Aphex Waits: Tom vs Computer Control mashed up by Esmko

March 1, 2015 7:44 AM

Eskmo took a few Tom Waits songs that he love and mashed them with Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 by Aphex Twin, and created Aphex Waits (Soundcloud with free DL; YouTube). If you'd like more weird electronic music from Eskmo, Dazed has a preview stream of his new album along with an interview about it. Then there's Eskmo's self-titled album on Grooveshark, which he released on Ninja Tune back in 2010, which lead to videos for Cloudlight [previously], We Got More [previously], and Color Dropping. He has also shared more music on Soundcloud.
posted by filthy light thief (6 comments total)

Aesop Rock + Tom Waits = Tom Shall Pass
posted by Kale Slayer at 7:48 AM on March 1, 2015 [3 favorites]

^ Came here to say this, Tom Shall Pass is fantastic and has been on regular rotation for me. Very interested to check this out, thanks.
posted by LooseFilter at 8:19 AM on March 1, 2015

Holy shit I love this. Thank you so much for posting!
posted by nevercalm at 12:18 PM on March 1, 2015

"Tom Waits for no man."
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:47 PM on March 1, 2015 [1 favorite]

I think you mean Tom Waits For No One (previously, Wikipedia), though it's more jazzy than this mashup. It's a fun video, and an impressive story (multi-camera rotoscoped video, both a technical and stylistic innovation for the time).
posted by filthy light thief at 3:23 PM on March 1, 2015

There was a bootleg with the title "Tom Waits for No Man" circulating a few years back, of a show from one of his Australia tours. Maybe he meant that.
posted by ardgedee at 3:41 PM on March 1, 2015