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I know this is an old topic idea, but, what the hell. The first time i saw/ heard aphex twin was on an mtv show called twelve angry viewers. they aired the come to daddy video and then had a group of people "review" it, which was funny. all of the men loved it and all of the women were practically curled up in corners crying. i hated the song but liked the video, and then like a week later found SAW vol 2 and bought it. loved that right away. |
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it's come to daddy vid, on vid and saw1. can't really remember which was first since they were introduced to me almost the same time. |
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I first heard aphex twin via the Richard D. James album. It was so weird, so unlike anything I had heard before. I fell in love immediately and have been hooked ever since. |
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ME TOO!! except I might have seen it once or twice before that show... and I might have bought mtv's amp cd before that.. but probably not...I also watched that show all the time so I might've seen aphex w/o realizing it (possibly 'On'?)... my first aphex purchase was Windowlicker |
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my brother told me about the 'see the light tour' and mentioned his name. i went out looking for it and picked up a CD titled Analog Bubblebath. this was i believe in 1992. |
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the track he did on further down the spiral by NIN, actually nin got me into loads of my favourite artists like Coil, Cure, Tori Amos etc |
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Bought the RDJ Album because I thought the cover was intriguing. |
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I bought Tri Repetae because i thought the cover was intriguing. |
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dl'd ageispolis about 5 years ago and was hooked since |
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Wow. Seriously, that's exact same reason I bought it, and it was my first Ae release. Cool. |
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yeah, same here. |
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drukqs |
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The video from On on MTV and then buying I care because you do. |
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bucephalous bouncing ball on the PI soundtrack and some mp3's from the rdj album the same time. that soundtrack also got me into ae |
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i think it was ventolin... |
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Was stoned at a boring party and found Come To Daddy, listened to Bucephalus Bouncing Balls and was stunned. Bought the CD the next day and it still sounded good. |
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i seem to remember my first experience with afx being the video for come to daddy.. i think it came on mtv "after hours" one night (you know, back in the Dark Ages when they still played videos for the majority of their broadcast day).. after that i bought literally every CD i saw by RDJ.. i think i got CtD first, then ICBYD and the RDJ album at the same time, then SAW2 (which i didn't like at first but which has grown on me to a point that i listen to it every night while i sleep (i have a three disc changer and i alternate between disc 1 and disc 2 in the third slot.. so the soundtrack to my dreams is always saw2 ^_^ ) and incredibly, i still don't have all of his releases :-P |
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"On" when it was on a heavy-rotation (shock horror) on MTV (shock horror #2) back in 94 i think... |
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I remember seeing the on video on mtv way back when I still listened to rap music (Yuck) in 93 or 94. Then I bought SAWII some few months later since I couldn't remember what album the song was on. Now I own nearly 30 AFX releases. |
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oh yeah, the further down the spiral track "At The Heart Of It All" was actually my first exposure, but I didn' know it was AFX until I read the liner notes a long time after I bought SAWII cause I noticed some similarities. |
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1995.. ventolin... Jaw dropped when I heard that track. Things haven't been the same since. |
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1999. VH1. Videos being nominated. Windowlicker. Never felt so good to have my ears and eyes opened. |
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aphex twin on vh1?? times have changed. |
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My best friend?s big brother was cool and a raver and played "Didgeridoo" when I was younger. Later heard and saw "On" on Mtv. Alberto Balsalm really swept me off my feet. |
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my friend bought come to daddy in the store and brought it back to my house to listen to it, im like what's this? and he said aphex twin. The rest is history... |
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First experience was probably seeing Windowlicker on MTV and thinking what the fuck??? First experience that lead to getting into him would be via the film Pi which opened me to Autechre, then a few months later I decided to have a look at aphex after hearing some stuff from SAW1 and ICBYD. I became hooked rapidly!! |
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i saw the 'On' video on the chart show BRING BACK THE CHART SHOW!!! |
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my friend was collecting all strange videos that fucked our young minds (about 6 years ago). one day i entred his home and he was screaming :"man you got to see it!!!!!!!". and fuck i saw that... 1,2,3,4,5,6,50 times in a row!!!!! than we said "that aphex is a genius!!!!!!". and i have started to look for his stuff... and i found a shop that had saw2 on stock!!! man i hated saw 2 at the beginig! i just thought "where the fuck is that ultra fast beat???". but i discovered magic of that record after few weeks! and now i own about 20 orginal albums (and a lot of cd-r`s)of mr.afx!! maybe it`s not impressive collection but try to buy them in Poland!!!! |
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i bought afx ab1 used on cd at this record store that sold mostly rock. iremember i talked they guy down to $2 because i pointed out it only had 4 tracks. i used to tape WNYU's digilution show on wednesdays, even though the sound quality was crap. i guess it was when ICBYD came out that they played acrid avid. it was beautiful. when i got the album, i had never heard a collection of songs that i felt such a wide range of emotions through. while it was so different from ab1 there was something there that i knew must be the same person doing them both. later that year i saw him when he toured with bjork, so that was the first live aphex. it was great becuase he dj'ed behind a curtain or something, so still all i had as far as appearance was that sinster portrait. |
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actually, i forgot-- i had st. ettiene's single before all of that, and always loved that remix. you care because i do. |
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For me it started may '95 when I bought classics. Bought it - listened it nonstop for a day - put it away for a week and then listened to it EVERY DAY on my way to school, in school, on my way home, at home for about a week. I taped it for a few of my friends who have ruined the vacation of many 'sjonnies' and 'anitas' in France by playing it real loud in the morning on a campsite filled with hangover kids. Ever since I listen a minimum of one RDJ product a week. Though it never got to become ebayism for me... |
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Selected Ambient Works II...Come To Daddy EP...both ends of the Aphex spectrum...both great...got hooked...end of discussion. 7\ |
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my first exposure was to Flaphead on the Digeridoo E.P in about '92 (Flaphead is still my fave track ever!), then rpgress to buying more vinyl including Digeridoo, Xylem Tube, AB1-4, Madreporic Plate etc.... First saw him live about 7 years later in 99 at the Finsbury Park festival where he played tracks from the Donkey Rhubarb era (while sitting in a wendy house with the cuddly bears fighting on stage - classic!!) it was a biblical experience :)) |
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i heard him on the nin - further down the spiral remix album. i was hooked. |
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Wasn't that Saturday mornings on ITV? |
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downloaded come to daddy by chance and like it, dled some other stuff and fell in love, started buying all the releases see mp3s are a good thing , otherwise i would have had no exposure to afx at all |
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I heard 'bouncin ball on Pi Soundtrack, but didn't think much of it. Later my friend let me hear ageispolis and I loved it. Gave me this sort of futuristic city vibe (the name also helped with that picture) and I went from there. |
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My friend bought SAW2 randomly and would play it on repeat when I would kick it with him. A few months later he bought windowlicker and played that for me. I started buying any aphex I could get my hands on |
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I heard my roommate playing SAW85/92 and i was all about "WTF!!!" Few days later i had my own copy - it actually sounded really good... |
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i heard windowlicker on the radio and recorded it on tape and was listening to it very much and then a freind bought classics and we satt an listen to it and we liked it know i got most hes realesed records |
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i remember how amazed i felt when i first listened to aphex (drukqs) I searched for reviews in the net and most of them said it was shit... i couldnt understand how the reviews said it was so bad when i liked it so much.... so that made me search for more information and thats how I found aphextwin.nu... and well, here I am |
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funny little man for me |
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a guy from school told me there was this amazing weird music guy, aphex twin and i was like huh aphex twin never heared of him so he let me listen to logan rock witch and thats how it happen |
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Didgeridoo--->Classics--->On--->everything I can get my hands on---> |
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first time: heard powerpill pacman, then saw windowlicker on TV, downloaded windowlicker than bought RDJ album. |
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i think it was with windowlicker but i remember i had heard of him before when he made come to daddy.but through windowlicker i discovered his music |
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1999 via a beck single on which RDJ did a remix. i thought it sounded really cool, used to play it all the time, but never bought an album 'til last year when i got into IDM. |
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Mmm the first time I heard Aphex Twin was in the early summer of '94, it would be probably have been late May or early June. I knew about Aphex Twin before that just because his name was mentioned often in the musical press and he seemed to have a sort of presence. Can't say at that time though that he stood out above other electronic artists necessarily because I'd never heard his music. At that time I was listening to the Orb and mainly Sun Electric which were on R&S and other stuff like Eat Static. I was into the Megadog scene and I noticed that Aphex Twin was playing at a few Megadog raves in the NME. So I guess thats probably how I became aware of him. The actual track I heard was Polygon Window's 'My Teapot' which was on a Select Magazine tape and it also had an excellent Seefeel track. And I guess thinking back I was more impressed with Seefeel than Aphex at the time. Then after the school term, I sold a bunch of CDs at the Buy and Sell in Camden and then as I recall I bought the first Seefeel record on CD. And at around the same time I persuaded my sister to buy SAWII as a secondhand tape. That was when I got serious exposure to Aphex Twin. |
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Here is my question to the Board though, what year did you actually discover Aphex? |
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first aphex experience: about 2 years ago, I used to be into Fluke's album Risotto before idm/braindance/whatever. On AG (*sigh*) there used to be "other users listened to:"-links on top of each page, so I downloaded a bunch of MP3's by aphex. Digeridoo, Girl/boy song, peek 824545201 and a few others. At first I thought it was all Casio crap, but soon they started to grow on me and the rest is history.... |
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