ plays Tuss songs live at times 2. RDJ owns one of the few GX1's around 3. RDJ is the only thing capable 4. Nobody else is the Tuss 5. The Tuss comes from Warped
this comment was made two years after the release, way before anyone would ask themselves if the tuss was aphex twin. this is some good proof for the time.
+cchujnickSpam2 What if this comment reacting to your comment is actually your comment and the comment you wrote is mine? What if we are all voxels vibrating in the 12th dimension beyond space and time? What if Chris Langan is actually Deepak Chopra? What if all this is nonsense and this tune is epic and brilliant?
The Tregaskins are my neighbors. Karin is a good sister, wife and friend. And she really is 1337 in acid and electronics. Sometimes we drop acid parties with their cousin Richard. It became rare in the last years tho. The Tregaskins are currently working on an EP that will be released on 23.12.
It’s a Yamaha DX-1. Literally one of the rarest analog, 18-voice poly synth ever made. It’s basically an organ, with three rows of keys. $60,000. Stevie Wonder had one, and a few other musicians (there was 200 made)
Rich probably set up a bunch of microphones to record this old GX1 fucker. Listen how the dust from within the machine kicks in occasionally during the session. 03:44 is a good spot to hear it. 04:11 too.
I'm actually happy I'm only hearing this today and not 15 years ago, I don't think I would have been able to understand all the subtlilty ans the sound of the GX1 back in the time so it makes it even more special to me now!
Oh my sweet lord, listen to the voltage spewing through that GX1. I would give my left testicle to own a GX1. Of course, if it was Richard's GX1 I would respectfully decline. I could never imagine using a piece of hardware that RDJ has already mastered. It would be like getting sloppy seconds after John Holmes, how do you compete with that? :)
This definitely sounds like Afx to me, whatever you think abt the beat - which btw does mix up quite a bit. I like the way RDJ still tries to keep us guessing.
to me it sounds like he got the cutoff of the gx1's filter modulated in real time by a sample+hold waveform synced to the drum machine's (or master sequencer, whatever) clock, waltzy syncopation and all, but what's wild is i don't even understand how that's possible with the gx1, when to my understanding it's a completely preset synth that utilizes patch cartridges that are impossible to edit without modding the hardware. but i certainly wouldn't put it past richard
there is a sequencer on the gx1!! I haven't read about it anywhere else so now you know . And you can actually change the parameters really easily while the cartridges are plugged in! Just stick up a list of all the parameters against numbers by your gx1 Then just adjust each one as required with a screwdriver. If you select patch 10 on each of the synths then the cartridges at the front can be reached easily ,after awhile you learn the numbers easily like pwm is number 14 etc Then you are programming the presets directly and do not need the tone board or the programmer,decent. You can feed any of the drum instruments to trigger the solo synth! E.g every time the kick drum sounds or the Hihat etc the solo synth can be triggered which actually gives you untold pattern possibilities if you combine the drum pattern selectors. Then you can either manually play the key you want with it being triggered in sync. Or just let it trigger automatically. Also the same drum instrument pattern is fed into a s/h which in turn can randomly select the pitch of the solo synth and the cut off frequency of both filters, with varying amounts ,sliders for each. Instant acid and from the 70`s!
I got the sheep album on disk, searched for the Alspacka EP but gave up eventually, long live YT for second hand sounds :) Tuss sure makes excellent music, i dont care who does, good music is just that... But, and i do sound like a fanboy now, this SONG is a rdj collaboration at max.
The Tuss is a transmuted signal looped back to us through the The Triangulum Emission Garren Nebula originating form the uneasy howls of a greek when forced to drink his poison hemlock somwhere around 400 BC
anyone else notice that a lot of the synth sounds on aphex records sound like they were recorded by a mic rather than the synth being directly hooked up to a computer?
The Tuss is actually The Goalkeep for the USA team at the 1994 World Cup. he also used to be the bass player in shakatak. And if you dont believe me, then thats up to you.
I spent a good minute trying to figure out what rhythmically occured in the first 10 seconds. But it seems to just be a syncopated 6:8 with the second half changed the second time it's played. strange
This shit is tight. I wonder if it was really done with a GX1. That slide of notes at the end suggests that it may have been, since they have a ribbon controller.
A friend of his I was emailing said he is very lazy and is slow to get things done. I mean, he can almost print money with anything he releases; ie AFX ep2, so its like a brand. We love this Tuss stuff from him- a great release.
In theory, for a time signature x/y, the y just indicates the value of the notes in a score, so whether it's 3/4 or 6/8 isn't really known unless the composer actually notated the music traditionally. Usually though people speak of 6/8 to mean the sort of groove heard in this song, and 3/4 for waltzes.
Me:"Hey James it´s GX1 time , where are you? And put some acid in it please" James:"Iam ready, don´t take care of this" Me:"It´s brilliant are you serious" James:"..."
Holy shit this sounds like a more aggressive or darker version of Last Remembered Thing by Plaid !? It sounds like they're cousins or something..so alike
Hmmm I could be way off, but maybe The Tuss is Drexciya's name on the rephlex label. Of course this is just more speculation as usual, but I've been getting subtle hints that this might be true. For instance Drexciya made an album called "Red Hills of Lardossa" and the youtube account that claims to be Brian Tregaskin is known as "Lardossa" Again this is just a guess, but I thought I should mention it. I am thinking more and more that this may not actually be Richard.
but its a solo! he's just looped that beat so he can solo on the gx1! i agree about the beat being "boring". i highly doubt he would ever release this track on a full length album and especially not under the aphex moniker but still believe its him soloing
I disagree with your first statement. But, if it were the worst, it is only because Tuss' other tracks are too damn magnificent! You're right about Alspacka though! ;)
Judging by your video, I guess you think it's Richard D. James also. If it isn't though, Brian Tregaskin is loving all the free press he's getting. lol Whoever it is, it would be nice if they came out of hiding and helped change what mainstream music has become. I know AFX is fully capable of that, but that's up to him.
AFX owns a GX1 and this song is a GX1 solo, possibly could be aphex twin or "The Tuss" could use the GX1 as they are on the same record lable and the GX1 could b in the studio! or AFX said thay could use it for there songs, we will never no! unless RDJ tells us lol, which wont happen! or will it!
it all depends on the synth and what not alot of casios are super cheap and then all you need is a bunch of pedals and you can find crazy cheap pedals all over or just use the feedback of pedals
![The Tuss - Confederation Trough [Full EP]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Iqnnteh02qU/mqdefault.jpg)
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No matter how drunk i am , i still manage to search this
Gotta love the twins! They're so talented.
FOOL
...neither are talented
@FullBlownSkeptic
The sucker drumms
Me 3
@@33tarot yeah true, they dont exist
This track has so much hidden detail, it really rewards repeated listens
That's where you're wrong - Aphex Twin recently revealed in an interview that this track, and several others scattered throughout his career, were actually composed by Portsmouth goalkeeper David James.
hahahaha, still laughing at this 10 years later
Hilarious
Lol same
classic david james track.
LOL
The first 0.5 seconds is already genius.
FRICK
This is genius. This track is an alien caterpillar crawling and morphing as it encounters threats and relief and beauty
this comment is beautiful, I read it and scrolled back up and continued thinking about it as I listened
Damm, another RDJ track that kicks like hell!! I love the contrast between the GX1 arpeggio / patterns and the pad sound in the background. Richard has such a rich musical capability, he can create Ambient, Acid, DnB, Techno or a Piano track, but you can always "see" his handwriting. This man will have his place in the Musical History.
Well no shit, _any_ artist whose music had a substantial effect on listeners and other artists will have their place in "Musical History."
@@Brendan-Blackthis comment was a waste of memory
1. RDJ plays Tuss songs live at times
2. RDJ owns one of the few GX1's around
3. RDJ is the only thing capable
4. Nobody else is the Tuss
5. The Tuss comes from Warped
who would've thought Robert Downey Jr could make music like this
this comment was made two years after the release, way before anyone would ask themselves if the tuss was aphex twin. this is some good proof for the time.
@@MarioFlogar I would love for someone unfamiliar with Apex Twin to stumble across your comment and take it seriously.
This man must have beem an ace detective
@@musicman9901 Well that could've happened, until you ruined that possibility with your comment.
love this band, kanye really put them on the map
+Jolly Spades Pretty sure he was trolling. Kanye didn't put RDJ anywhere except in a bad mood when he tried to steal his shit.
RDJ has said in interviews that Syro was basically inspired by Kanye, and that Kim Kardashian is actually Karen Tregaskin
Gegeg lol
Gegeg fucking lol
Oh you joker
Some say that the Tuss is actually the Stig, and that he just opens his mouth and this is what comes out.
what if richard d. james is squarepusher and squarepusher is the tuss and aphex twin is jean michel jarre
no.
+cchujnickSpam2 What if this comment reacting to your comment is actually your comment and the comment you wrote is mine? What if we are all voxels vibrating in the 12th dimension beyond space and time? What if Chris Langan is actually Deepak Chopra? What if all this is nonsense and this tune is epic and brilliant?
+Alberto Balsalm Is that compatible with the CTMU?
Alberto Balsalm
OK!
No problem.
Reminds me of an unruly hoover being dragged down some stairs... in a nice way.
The Tregaskins are my neighbors. Karin is a good sister, wife and friend. And she really is 1337 in acid and electronics. Sometimes we drop acid parties with their cousin Richard. It became rare in the last years tho. The Tregaskins are currently working on an EP that will be released on 23.12.
beautiful synth in the background
iron deficiency in the blood type synth got me feeling woozy
It’s a Yamaha DX-1. Literally one of the rarest analog, 18-voice poly synth ever made. It’s basically an organ, with three rows of keys. $60,000. Stevie Wonder had one, and a few other musicians (there was 200 made)
Wilson Jaksetic dx-1 is fm mate, you mean gx-1
Rich probably set up a bunch of microphones to record this old GX1 fucker.
Listen how the dust from within the machine kicks in occasionally during the session. 03:44 is a good spot to hear it. 04:11 too.
TheEndOfMusic love the sound of the gx1. that squelch...
I'm actually happy I'm only hearing this today and not 15 years ago, I don't think I would have been able to understand all the subtlilty ans the sound of the GX1 back in the time so it makes it even more special to me now!
There is nothing to argue about who the tuss really is. Its the great tregaskins
I always place this one in the playlist right after Squarepusher's 'Dedicated Loop', the transition is fucking perfect.
i'll always come back here
Same
Wow. I love you all. ❤️
@@lsptnjpm So here I am again! Thanks Mike
0:48 i see you
Listening in with a glass through the neighbours wall. Sounds good.
The gx1 is a very strange beast indeed. Filter controled by a S/H circuit controlled by the hi-hat on the built in drum machine.
Now that you pointed it out, I can hear it.. hypnotically funky.
Oh my sweet lord, listen to the voltage spewing through that GX1. I would give my left testicle to own a GX1. Of course, if it was Richard's GX1 I would respectfully decline. I could never imagine using a piece of hardware that RDJ has already mastered. It would be like getting sloppy seconds after John Holmes, how do you compete with that? :)
Id hate/love to have something owned by him. It’d be mildly infuriating knowing nothing I could make would ever come close
Id hate/love to have something owned by him. It’d be mildly infuriating knowing nothing I could make would ever come close
Id hate/love to have something owned by him. It’d be mildly infuriating knowing nothing I could make would ever come close
I have no idea what anyone in these comments is talking about but I love it
Aren't we all just playing into Mr Richard D James' hands though? Is it???? Isn't it??? Well it is........................ isn't it?
16th question, even though he doesn't name the artist himself during the interview
www.groove.de/2014/12/25/25-questions-for-aphex-twin/
Not fucking bad for a 40 plus year old synthesizer. This shit is dope
I really appreciate this song
One of the best aphex twin tracks.
the gx1 is a fucking beast
This definitely sounds like Afx to me, whatever you think abt the beat - which btw does mix up quite a bit. I like the way RDJ still tries to keep us guessing.
This gives me crazy Road Rash 2 vibes. Like, secret level BGM type stuff.
the tuss owns!!!!! best by far, producing wise. no one comes close. aphex twin aka richerad d james is the mastermind of IDM. a living legend!!!!
"Prick"
PART of the Tuss. The Tuss is Karen Tregaskin, Patrick Tregaskin, Richard D. James.
I keep coming back to this!
@4:45
if you mapped APHEX as a pitch scale with A being a low pitch, and X as a high pitch, the end spells out APHEX :)
Rephlex's co-founder, Grant Wilson-Claridge, stated in an e-mail interview that the Tuss is not Richard D. James.
Well, it's a polysynth and there's a lot of fuckery you can do with those.
to me it sounds like he got the cutoff of the gx1's filter modulated in real time by a sample+hold waveform synced to the drum machine's (or master sequencer, whatever) clock, waltzy syncopation and all, but what's wild is i don't even understand how that's possible with the gx1, when to my understanding it's a completely preset synth that utilizes patch cartridges that are impossible to edit without modding the hardware. but i certainly wouldn't put it past richard
there is a sequencer on the gx1!! I haven't read about it anywhere else so now you know . And you can actually change the parameters really easily while the cartridges are plugged in!
Just stick up a list of all the parameters against numbers by your gx1
Then just adjust each one as required with a screwdriver.
If you select patch 10 on each of the synths then the cartridges at the front can be reached easily ,after awhile you learn the numbers easily
like pwm is number 14 etc Then you are programming the presets directly and do not need the tone board or the programmer,decent.
You can feed any of the drum instruments to trigger the solo synth!
E.g every time the kick drum sounds or the Hihat etc the solo synth can be triggered which actually gives you untold pattern possibilities if you combine the drum pattern selectors.
Then you can either manually play the key you want with it being triggered in sync.
Or just let it trigger automatically. Also the same drum instrument pattern is fed into a s/h which in turn can randomly select the pitch of the solo synth and the cut off frequency of both filters, with varying amounts ,sliders for each.
Instant acid and from the 70`s!
rest in peace, tom
aphex twin!!!!!
heh
THIS ME FAVE
sounds like a post-post-apocalyptic car ride through the country
Master genius piece !
I got the sheep album on disk, searched for the Alspacka EP but gave up eventually, long live YT for second hand sounds :)
Tuss sure makes excellent music, i dont care who does, good music is just that... But, and i do sound like a fanboy now, this SONG is a rdj collaboration at max.
The Tuss is a transmuted signal looped back to us through the The Triangulum Emission Garren Nebula originating form the uneasy howls of a greek when forced to drink his poison hemlock somwhere around 400 BC
anyone else notice that a lot of the synth sounds on aphex records sound like they were recorded by a mic rather than the synth being directly hooked up to a computer?
The Tuss is actually The Goalkeep for the USA team at the 1994 World Cup. he also used to be the bass player in shakatak. And if you dont believe me, then thats up to you.
i love the aphex twin subliminal there man. made my day :')
amazing harmonies here.
hell yeah! Aphex is a GOD!! he confirmed it when I saw him and Hecker 2 weeks ago! :-)
i heard a few GX1 demos, they featured the same texture/sample and also it has the classic knee operated pitch glide. seriously check some vids
I spent a good minute trying to figure out what rhythmically occured in the first 10 seconds. But it seems to just be a syncopated 6:8 with the second half changed the second time it's played. strange
Chartre Khan It was the same tempo through out, only he added a few snares to throw us off balance.
Said nothing about a tempo change. But yeah ýou're rigĥt
Sorry, thought that's what you meant
this seems to be taped with a microphone , strange reverb effect , so much amplitude.
No, there's just reverb on most of it in the very beginning, the stuff from the GX-1 is certainly a line recording.
definitely line recording, it's just part of his genius
e.g the reverb and EQ-ing on 'Death Fuck', similar effect except on stereoids.
still on the fence, could be Diplo
Richard was born in Ireland, but he grew up in Cornwall England.
"The Tuss" is Cornish slang also btw.
This was actually made by a famous member of an old famous band, not Aphex. His name is Paul McShartny..
The Tuss is actually Aphex Twin the guy who composed the song Naks Acid which was written for the game Wipeout Pure.
There is no Tuss. The Tuss only exists inside our minds.
Electronic warfare buckaneers anthem.
I'm Tussin' balls.
Definite possibility it could be him. He's one of few owners of the Yamaha GX-1 this song is made with. They sell for around 60,000 dollars.
My blood runs cold.
Awesome.
sounds like aphex twin meets boards of canada
This shit is tight. I wonder if it was really done with a GX1. That slide of notes at the end suggests that it may have been, since they have a ribbon controller.
A friend of his I was emailing said he is very lazy and is slow to get things done. I mean, he can almost print money with anything he releases; ie AFX ep2, so its like a brand. We love this Tuss stuff from him- a great release.
awsome track
afxmusic means more to me than any other music:'(
The Tuss is an anagram of Richard D James, so I think that should end all disputation right thar.
Aphex Twin's new Cheetah EP
Yea, it is pretty good.
I wondered if that drum sequence came from the GX-1 Stevie Wonder based Isn’t She Lovely around this pre programmed drum sequence
In theory, for a time signature x/y, the y just indicates the value of the notes in a score, so whether it's 3/4 or 6/8 isn't really known unless the composer actually notated the music traditionally. Usually though people speak of 6/8 to mean the sort of groove heard in this song, and 3/4 for waltzes.
Basically Cow Cud Is A Twin 2
How
‘hi there! just another water, please’
i think you do not know what you are saying.
This track will change styles and music within 8 years, I mean this track.... !!!
No words for
variously interesting upon first listen.
Me:"Hey James it´s GX1 time , where are you? And put some acid in it please"
James:"Iam ready, don´t take care of this"
Me:"It´s brilliant are you serious"
James:"..."
oh and i'm a fan of the aphex logo flash.. fukin cool aphex >
Holy shit this sounds like a more aggressive or darker version of Last Remembered Thing by Plaid !? It sounds like they're cousins or something..so alike
Thanks for reminding me how dumb youtube comments get...
Total perversion 🖤
Richard and his solo on the Yamaha GX1
Hmmm I could be way off, but maybe The Tuss is Drexciya's name on the rephlex label.
Of course this is just more speculation as usual, but I've been getting subtle hints that this might be true.
For instance Drexciya made an album called "Red Hills of Lardossa" and the youtube account that claims to be Brian Tregaskin is known as "Lardossa"
Again this is just a guess, but I thought I should mention it.
I am thinking more and more that this may not actually be Richard.
I fuckin love this man
I made this myself?
Thanks for the compliment.
Nice song - Does anyone know where I can get some good afx/tuss songs?
Me: (just came out of exam)
My brain’s FM Synthesizer chip:
Wtf this synth comes from another planet
ikr
EARGASM
I guess so. Richard was one of the few persons to call such a thing his own. He bought it from Mickie Most.
Gets me swinging
but its a solo! he's just looped that beat so he can solo on the gx1! i agree about the beat being "boring". i highly doubt he would ever release this track on a full length album and especially not under the aphex moniker but still believe its him soloing
i got to meet rdj one day in england, in my DREAMS!!
I disagree with your first statement. But, if it were the worst, it is only because Tuss' other tracks are too damn magnificent!
You're right about Alspacka though! ;)
'Songs' have melody...!!
The Tuss, as Michael Scott would say, thats what she said.
awegasm
Judging by your video, I guess you think it's Richard D. James also.
If it isn't though, Brian Tregaskin is loving all the free press he's getting. lol
Whoever it is, it would be nice if they came out of hiding and helped change what mainstream music has become.
I know AFX is fully capable of that, but that's up to him.
The RSPBs wildlife adviser, Richard James is the tuss.
AFX owns a GX1 and this song is a GX1 solo, possibly could be aphex twin or "The Tuss" could use the GX1 as they are on the same record lable and the GX1 could b in the studio! or AFX said thay could use it for there songs, we will never no! unless RDJ tells us lol, which wont happen! or will it!
it all depends on the synth and what not alot of casios are super cheap and then all you need is a bunch of pedals and you can find crazy cheap pedals all over or just use the feedback of pedals
THE tuss IS EVERYbody
them you we
me
nobaddy
no its richard d james...
I have heard Aphex has played some songs from the Tuss albums live from as long as 2 years before they were even released.
...Pretty sure it's RDJ...