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what got you into aphex ?
 

Digiphex from philly on 2001-08-01 19:59 [#00019158]



who or what go you into aphex twin?


 

PearlsGirrl from chi-town on 2001-08-01 20:26 [#00019161]



the first time i heard rdj was when MTV's amp album came
out like 5 or 6 years ago- girl/boy song was on it.
i was hooked instantly :o)


 

Organ Grinder from my own little fantasy world on 2001-08-01 20:40 [#00019165]



The COME TO DADDY video:

i first saw it on an mtv show called 12 Angry Viewers ---
you know, before MTV SUCKED.

But the first Aphex album i bought was RDJ Album --- i still
love it. I've been addicted to aphex ever since...

speaking of addiction... i think i'm having withdrawals!!!
*EEEEEEEEEEEE, twitches, goes to explore and listens to
Every Day*

aaahhh... that's better.


 

-J- from California on 2001-08-01 20:43 [#00019167]



Come to Viddy. Saw it, was shocked, wanted more...
Discovered that everything he did wasn't twisted, just
interesting and often kick-ass. Was overjoyed.

Am now hooked...spending money I DON'T have on rare releases
that one CAN'T find anywhere this side of the UK. Yea...


 

Clobe Smith from over here on 2001-08-01 20:55 [#00019174]



my eclectic friend bobby, who i believe got started on it by
the come to daddy video.

(12 angry viewers is the reason i got ok computer. they did
karma police and one of the guys on the show said the album
was like their dark side of the moon.)


 

hevquip from an egren's coffee shop on 2001-08-01 20:55 [#00019175]



a friend of mine was into electronic music, so i decided to
see what's so great about it. i ordered some aphex twin from
my cd club. i didn't think much of the rdj album at the
time, but then i saw a clip of come to daddy on mtv and got
into his stuff heavily after that.


 

=|R3FL3X|= from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 2001-08-01 22:24 [#00019212]



My friends brother was playing Analogue Bubblebath 1 and I
enjoyed it greatly. Then I asked if I could borrow some
stuff From AFX, now that I remember more clearly, he gave me
an AFX mix cd he had made. Then I got Ventolin from him. And
loved it ever since. I loved the creepy, really weird shit
first.


 

dadonck on 2001-08-01 23:30 [#00019221]



i saw his face on i care because you do album...
thought extroverted rocker
long time later bought come to daddy...
thought introverted tecnoist


 

Loogie from UK on 2001-08-01 23:44 [#00019223]



HMV just happened to be playing Analogue Bubblebath while I
was shopping, back in June 93.
Then shortly after went to see Orbital in Brighton, and
Aphew Twin and Drum Club were also playing. I ended up
liking Aphex more than Orbital...
Richard was completely obscured from view by a mass of wires
and um ...machines. His dancer was the focus of attention.


 

Loogie from UK on 2001-08-01 23:58 [#00019224]



Sorry, Aphex, not aphew!

P.S. Does anyone collect tickets? I still have the ticket to
that gig.


 

Stone from San Antonio, Hell, U.S.A. on 2001-08-02 00:22 [#00019225]



Bucephalus Bouncing Ball on the Pi soundtrack.

Stone.


 

digitalbubblebeth on 2001-08-02 01:32 [#00019229]



a friend of mine had the Xylem Tube single...then I got
SAWII...between those 2 cds I smoked away much of my
freshman year.


 

pezzyhead from florida on 2001-08-02 01:45 [#00019233]



My friend showed me the video for Windowlicker, and I was
hooked. I borrowed Come To Daddy from him and I really liked
the tracks Flim and IZ-US. Then I found out that Aphex did
On, which was a favorite of mine when I was little. I heard
it on the show, The Real World.


 

rob fragilenine from a warm place on 2001-08-02 03:36 [#00019235]



The first AFX song I heard was Come To Daddy (the video).
About 3 months later I saw the Windowlicker video, but what
really got me into his music was the song Alberto Balsalm. I
heard it on a radio special on an Australian band
(Regurgitator), and they picked Alberto Balsalm as one of
their most inspiring songs. About a week later, I tried to
scrape some money together to buy SAW85-92.


 

Zet on 2001-08-02 04:41 [#00019237]



Being a huge Radiohead fan reading comparisons for there
upcoming albumn Kid A to Aphex Twin dedided to find out what
was Aphex Twin.

First song I ever heard was Cornish Acid. The sound was
unusual but familiar. Got Windowlicker, me a rocker... blown
away! I now find popular music as interesting as white
paper. There's no turning back and I love it!


 

DAVE from Munich on 2001-08-02 08:27 [#00019268]



MTV

Back in 1995 I was watching this old dance show where also a
lot of crap was played.

But suddenly came the ON Video and that changed my Life.
From than on I started to search for the Twin and till know
I got a nice collection of some of his tunes.

Richard in the Sky with Diamonds


 

Dodecha from Norway on 2001-08-02 12:05 [#00019314]



I used to listen to prodigy alot, and i heared these aphex
twin remixes, and i thought they were good, and so i
downloaded a couple afx songs, liked them and bought a
couple of cd's


 

Dirty Priest from Denmark on 2001-08-02 16:10 [#00019360]



Come to daddy video.

Somehow it was like fate didnt want me to get into aphex
twin. i saw come to daddy video and searched for the twin
Everywhere. i then finaly saw a copy of SAW I, i listened to
it in the shop, and didnt buy it! i then later bought
classics, but it had the wrong cd in it, and it wasnt
exchangable. then i tryed ordering "i care because you do"
in some stupid local shop, and waited 9 months for it!
in that time i had bought "classics" (my least favorite).
and moderatly liked it. but i continued. only after i saw
the wonders of internet shopping, did i get what i was
searching for "come to daddy". now thats my second least
favorite aphex album! well at least pappy mix. i have
evolved since.
=)


 

Def Jux from Rolled Bass on 2001-08-02 16:17 [#00019361]



Hearing Didgeridoo on a 'ardcore mixtape, and having my
fucking head blown off... At the time it was the fastest
tune in the world.


 

radiowerkshop from canada on 2001-08-02 17:04 [#00019365]



i got the rdj album for free. with one of those stamp cards
at a used record shop,not knowing anything at all about him
just thinking the cover was cool. and hell why not it's free
and if i don't like it i can take it back and get another
anyway. haven't looked back i think i was like 15 or 16 i
was listening to a lot of indie rock at the time. that
record turned me on to an entire new world.


 

visionofpanic on 2001-08-02 17:42 [#00019371]



Heard digeridoo with a belly full o shrooms, i was into
death meatal at the
time
Im not anymore.
the song blew me away

but lucky i was tied to a piece of twine and
and i was caught floating over NewGrange


 

walt from europe on 2001-08-02 18:44 [#00019381]



once (1997 or 98) saw the come to daddy in tv, thought it
weird, but actually i didn't get into aphex because of that.
i'm a great fan of philip glass, so i read an article about
his collaboration with aphex on 'icct hedral'. I got the cd,
and finally i liked donkey rhubarb and pancake lizard just
as much as icct hedral, and any piece by glass (parallel to
this i got to know dj shadow's endtroducing through a friend
- she played that cd to me and i thought it fantastic. and
so i was more and more interested in things like electronic
etc). then i listened to ctd in a record store and i loved
flim, come to daddy (mummy mix) and funny little man at
once.


 

)(ePhA88|Tony3.0beta from my m|nd on 2001-08-02 21:34 [#00019407]



i've always like electronic music... i've known that since i
was ten. but most of my friends in high school were rocker
d00ds. one day i was at the record store and a stood at the
start of the "techno" aisle... I asked my friend if he
could recommend anyone... he happened to have seen the Come
to daddy video on MTV... so i bought that album... had no
idea what it would sound like... after hearing FLIM... it
was all over. that was about three years ago i believe


 

Thiefofalways from Germany on 2001-08-02 21:48 [#00019412]



Saw come to daddy on German MTV at like 3 am, went out and
got RDJ album in Frankfurt the next day, been hooked ever
since. When he screams at the old lady, still gives me
chills, wish I could make that face....


 

Lars Lars from Bærgen on 2001-08-02 21:50 [#00019413]



Chris Cunningham and "Windowlicker"

http://www.director-file.com/cunningham


 

Phobiazero from Sweden on 2001-08-02 21:52 [#00019414]



Xepha88 is back! Welcome back telephone-answer-guy... :-)


 

4 on 2001-08-02 23:08 [#00019419]



I was listening to an interview with Beck (one of my
favorite artists) on the radio around the time when midnite
vultures came out and he was asked which artists impressed
him. He said Aphex Twin. The next day, I listened to the
Come To Daddy ep at a record store and was immediately
hooked.


 

Benny46290 from NC on 2001-08-03 01:37 [#00019439]



5 years ago, I found a tape, I went to my buddies house
after school, he had some codine and mescaline, I took both
and put on the tape for fun. some shitty techno, then some
pretty good Jungle filled the first side....about the time
when the codine had already kicked in and I started to get
that excited feeling from the Micro Dots the first side
ended, then came a "MilkMan" followed by Film....wow! it
punched my trip up a several levels... there was more too
almost the complete "come to daddy" album was on there......
it was Esctacy. After that day I was never the same,
somehow I changed ... guess thats what you go for though,
you change what people see and the way they see it. new
worlds can be seen in your tracks, I believe in a uniform
theory, the one Einstien belived was out there, something
that will bring all science together, well I belive it has
to do with sounds...acid lets me see the shape of sound and
what it really is....u seem to understand its power and do
things that with it that well intreg me...
thanks for making great sounds


 

o_O from sebum on 2001-08-03 05:04 [#00019448]



save your lint guys. trust me.

in canada we dont sit on chairs they sit on us.



 

Aron? from Canada on 2001-08-03 05:54 [#00019452]



so true


 

boxrocket on 2001-08-03 06:26 [#00019453]



i've been an insomniac for a long while now, and one night
in '97 i was up watching mtv's "amp" because i couldn't go
to sleep. come to daddy video came on, and i was just
shocked (i hadn't gotten into any electronic music yet, and
the most of what i listened to was hard rock). i kinda just
stared at the screen with my jaw on the floor trying to
figure it out. i wasn't sure what to think, but i knew i
loved it, and i went out and bought the album. took me a
while to digest it, as i wasn't used to electronic music of
any form, let alone this form, but i've grown to love aphex.



 

Naphex-Male from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-08-03 06:50 [#00019458]



I had heard of Aphex Twin for years...but like a lot of
people, I was listening to mostly D&B, house and trance
music. It was about 3 years ago that I was sitting at my
sister's place getting very stoned from this killer bong and
she goes, "Hey I have this really crazy video!" It was
Windowlicker! I sat there and I didn't know what hit me. I
was blown away! I have been listening to him ever since...in
fact I am listening to "4" from RDJ Album right now! I
burned the Come To Daddy cd yesterday...I wanted to hear the
whole thing in one go you know? I have been listening to
strictly Aphex for 2 weeks! I am going to purchase SAW1 & 2
pretty soon as well! Well ya that's my story...peace!

I listened to some Pink Floyd a couple of days ago...."The
Narrow Way" is my fave Pink song right now....later!


 

Super Magnetic Neo from Australia on 2001-08-03 12:11 [#00019500]



I seen the Come the Daddy video and loved it. Some time
later I seen On and loved that too. I always liked Aphex
Twin after that even though I didn't own any CD's.

Now a few years later, 10 CD's later he is my all time fave
artist ever and I can say without any doubt no one will ever
come along that I will like more.



 

*melack. from bcn on 2001-08-03 13:27 [#00019511]



myself
i saw come to daddy video and i like it, well not really
like, its just i need something different and rich was
really weird.
then i left my chair and bought ICBYD.
At first i dont really like it, but two years later i
discover it was the best album i had ever bought.
it was more than music...
it could manipulate my mind and i was amazed...



 

MagicDog303 from Denver, Colorado on 2001-08-03 15:23 [#00019540]



Digeridoo was my very first mp3 download, in 1996 from a
well-known-in-it's-day Hotline server! The rest is history.


 

João Evangelista from Portugal on 2001-08-03 15:27 [#00019541]



The Donkey Rhubarb video. I was 15 at the time and the video
really freaked me out.


 

evolume from seattle, washington, usa on 2001-08-03 18:44 [#00019566]



NIN
at the heart of it all

oh and drugs



 

Naphex-Male from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-08-03 22:23 [#00019597]



NIN "was" cool


 


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