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Hi chaps, I had an enjoyable time last night in the pub telling some zitty faced kiddo how he didn't know what the hell he was talking about. Basically he said "Aphex Twin just regurgitates what has been done over the last ten years.." I can't be bothered to refute that here, I'm sure you can all see how this guy knows nothing. However, he did say one interesting thing: he claimed Surfing On Sine Waves was actually by "Apex's recording engineer". Now, although I think this is garbage, I wonder where he got this idea to squeeze into his one tiny brain cell. Anyone know the origin of this (or was he making it up)? Cheers! |
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i think he's taking the piss there mate what the fuck does RDJ need a sound engineer for?? i've never heard of him using or needing one in the past |
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i was that "zitty faced kiddo" |
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I hope so. I don't mind that at all.. except he was a mate of somebody I know who said he's a bit of a nob end, so I doubt it. I can see why it looks like a piss take from my post, but you had to be there. |
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well, from what i've read, RDJ has been making hardware synths since he was 13 does that sound like the kind of person who needs an engineer to work on his stuff? :) |
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there is no evidence that rdj has made his own hardware, not even by grant rephlex hype ? maybe/maybe not ? |
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i kind of agree with him about the regurgitation part.. well not completely.. rich's done quite a bit to change the face of "electronic music" but his styles are so spread all over the place that a little "regurgitation" of other music is impossible to avoid. one of the great things about rich is he can write in so many different styles/timbres and mix a few together to get something unique.. and it always has his touch that you can usually instantly recognise. for someone to vilify him as a total regurgitator would be wrong.. he's much more original and innovative than most other musicians of his popularity.. and every musician borrows sounds/style/ideas from other musicians.. unless they somehow lived their life under a rock composing their own "music" having never actually heard anyone else's music before. |
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well, i was just referring to the AFXFAQ that i had read i'm sure it was in there that i read it |
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even still, if a musician were to be confined to never having heard any other music, there would be some similarites obviously even if only tiny :) |
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yeah i remember that also, do you still have a linky to the 10 or so pages ? ii printed it off at home, but i wanna see it again.thanks. |
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i've found one, but it doesn't look like the one i read might be an updated version though |
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thanks, thats version 2,it appears none the less FILE/PRINT |
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Well, I think some aspect of regurgitation is implied in most art, however this guy was just being innane. I was originally talking to somebody else who asked me about Mixing It on Radio 3 so I said something like "They play everything from Partch to ethnic to Aphex etc.." At which point this guy butts in saying "Aphex is shit!" I simply asked why he thinks that and he starts ranting all this crap. Btw oscillik, I'm not considering whether some engineer did the album, I am wondering where such a story would have come from (unless he made it up) since it would be hard to take seriously enough to take hold and yet at the same time.. myth and AFX go hand in hand. |
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i know mate :) that's my point though i don't think RDj would ever use an engineer, regardless of whether it's to get him to assist with mixing or whatever, because he can do it all himself. that's why, imo, i think it's not very plausable that Surfing On Sine Waves could have been done by "AFX's engineer" because i don't think he'd ever use an engineer in the first place :) |
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don't be a square, everybody will work with a sound enginneer when the right time as come... (like mastering an album) |
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Tis bullshite. The only weird thing mentioned about the surfing on sine waves album was in an early future music interview where richard said the drum sounds had been updated as the orignal recordings sounded shit... but I think that was just more bullshit covering up the fact he didn't have a 909. |
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well... if he's his own sound engineer.. wouldn't that make the kid right? |
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Didn't Tom Middleton (one half of Jedi Knights) used to be the "other member" of Aphex Twin? Maybe he's gettng confused about that? |
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"a.k.a schizophrenia" |
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Was there ever a second member in "aphex twin"? First time I hear about that... (I tought "twin" refered to his brother, who died at birth... ) |
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second member?! nah.. isn't it mike and rich then?! |
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Yes... in the early days. From the Aphex Twin Faq: "Is Richard James really the only man in aphex twin? Yes, he performs completely as a one man operation on most of his albums, usually out of his home studio. But there have been instances where he has worked with other musicians, such as Mike Paradinas, of mu-Ziq. But this (excluding the collaboration with Tom Middleton on AB1)work is released under different names." The kid loopychoon met was probably regurgitating this and confused AB1 with Polygon Window (same period). |
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Tom Middleton has the same birthday as richard james. |
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and then richard went off with tom's girlfriend. |
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...above came from some trance europe express compilation (which came with a booklet of interviews). |
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Aphex had somebody program software for him. |
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