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Was Aphex Twin your first forray into "IDM"?
 

offline luceatluxxe on 2015-01-22 22:02 [#02482747]
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. . .


 

offline BernardMatthews from United Kingdom on 2015-01-22 22:04 [#02482749]
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Yes it was, how do you know!?

Open sesame.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-22 22:42 [#02482759]
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no, i was into The Prodigy and Fatboy Slim before afx


 

offline BernardMatthews from United Kingdom on 2015-01-22 22:50 [#02482762]
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Bisto


 

offline RussellDust on 2015-01-22 23:12 [#02482764]
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The advert with that kid that's been going on for a few
years now had to stop.

I'm posting from jail.


 

offline chachmaster3000 on 2015-01-23 03:43 [#02482770]
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First foray in to ebm.


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2015-01-23 09:45 [#02482776]
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sort of. he set things rolling in a new direction for me
when i heard ctd.
i bought some dub, drum n bass and prodigy before,
but discovered squarepusher, afx´s backcatalogue, µ-ziq and
many more through napster by tracks entitled
"ifyoulikeafxsquarepusher..." along came xltronic and
spoiled the rest of me .-)



 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2015-01-23 09:57 [#02482780]
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probably not the first idm i heard, but becoming a fan of
aphex opened many new music doors for me


 

offline SignedUpToLOL from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2015-01-23 12:50 [#02482787]
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Art of Noise, you clown.


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2015-01-23 13:05 [#02482789]
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yes. saw ctd on tv. bought vhs and icbyd. didnt liked icbyd
cause it was nothing like ctd. relistened it a couple of
years later. loved it. bought every single afx album i
found. once a month. thats all i listened during that month.
best musical time of my life. every album a new universe.
when no more afxs available i moved on to bogdan, ae, etc


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2015-01-23 14:41 [#02482792]
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Yes. CTD via MTV. Not my first electronica though.


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2015-01-25 06:35 [#02482902]
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girl/boy on mtv's amp compilation cd back when that was new


 

offline debaser on 2015-01-25 07:18 [#02482908]
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Yes, I was 12 at the time too.

My brother played Vordhosbn to me after coming home from his
first trip to the UK in 2001. I found it all to be pretty
weird to be honest, but I guess it might be down to the
un-matured brain and crap Walkman headphones..

I was much more interested in em:t and Global Underground
during those early years.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2015-01-25 07:32 [#02482909]
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ohman ifonly everyone's job involved the mental weight of
constantly defining someone's life man i just want to get
through the day weight on shoulders but ya hey this thing
makes cool sound and here we are.


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2015-01-25 13:18 [#02482930]
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define IDM


 

offline Chihiro from twins land on 2015-01-25 16:25 [#02482933]
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for me it was Plaid. Then Autechre, and then Aphex Twin.


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2015-01-25 18:03 [#02482940]
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fuck the I, dancing to fuck to blakey and jazz messengers
whilst still literally kicking it fetal. in fuckin bpm.
aside from that...? blanked out til 3yr ish but me mam was
tape to tapeing '92 cheesy hardcore like the fairground
version of everybody in the place when i was about 7(?).

got into chem bros via dyoh (leccybank still the most
vomitous of sick) but likely a fair bit of jazz, biodadwise

tho brewing drive the cu next bumbastumblefuck screwed right
up the bumpipe wrapped in shrapnel
4
aad minus 3
do him in
min kevlar binlid hit "men"
t
b
d
wovvagot spunkfumin u dis me?

xpt the mostly excellent abuse
come close get butternutcut
or control
c
u
l8r

and stoney phaedra type stuff. sl2, that mixmag tape ending
with blame (jonny l yeh?), orbital in sides, sniv, first
heard alberto on some comp whilst getting into klf and orb.
swap tapes with clearly stoner art teacher, straight up
clocked greenwhiff 1st lesson. earliest tangerine dream was
proper abstract, affected my listening skills. um, plus
mucho bunnin round the corner here she comes, diane cluck +
jeffrey lewis (the river from dan (not dan c)), distillers
and fuckin shite whoever got hold of the stereo first. first
shag was in the art room red curtained to fuck to geogaddi.
got into van vliet, bukowski etc, will listen to pretty much
anything now, lots of ukhh + grime lately


 

offline SignedUpToLOL from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2015-01-25 18:47 [#02482943]
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So much magical bumming in here, it's ... Beautiful.


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2015-01-26 00:52 [#02482964]
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No you can't really draw a hard line between Aphex and
everything going back to Throbbing Gristle and related, and
everything in the 80s post them, Kraftwerk, Voltaire etc.


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2015-01-26 05:09 [#02482965]
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idm? usually it's other genres that flow into it like a
cauldron. the progidy and moby's go/ambient, that sifted
into aphex/squarepusher. so it was on the coat tail of
techno/ambient that brought me to various experimental
artists. eh


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-26 08:39 [#02482967]
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i pirate the afx mp3 and it defines my life with melody
i am an aphex twin with my pocket aphex schwinn


 

offline Foht-Garlanger from dong on 2015-01-26 09:15 [#02482971]
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dug poo electronic music for a long time

when i heard afx i thot good was busier, took me a while to
get past that



 

offline drill rods from 6AM-8PM NO PARKING (Canada) on 2015-01-26 16:34 [#02482989]
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As for electronica generally, I came via Jean michel Jarre
and Chemical Brothers before finding Orbital and then being
introduced to the Warp/Reflex repertoire by friends after
that


 

offline RussellDust on 2015-01-26 16:34 [#02482990]
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Was it fuck! ; )


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-01-26 21:55 [#02483031]
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this is just my opinion and stuff:

* first three are sort of a box set to me
:: Experience was fast and experimental
:: Jilted was medium fast and more deliberate in
construction
:: FoTL there was a massive leap in tonality, sonic sheen
etc, curious why. but the songwriting was tight as ever

* Temper popcorn farted, I remember literally hearing the
moment of fart in the school computer lab. Prodigy was on
vacation yo

* AONO is sort of like if Wagon Christ's SIMYL album had
failed harder. That liam chap really should stick to his
roland W-30s and just reverse strings forever. Moving to
reason really watered down the quality and intensity. It is
not a bad album, though, and I do listen to it sometimes

* Invaders, the songwriting came back. I dunno if he went
back to the W-30s or just got better at Reason. Still not as
good as the first three.

yep


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2015-01-27 14:36 [#02483074]
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Yeah, Art of Noise, or Herbie Hancock.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2015-01-27 16:36 [#02483082]
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i think the first idm song i falled in love with was moments
in love by art of noise


 


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