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offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-14 09:01 [#01072960]
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mine was spanners by black dog. i remember getting this on
cassette from Andys Records in lincoln when it first came
out.

at the time, which was 1995 i think, all of my mates were
into raves and the like and i used to go along as well. i
put it on in the car on the way to one of these raves,
everyone looked rather confused at me. i was told to turn it
off because it was "undanceable."

what was the first record you purchased of the
electronic/idm music thingy?


 

offline Oddioblender from Fort Worth, TX (United States) on 2004-02-14 09:02 [#01072961]
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Aphex Twin - Richard D James album, purchased it in 2000,
shortly after graduating high school.


 

offline ChildrenTalking from United States on 2004-02-14 09:03 [#01072963]
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RDJ Album. i remember the first time i bought it i thought
it was the most stupidest thing i ever did. hahah then a
couple weeks later i would put my head against the speakers
just to feel the bass!


 

offline PigeonSt from Detroit on 2004-02-14 09:05 [#01072964]
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Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

got me started off on the right foot and it's still my
favorite of his


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2004-02-14 09:07 [#01072967]
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come to daddy, 7th of december 1997. a birthday gift from my
girlfriend.

can't remember what the first idm cd i bought with my own
money.



 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-02-14 09:09 [#01072969]
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Ae Incunabula '93
and still the unbeatable IDM album for me


 

offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2004-02-14 09:10 [#01072971]
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come to daddy on 12"


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-02-14 09:13 [#01072977]
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don't remember...all i can think of is that i bought bjork's
debut when it came out in 93 i think...not really idm tho.


 

offline acidwash from detroit (United States) on 2004-02-14 09:13 [#01072978]
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polygon window surfing on sine waves got me. then all the
artifical intelligence comps that came out shortly after
stirred my interest in other forms of electronic music other
than detroit techno.


 

offline blowfield on 2004-02-14 09:15 [#01072981]
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come to daddy, as far as i remember on 2001


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2004-02-14 09:17 [#01072984]
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RDJ Album


 

offline aphexchrist from philly (United States) on 2004-02-14 09:30 [#01073007]
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RDJ and I CARE BECAUSE YOU DO.

it was the only aphex this record store had at the time, I
was in tenth grade


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2004-02-14 09:54 [#01073046]
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Bytes or Amber, these were the two first. Then Incunabula
and the Warp A.I. CDs.



 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-02-14 09:59 [#01073055]
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Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92, I think


 

offline handoverthecart on 2004-02-14 10:05 [#01073069]
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The first IDM albums I purchased were Come To Daddy
and Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II, simultaneously.


 

offline aquagak from Berlin (Germany) on 2004-02-14 10:06 [#01073072]
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in early 2001 i bought singles collection


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offline cuntychuck from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2004-02-14 10:07 [#01073075]
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early autechre, and i hated it.. can't even remember which
one it was.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-14 10:09 [#01073079]
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Aphex Twin - Richard D James album

I still remember what it felt like after i listened to the
entire album. Laying there, relaxing and letting Boy/Girl
shred through the quiet surroundings in my house.

After hearing that song it was over. I became a huge fan!


 

offline leonid_olusegun from outside your window on 2004-02-14 10:12 [#01073083]
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saw II.


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2004-02-14 10:21 [#01073102]
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RDJ album

becuase I heard windowlicker,.. and RDJ album was the only
legit afx cd I could find


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-14 10:32 [#01073117]
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808 state - newbuild
agcg - hot lemonade
lil louis - - from the mind of
s-express - soundtrack
tyree - tyree's got a brand new house

most stuff at the time was 12" rather than album oriented


 

offline danbrusca from Derbyshire (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-14 10:38 [#01073121]
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I don't remember exactly, but it was something by Autechre.


 

offline nacmat on 2004-02-14 10:39 [#01073122]
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1998 -lp5

but I gave it back to the shop and changed it, cos I didnt
like it at all

1998 - mhtrtc

I liked it but it didnt make me wonder about idm or the rest
of BoC, it was like an island

2002 (january)

drukqs

this was my real introdution into idm


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2004-02-14 10:40 [#01073125]
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chiastic slide.
upon first listen i thougt: wtf!!!!????
by the time the second track started my cat must have
thought the same and ran out my room (probably because of
the highpitched sounds)
cipater was the first track which started to make sense.
after that the rest of the album soon followed and i got
hooked



 

offline nacmat on 2004-02-14 10:44 [#01073127]
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of course I bought lp5 again in early 2002... and its one of
my 3 fav ae releases (I have most of them),


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-02-14 10:49 [#01073130]
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um, so you actually had taste in music back in '98? 8-)


 

offline nacmat on 2004-02-14 11:03 [#01073139]
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lol

back in 98 I listened to massive attack, tricky, portishead
and lots of british and spanish pop


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-14 11:06 [#01073144]
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enrique ingleseas?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-02-14 11:08 [#01073145]
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"massive attack, tricky, portishead"

there you go...brilliant
(btw, i was listening to same music at that time)
i love the fact that you didn't like autechre then 8-)


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-14 11:12 [#01073151]
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is there gonna be a new portishead album this year?

i don't think i could name 3 more similar artists if i tried


 

offline Combo from Sex on 2004-02-14 11:14 [#01073153]
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My first IDM album ( i mean the first i bought ) was also
Richard D. James Album : i couldn't stop playing it for a
month. =)


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-02-14 11:17 [#01073156]
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i think so...but they said that for the last year too.

anyway, you know a band called denali? it's also melanholic
music and the singer has similar voice to beth. they don't
use as much electronic sounds as portisehead tho.


 

offline nacmat on 2004-02-14 11:19 [#01073159]
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no, when I mean pop, I mean kind of underground pop

los planetas
la buena vida
le mans
el niño gusano
manta ray
sexy sadie

nothing that ever surpassed spanish frontiers


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-02-14 11:20 [#01073162]
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Richard D. James Album. Doesn't seem cool to praise that
thing now, but I still think it's excellent, and it's aged
wonderfully.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-14 11:26 [#01073167]
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underground pop? isnt that an oxymoron?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-02-14 11:32 [#01073177]
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well, if you're into underground music for a long time, you
probably start thinking of some bands as pop...maybe :)


 

offline nacmat on 2004-02-14 11:36 [#01073178]
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how would you catalogue.... lets say... Pulp?

wouldnt you say its pop?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-14 11:40 [#01073182]
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indie maybe? they were part of that scene, they became quite
popular for a while when they started to write catchy pop
tunes. then after they went back to doing what they were
doing to start with.


 

offline tlink from sofla (United States) on 2004-02-14 11:44 [#01073189]
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Richard D James Album (US Version)


 

offline rez from here on 2004-02-14 12:31 [#01073254]
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Drukqs (2001), still my favourite idm album.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-14 12:54 [#01073273]
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Fantastic choice!


 

offline WeaklingChild from Glasgow (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-14 12:58 [#01073277]
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Brothomstates - "Claro"


 

offline Sempoo from Barlinek (Pluto) on 2004-02-14 13:03 [#01073283]
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That was AE' Amber - then I went to Dark Woods listening to
Foil...
Portable music systems are some kind of a blessing!


 

offline ymenard on 2004-02-14 13:07 [#01073287]
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My first IDM album was...



...

AE's Peel Session 2 !

It was cheap, and it was just after I read about Thom Yorke
linking AE to his Kid A record. It was released in Nov.
2000, just after Kid A I think, so that's why it was easily
available in stores. It was alos cheap.

I hated it!



 

offline ATSoLe from NYC (United States) on 2004-02-14 13:22 [#01073295]
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I bought Richard D. James in like 1998. I had a drawing
teacher who said the sounds were like a jackhammer dancing
on his skull. If I was a throwing out or selling cd kind of
guy i probably wouldn't have it now. I could say the same
thing about the Pixies "Doolittle" (bought the same week, I
think) and now I own every pixies cd there is.


 

offline onecaseman from Chicago (United States) on 2004-02-14 19:48 [#01073615]
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Geogaddi the day it came out. Heard "Everything You Do Is A
Balloon" on the net in summer 2001, and that was my intro to
IDM. Downloaded mp3s until Geogaddi came out, then went on a
buying spree not long after.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-02-14 19:54 [#01073618]
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Chiastic Slide


 

offline uviol from United States on 2004-02-15 03:27 [#01073830]
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wow.. it's amazing how many people claim RDJ Album as their
first IDM purchase. Incidentally, it was mine too. Bought
it in either summer of 97 or 98 when me and my cousin were
shopping with his mom for school supplies. My cousin bought
the Cardigans - First Band on the Moon and I bought Aphex
Twin - RDJ LP. What an amazing purchase.. I kinda knew what
to expect, but in another way it was completely new. I'll
never forget that first listen when the wonderful opening
chords of '4' blasted through my Walkman. Ahhh! :)


 

offline azatoth233 from tku (Finland) on 2004-02-15 04:00 [#01073881]
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first was Drukqs, but it didnt get me into IDM music..i just
bought it cuz i wanted some different music...later i bought
Go Plastic, thinking it was something jazzy..as somone had
recommended me Music is Rotted..when i was looking for some
fusiony-jazz, and Squarepusher sounded interesting to
me..and boy was it a surprise to when i listened to it for
the first time...it triggered me to find some other stuff by
him..and dloaded a few tracks of Hard Normal Daddy, which
blew me away..also about the same time i started to listen
to BoC...and here i am..posting stupid posts on some
messageboard..and spending a fortune on records...damnit...


 

offline pf from Finland on 2004-02-15 04:16 [#01073895]
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For me it was WindowLicker that i heard in a MTV commercial.
Then i downloaded that as a MP3, but in 2002 when Druqks
came out i bought it. When i first played it i though, wtf?
i spent 24¤ on this?. But after a while it did grow on me
and now i love it. The next purchase was Go Plastic because
the track "Red Hot Car"... 2 years after i have a bunch or
records and i'm addicted.


 


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