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where do all these idm artists get their name from? i know boc are named after some canadian film series and the 'twin' in aphex twin is for his dead brother...but what about the rest? squarepusher, autechre, lfo etc etc strange names, any reason behind them? |
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"squarepusher" reminds me of the Sokoban puzzlegame where you have to push boxes to get to the exit "LFO" = low frequency oscillator I think... |
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Autechre say that the name Autechre is just made up, they just liked how it sounded, so they kept it. That's why they say you can say it howeverr you like. |
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zeus came up with his name by asking for the advice of the people on the forum, |
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Squarepusher always gave me the mental image of a ZX Spectrum 8 bit blocky guy pushing a block. I'm sure I've seen this on one of the games I have. |
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squarepushers name always made me think of him pushing squares in a program (ala frootyloops) to make his music |
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Yes, I used to think that and also a drug dealer who sells lsd tabs (squares). He said in an interview it was just made up. |
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i mentioned before "squarepusher" is a slang term in Ulysess refering to a well-to-do gentleman who checks out womens behinds. Also, i read an interview where Tom likes reading philosophical shit like that so maybe he got it from there....... i suspect he though of it independently though, refering to all the puishing of chunky hardware buttons he does to create the tunes, although in fact i´say back in the day it was more knobtwiddling - but that sounds ca-ca. my own name has not too disimalr roots! |
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He he, your name sounds like a pianist who has been on the rum and keeps missing notes and sounding cacaphonys :) |
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sokoban always annoyed me ;) why are lfo called lo frequency occilations? and other artisis...mira calix, red snapper, 2 lone swordsmen, whoever ive missed out....where does the 'aphex' come from? |
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aphex is a music-hardware maker. possibly RDJ´s first analogue synth was an "aphex" xyz type thing. i like "phoenecia"..... a ceramaic i beleive, and "Venetian Snares" is catchy and you can extrapolate where that came from. CeriJC.... You know the stroy! |
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sokoban annoyed me too... i kept pushing the boxes into the corners :\ |
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LFO, low frequency oscillator, is what you use on your synth when you want to modulate something with a nice slow (below audible mostly) waveform. umm... apex is a word, maybe aphex is apex with an "h" :) i don't think the aphex company has made a synth, ever. though they make other stuff which maybe he used :) mira calix sounds like miraculix from asterix. |
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aphex: a-(acid) pH-(as in acid rate) ex- just a way to end the word aphex twin came before aphex the registered trademark |
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i thought Squarepusher was to do with fitting a square peg in to a round hole. and Phoenicia is an area of ancient Isreal, i think |
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A for Acid PH for PH-[Value] EX for Exciter |
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squarepusher, think it refers to square shaped oscillators was a joke made by his friends, they used to call him squarepusher (at least, thats what ive read somewhere) |
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snares is easy - he mentioned the origin of his name a couple of times, like me =) |
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"squarepusher" reminds me of the Sokoban puzzlegame where you have to push boxes to get to the exit > me too Laserbreak! this, and tetris, and some other old video games... :) i like thinking of "Autechre" as derivated from "aural architecture"... |
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oh man thats exactly what I first thought too....Crazy.... |
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I thought I read somewhere that Autechre was an abbreviation of "Automated Technical Re...something or other" I'll have to see if I can dig that up. |
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i always pictured the guys from boards of canada wearing business suits all the time |
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Sorry, that was "Aural Technology Redefined" from an ancient interview. But they've said since that it doesn't mean anything so who knows. |
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