Josso Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I first borrowed Come to Daddy off my brother - he recommended it seeing as I was into some trance shit at the time. It was I guess what I was always looking for in my tastes and never managed to find before, all the complex little bits of it and the extreme contrast in the album and even within songs. I guess that kind of complexity are the bits I like the most in Aphex stuff and it makes sense considering that's what first brought me to his music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analord skywalker Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Selected Ambient II. First track I ever heard of Aphex's was Disc 1 Track 2. John Peel played it in full while I was sat in my car waiting for my mates to fetch me a Burger King! Can't say it influenced things too much though, although I prefer his ambient stuff to the more mental tracks. I think SAWII has been greatly surpassed since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Caustic Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 i still don't technically own any...>.> *runs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adjective Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 further down the spiral? :stuart: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leterel Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Windowlicker for me, can't remember what prompted me to listen to it at first, I think it was the cover and it was cheap in HMV. Then I sort of worked my way backwards, then drukqs, then chosen lords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rook Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Richard D James album. My first electronic music record ever. 4 and Fingerbib are still two of my fav songs ever. Still in my car mixer now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 first time i heard aphex twin was the song Power-Pill - Pac-Man (Heavy Mental Mix)on a cassette tape compilation i bought at salvation army called "only for the headstrong" (http://www.discogs.com/release/767762) . i had heard of aphex twin previously and the first album i bought of his was SAW II soon after it was released. I honestly wasnt very impressed by the ambient tracks, but the beat oriented tracks were ridiculously good. So i picked up I care Becasuse you do next, and i was fucking blown away. It was exactly the type of music i was looking for and totally changed my perspective on electronic music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analord skywalker Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 first time i heard aphex twin was the song Power-Pill - Pac-Man (Heavy Mental Mix)on a cassette tape compilation i bought at salvation army called "only for the headstrong" (http://www.discogs.com/release/767762) . i had heard of aphex twin previously and the first album i bought of his was SAW II soon after it was released. I honestly wasnt very impressed by the ambient tracks, but the beat oriented tracks were ridiculously good. So i picked up I care Becasuse you do next, and i was fucking blown away. It was exactly the type of music i was looking for and totally changed my perspective on electronic music. Only for the Headstrong Volume II! I've got that on CD - some absolute classics on that. Egyptian Empire's Horn Track...DAAAAAA DU DAA DAAAAAAAAAA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Enter a new display name Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It was Richard D James Album (US Version) less than one year ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneaksta303 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Hmmmm.... Tricky... Officially ( and godDAMN I hate to admit this...) Girl/Boy song on the MTV Amp'd comp. Thing is, I just had the cd without the tracklisting so I didn't know that was him until later that year I just happened to buy the RDJ album from word of mouth and that was my favorite album until DRUKQS came out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba69 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Drukqs from the library when I wanted to hear electronic music because it seemed interesting at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest transfer Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 first I heard the Meat Beat Manifesto remix, didn't think much of it.........then I saw a picture of AFX in an English music magazine and he looked cool...........then I bought Surfing On Sine Waves(1993) and was completely entranced by him and his music from then on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 selected ambient works 85-92 in 1992 it has affected my taste only in that it is the benchmark for all electronic albums since its release i havent heard an electronic album since that has equalled it in magnitude and i strongly doubt that i ever will some of the next best things... not in order because ordered lists are for babies and music jurnalists saw 2 tango n vectif slag boom van loon i care because you do incunabula surfing on sine waves amber spanners feed me weird things accelerator rdj bytes music has the right to children druqks wasted sunday cylobian sunset the theory of evolution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velazquez Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I came home skunked one eve and my bro had left a promo copy of "I care because you do" in my room circa 1995. Also a copy of Spanners by Black Dog. Yeah so I popped her in and was blown away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylonbitch Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 saw 1. still my faVE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest tht! tne Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 i got richard d james album first in 1996. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sinkfield Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 come to daddy '99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnar Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 come to daddy in '97 read a really positive review of it in a music paper and i wanted to hear it (i knew a little about his music, had 'digeridoo' on a cd compilation). my x-girlfriend bought it for me on my birthday. my most played cd and still my favourite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Renivatio Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Ahh yes....the record that got me into Aphex Twin and electronic music in general was oddly enough, "26 Mixes For Cash." Already heard "Come To Daddy" and "Windowlicker," but the song that truly got me into him was "Journey (Aphex Twin Care Mix)." I thought and still think that it's one of his best songs he's ever done. After "26 Mixes" I got "SAW 85-92"...and that's where it got me to today. And that was only four years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 SAW II in 94 or 95, and yes, I think it did, because I see everything before it as "techno" Aphex - I can see its historical importance, but its musical impact has been diluted a lot by all the wack imitators. Everything after SAW II, is mature, genre-trancending Aphex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caretstik Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 'Surfing On Sine Waves' was the first thing I listened to properly, round about the time it was released. I remember wondering why he wasn't called Aphex Twin anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Jan Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 After I heard some tunes from the Classics compilation from my brother i asked if he wanted to get that vinyl on a cd-r, and so he did, and replacing the live digeridoo with "on". That track (but actually all of classics) got me very interested and then windowlicker was released and really did the trick. So in about 99' I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Morgan Dunn Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 the first album i owned was i care because you do, and now i love the exact opposite aphex style...his choppy tripped out stuff...though the first aphex twin i ever listened to was bucephalus bouncing ball on a mix cd my friend gave me...that one song made me see electronic music completely differently, i hated it beforehand, but i heard that and instantly warmed up to the stuff its a fuckin awesome song, after all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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