[Metal Appreciation Thread!]

Good to see Meshuggah and SYL taken care of on page one.

 

My input is not required.

 

[How did you get into Ae?]

I guess my story's cool because it can be relived right now. You'll see what I mean.

 

This was 2002/2003. I was mad about Aphex Twin's Druqks at the time (that's still my favourite of his) and I wanted to find more music like that.

 

I found a website called 'Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music' (http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/)

 

While exploring it, I clicked 'Jungle' -- clicked 'IDM' (lower left corner) -- in the IDM section, I encountered Autechre in loop number 2, which is a loop from Acroyear2. The same loop is still there in the same place.

 

I was instantly crazy for it because I couldn't quite work it out - whether it had a start or end, or where those things were, or where the upbeats or downbeats were.

 

I went to Red Eye records here in Sydney, went to the electronic section, found a tab for Autechre and picked up the front CD to buy, which was the just-released Draft 7:30. That's probably still my favourite Autechre record today.

 

 

Draft 7.30 was the first Autechre album I bought.

 

I was introduced to Aphex Twin & Infected Mushroom in 2001 which sparked my interest in electronic music. I saw Autechre's name pop up in a few places whilst searching the net so I grabbed the first CD I saw with their name on it.

 

Metal head here too. \m/