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i was just wondering if he's still considered to be an underground artist. im meeting a lot more 'everyday' people that know who aphex is. or is he more commercial now? i know, it doesnt really matter how the artist is perceived. in the end, the only thing that is imortant is music. but still, im curious to know what you people think. |
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underground overground wombling free ...I'd say. |
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Maybe in some parts of Africa he is underground......=) |
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i doubt he's been underground for about 10 years |
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i meant underground within the population in general, not only in the idm/electronica scene. |
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yeah, aphex is still pretty underground. no worries. |
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same applies |
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thank god, i was filled with anxiety for a second. ill keep him to myself for a while longer. ;) |
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As long as most people think Aphex Twin is a duo, then AFX will always be underground!!...;).. |
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??? you mean they arent? what's up with the 'twin' then? ! |
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he lives in a cavern in cornwall |
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he hasn't seen daylight for years |
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i take it back! he IS still underground!! |
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He is defenitly not underground. Ever since about ICBYD or the RDJ Album he hasnt been. |
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Well,I really don't care if RDJ is underground or not,for me he's the greatest IDM/electronica/experimental/ambient composer ever to exist on Planets Earth,Mars and Pluto....I buy as much of his music as I can,love to support his work as well as his label Rephlex.....=) |
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well, what is overground... britney, nsync, and korn. tom jones, pearl jam, lauryn hill, tom petty. the beatles, travis tritt, paebo bryson... |
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and what is ground level? massive attack, bjork and such? |
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I would call him ''underground''... hell, this is the only place I can intelligently discuss electronic music, and that includes Aphex. |
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we have a magazine here in sweden for pop-girlies, named "Darling". They had an aphex-review in it............... |
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what? youre kidding, right? tell me this is some kind of twisted, sick, sick joke! |
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No joke at all. I was in schock. |
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a review of drukqs |
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yeah, AFX is going for the huge Swedish pop-girl market segment... (they account for 79% of all records sold in the world..crack that market and you've really made it..)... |
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everybody selling records,.charging money for it,.gaining profit = COMMERCIAL tho there R many gradations in being a SELL-OUT. If underground means : least-sell-out / least commercial,.then I wouldn't call Aphex Twin underground. but in the end,.nobody gives a fuck |
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i can tell you one thing, 1052 people know about him worldwide ;) |
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omniground? |
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ground zero |
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in spain nobody knows him, not even my friends...I try but they dont even remember his name, and they will never try to understand his music...only my girlfriend tryes a bit, she likes goon gumpas, 4, alberto, and those melodic ones, but at least she knows what I am in. he is very underground, even though some of his albums can be bought in big markets here in spain |
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he's prolly underground when managing his tank |
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apparently the tides come in now, so there's absoultely no chance of him coming to the surface |
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I don't think he is underground... i mean most people don't know him... but a lot of people not "in the scene" have heard him and know a couple of songs by him... here in mexico.. they use a lot of aphex music bit for promos for radio and TV... theyre's a radioshow covering technology (not music) who plays tracks from drukqs all the time in the background. I've heard the philip glass version of ICCT hedral on MTV promos as well. definately he's not underground... he's just not very popular. |
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Hes totally NOT underground. Underground stuff is obscure, there arent tons of AFX albums in stores and such because hes underground or doesnt sell lots. The opposite, Ive read about Aphex Twin in magazines, ive seen him referenced in Maxim Magazine, ive seen his name on television. He is NOT ungerground. Underground would be like the Shizit, totally independant and have only sold about 300 albums. |
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todally dude |
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also.. i remember a mention about him in an electronic music article in a popular music magazine... there's a great difference between underground and popular. Aphex is often mentioned in intervews of other artists or bands (linkin park, weezer, radiohead, deftones....). He's definately not underground |
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"He's definately not underground" 98.99% agreed OK |
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he IS damn you all to hades the only contact he has is via a plastic cup tied to another plastic cup with a piece of string which reaches the 1000ft or so from his nuclear bunker in south kensington |
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well nothing like that happens in spain... nobody has ever mentioned him in the media (except that time I told you he appeared in the tv news but that was at 3am) and his music has never been played in no comercials or anything else |
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oh man...... in more than 1 club/bar place here in my city ive been to regularly ive heard AFX, luke vibert, squarepusher, uziq and a few other weirdo ones.... no joke and these are classy places, they just picked the perfect songs to play from these artists, Aphex Twin is pretty well known in my city as far as I know. |
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aphex who? |
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aphex twin the Electronic music duo.. they are twins! |
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well you live in a pretty darn cool city and country REFLEX..here I go to music seminars and people are spouting words like..ahem..Underground Trance (LMAO) |
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there is no way in hell he can be underground now. |
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people are pretty divided on this issue. |
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i'd say he is probably underground but sticks his head up when he wants to, like some sort of electro-badger: big underground cos he still does stuff like the MEN tracks, and rephlex, hes not on the radio really: anyway it doesn't matter, it is all churning over into some sort of marsh land: my grandma wont give my copy of LEON back cos she likes gary oldmans junky bent cop in it... |
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Well,I can say is that RDJ is underground in some places,in others he's not that much,but in my country we love him very much because he changed electronic music forever,he did what some others thought was impossible....Cheeers for RDJ!!! =) |
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he's underground 'cos no-one i know can name any of his tracks. None of them have been on top of the pops. If someone announces that windowlicker was... I'm burning my collection and getting into Rn'B instead. |
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idm is quite underground... but even if most of my friends don't know aphex twin, he isn't "underground" — when drukQs came out, there was a pillow with a huge "come on you cunts let's have some aphex acid" poster at the fnac... i even came across a drukQs review in a TV or whatever magazine...! but that doesn't make him commercial... all well known artists aren't commercial — björk for example... she's very well known but would you say she's commercial? :) |
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Top of the pops,or any of that krap stops me or other friends of mine to know and listen to RDJ,AE,SP,PLAID or the whole Rephlex/Warp gang...Those r the best record label in the world....Cheers=) Their music is so complex that not everybody could even come close to understand what they r listening to...:) |
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So,I willn stay with them,buy their records and support them all the way,they r the present and the future.... |
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maybe he does 'underground' stuff... meaning that he's been releasing stuff under unknown aliases.. or playing gigs with unknow aliases... and none of us has ever heard one of these side works... but as far as Aphex twin concerns.. he's not underground.. i mean.. he was nominated for a fucking brit!! |
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