For a few months now I’ve loaded the Aphex Twin page on SoundCloud, aka that of user48736353001, each morning wondering when 173 — long the standing track count — would jump to 174.
And it did, less than 10 minutes ago, with the track “24 Triple D.” If the above embed doesn’t work, click through to [the track’s dedicated URL](https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/24-triple-d).
It’s a piece of hard rapid synthesis, a sonar beep buried deep in the grinding beat, and the overtones taking on a semblance of human speech. By Aphex Twin standards, it opens in a nearly industrial mode, but in time more familiar slow-moving, comforting waves infuse themselves into the proceedings, though never enough to fully subsume the foreboding, driving beat. The sole accompanying information is a date (1993), and a hashtag for one of Richard D. James’ many monikers: #afx.
Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/user48736353001](https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/24-triple-d).