Usually releasing a blend of glitch, IDM and various urban styles under her own name, Whatever the Weather is an outlet for Loraine James’ more ambient leaning work.
Whatever the Weather – Whatever the Weather II (2025) – Album Review
Tag: IDM
AFX – 2 Remixes by AFX
Unusually for Aphex Twin remixes, these bear some resemblance to the originals, albeit taking them in unexpected directions. Both cuts are peak Aphex for me, demanding your full attention with their insatiable energy as soon as they come on.
Aphex Twin – Windowlicker
The Windowlicker track and video are so entwined it's difficult to separate the two. Landing in that confluence between analogue warmth and rubberised digital weirdness; the r'n'b cadences and human moans and groans always at the mercy of being overpowered by atonal walls of static and undanceable programmed rhythms.
Aphex Twin – Come to Daddy
The Come to Daddy mini album unites the disparate strands running through James' music as the time, with a deeply odd sense of urban decay.
Aphex Twin – The Richard D James Album
The Richard D James Album is all the more impressive for its short duration, given the sheer breadth of creativity on display and how comprehensively James builds a self-contained sound-world that fizzes with contemporary influences yet exists purely on its own terms.
Bradley Strider – Bradley’s Beat & Bradley’s Robot EPs
The only two releases Richard D James put out under the Bradley Strider alias, a nice little find if you're after some off-kilter but on-point rave fuel.
Aphex Twin – Ventolin EP
The title track is notorious as perhaps one of the most unlistenable pieces in electronic music.
Aphex Twin – Donkey Rhubarb
Donkey Rhubarb is an odd release, as idiosyncratic and unsettling as Aphex Twin always is.
Aphex Twin – I Care Because You Do
The album's beauty lies in the counterpoint between the hard and soft edges, jagged percussion and soothing melodies, screeching clamour and woozy respite.
Aphex Twin – Girl/Boy EP
Despite containing mainly sketches and off-cuts, there's a huge amount of creativity on display on this EP.
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