Aphex Twin How did you come across Aphex twin?

How did you originally come across Aphex Twin (or his other aliases) and how old where you?

simple really.

personality i saw windowlicker on late night MTV about 5 years ago and it just seemed to fill the void that my mind had vacant for such musical artistry and total originality.

When I was 11 I came around aphex thanks to a friend in Italy (a Bishop actually)

i bought the richard d. james album (u.s. version) in 1996 when i was 13, because i liked the cover

i only sorta got it at the time though, and didn't follow his career until i learned about squarepusher

fuck do i know

my babysitter let me hear windowlicker when i was 9.

heard 4 when i was about 11, liked it but didn't bother to find more tracks

heard drukqs when i was about 14, hated it

heard rest of RDJ album when i was about 16, then drukqs, and it all made sense!!!!

i found him behind the radiator when i was decorating

the "come to daddy" video, predictably.

  chaosmachine said:

the "come to daddy" video, predictably.

RDJ Album when I was 16

Picture of him in Q magazine in 1992. He looked cool. Actually it was this picture that got me interested in him over the Meat Beat manifesto remix which I heard in 1992. But I love that remix now.

i came across his face

Come to think about it I seriously don't know how I came across aphex twin all need to think about that one :ermm: ?

i can't recall. it was either

A) from the pi soundtrack

B) from someone uploading his trax to an mp3 swap server i used to run before p2p made that redundant

I have always loved Electronic music, my main thing is William Orbit but I wanted to hear more, and discover other electronic styles. Aphex seemed the next logical artist to collect.

Two years ago when I was 17 and listening to Radiohead a lot

bought Polygon Window in 1993 (i was 19) when I worked at a music store.

from this point on i vowed to buy every single thing that this Richard James person made.

i then bought On and '73 Yips' and 'Xepha' blew me away. i was then clamoring for the hard to get Caustic Window material.

also... i was able to hang out and watch him and luke play pool in 1997 at the Seattle show. i noticed he made beat and synth sounds with his mouth (kind of quiet like) while casually playing pool.

the only reason they let me hang out with them was because of the RePhlex shirt i made. Richard said it was "really wicked" and then asked if i had any quarters for the table. <<insert fanboy sigh>>

  cyphersum said:

i noticed he made beat and synth sounds with his mouth (kind of quiet like) while casually playing pool.

and vibert made sampler noises?

  hahathhat said:

  cyphersum said:

i noticed he made beat and synth sounds with his mouth (kind of quiet like) while casually playing pool.

 

and vibert made sampler noises?

no he was sampling.

  cyphersum said:

  hahathhat said:

  cyphersum said:

i noticed he made beat and synth sounds with his mouth (kind of quiet like) while casually playing pool.

 

and vibert made sampler noises?

 

no he was sampling.

i'm getting this image of vibert going around with an akai s2000 in a belt pak.

windowlicker on tv

so i was at this beach in cornwall and this guy played a song that was supposedly get us out of our ecstasy trance.

  xxx said:

I bet that RDJ is chintzy irl. He seems like someone who'll pickup his corduroys at charity shops, buy rotten fruit on special at Aldi's, and then buy a lead crystal synthesizer with ruby knobs and components of platinum all in the same day.

fucking lol

  boris said:

so i was at this beach in cornwall and this guy played a song that was supposedly get us out of our ecstasy trance.

Which song?