Aphex Twin Geographical mapping of track titles

  On 7/23/2012 at 5:45 PM, drukqs11 said:

i wonder why he named a song 'Lisbon Acid', it's the only big and instantly recognised city in all of that.

 

As far as i know, he has only played once in Portugal in November 2000 (it was in Lisbon), but still, trying to put myself in the brain of mr. Richard himself, and i lived for a year in Lisbon 3 years ago, i don't see any special feature that could catch his mind:

 

electronic music scene is the typical south european/ibiza/you name it style.

drug scene is the usual stuff if you are into the drugs subculture: you can get anything you want pretty easily, scoring drugs is at a phone call distance with home delivery service included sometimes.

 

i can only see, if he cares about it, the weather that is a million times better then the UK.

OR... he either composed a song there (an acid one at that), or decided Libson was memorable enough of a visit to name a track related to it?

Either way, it's neat to see the geographical inspiration behind a lot of his tracks.

Someone should do this for BoC as they have a lot of geography-inspired tracknames...

  On 7/23/2012 at 5:57 PM, Joyrex said:

OR... he either composed a song there (an acid one at that), or decided Libson was memorable enough of a visit to name a track related to it?

 

Either way, it's neat to see the geographical inspiration behind a lot of his tracks.

 

Someone should do this for BoC as they have a lot of geography-inspired tracknames...

Yeah, true, or he simply spinned his globe and stoped with his finger and it was on top of Lisbon :D, still since it's a out of the usual RDj naming portfolio and it's a city from my country, made me wonder why.

why is this pinned??

edit : Aussois is a village in France

best track ever btw

Wonder where he was when he made 'Cunt'.

Why is this pinned?

  On 7/23/2012 at 6:14 PM, drukqs11 said:

  On 7/23/2012 at 5:57 PM, Joyrex said:

OR... he either composed a song there (an acid one at that), or decided Libson was memorable enough of a visit to name a track related to it?

 

Either way, it's neat to see the geographical inspiration behind a lot of his tracks.

 

Someone should do this for BoC as they have a lot of geography-inspired tracknames...

 

Yeah, true, or he simply spinned his globe and stoped with his finger and it was on top of Lisbon :D, still since it's a out of the usual RDj naming portfolio and it's a city from my country, made me wonder why.

Well most of his track names seems to revolve around Cornwall, where he grew up...

  On 7/25/2012 at 5:32 PM, mcglockers said:

Wonder where he was when he made 'Cunt'.

 

Why is this pinned?

This was pinned as it's legitimately interesting, and something Aphex Twin fans can actually use to learn more about the tracks they like.

really interesting thread, glad this was bumped!

did Rich have an interest in ancient Greek/Roman culture? going by the location track names for SAW I (and then there is Ptolemy as well), always made me wonder if he was a history buff

Good thing this thread is pinned.

the logan-rock, ruglen holon

  On 4/9/2010 at 9:34 PM, StocKo said:

Damned ! I always thought that the word "Gumpas" had something to do with the monsters in Super Mario Bros.

I thought it was just a play on Oompa Loompas?

I, too, am amazed that Goon Gumpas is a place.

  On 8/19/2012 at 9:50 PM, Redruth said:

the logan-rock, ruglen holon

ctrl+shift+v dude

cilonen

I was amazed - whilst watched a world from above episode that showed the south coast of cornwall - that saint michael's mount wasn't about mont saint michel. Who'd of thought that there'd be two of them ! I wonder if the cornish one was built by normans as well. I'd look up which came first but i'm too busy right now.

There is a peninsula called Lizard on the south west tip of Cornwall.

Just watch Doc Martin for all your Cornwall needs

A21 Lichen:

http://goo.gl/maps/A9fec

Steinfjord:

https://maps.google.no/maps?q=Steinfjord&hl=no&sll=59.893855,10.785116&sspn=0.441208,1.496201&oq=steinfj&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A

lol

Gwely Mernans:

http://goo.gl/maps/todgk

A song about the aquatic flock of grandmothers that inhabit the reservoir

  On 5/1/2014 at 2:07 PM, psn said:

Steinfjord:

 

https://maps.google.no/maps?q=Steinfjord&hl=no&sll=59.893855,10.785116&sspn=0.441208,1.496201&oq=steinfj&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A

that is a Long, Loooong fucking tunnel. Cut into a mountain!

I was just looking at the anagrams for Lisbon Acid.

Many are viable.

Aids In Bloc is definitely possible.

Cabin Idols

Bad Silicon

Albino Disc

Silica Bond
Social Bind

Lisabon Dic

I need to know where jazzphase is locateed

  On 6/18/2014 at 9:25 AM, Phoenix said:

I need to know where jazzphase is locateed

You have Clayhill in the wrong place.

It's here where he stayed during his electronics degree.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Kingston+University+Clayhill+Halls+of+Residence/@51.3979105,-0.2899473,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x62c9ea9ed02b7cca