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Mr. Bighead from Coolidge,AZ on 2001-03-12 05:18 [#00000921]



for big minds...

Which composer, artist, musician or what ever does everyone
think RDJ is most similiar to?


 

popwilleatitse1f from B.C., Canada on 2001-03-12 07:35 [#00000927]



i would say the only artists that is as close to as
tallented as Aphex is Trent Reznor or Billy Corgan


 

MC Phuqhead from Frankfurt/Germany on 2001-03-12 09:56 [#00000934]



I would say Tom Jenkinson. (aka Squarepusher)


 

phiz from Amsterdam on 2001-03-12 10:16 [#00000935]



Richard Stilgoe!!


 

viktor from Sweden on 2001-03-12 17:32 [#00000954]



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...

...and Autechre is Beethoven...


 

Mr. Bighead from Coolidge, AZ on 2001-03-12 18:12 [#00000955]



Heh
I had a dream where rich told me he wasn't mozart, he was
salieri.


 

sic from holland on 2001-03-12 18:27 [#00000956]



Bertrand Desnoir!


 

Scary Bear on 2001-03-12 18:27 [#00000957]



I would say Thom Yorke. Massive Attack in general are a
fantastic group of musicians. John Lennon. Oh and that dead
classical guy Scriabin.

RDJ has a lot of stuff in common with these artists.
Something they all have in common is that they like to
evolve their music, they don't want to be on the same plain
for too long.

Massive, RDJ and John lennon have experimented with
different substances which have influenced the direction of
their music, and not necessarily in a bad way. Massive's
collaboration with 'Mad Professor' is claimed to be one of
the best weed albums ever made.

Radiohead were definitly influenced by alcohol when making
OK Computer and possibly Kid A but they did not use it as a
means of creation, I don't know if RDJ specifically used
acid for musical purposes either.

Anyway, there is some stuff on Scriabin somewhere else on
this site. The guy created the mystique chord, much like RDJ
made his own instruments. He also based some of his work on
feelings, like RDJ made Ventolin for the feeling of asthma
attack, Scriabin made the Dark Symphony which Scriabin
refused to play afterwards because it gave him nightmares.

I stopped listening to the Nine Inch Nails and the Pumpkins
after a couple of years, I used to be a really big fan. I
never disliked any releases my brain just started rejecting
it when I found better sounds. But hey that is only a
personal point of view, I'm not trying to say they are shit
or anything, I don't follow them anymore. I am going to see
if I can come up with anyone else...


 

Id Lab from www.brakehorse.com on 2001-03-12 18:44 [#00000960]



Maybe Stockhausen - enigmatic, iconoclastic, extremely
innovative, and alive... except Aphex is much more fun to
listen to.

No-one's done visual artists yet. Maybe saying Picasso is
hyperbolical, but Picasso did come up with a new way of
seeing things. RDJ's sense of humour might make him more of
a Duchamps or a Schwitters - yes, one of those two. Duchamps
would have loved Tamphex and all the psudonyms; Schwitters
would have been impressed by To Cure a Weakling Child and
Ventolin. Add a bit of Damien Hirst / Tracey Emin New Brit
Art, but without the huge ego, and H R Giger for the
alt-youth-cult status and Come To Daddy.

Talking of Come To Daddy, Chris Cunningham is the perfect
equivalent to Aphex in video form.


 

think from lincoln,ne on 2001-03-12 22:47 [#00000969]



ill have to also say trent reznor, but not billy corgan, hes
kool but not SUPER-KOOL


 

Mr. Bighead from Coolidge, AZ on 2001-03-13 00:39 [#00000978]



duchamp would have dug the teddy bears and female body
builders. picasso would have probably smoked a cigar with
himand had a glass of Cognac.

Mozart would have definitely made something very similiar to
Aphex. I think Beethoven would have been in a league of his
own. Even more crazy than Autechre.

Who knows though?


 

Tekn010G from australia on 2001-03-13 02:16 [#00000984]



Future Sound of London is similar in my opinion


 

Mr. Bighead from Coolidge,AZ on 2001-03-17 16:16 [#00001109]



So I had a dream where the twin said he was Salieri. Then I
find out that Salieri and him have the same birthday. August
18th right? That's Salieri's birthday too. Sort of bizarre.


 

o-ghap from wünderland on 2001-03-17 18:25 [#00001110]



he is kind of similar to the o-ghap,i´d say..


 

offline Frag from New Jersey (United States) on 2002-12-28 11:49 [#00493661]
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Possibly Squarepusher. He is the most accessible after you
really get into Aphex.


 


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