AFX - umil 25-01

Name: AFX - umil 25-01
Uploaded: 2015-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released 25 August 2015 on Warp Records (cat. WAP384DDC), 'umil 25-01' was a bonus track appended to the digital edition of AFX's 'orphaned deejay selek 2006-2008' EP — the first release under the AFX moniker in nearly a decade. It arrived amid one of the most prolific periods of Richard D. James' career, following the Grammy-winning…

2015 · Post-Hiatus IDM Revival (2014–2015) · music video

2015Post-Hiatus IDM Revival (2014–2015)IDM / Intelligent Dance Music revival, Warp Records digital-era ambient-techno

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Released 25 August 2015 on Warp Records (cat. WAP384DDC), 'umil 25-01' was a bonus track appended to the digital edition of AFX's 'orphaned deejay selek 2006-2008' EP — the first release under the AFX moniker in nearly a decade. It arrived amid one of the most prolific periods of Richard D. James' career, following the Grammy-winning Aphex Twin album Syro (2014) and a mass SoundCloud upload of archival material.…

Why it matters

Represents a key artifact of the mid-2010s IDM/ambient-techno revival centered on Warp Records, bridging the Analord-era AFX sound with contemporary digital distribution. The track's breakbeat-ambient fusion, described as connecting the Analord aesthetic to the Syro-era palette, documents an…

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