{"id":32305,"date":"2014-09-20T19:51:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T19:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-return-of-aphex-twin-and-why-it-matters\/"},"modified":"2014-09-20T19:51:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T19:51:44","slug":"the-return-of-aphex-twin-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-return-of-aphex-twin-and-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"The return of Aphex Twin, and why it matters &#8211; Kill Screen &#8211; Videogame Arts &amp; Culture."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/killscreendaily.com\/articles\/return-aphex-twin-and-why-it-matters\/'>The return of Aphex Twin, and why it matters &#8211; Kill Screen &#8211; Videogame Arts &amp; Culture.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>This is the stuff of mythmaking, of course, the inflation of an album into a cultural event\u2014which is, after all, what all marketing campaigns aim to achieve. Before we\u2019ve heard a lick of music, Syro is something to be notated, puzzled over, filed neatly into the linear histories of both the artist and the genre which the artist has helped to define, undermine, and redefine. Such is the power of Aphex Twin\u2019s influence. James could present at the Grammys in a dress that says \u201cMy new album drops September 23rd\u201d and it probably wouldn\u2019t register much in the way of protestation. What\u2019s most interesting is how this indestructible bubble of credibility was formed\u2014and what it has to do with videogames.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The return of Aphex Twin, and why it matters &#8211; Kill Screen &#8211; Videogame Arts &amp; Culture. This is the stuff of mythmaking, of course, the inflation of an album into a cultural event\u2014which is, after all, what all marketing campaigns aim to achieve. Before we\u2019ve heard a lick of music, Syro is something to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8p3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}