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         |  Aphexisatwin
             from your mom's room (United States) on 2003-09-27 05:35 [#00880440] Points: 2777 Status: Regular
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 | The year is 1906... and the President was the Devine Miss Sarah Burnheart.... and ALL around the country kids were
 doing a dance called "The Funky Grandpa".... oh I'm a....
 Zzzzzzzz.....
 
 Seriously, tho... It was Aphex that got me involved.... I
 must have been a softmore in highschool, I think... and was
 a HUGE grunge fan (A.K.A. I was dirty)... one of my older
 friends was into techno (Which I thought was a FAKE type of
 music at the time, cause I thought it took no talent to
 write....) Anywho... I heard come to daddy and I was
 hooked.... I listened to that album night and day... and
 started my foray into less convertional means of pleasing my
 eardrums.... I got into Industrial artists such as
 Neabauten, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto.... and of
 course NIN... From NIN I started listening to Nothing
 Records... which in turn turned me on to Autechre....
 Squarepusher... and other greats :) Anyways, that's MY
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         |  ambsace
             from canaDUH. on 2003-09-27 05:37 [#00880443] Points: 6326 Status: Lurker
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 | i was sitting in my uncle's car and amber was in his casette deck. "what's this?" "autechre." "what?" "autechre."
 "oh." and then i went home and bought the album.
 
 
 
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         |  Jedi Chris
             on 2003-09-27 05:39 [#00880448] Points: 11496 Status: Lurker
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         |  Phresch
             from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2003-09-27 05:41 [#00880452] Points: 9989 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag
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         |  big
             from lsg on 2003-09-27 05:43 [#00880457] Points: 24091 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag
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 | yes, i've heard about this "idm", but where was that? hahaha
 
 
 
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         |  Monoid
             from one source all things depend on 2003-09-27 05:45 [#00880461] Points: 11012 Status: Lurker
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 | Back in 1999, downloaded tons of cheesy commercial / Trance Techno tunes, withj NAPSTER. Got into Hard Techno,
 discovered other styles of electronic music through SLSK....
 
 
 
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         |  Monoid
             from one source all things depend on 2003-09-27 05:47 [#00880467] Points: 11012 Status: Lurker
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 | Currently Im really digging Nu-Breaks & Drum and Bass, last year it was minimal house ala Kompakt etc.
 
 
 
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         |  Aphexisatwin
             from your mom's room (United States) on 2003-09-27 05:47 [#00880468] Points: 2777 Status: Regular
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 | pls explain slsk to me ? neva heard of it b4 this site.... is there a DL page I can get this from ?
 
 
 
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         |  Murray
             from Southend, Essex (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-27 05:49 [#00880470] Points: 4891 Status: Lurker
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 | I was watching MTV Top 10 Banned videos. Come to Daddy was on there. Being a heavy grunge fan back then i fell in love
 with it.
 
 Bought the EP, loved it, Windowlicker came out...clinched
 it.
 
 The rest i found out through curiousity
 
 
 
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         |  TokyoJo
             from London now, not Tokyo anymore on 2003-09-27 06:15 [#00880488] Points: 615 Status: Lurker
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 | I liked the cover of SAW1 when it was first released... That changed everything. Before that I like the Levellers and
 Metallica.
 
 
 
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         |  blrr
             from the block on 2003-09-27 06:18 [#00880491] Points: 585 Status: Lurker
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 | cos Thom Yorke mentioned Autechre during he whole Kid A release interview promo period and I gave LP5 a shot. it was
 
 
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         |  princo
             from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2003-09-27 06:18 [#00880492] Points: 13411 Status: Lurker
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 | It discovered me in a dark alley behind a bar! :s 
 
 
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         |  Aphexisatwin
             from your mom's room (United States) on 2003-09-27 06:19 [#00880493] Points: 2777 Status: Regular
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 | that wasn't IDM, Princo.... those are called "Hookers" 
 
 
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         |  princo
             from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2003-09-27 06:21 [#00880494] Points: 13411 Status: Lurker | Followup to Aphexisatwin: #00880493
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 | Hehehe, oh really? I thought they were pretty friendly at first
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         |  Aphexisatwin
             from your mom's room (United States) on 2003-09-27 06:23 [#00880495] Points: 2777 Status: Regular
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 | aye, if it wa IDM, you'd have to be immediately turned off by it, and through gradual listening you'd like it more and
 more LOL.... Hookers are more of a turn on :P that should
 have been your first clue :P
 
 
 
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         |  JAroen
             from the pineal gland on 2003-09-27 06:32 [#00880497] Points: 16065 Status: Regular
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 | i made stupid music/song when i was 13, screamin into a mic and bending my voice over cheesy dance beats
 
 so a friend told me 'hey i know this guy who makes weird
 music as well.. 'so he made me listen to the rdj album.
 
 hooked.
 
 
 
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         |  rez
             from here on 2003-09-27 06:46 [#00880501] Points: 1366 Status: Lurker
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 | i read a review of drukqs in a magazine. I tried the album and i got hooked.
 
 
 
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         |  DirtyPriest
             from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2003-09-27 06:51 [#00880503] Points: 5499 Status: Lurker
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 | It was hidden under the bed. 
 The boring version: Saw come to daddy and come on my
 selector on television a couple of times, when i finally
 discovered i loved the music, ordered it from local stores,
 found this website, and all the other geeks reccomendations
 that got me into bogdan and venetian snares and so on. =)
 
 
 
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         |  promo
             from United Kingdom on 2003-09-27 06:51 [#00880504] Points: 4227 Status: Addict
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 | Hard to remember. I think it was around the time I started listening to Ozrics and Eat Static and John Peel. Someone
 introduced me to Sun Electric at school and things just went
 from there. Sabres, The Orb, Orbital then Aphex. Heard a lot
 really through John Peel. Heard The Black Dog and others
 through Peely. I then went out and bought Spanners. Man I
 was so chuffed to get hold of that tape and I played it non
 stop. The excitement was just too much. Heard a lot through
 Peely.
 
 Someone who was a major Techno and Hardcore head then
 introduced me to Polygon Window. At the time I didn't know
 it was Aphex until he told me it was. The most exciting
 moment was hearing Polygon Window. That will always be a
 very cherished moment. I was so blown away by Polygon
 Window.
 
 
 
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         |  Netlon Sentinel
             from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2003-09-27 06:59 [#00880507] Points: 4736 Status: Lurker
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 | saw come to daddy on mtv. had been looking for this kind of stuff, though i thought it was some sort of new age punk.
 went out to get the cd, came back with www.pitchshifter.com
 instead. their single 'genius', which i loved, came out in
 the same period.
 
 i got the ep a while later anyway. a year later i bought rdj
 album and then in the summer i bought icbyd, but that was
 mainly to do with the fact that i had heard that the
 smashing pumpkins were playing it before their concerts.
 
 kid a made me look for what i called 'industrial ambient'
 and i ended up with 'amber', which made me plunge into the
 apparent depths of idm idiocy.
 
 
 
 
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         |  electro
             from detroit on 2003-09-27 07:13 [#00880513] Points: 2880 Status: Regular
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 | i was into the dance and house music in the late 80's and early 90's...got into orbital with thier green album which
 is an introduction to all good things that followed  to IDM
 
 
 
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         |  Drunken Mastah
             from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2003-09-27 07:43 [#00880526] Points: 35867 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag
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 | i heard come to daddy. then i saw the video on mtv. then i saw windowlicker. then i downloaded flim.
 
 
 
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         |  DJ Xammax
             from not America on 2003-09-27 07:44 [#00880527] Points: 11512 Status: Lurker
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 | Windowlicker video. 
 It just hit me like 'This is the shit I should be listening
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         |  ThisIsntMusic
             from Long Island, NY (United States) on 2003-09-27 08:34 [#00880563] Points: 191 Status: Regular
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 | I was on a bass guitar forum and a guy recommended Squarepusher to me. I took it from there.
 
 
 
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         |  Dozier
             from United States on 2003-09-27 08:38 [#00880569] Points: 2080 Status: Lurker
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 | aphex's two tracks on further down the spiral prompted me to buy rdj album. and it was just
 continual exploration from there.
 
 
 
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         |  eXXailon
             from purgatory on 2003-09-27 08:40 [#00880575] Points: 6745 Status: Lurker
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 | Heard music from Risotto album by Fluke in WipEout 64, fell in love with their tracks, went to audiogalaxy (*sighs* the
 days...) to download them and on the Fluke page on AG it
 mentioned Aphex Twin as an artist other Fluke listeners
 liked. Downloaded aphex twin stuff, didn't think much of it
 at first, then got into it (Flim being the first aphex track
 I liked). The rest is history.
 
 
 
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         |  fleetmouse
             from Horny for Truth on 2003-09-27 08:46 [#00880584] Points: 18042 Status: Lurker
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 | I heard Add N to X and Plone on CBC radio one saturday night and started doing web searches - came across this great site
 with music reviews, discovered Warp artists, heard Boards of
 Canada samples on the Warp site, was instantly hooked.
 
 
 
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         |  Paco
             from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2003-09-27 08:59 [#00880599] Points: 2659 Status: Lurker | Followup to ambsace: #00880443
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 | I heard lots of different stuff on Future Music cover CDs. A remix of Silverside by AE called Silversub got me to buy
 Amber and then Incunabula. I also bought Orbital's brown CD
 and Kraftwerk's Radioactivity in the same week.
 
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         |  nobsmuggler
             from silly mid-off on 2003-09-27 09:49 [#00880641] Points: 6265 Status: Addict
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 | pulse records in horley england the bloke behing the counter played me some aphex twin and i
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         |  handoverthecart
             on 2003-09-27 10:17 [#00880658] Points: 2017 Status: Lurker
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 | i got into electronic music when my uncle gave me kraftwerk-radioactivity.  i guess the first 'idm' music i
 got was mouse on mars - iaora tahiti (also given to my by my
 uncle), but at that time i didn't know what idm was.  then i
 decided to join the columbia house music club, so i just
 searched on the internet for "electronic music" and out of a
 huge list i randomly chose aphex twin.  so then i ordered
 come to daddy and selected ambient works vol 2 without even
 knowing anything about them.
 
 
 
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         |  spoonz
             from Edmonton, AB (Canada) on 2003-09-27 10:20 [#00880661] Points: 3219 Status: Regular
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 | i am surprised at how many people started with autechre. 
 i heard 'windowlicker' and 'come on my selector' on
 muchmusic. a few months later those titles sprung to mind,
 get em off napster. found this site, looking for a discog.
 took it from there :D
 
 
 
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         |  warpphex
             from lurkston, ziltyland. (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-27 10:23 [#00880665] Points: 1372 Status: Lurker
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 | Back in 96 i was into trance & techno.I was browsing for some advent in the record shop when i stumbled across Rdj
 album i hadnt heard of him before but i bought it for the
 album cover alone! .
 That night my life changed and i had to go out and buy
 anything with warp writtern on it ,it became an obsession .
 
 
 
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         |  mashnote
             from mol (Belgium) on 2003-09-27 10:25 [#00880667] Points: 1098 Status: Lurker
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 | my aunt used to lend me those old compilation cd's with Members of Mayday & shit on it. I always liked that stuff..
 and later i got involved into hc/punk and the noise scene.
 thanx to tape trading i got to know stuff like merzbow,
 hermit,..
 and tried to make some noise myself.heh
 
 later an older friend of mine made some ambient/industrial
 tapes with fsol,etc.. on it.
 so i went to my local library and there was a copy of
 Autechre's Chiastic Slide & AFX's Selected Ambient Works .
 
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         |  roygbivcore
             from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-09-27 10:25 [#00880668] Points: 22557 Status: Lurker
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 | my dad bought saw 85-92 when i was in jr high. 
 and i was like "oh snap"
 mostly at green calx. think i'll put it on now.
 
 
 
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         |  roygbivcore
             from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-09-27 10:29 [#00880672] Points: 22557 Status: Lurker
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 | i remember looking up aphex in the dictionary 
 
 
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         |  pachi
             from yo momma (United States) on 2003-09-27 10:41 [#00880680] Points: 8984 Status: Lurker
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 | saw Come to Daddy on MTV back in 1997 and i was pretty much converted until recently.
 
 i've pretty much abandoned IDM these days save Autechre and
 been goin for underground hiphop.
 
 
 
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         |  plaidzebra
             from so long, xlt on 2003-09-27 10:45 [#00880684] Points: 5678 Status: Lurker
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 | i had been into things like kraftwerk, skinny puppy, severed heads, depeche mode etc. in the eighties.  in 1993 a friend
 gave me a mix tape with the black dog, autechre, polygon
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         |  Asche XL
             on 2003-09-27 11:30 [#00880718] Points: 4241 Status: Lurker
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 | I saw come to daddy on mtv in 97' like pachi. 
 
 
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         |  epohs
             from )C: on 2003-09-27 11:32 [#00880720] Points: 17620 Status: Lurker
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 | pomme showed it to me in his old ford thunderbird. 
 
 
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         |  roygbivcore
             from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-09-27 11:48 [#00880726] Points: 22557 Status: Lurker
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         |  pachi
             from yo momma (United States) on 2003-09-27 12:08 [#00880747] Points: 8984 Status: Lurker | Followup to Asche XL: #00880718
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 | i wonder if it was on the same day?? 
 
 
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         |  viktor
             from Uppsala (Sweden) on 2003-09-27 12:37 [#00880755] Points: 1129 Status: Lurker
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 | a friend of mine said that i should listen to windowlicker, beause i was into synth/techno music like chemical brothers
 and prodigy... i bought aphex records and then bought
 'ep7'... now, that was a real mind opener...
 
 
 
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         |  big
             from lsg on 2003-09-27 12:38 [#00880757] Points: 24091 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag
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 | aphextwin.nu 
 
 
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         |  rockenjohnny
             from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-09-27 12:41 [#00880760] Points: 7983 Status: Lurker
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 | skinny puppy here 
 
 
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         |  Ophecks
             from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-09-27 15:09 [#00880938] Points: 19190 Status: Moderator | Show recordbag
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 | Read about Aphex Twin in a review of Radiohead's Kid A... yes, I'm pretty new to this shit(e)... and I immediately
 fired up good 'ol Napster and downloaded Windowlicker,
 Kickass Violin Solo (lolzerz), Flim, Fantasia, and some
 other stuff. I remember I downloaded all the tracks that got
 high marks on some guy's AFX review site... can't find it
 now. Fond memories, yeah.
 
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         |  Dozier
             from United States on 2003-09-27 22:06 [#00881164] Points: 2080 Status: Lurker | Followup to Ophecks: #00880938
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 | kickass violin solo...yeah...i got that off audiogalaxy! hehehe
 
 
 
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         |  Refund
             from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-09-27 22:50 [#00881171] Points: 7824 Status: Lurker
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 | videogame music resembles IDM quite a lot, 
 I played a lot of games as a kid
 
 
 
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         |  mappatazee
             from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2003-09-27 22:54 [#00881172] Points: 14302 Status: Lurker
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 | I guess, first I heard Further Down the spiral, which features Aphex on it, but I didn't know anything about it
 then.
 
 My friend then saw the 'windowlicker' video on MTV and was
 talking about it at school the day after, but he didn't
 remember who it was.
 
 Then I guess I got into Coil and asked what other artists
 had good 'ambient' on Audiogalaxy, and Aphex Twin came up
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         |  Amnesiac
             from ERIE (United States) on 2003-09-27 23:35 [#00881185] Points: 2084 Status: Lurker
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 | CKY2K (skate video) has "Come to Daddy" in it.  I downloaded it and listened to it non stop.  It took me a while to get
 into the actual IDM but after I bought Drukqs I was hooked.
 
 
 
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