Aphex Twin Popularity.

Since RDJ has been releasing records since I was an infant. I wouldn't know what happened back in early 90's. My question is when did Aphex Aphex start getting big in the electronic music scene. I read that he did get alot of listeners though his Analogue Bubblebath 1 record when it was played on the radio, but when did the Aphex Twin fans really start pouring through?

  Five Step Path said:

Since RDJ has been releasing records since I was an infant. I wouldn't know what happened back in early 90's. My question is when did Aphex Aphex start getting big in the electronic music scene. I read that he did get alot of listeners though his Analogue Bubblebath 1 record when it was played on the radio, but when did the Aphex Twin fans really start pouring through?

95, the NIN remix.

  Needlenose said:

  Five Step Path said:

Since RDJ has been releasing records since I was an infant. I wouldn't know what happened back in early 90's. My question is when did Aphex Aphex start getting big in the electronic music scene. I read that he did get alot of listeners though his Analogue Bubblebath 1 record when it was played on the radio, but when did the Aphex Twin fans really start pouring through?

 

95, the NIN remix.

Really? Holy shit. haha

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95, the NIN remix.

if you are american.

but he was allover the NME in the early nineties in the UK. back when it was still relevant and sold tens (maybe hundreds) of thousand of copies a week.

he was also on national radio in early '93 - back when i was a boy i can remember lining up my tape on my old Alba stereo to tape the Sheffield Sound City gig @ hallam yoonie on Radio 1. I possibly still have the tape in my loft - its probably got mark f'in Goodyears voice as introduction but.

as you were......

Come To Daddy

Alba boys rmx

  Dragon said:

Come To Daddy

No way, im pretty sure way earlier then that...

Digeridoo

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..Xylem Tube E.P.

when he started getting big in the electronic music scene?

aphex created the electronic music scene m8

  Speedplay said:

when he started getting big in the electronic music scene?

 

aphex created the electronic music scene m8

K, then the better question would be. When was the time in his career when people started to notice.

While AB1 was his first "hit", it was the popularity of Didgeridoo that really set his career off.

i always read that he "arrived" in 93, but it was the NIN remix for me too.

  Dragon said:

Come To Daddy

sadly :undecided:

  Dragon said:

Come To Daddy

sadly :undecided:

sorry, posted twice. i'm gonna get shit for slamming come to daddy

no it's ok, it's a pretty shitty song

i don't get the CTD hate. what's so bad about it?

yeah why the hate?

anyway, you guys are talking about the song or the EP?

  qnio said:

yeah why the hate?

 

anyway, you guys are talking about the song or the EP?

The song, I'm sure.

I like it though.

:getlost:

come to daddy.

yes, considering this has been a career (of sorts) there's always been a growth in interest - coupled with regular dropping-out of interest, of course - but the major point at which you couldn't imagine people into "alternative forms of music" not knowing about aphex twin was in 1997. oh well. some of you got here too late :)

how can it be that the two worst tracks are the most popular?

edit: talkin about CTD & windowlicker

those tracks are for sure not the worst.

windowlicker is fuckin genius imho.

sometimes i really love windowlicker, but the next day i think its so boring... and the video is totally rubbish

  qnio said:

yeah why the hate?

 

anyway, you guys are talking about the song or the EP?

song. and it's weird ass "remixes". other than that, pretty good album.

the EP is alright, but the song is pretty average. i mean it's not a bad song, it's just not a great song. it's boring really, repetitive, not much going on the whole time. those distorted vocals, meh. the whole thing is meh. the end is amazing though.

As RDJ said, CTD started out as a joke. I imagine it's the kind of quality that he keeps unreleased because it isn't good enough (as opposed to the super-awesome unreleased stuff).

I think the "Little Lord Faulteroy Mix" is alright, but the fact that the "Mummy Mix" was released instead of, say, CAT023 really annoys me.