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no ..but hes just repeating his crazy breaks shits..and in the same time squarepusher does them better. |
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no.. but at least he had his time. unlike most. |
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his music seems so much more personal than any one elses...Also, everything I hear by him just rings GENIUS to me, I can't explain why but it does. So yes he's still my favorite. |
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AFX has released some very good stuff in the past, I use the word "past" cause it has been a while ago since he released some stuff, I even like some songs from drukqs, but is he my favourite? The question: "is AFX your favourite artist?" is kinda of a question I can't answer emmediately by screaming "YES, HE IS!" cause he has released some good stuff in the past and there are many other artists who release(d) good stuff to. If I had to compare all the songs from AFX that I like, with all the songs from other artists, it would be to hard to tell he is my favourite artist; I like many artists, (AFX is one of the favourite out off +/- 50 favourite artists), I'll be listening till daylight next year to answer the question correctly. No; AFX is not my favourite artist who walks or has walked on the planet's surface, never was never will. At the moment my favourite artist is; nacmat; cause he has created a beautifull topic. I do like AFX' stuff so maybe he will be my favourite afterall, but my doubts are so big I'm almost sure he won't . But why did you buy "music has the right to children" at the time, what were you listening before you got into AFX? cause I can't imagine it wasn't electronic music. |
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still. neverr was. |
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rdj is my favourite musician, yes. although i prefer music by quite a number of other people. but if i he wouldn't get me into electronic music i doubt i'd ever discover all these brilliant musicians. dunno, if this makes any sense...it does to me. :) |
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i don't think he's ever been my favourite. |
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yeah, well, that's coz you suck. :-) |
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my girl's nipples listening to gescom or something, and thinking of you. |
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that's probably the nicest thing anyone ever told me. thank you. |
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you must think so highly of me. |
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here, a moment of honesty: i do. |
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and back to you sir :) |
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AFX is what got me into modern electronic music , i always wrote it off until then , i was a die hard "live" experimental/alt stuff purist [sonic youth , boredoms , black dice etc ] but his music just had /has amazing melodies , crazy exciting beats and just a real character , which is what i find lacking in alot of electronic stuff. yeah its just sad that he refuses to release alot of stuff , i can't blame him really though , it's his choice really , i guess he just cant be assed with being this whole phenomenon with lots of people who know fuck all about music just getting his records because aphex is such a by- word for "cool". |
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"aphex is such a by- word for "cool". " really ? still? |
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the first time i heard aphex twin's music was quite a strange experience. it was on new year's eve, the tv was on, tuned to mtv's party zone (before the time it started to suck badly). at some point something very brtual and agressive started, accompanied by the most amazing video i had ever seen. yep, "come to daddy". i was really stunned. this made me search for aphex's music everywhere i could and found with incredible efforts a pirated copy of "ventolin remixes"... and it was quite a downer. i really liked just 2 or 3 tracks. after that i found other afx releases and while some of them appealed much to me, i found some quite inadequate and some even crap. he never got to be my favourite. still, something makes me like him. probably the attitude of the sort "i do whatever i like, you may like whatever you want". but i could never like him more than autechre. |
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I believe the word genius is used a bit lightly in this thread. especially in silly capital letters. |
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to nacmat, Hello, Well, Richard never was my all-time favourite like Supersilent, Leila, Autechre, Plaid, Mouse On Mars, Bjork or Solex or , hmmm.. tujiko noriko but he was my favourite artist during a year or so.. i think he is still one of the best artists around and he's the Genius ! I mean, real one !!! That is important ! Maybe his Drukqs album sucks (yes, I don't like this album except for piano parts but I think Tori Amos can do better) but I still respect him.. (i'm sorry for my poor english....) |
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"But why did you buy "music has the right to children" at the time, what were you listening before you got into AFX? cause I can't imagine it wasn't electronic music. " __________________________________________________ in thos eyears I listened to massive attack, portishead, tricky... I went to a shop and they had the first leila album and they mentioned tricky in the review of the album so I bought it, as I loved the album I went back to the store and bought another one that had good feedback in the store and that was mhtrtc |
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what was the last album you enjoyed just before you bought drukqs? can you remember? |
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let me think |
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well to me it does seem it is still the case that aphex is still just cool to name drop for some twats or just get to claim to be beardy , i know its just as bad to go on about these people ,but i've encoutered a few , and they are twats. i wish he would just make his next warp album noise smojphace style. |
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I cant remeber really but I am sure it was leila´s courtesy of choice, cos I bought it the xmas of 2001-2002 I was also very much into tricky (blowback album) and dj shadow´s endtroducing |
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i see...hmm, quite a drastic change then. and btw, happy 21k :) |
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Leila's 'Courtesy of Choise' is really great ! i think it's my faviourite album of all time ! But i didn't like Tricky's "Blowback" at all. It's too commercial for me. i prefer his "Pre-Millenium Tension" |
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yeah, i love couple of tracks from courtesy of choise. leila is definitely one of my favourite people on rephlex. as for tricky, my fav is angels with dirty faces...all songs on this one are brilliant. |
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RDJ is OK I thought that come to daddy album was a vector for the next album. I thought guy will become popular.... like bjork or something...Then windowlicker came out... heh.. I was like OK freaky... but then drukqs came out... a great dissapointment... That is when I found watmm's community.... It was a dissapointment too... druqks simply sucked cock and then it was done for cashe (24 remixes). just too many dissapointments As I progressed in music making, I realized how simple somet things were and that complexity was all in my head. It was all in my head... world I liked never existed... I grew up. |
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If you're going to say genius, like I have, and mean it, like I did, then it needs to be in capital letters, alright? |
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Aphex was my favorite, back when I still haven't heard much else. Nowadays, I just have different favorite artists depending on my mood. Each of my favorites contributes something to the whole spectrum of sound/emotion/etc... Think of them as each a window on a very large wall, and each window shows a different universe. Its hard to pick a favorite window. "Stars of the Lid" is really really NOT good. Faux ambient. I cannot recommend it at all. I find Brian Eno to be so much better. Bah, but SAW2 only has a few good tracks on it anyways. I'll shut up now. |
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Polygon Window. |
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But nacmat, I thought you said Confield was your all-time favourite album? ___________________________________________________ Anyways, I think that Aphex is the one artist that I can claim really got me where I am today in terms of my music tastes. Sure, not all of his stuff is brilliant, (I for one despise the Come to Daddy mini-album and the track itself as well) but to me it all reflects a pure art form that is so personal to him nd his experiences, but also personal enough to reach out to those listening to it, that it really moves me. I don't listen to his stuff all of the time, and I haven't listened to any of his albums for months (I am only revisiting them now - re-experiencing them), but it all sounds great to me, the pure roots of IDM And the other night I was thinking that Drukqs may very well be my favourite piece of music of all time - I can't even begin to describe the nature of this album. So I guess yes, he is my favourite overall. And I'm happy for it to be that way. |
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yep, my favorite |
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as with most peopel, he was my introduction into "idm" (blech, how i loathe saying that.... maybe) and was my favorite (electronic) artist for quite awhile. now, ive grown to love autechre much more, although drukqs still stands as one of my favorite pieces of music of all time. |
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confield is still my favourite all time album yes but aphex is not an album |
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no, Aphex never was my favourite. I now like SAW I & II a lot, and don't know if there is an artist whose music can compare to SAW in it's kind. He's one of my favourites, but not first among them. |
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autechre's stuff has a random, fractal quality, even though they say they program note for note lots of times. They make cool sounds, but Afx's stuff is so we'll planned. More musical. Draws me in and brings me back way more often. |
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when you say "More musical" you actually mean "more melodic"..? because otherwise that statement makes little sense. |
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ok, more form and structure, more anticipation for things to come. Probably a product of being brought up on pop music. Sure, melody. |
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yeah he still is and always will be even if he release shitrecords in the future, he "introduced" me to the world of IDM and therefore he will always be one of my favourites |
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It's really hard to say if he is my favourite. Probably not. But I think the most important thing about Aphex to me is that i really got into electronica and idm listening to him. I think Aphex was an artist that made music really ineresting for me. Before that it was nice songs i listened to, there wasn't anything... well, anything really touching in the songs (except for good lyrics sometimes), but in case with Aphex it's not lyrics, it was music that made me feel really touched or something. Another thing about Aphex is when i started listening to his music i explored that he already had a really huge back catalogue, and it was really nice for me to search for his older releases and find precious gems in them. Like, so much great stuff already was there when i started listening to idm/electronica, so it wasn't about new music, it was old music sounding really lush and better than most of the new stuff. It was great. Still, he is probably one of my favs, but I don't listen to his music very often now. But when I do listen to his [older] stuff now I feel really nostalgic. Heh, now it's like visiting your grandparents that live in another city - you don't see them often, but they still are very nice people and you love them. But Drukqs kinda disappointed me. Can't wait for his new stuff. |
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In terms of respect and the influence of his music: Yes In terms of my own personal taste: No, I like other artists just as much, if not more now |
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Aphex Twin remain always my fav, 'cos I can't forget how good are his previous works. Anyway in the last year I listened his music really few times and this isn't a good signal. I'm really disappointed with him, 'cos he's really too lazy and now i'm starting to become tired of this story. I think many ppl starting to forget about him and I think he's not the only one KING more. I remember after Windowlicker ep all persons spoke about AFX, and in that period started forum as www.aphextwin.nu, www.joyrex.com, www.theaphextwin.com, etc... Aphex was the only one king, and all persons waited for a new amazing LP. Now things are differents... it seems many ppl starting to forget about him, there're really few topics about AFX now and there isn't more a aphextwin site like in the past (aphextwin.nu is xltronic, joyrex is watmm, and all the others sites seems vanished) Is the legend of Richard D. James near to the end? I would be sad if it's true... |
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a legend never ends |
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WooferAttack, maybe it's for the good. When most ppl DO forget about him and he will be back with some most mid-blowing ass-kicking LP of all time!? =) Well, I'd be happy if it happened this way... 'cos he deserves tons of respect imo |
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Aphex still rocks. To be honest I too have neglected listening to him as my mood has been more acoustic lately, but even so when I hear his stuff I still hear a depth of understanding that many other artists don;t seem to have. It is a something sublime and perhaps even genius. As much as I love Boc, æ etc they can get quite frustrating in that they don;t manage Aphex's chameleon qualities. |
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one thing is certain though, no one comes even close to what he's able to do live. |
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No. What do I win? |
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Hahaha. |
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yes. |
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Aphex is still my favourite. I only discovered him this time last year, so he is still really fresh in my tastes. I am quite annoyed that he isn't making anything new at the moment. He's still young and should be out there taking down all the other artists. In my opinion he is the mother fucking daddy of IDM. My dream will be for him to release a new album within the next year and go on a world tour. Also I think he should go to Glade next year. Because I haven't been into IDM for very long I haven't found some one who has bettered Aphex. My two other favourites are the standard, Squarepusher, Autechre and BoC. |
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