post your favourite aphex stories.

We used to blastthe Aphex out across the schoolyard so all the little'uns could hear the likes of Come To Daddy etc.

Our teacher subsequently stumbled shocked into the classroom and gave as a disturbed telling off and 'what the hell was that crap we were playing so loud' and to turn it down immediately. He gave us a very weird scared look upon leaving the classroom.

I had such hopes for this thread based on the title. Especially the "made up" bits.

TRY HARDER WATMM.

One of the best stories I ever heard was years ago when I first got into Aphex. Something about Japanese woman was buried with her Aphex Twin collection! I guess she was a bit fanatical. Though wether it's true or not is anyones guess LoL.

One of my fave Aphex stories that I always thought was made up turned out to be totally true.

There was some interview where they asked him how he treats his obsessive fans or something like that and he said he takes photos of them and puts them in his database.

So I have this friend who went to art school in Cornwall and he always claimed to see Mr Twin about town. I refused to believe him & accused him of making the whole thing up. So he goes and gets the footage off his mate's cameraphone to prove it. Sure enough, the first thing Mr Twin does, after laughing at the antics of stupid drunken art students, is whip out a camera and start photographing them all.

Not that this would stop a gang of pissed-up art students, but it did actually seem to me to be quite a sensible thing - though I suppose it goes to the heart of British Surveillance Culture. You will BEHAVE if you think you are being filmed.

Anyway that is a stupid story. Now tell me some funny ones.

i got run over by a tractor in my living room, and flim happened to be playing

I killed a man as I was listening to 4

burning your prized possessions while listening to funny little man

the water baloons thrown at Ministry of Sound's crowd always look epic to me

I actually met RDJ before... briefly!

It was in 1997 outside of the Vic in Chicago after he performed with The Sneaker Pimps.

His buddies were stuffing their bear suits into the tour bus when he came out with a steel suitcase (I'm assuming for his laptop).

I couldn't think of anything to say to him, so I just gave him an alien toy I got out of a gumball machine. He said "Thank you very much" and smiled.

That's it.

True story.

  On 1/25/2010 at 10:57 PM, jefferoo said:

I actually met RDJ before... briefly!

It was in 1997 outside of the Vic in Chicago after he performed with The Sneaker Pimps.

His buddies were stuffing their bear suits into the tour bus when he came out with a steel suitcase (I'm assuming for his laptop).

I couldn't think of anything to say to him, so I just gave him an alien toy I got out of a gumball machine. He said "Thank you very much" and smiled.

That's it.

True story.

cool story, bro. i figure he really is a nice guy.

I asked my friend E about RDJ today in the pub, if he could remember any good stories from his Warp days.

E smiled mysteriously and said "he owes me a rabbit!"

I will leave you to imagine the circumstances.

(caveat: I have never met him. I never want to.)

  On 1/25/2010 at 6:17 PM, Masonic Boom said:

So I have this friend who went to art school in Cornwall and he always claimed to see Mr Twin about town. I refused to believe him & accused him of making the whole thing up. So he goes and gets the footage off his mate's cameraphone to prove it. Sure enough, the first thing Mr Twin does, after laughing at the antics of stupid drunken art students, is whip out a camera and start photographing them all.

There was a video like that on youtube. One of the guys said something like "why are you photographing me? You're famous!" Wish I could find it.

  On 1/25/2010 at 11:51 PM, Rabid said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 6:17 PM, Masonic Boom said:

So I have this friend who went to art school in Cornwall and he always claimed to see Mr Twin about town. I refused to believe him & accused him of making the whole thing up. So he goes and gets the footage off his mate's cameraphone to prove it. Sure enough, the first thing Mr Twin does, after laughing at the antics of stupid drunken art students, is whip out a camera and start photographing them all.

There was a video like that on youtube. One of the guys said something like "why are you photographing me? You're famous!" Wish I could find it.

Ha ha, that might indeed be my friend.

I felt a bit sorry for Mr Twin except he seemed very good natured and quite amused by the whole thing.

  On 1/25/2010 at 11:51 PM, Rabid said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 6:17 PM, Masonic Boom said:

So I have this friend who went to art school in Cornwall and he always claimed to see Mr Twin about town. I refused to believe him & accused him of making the whole thing up. So he goes and gets the footage off his mate's cameraphone to prove it. Sure enough, the first thing Mr Twin does, after laughing at the antics of stupid drunken art students, is whip out a camera and start photographing them all.

There was a video like that on youtube. One of the guys said something like "why are you photographing me? You're famous!" Wish I could find it.

Ha ha, that might indeed be my friend.

I felt a bit sorry for Mr Twin except he seemed very good natured and quite amused by the whole thing.

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:03 AM, Masonic Boom said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 11:51 PM, Rabid said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 6:17 PM, Masonic Boom said:

So I have this friend who went to art school in Cornwall and he always claimed to see Mr Twin about town. I refused to believe him & accused him of making the whole thing up. So he goes and gets the footage off his mate's cameraphone to prove it. Sure enough, the first thing Mr Twin does, after laughing at the antics of stupid drunken art students, is whip out a camera and start photographing them all.

There was a video like that on youtube. One of the guys said something like "why are you photographing me? You're famous!" Wish I could find it.

 

Ha ha, that might indeed be my friend.

 

I felt a bit sorry for Mr Twin except he seemed very good natured and quite amused by the whole thing.

lol I remember that very video! the guy filming says "I'll follow you on Facebook" (Myspace or something) and Afx says "You will. But it won't be me "

As for the guy who mentioned the Japanese woman that was buried with her afx collection!!!! is that honestly true???? (quite curious as I read the same story when I first got into afx years ago so its a bit coincidental)

Funnily enough I remember when I was lurking around the Warehouse Project there was a Japanese woman that stood there all day with some flowers, eventually she was let in to see Rich funnily enough!!! (so who knows where the rumor started)

I remember when Rich walked out round the corner (in front of the queue) at the WHP and it seemed like only me and my mate recognised who he was. It was amusing for that, and the fact that where he was heading HAD to be the Burger King round the corner (nothing else there, no hidden entrance or anything lol)

  On 1/25/2010 at 11:51 PM, Rabid said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 6:17 PM, Masonic Boom said:

So I have this friend who went to art school in Cornwall and he always claimed to see Mr Twin about town. I refused to believe him & accused him of making the whole thing up. So he goes and gets the footage off his mate's cameraphone to prove it. Sure enough, the first thing Mr Twin does, after laughing at the antics of stupid drunken art students, is whip out a camera and start photographing them all.

There was a video like that on youtube. One of the guys said something like "why are you photographing me? You're famous!" Wish I could find it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXCBmkLzzh8

lol

one time i was taking the garbage to outside and my grandma was washing the cum off her mustache and i was like, lol, this reminds me of that time i was joining a gym membership and richard d james the man took my information and put it into the laptop computer and i was like, whoah, wait a sec, why do you need my social security number? and he was like, you'll see. months and weeks later i get a call from "brian tregaskin" asking if i could ok a large transaction on my bank and i was just like, yeah sure no problem but it turns out it wasn't even something i bought but it was a bank vault that aphfx bought with my social security number and my checking account routing number and shit. i was just like, whatever, that's cool. in the end i use his bank to do all my transactions; they have a well wicked policy about atms and shit.

true story.

then the ae boys came by and we were totally jamming on old analogs when their mate comes in and he's like, "i'm thom from squarepusher" and he fucking whips out this mental bass guitar riff and the tube amps and vintage high fi gear was rumbling and shit. fucking crazy night. richard was there of course.

I was listening to Cock/Ver10 during a drug trip ...

I had a 2 hour conversation with the guy who screams " Come on you cunt, let's have some aphex acid" .. at the end of the conversation he said " By the way, I'm Richard .. THE Richard"

  On 1/26/2010 at 4:07 PM, Willemjan said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXCBmkLzzh8

jesus christ the guy speaking sounds like a right fucking twat...

"i'm gonna find you on myspace and like, really annoy you" (said in an extremely annoying, aren't-I-so-funny-but-actually-I-really-am-going-to-try-and-find-you-becasue-i'm-a-fucking-idiot voice).

i'm impressed that aphex was seemingly so nice to them. i wouldn't have been.

Ha ha, I wanna ask my mate now if he knows that this vid has gone round the internet.

(I'd think he made it up, except for the fact that he appears so clearly in the first few frames of the vid. Don't think he's the one speaking, though.)

It's just drunken excitement. I think most people act like idiots when they meet "famous people" to be honest.

two times ago i was sucking richards penis and when he was blowing it i fucking heard some one shouting "COME ON MY SELECTOR" at the same time and i was like wait, woah. i swallowed, pulled up my pants (i had been jacking off my dick) and turned off the Prodigy album we were digging. i walked up the stairs, into the attic and placed myself into the cedar chest that richard bought for me as a home. when i awoke the next day to paincakes and frenchtuss i saw a fresh analord binder waiting for me, in each slot of which i found a pancake version of the LPs.

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One time a kid used "this song by the aphex twins called Outside Kick-Ass Violin Solo" during a school presentation. Seriously.