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What if there had never been something like the Aphex Twin? Would we exist today? Or would we still swim in LCL for longer than eternity? |
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hehe. i've wondered that myself. if there were no aphex twin, we wouldn't hang out on the "aphex twin community messageboard" anyway. still, there were other creative electronica artists back in the day...like in the early nineties. i still think (some of us) would be here today. aphex twin was my introduction to this whole electronica thing, so wonder what i would've listened to if the twin never existed. i mean, he's influenced a whole musical genre, so things would be different today. impossible to say what exactly though... |
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Yeah, you are damn right, i presume! Nothin to add reguarding Aphex. Some years ago I thought he was a insane psycho! Today I KNOW he´s an ill-styling God of Elekktro_Experimental, but in the most positive way. |
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"If he didn't exist, someone would try to invent him." That's an Elvis Costello slogan from one of his early day posters, I think the same can be applied here, no? |
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But what if there hasn´t been an inventor? Would nature invent itself or is it a consequence of the need for it? |
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Aphex Twin made this type of music popular so there would be a lot less people into it if he wasn't around. |
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I didn´t mean if people would be into that music. I mean if people would BE/LIVE/EXIST! What do we think.... (Be/Live - what an expression! :-) |
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People would get into it...eventually.. but after a lot of other pathways have been exhausted I think. What if Richard's unborn older brother, Richard, were born instead of him? Same thing, the music would come around eventually. There's always an inventor, look at all of those that have come before him in the classical world and have influenced him in his past and now.. it would happen, a random spark in someone's gene pool would allow it so.. it wouldn't be exactly the same mind you.. but people would come round to this 'kind' of music in the end. |
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OH! PFFTTT!! Of course.. we would... hopefully.. |
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Oh, you mean do people make more babies because of his music? Well, I wouldn't know about that.... |
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People make more babies to Coltrane and Davis I would think. |
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Imagine trying to hump to digeridoo.. Imagine the cramps that would ensue. |
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But what if FATE (or how people may call it...) wanted exactly THIS livin Richard, the Aphex of the day, to live? Can we be sure if the UnbornAphex (the brother) would have done the same thing? What if there had been another path in one´s life, a path we cannot imagine since this Aphex lives? What if the idea of his music was only written into his genes? Would everything still be the same? Was it the plan of something/body that I ask this question? Or does that mean (asking the question) that there is nothin to stop me from that? |
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No Twin - No messageboard - Which means none of you would have met me, which would be a travesty =oD |
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If music is written through one's genes well..then I fear the day we learn all our gene's secrets.. I, for one, musical genius (And hopefully other types of artistic genius) come from the soul and life experiences/thought processes more then they do from fixed genes. Its an interesting idea but if you started thinking like that, you’d also have to consider when these genes expire, at which point they’ve given all they can give and can’t be creative anymore..hmm.. its too simple and too complex a system. |
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I, for one, *BELIEVE* musical genius.. |
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Missing out 'believe' in that sentence was hilarious! |
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Shaddup! TAKE THIS! And be sure to stare long and hard! http://www.expressen.nu/html/bildarkiv/bilder/magiceye.jpg |
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Oh ha ha didn't see that coming. Respect my Wizard status, you fuck! |
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Maybe our genes are the unit that controls us, what would implicate (?) that there would be no souls or that souls would be useless. But nature hates things without use, so maybe one day it is good for another sense. Maybe stopping the genes from expirering or avoiding it. (Man, i have to improve my English) .......................Hmmmm....... |
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ohohoho.. I'm one evil sockpuppet.. hmm.. then again, I'm BILL GATEs' sockpuppet.. The evil part is implied. Wizard ehh?! What spells do you have? |
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The thing about genes controlling us is well.. things in nature don't tend to be very similar.. most everything is individual down to a molecular level, so you'd think that if these genes control us, and we get genes solely from our parents and they got theirs from our ancestors as a whole and we all originated from the SAME ancestors that we'd all be the same, at least in this 'soul gene' area. |
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Thelonius Punk - WHAT the hell are you anyway?!? The book of wisdom, a very intelligent person or only a "Schaumschläger", some kind of "hoax"??? :-) |
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I don't think they're meant to be THAT specific.. I mean genes.. The thing is we don't even know if there is a smart gene, what we do know is all pretty basic right now.. it stipulates hair color, skin color, height etc, but as for musical skill?! Well as I said, things will be looking pretty bleak for the future if we do find a way to replicate something that's supposed to be unique. |
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A hoax. I'm a figment of your imagination. |
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*Wiggles fingers* *Tries to act spooky* *fails horribly* |
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*confused* Well, sometimes I prefer "easy" things of life... like girls. Well, that´s better now I would say. Forget about genomes. |
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err... dude, you might want to reconsider.. genomes are certainly easier to understand when compared to the opposite sex! EEK! |
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Yes. |
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But the opposite sex can satisfy you even better than philosophying about genomes. But indeed THEY can never be understood.... |
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Definitely. mmm... girls.. Maybe one day they'll find a genome to link two people, thereby linking the sexes so we can understand each other better as beings.. hmm.. I guess that's a point of some religions anyway.. to be connected with everything or with nature is certainly the Buddhist way. But until then, we'll have to do with what we got. |
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I don´t like the idea of having sex with myself. (Hey, at least the race-aspect would fall away. or?) |
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if we understood eachother and everything then HELL yeah the race thing would fall away..along with a lot of other things like looks in general. and you get used to having sex with yourself.. My hands are often all I've got..hehehe.. |
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I don´t have such hands. I lost them when i touched Yggdrasil for the first time. But I have black claws now. Beautiful indeed.... |
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ermm.. but PAINFUL I'd imagine. *winces* Ouch.. poor you. Unlike me, who can do whatever he wants without fear of mutilation. *Fap fap fap* :P |
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i.know.a.girl.which.name.is.zellma. .the.daughter.of.a.priest. .what.a.pity. .she.is.so.sad. .since.she.is.left.alone. .no.one.wants.to.exchange.genes.with.her. .me.too. .i.can.understand.them.very.well. |
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Yah the concept of girls as being an "easy" thing in life is highly misleading, I'd say. . . . unless you're Enrique Englesias. (I don't see why chicks like that d00d. . . his ass may be "fine", but his face is HIDEOUS!) BTW I wonder how Richard did with the girls when he was yanno a young fellow? |
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The problem is that Enrique is GAY!!! Looks like all "beautiful" men have female genes- that means only women CAN BE nice lookin´. |
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Hmmmm. . . that logical explanation seems to make a lot of sense, but if it was true, why do women like gay guys so much? |
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I could see him as kind of nerdy when he was younger.. and then..but he was grown up, even then, and others weren't. Girls during the teenage younger years tend to be somewhat immature (at least in my experience) and tend to ignore such nice well preened fellows like Richard until later.. So..hmm.. in short.. He's not a bad looking fellow but (I assume) girls wouldn't really start noticing him for him until later. |
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Since they like each other (or they recognize similar genes!)! |
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And anyway some guys can be sexy without being gay. Here's my own idea of the four hottest people in the world: Hannah Sung (she's a reporter for Muchnews) China Chow (she's that incredibly sexy Japanese chick from the Big Hit) The lead guy in the Gorillaz (I have do idea what his name is, but he's the main fellow, yanno) and the Naked Chef |
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HEY now..some gay guys ARE something to be envied.. With others I think its just the fact that they can't have them that makes them more desirable. Hmm.. But as a whole..girls are weird..and so are their tastes.. you never know WHAT they're going to like. |
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And no, I'm not gay, or bisexual, but guys can recognize "handsomeness" in other guys too. Or attractiveness, anyway. |
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Jamie Oliver and DAMON ALBARN!? Wow, not entirely surprising a list but still.. The Lead singer from Gorillaz is also *Slaps own face in shock* the lead singer of Blur. Gorillaz was his little mediocre side thingy he's done now. |
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I personally think all the members of Radiohead are hot *cough cough insert straightness here*, but I'm biased seeing as I LOVE radiohead. Richard D. James isn't bad a fellow either but again.. I'm biased towards muscians I like. |
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The Chemical Brothers are hilariously ugly men, lol, although they DO make great music. I would also say that John Digweed is pretty sexy, check out the main pic of him at www.johndigweed.com, but maybe that's also because he's my favourite dj and he's also the best dj in the entire world. |
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Eeeehhhmmmm, my theme was: "What if.....?" We should return to that, shouldn´t we? |
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i think music would have eventually gotten to where it is today just from electonics. Music's growth probably would have taken a wee bit longer, and the world would suck a little more. |
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Yeah. . . after all, it's not like Aphex Twin invented electronica, and even so, he still DIDN'T have that big an influence on the whole of it, either (only IDM; hell, he invented intelligent dance music, and maybe drum and bass too). There have been other electronica musicians around since the mid 80's that just have still not made it into the mainstream. (I'm talking about the mainstream of electronica fans here, because electronica is still not even a very obscure genre). Anyway heard of Phlanger, or Tom Hill?? |
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