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is aphex your favourite musician?
 

offline hanal from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-22 16:13 [#01641284]
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hey man,or woman,really nice artwork,i like get the kitty


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-22 16:44 [#01641310]
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i'm not sure musician's the right word... well, as i say,
I'm not sure.

i'd call him a producer rather than a musician, but i guess
you'd say that was pedantic.


 

offline OK on 2005-06-22 18:38 [#01641448]
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well at least is the one I admire the most.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-06-22 19:12 [#01641481]
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Not even close, never was. But I do think he's pretty
FUCKing good. Maybe in my top 30-40 favorite artists or
something, but nowhere near my number 1.

I barely listen to him anymore but it's not because I'm
bored of it or anything, I just ration it. I'm still
impressed and stimulated everytime I put on vordhosbn or
girl/boy or w'ever.


 

offline penexpers from Toronto (Canada) on 2005-06-23 05:38 [#01641606]
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I will always love Aphex for his genius music and the fact
that he introduced me to the IDM world.

But the fact is, noone makes better music than Autechre.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-06-23 05:47 [#01641624]
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he was my fav electronic artist until analord.


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2005-06-23 06:18 [#01641645]
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no he is not my favourite musician


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-06-23 06:39 [#01641656]
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he was in my top 5 ever since i bought my first ricky
record, but hes never been one.

i cant tell you my number one, its too embarrasing :(


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2005-06-23 07:13 [#01641675]
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he was my favourite back in the day, but there's just so
much more variety now that I've discovered so many more
artists.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-06-23 10:09 [#01641816]
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he's not even my favourite electronic musician. i remember
about 15 years ago he did some good songs. i think
polynomial-c was the name of one of them.


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2005-06-23 10:34 [#01641865]
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c'mon it's nothing to be ashamed of. tell us!

so i can laugh myself silly


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-06-23 10:36 [#01641867]
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2 unlimited


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2005-06-23 10:45 [#01641883]
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kind of ironic (don't you think). because they were limited
to only a one hit song. but in a way their suckyness was
unlimited so i guess the name kind of works, if you look at
it that way.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-06-24 01:11 [#01642568]
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he is my favourite yeah, but analord had nothing to do with
it..it was a bit weak overall imo.
there's a lot of awesome music nowdays, but not many come
close to aphex.


 

offline zero-cool on 2005-06-24 03:40 [#01642696]
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WHAT THERE ARE OTHER IDM/ELECTRONIC MUSICIANS OTHER THEN
APHEX?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-06-24 03:44 [#01642709]
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yeah, there's some fellow named polygon window, but the
rumour is that might be aphex as well.


 

offline nacmat on 2005-06-24 04:04 [#01642736]
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liking aphex makes me feel old


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-06-24 04:05 [#01642737]
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in that case consider britney!


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-06-24 05:06 [#01642779]
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oh all right.

bentley rhythm ace


 

offline nacmat on 2005-06-24 10:54 [#01643144]
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saw 1
surfin
on
ab3
icbyd
saw 2
habs
drukqs

so many memorable moments


 

offline Sepix from Major City (Austria) on 2005-06-24 11:04 [#01643150]
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still, and with analord even more, i respect the man a lot

though the fanboy times are over *g


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2005-06-24 11:04 [#01643151]
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yes, it is, until the end of turn.


 

offline impakt from where we do not speak of! on 2005-06-24 11:35 [#01643163]
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Yep


 

offline axion from planet rock (Sweden) on 2005-06-24 14:33 [#01643289]
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no but he was

he most produce some more really good music to gain the top
spot once again.he cant live on old merrits anymore to be a
top artist


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-24 15:28 [#01643321]
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he never has been my favourite really, I place him in the
average to good category of my mental music critique with a
slight leaning towards shit on occasion.

I thought he peaked around "RDJ LP" and I really liked SAW 1
& 2 when I first heard them but his music never really has a
really lasting effect on me, it's not robust enough to
withstand repeated listens over a very long period of time
IMO and gets old very quickly, he's got the advantage that
he's so prolific but I prefer quality over quantity any day.


 

offline VirtualBrain from Milan (Italy) on 2005-06-24 15:33 [#01643323]
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yeah!


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-06-24 16:24 [#01643343]
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No. Right now its still a tosup between richard devine and
phoenicia.

Autechre running in the top 5.

Aphex used to be my favorite about 5 years ago.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2005-06-24 16:32 [#01643346]
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aphex has slipped down in my books. still love the cunt mind
you.


 

online recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2005-06-24 17:35 [#01643398]
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wankshot !


 

offline stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2005-06-24 18:11 [#01643429]
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yes


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-24 18:12 [#01643430]
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yes!


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-24 18:12 [#01643431]
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when I say "yes", I mean no.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-06-24 18:14 [#01643432]
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when I say I mean "no", I really mean "oh GOD no!".


 

offline stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2005-06-24 18:22 [#01643442]
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i love drukqs just like harry haller loves the magic flute


 

offline scup_bucket from bloated exploding piss pockets on 2005-06-24 21:42 [#01643488]
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I'm going to say yes, not so much because he's my favorite
musician, but because it's contrary to what soundguy said.


 

offline nacmat on 2005-06-26 16:47 [#01644609]
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I think aphex has donea lot for electronic music... analord
is just a nostaLgic turn, but it shows lots of quality,
thought nothing new.
i ENJOY IT A lot... but I think this is like a goodbye
release


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-06-26 16:50 [#01644615]
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To this thread, I say this:

No.


 

offline nacmat on 2005-06-26 16:51 [#01644620]
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you say no, like: aphex is not my fav

or you say no like in:
this thread sucks


 

offline darkpromenade from Australia on 2005-06-26 17:40 [#01644679]
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SAW I will always be an important lp for me, but having
listened to a lot of his other stuff recently, I find him a
bit hit and miss. When he is good, he is fantastic, but i
feel there is a lot of filler in some of his
releases...........

So is he my favourite musician, no. Ae take that spot,
beacause of the quality they have produced at each stage of
there career.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-06-26 18:19 [#01644705]
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Everything Richard does/did, I found someone else that
does/did it better. But he's sort of a jack of all trades.
One of the things I'll remember fondly is how interesting it
was to dig through his discography all those years ago, very
educational. I'm sure it was that way for some other younger
IDM n00bs. Very eclectic, a good hub into all kinds of
genres and sounds.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-06-26 18:20 [#01644706]
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It's all inclusive.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-06-27 01:17 [#01644843]
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"but I think this is like a goodbye release"

right..i'll go kill myself now..


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2005-06-27 02:43 [#01644884]
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sad thing is... he's probably right! :'( !!!!!
i'm wearing my aphex t-shirt. it's such a nice fit. love it.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-06-27 02:58 [#01644900]
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what makes you say that? his best is yet to come, im sure of
that..he's only getting better with age!!


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2005-06-27 03:03 [#01644906]
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what music will he make in his 90ies?
interesting question... And the looks.. what will 90 year
old RDJ look like?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-06-27 03:07 [#01644908]
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i doubt he'd be still making music at that age (although
it'd be great), but i KNOW he'll be making great stuff in
his 50's and i can't wait to hear that..it's going to be the
new 'futuristic' john cage type of thing or something.


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2005-06-27 03:13 [#01644916]
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good reason to carry on living and earning money to be able
to buy it or download or hear live.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-06-27 03:15 [#01644920]
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it's quite a reason yeah :)

btw, i'll see him live this thursday if something doesn't go
wrong..


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2005-06-27 03:19 [#01644922]
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it gets old very quickly?

are you for real? compared with whom? how the fuck does
windowlicker or vordhosbn sound like it was made last
decade? sorry but bollocks.


 

offline broken phillip on 2005-06-27 03:39 [#01644951]
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Q. is aphex my favourite musician?
A. no

yes he once was.
and now id rank autechre over him.

i first discovered aphex with the trance europe express volume 1, 4 x vynil
mega pack back in the strange and beautiful days of 1993.

it came with a cool booklet that talked about some guy that
had his own tank.
the track on that record was a special version of analogue
bubble bath 3.
before that id only heard trancy and house type techno.
so yeah that was something quite different for me.
another trip to the same record store and the guy there
recomended me - - > Caustic Window - Joyrex J9ii
i listened to it in the store and thought wow..
this stuff is awesome.
did not know that it was also by mr. tank engine RDJ.

later on i found copies of:
*donkey rhubarb
*on
*ventolin
*saw II

and other such classics.
i did not no that such techno was called IDM back then.
all that i knew was that it was special and very different
to any other stuff that i had heard before.
he seemed to be trying to do something different to what
else was around at the time or at-lease something different
to what i had access to, to hear at the time.
breaks. balls out hardcore like his mixes of Mescalinum
United / mover - we have arived. and yeah.. coz it was vynil
you could play it at what ever speed you wanted.. ahh the
joys of vynil..

anyway.. he will always be a special artist to me.
he changed the way i thought about techno being just
dance music to being something fully experimental.
soundscapes or just audio buggery.
we would not have an xltronic.com without him.
and autechre and definately warp records would not be where
and what they are today with-out his music.

thank you Mr. RDJ. you have changed my life and im sure many
others for the better..

big up : )



 


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