Aphex Twin How did you come across Aphex twin?

My older brother played me "Girl/Boy Song" and "Flim" back in 1998. I was 9 and it was great.

  saikobjorn said:

My older brother played me "Girl/Boy Song" and "Flim" back in 1998. I was 9 and it was great.

 

Now you're 20 and You can sit down on a chair with Your grandchildren near a fireplace and tell them how it was in the ''old times''

A program where they were talking about the Come to Daddy video and how it was revolutionary/the next big thing. I soon forgot about it and the next big moment was when I saw the Windowlicker vid, although I only really started to look into Aphex when I saw 8mm and really digged the track the bad guy was playing (Come to Daddy again).

Edited March 12, 2009 by Nidhogg

found an mp3 player jammed in the seat cushion of a transatlantic flight with almost 300 brilliant tracks. it was labeled "unreleased aphex twin songs." I was hooked.

i downloaded some mp3s or something

went over to this boys house when i was like 14 and he introduced me to cunningham which introduced me to richard and the gang

 

we always have a good time hanging out together. sean especially gets silly.

  vasio said:

MTV, ON and specially Donkey Rhubarb video.

 

"On"

First Aphex song & video i heard/saw.

 

Was on some late night MTV program that started at 1am... forgot what it was called tho. mid-nineties.

 

then I heard come to daddy for the first time on a bus ride to michigan from portland... we stopped in Montana, and picked up a girl that played a cassette for me with Come to Daddy on it, followed by "tiamat" heh.

 

 

saw the "on" video on mtv when i was 16. happily ever after...

i heard outside kickass violin solo by the aphex twins and then i got into breakcore

through someones post in a "now playing" thread about 5 years ago, it was a track from drukqs, and the sdkgurks-like title made me curious.

I was watching a music video show hosted by Trent Reznor. He referred to Richard as "the master of sound".

Barnes & Noble, saw the RDJ album in 2006, swiped it under those listening stations with headphones... listened to the CD on the way back from the store. Mind melted.

about ten years ago, sitting in my girlfriends room when i was at university. a group of us did some mushrooms and someone put one of his albums on... don't ask me which, my mind was coming out of my face at the time.

This cd I bought back in '96. I went to the cd shop where I bought 'Classics' immediately afterwards, and copied ICBYD from the local library.

  On 10/9/2009 at 6:42 AM, Phrank said:

about ten years ago, sitting in my girlfriends room when i was at university. a group of us did some mushrooms and someone put one of his albums on... don't ask me which, my mind was coming out of my face at the time.

 

My uncle has Selected Ambient Works 2 and I listened to it when I was 7. It was like, totally sweet.

I heard Alberto Balsalm on Youtube.

Probably windowlicker or come to daddy video

I was chilling with grandmother, who is really into classical music (seriously, she knows her shit), and I asked her if she could play me a kick-ass violin solo. After pulling on my ear and scolding me for my language, she put on the tune that eventually gave her a heart attack the last time she took LSD.

A friend of mine told me about him then proceeded to link me to the Donkey Rhubarb video. I was not impressed, then months later I stumbled upon On, Windowlicker, etc. I was pulled in.

I miss joyrex here :)

 

mine is:

 

a friend gave me speedy j - G Spot and Autechre - Amber on cd 12 years ago so I discovered aphex later on

My brother had "Classics" on vinyl and ripped it on a cd for me (replacing the last live track with "On"), I didn't listen anything else for a long time, that's when I saw Windowlicker on mtv and I wasn't the same since. The end. But then Drukqs came out and I wasn't the same since. I also discovered the internet as well, and through Selected Afx Loops, joyrex.com/watmm and xltronic I discovered the majority of his work and because of kazaa also his fakes, so then I decided to buy everything original, which is still a money robbing hobby of mine.

I enjoyed DJ Irene's jumpstyle remix of the Tetris theme so much, I looked for similar songs on limewire. Found Pikachu Motherfucker by Aphex Twins and after that I was hooked. The alignment of the pikachu sample with those subtle, post-hardcore rave gabber kicks still blows me away.

Everyone seems to neglect "Homer's Donut Odyssey"...

Saw Come to Daddy video, was totally an enthralled 7th grader. Friend bought Come to Daddy single, and Boy/Girl EP which was often the soundtrack to our Magic the Gathering matches. Bought Richard D. James shortly thereafter.

 

Thought the whole time the music was too weird to actually enjoy, thinking it was avant-garde (or at least a 7th grader's idea of avant-garde). Now I think it's still avant-garde and now I actually enjoy it, like, genuinely (like, a lot).