plaid the pecking order of the featured wattm artists

telling…………. isn't it

richard

ae

boc

tom

plaid

luke

cylob

venetian snares

sorry couldn't resist

i would say

afx

AE

SP

BOC

LV

PLD

Plaid have been doing the rounds recently but when it's quiet its pretty quiet imo

(my own personal activity rather than thread count)

AFX (who influenced everybody and everybody else copied, especially Ae)

Ae (obvious reasons)

Plaid (very, very close third because of their career as tBd '89-95 + 7 albums since '97)

Pusher (obvious reasons)

Boards of Canada (3 albums in 12 long years?)

Vibert (obvious)

Paradinas (obvious)

Cylob (yes you're last)

= pecking order. but not due to post/ thread frequency here. just my opinion. :)

edit: - might switch up Boards and Vibert .. jus 'cos Boards have done so little.

If Boards of Canada didnt have some many noobs shouting and demanding a new album that forum would be as dead as Cylob's.

  On 11/8/2010 at 7:56 PM, sirch said:

AFX (who influenced everybody and everybody else copied, especially Ae)

 

is this general consensus?

  On 11/9/2010 at 12:45 AM, yikes said:

  On 11/8/2010 at 7:56 PM, sirch said:

AFX (who influenced everybody and everybody else copied, especially Ae)

 

is this general consensus?

I remember a Vibert interview where he said that, before all this blew up, there was a tape floating around of tracks that would end up being on SAW I, and that it was leaving quite an impression on many yet-to-be famous others, himself included...

  On 11/9/2010 at 1:28 AM, MOSS said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 12:45 AM, yikes said:

  On 11/8/2010 at 7:56 PM, sirch said:

AFX (who influenced everybody and everybody else copied, especially Ae)

 

is this general consensus?

 

I remember a Vibert interview where he said that, before all this blew up, there was a tape floating around of tracks that would end up being on SAW I, and that it was leaving quite an impression on many yet-to-be famous others, himself included...

fair enough but its really silly to think that one release provides artistic grounds for a genre two decades of releases

  On 11/9/2010 at 1:28 AM, MOSS said:

I remember a Vibert interview where he said that, before all this blew up, there was a tape floating around of tracks that would end up being on SAW I, and that it was leaving quite an impression on many yet-to-be famous others, himself included...

I read that too, but understood it to be locally down in Cornwall.

  On 11/9/2010 at 2:09 AM, Scrambled Ears said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 1:28 AM, MOSS said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 12:45 AM, yikes said:

  On 11/8/2010 at 7:56 PM, sirch said:

AFX (who influenced everybody and everybody else copied, especially Ae)

 

is this general consensus?

 

I remember a Vibert interview where he said that, before all this blew up, there was a tape floating around of tracks that would end up being on SAW I, and that it was leaving quite an impression on many yet-to-be famous others, himself included...

 

fair enough but its really silly to think that one release provides artistic grounds for a genre two decades of releases

personally i see AE influencing RDJ more as his sound was very analogue until he got into vst's then everything started to sound absract/digital which is was AE were doing from the start

the Orb were the big influence back in the day, RDJ was just another up and comming ambient/experimental technuo producer

  On 11/9/2010 at 1:28 AM, MOSS said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 12:45 AM, yikes said:

  On 11/8/2010 at 7:56 PM, sirch said:

AFX (who influenced everybody and everybody else copied, especially Ae)

 

is this general consensus?

 

I remember a Vibert interview where he said that, before all this blew up, there was a tape floating around of tracks that would end up being on SAW I, and that it was leaving quite an impression on many yet-to-be famous others, himself included...

The songs that eventually ended up as SAW 85-92 came from around 11 audio cassettes Richard would share amongst his mates at the time and listen to in their cars, and from those were culled the tracks that became SAW 85-92.

Some of the original gang still have them, in fact. There's a lot more tracks on those tapes than what winded up being released... food for thought.

Too bad all the threads about Aphex are like "Wuts his favorite sweater? And does he have a webbed foot?" instead of "Where does he get his donks from?"

  On 11/9/2010 at 12:45 AM, yikes said:

  On 11/8/2010 at 7:56 PM, sirch said:

AFX (who influenced everybody and everybody else copied, especially Ae)

 

is this general consensus?

maybe "copied" is the wrong word. but generally, i would say so. Aphex influenced everybody. Incunabula wasn't released til 1993.. and there's an interview where Sean says a lot of people would say to him that Aes' early stuff sounded like Aphex Twin. just listen to SAW and Surfing on Sinewaves, etc. so many young people in England wanted to makes tunes like that!

Black Dog, B12, Aphex had all released a bunch of stuff already by that time ('93).

B12 had their own label going on and had put out their own excellent stuff, and so did Black Dog (Downie/Handley/Turner), like 5 years prior..

Ae are the latecomers really! they shouldn't be at no.2! :) but, they've had such a massive massive influence as time's gone by.

..and what Joy Rex said. :)

FFS RDJ did not invent experimental/alternative techno/dance music

anyone over 30 knows this

  On 11/9/2010 at 2:09 AM, Scrambled Ears said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 1:28 AM, MOSS said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 12:45 AM, yikes said:

  On 11/8/2010 at 7:56 PM, sirch said:

AFX (who influenced everybody and everybody else copied, especially Ae)

 

is this general consensus?

 

I remember a Vibert interview where he said that, before all this blew up, there was a tape floating around of tracks that would end up being on SAW I, and that it was leaving quite an impression on many yet-to-be famous others, himself included...

 

fair enough but its really silly to think that one release provides artistic grounds for a genre two decades of releases

Obviously you are right. I was not trying to imply this. I only thought that it was interesting. A lot of these ideas were ready to happen, regardless of the how or the who, with all respect to the many artists who brought them about.

  On 11/9/2010 at 1:23 PM, psn said:

  On 11/9/2010 at 1:28 AM, MOSS said:

I remember a Vibert interview where he said that, before all this blew up, there was a tape floating around of tracks that would end up being on SAW I, and that it was leaving quite an impression on many yet-to-be famous others, himself included...

 

I read that too, but understood it to be locally down in Cornwall.

Right. I should have made it clear that I myself don't think that EVERYONE ripped off RDJ, only that his underground respect, pre-fame, is telling and interesting.

  On 11/9/2010 at 10:40 PM, soundwave said:

FFS RDJ did not invent experimental/alternative techno/dance music

 

 

anyone over 30 knows this

Agreed.

idm og's first

  On 11/9/2010 at 10:40 PM, soundwave said:

FFS RDJ did not invent experimental/alternative techno/dance music

 

 

anyone over 30 knows this

Agreed.