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What would you say makes Aphex Twin important ? In your own words. |
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his music! :D |
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his tank |
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He's such a great orator. |
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his extraordinariness |
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He's got velour underwear. |
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he pioneered a genre and invented a stereotype of lifestyle and personality for those who followed him |
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Nothing. |
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he throws water balloons on ravers! now THAT'S important!!! |
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"invented a stereotype of lifestyle" most geniuses (though I dunno if he is one) are eccentrics though, hardly invented it |
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Who was it who actually called him "The 20th century Mozart" and why? |
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uzim, "do yourself a favor, punch a raver" |
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HaaaH! |
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I think it was NME or something in a very early interview. |
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seriously... i think he's important because he tries, and makes very good at, lots of varied styles... even if it's all electronic, idm maybe, his works can be very different. SAWII sounds like it was made by a different person than the one who made RDJalbum, which sounds like it was made by a different person than the one who made drukQs, which sounds like it was made by a different person than the one who made Caustic Window, etc. and for ICBYD, at least two or three different persons. he's an electro-idm-ic chameleon. downside of that is that there isn't any real "afx sound" or "afx style" to me, like other artists have... the man has a lot of personality, but his works have so much different personalities that his music in general hasn't. squarepusher is a chameleon too, but he had his jazzy influences, which makes his music a lot more defineable than aphex twin's. |
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I think you could say theres an old school afx sound, a break beat, and an ambient. |
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yeah, dirtypriest i definitely agree with you on that. Of course there's the relaxing ambient (saw 85-92) and the sinister scary ambient (a lot of saw ii) |
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uzim, Yeah there is an Aphex sound. There is a certain way he constructs his tracks similar motivs etc. Not that I'm an expert or anything. For me I always felt he made the effort to make his tracks emotive as oppose to being just totally abstract. |
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he introduced me to a sound i never knew exsisted before i heard it |
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I´d put both ICBYD and SAW 1 under ambient. tho ICBYD is a little weird. still one of my favourites! |
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i think icbyd has lots of different styles. i mean ventolin or come on you slags are definitely not ambient and cow cud is a twin is almost a hip-hop track |
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Its nice to be at the top of the tree. The thing about Aphex's music is its a lifetime interest for those who discover it. I mean lets face it you can never really go off Aphex. You may have spells where u may tire a little of it or whatever but once your a fan its for life. Whereas pop music and other artists in general tend to have their sell by dates. In that respect he has huge advantages over many other musicians/groups etc. |
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Good point, promo. |
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while i agree with you promo, that's still just your personal opinion, not really something you can set in stone as fact. I'm looking for some solid examples here (if possible). Cheers. |
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sorry all it was just my impression... *' _ '* (yes, it's easier if you cut it in parts.) |
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He makes really good music. |
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I think he means that aphex twin is timeless in peoples life, while no teeny poppers remember New kids on the block for example. |
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i remember it! my favourite meber was jordan. i had posters of him in my room. i was on the 2nd grade so no one can even blame me about it. |
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Well I don't know difinitively, but I wouldn't like to bet against it. I think he is in an eviable position. His music is so strong and unique that even passing artists who may be strong and compete for a while never really last the mile. Aphex is like Duracel batteries, he's like a freight train so I doubt whether they'll be talking about Chemical Bros, Orb, Orbital or whatever in the same frequency as Aphex 50 years from now. I just think he has a lot of durability thats all probably the most. |
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Haha. I bought the cd a couple of weeks ago. it cost me about 1 dollar. |
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Someone should convert some of those new kids tracks into a techno fudged up stylee they'd probably be wicked. Lol. |
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I love the 80ies. GONNA GET WITH U GIIIIIRL! |
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now you say it like that dirty priest, yeah promo does have a very good point! promo, i'd leave that up to the µ crew. They could call it criminal 03: bonkt (anagram of nkotb) |
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What about Kosmik Kommando's 'Laptop Dancer' or whatever its called? I got to get that its got a wicked big sounding 80s vibe. I luv it. |
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I don't know I like some of those New Kids notes they'd be good in a Cylob or Kosmic Kommando context. I luv that big 80s sound. Lol. |
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DMX KREW!!! |
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Yeah of course the obvious choice. |
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I don't like this "electroclash" thing that's being hyped like crazy lately. I bought DJ mag when I was over in England last week and it had a free 7" on the cover from City Rockers, who were their label of the year. Fuck me! What a load of boring synthy bollocks! |
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ANYONE ELSE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY REFERING TO THE THREAD TOPIC? |
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Don't know City Rockers. |
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he's l337 |
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City Rockers are an electroclash label, responsible for Tiga & Zyntherius' Sunglasses At Night this year and the two Futurism compilations. |
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Oh that track. Yeah that was ok it was almost a good track. For me it didn't go the whole hog with a full on electro sound. I felt it was a bit tame. |
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afx is great not only because he makes great music,but because he helps someone else to create great music as well(rephlex). |
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His mangina |
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AFX is truly overrated.in his first works expressed ideas that other developed a lot better than him.autechre are mozart.not aphex.autechre are the real geniuses. |
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He has perfected the art of communicating with himself. |
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Autechre are not any better than AFX, by far. |
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thethirdball, what?? |
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riccardo, yeah, but is he the only one doing that? |
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