Over the years, though, “Avril 14th” became something else. In the context of Drukqs, those tracks were crucial breathers, tiny lulls in between the jagged bursts of beat-splatter that, by 2001, had come to define the Aphex Twin style. Drukqs includes a few tracks like “Avril 14th,” more-human-than-human lullabies that sound like music boxes buried in deserted alien cities. In its first incarnation, that melody - played on a piano that had been triggered by MIDI samples - was “Avril 14th,” a brief and lovely interlude on Drukqs, the Aphex Twin double album that turns 20 today. And in one memorable moment, we saw John Legend walking out to a piano and plinking out a familiar melody.Īt that point, the melody that Legend played was just shy of 10 years old. Later on in the evening, we would see surprise guest Jay-Z come out to build advance hype for Watch The Throne, and we would see Kanye West forget the words to at least a couple of his Jay-Z collabs. We saw CyHi Da Prince perform with a violinist for some reason.
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That night, Donald Glover and I, along with everyone else in that room, saw Yasiin Bey, back when he was still Mos Def. A minute later, I turned around, and the guy I’d just shoved was Donald Glover.
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At one point during the show, I felt someone jostling me from behind, and I shoved back. If you were inside that big dank brick room, it was only because you’d worked every connection you had, begging and cajoling and frantically emailing.
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It was the last night of SXSW, and Kanye West was putting on a G.O.O.D. A little more than a decade ago, I was among a few thousand starfuckers jammed into some kind of converted industrial space that wasn’t too far from downtown Austin.