Autechre The Peggy Babcock appearance in Usenet 2000/2001

[Guest]

Dear ae fanboys , this will probably deliver you multiple orgasms;;;

 

Has anyone of you been in Usenet (alt.music.autechre) in 2000/2001? I was, under a pseudonym. Discussing ae. And one day Jesu^w "Peggy Babcock" appeared in the group, saying "this is sean ae here". (The "warp night disgrace" thread). We agreed this was Sean. Good times. Past...

 

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http://groups.google.com/groups/search?safe=off&q=group:alt.music.autechre+author:babcock&scoring=d

(The latest messages are on top, the oldest on page 2)

 

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From: peggy babcock <let...@l.ae>
Subject: Re: warp night disgrace
Date: 2000/10/17
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[perunamuusi]

hehe i used to walk around mumbling peggy babcock to myself as a child

[Guest]

And outside of alt.music.autechre, there is this classy posting. Autechre rule, Queen are shite.

 

I'm no brit -> who is Peggy Babcock? EDIT: Ah OK, a Tongue-twister

[skotosa]

Who is this? Never heard of ae or peggy babcock. Am I missing out?

[goonstock]

> How narcissistic to be looking in on your own newsgroup. Do you think RDJ

> would ever do this? No, as he knows a little about mystique..

 

yes i know he does. except he'd never reveal himself like this.

[goonstock]

> Put it this way, if autechre continue with the (metallic hip hop beats) +

> ('glockenspiellly' noises) x (loads of hissy noise) divided by (some,

> whoo-hoo!, like crazy breakdowns/speed differences) then we will all get

> bored soon.

 

you should include cut up vocal samples and indeterminable fm slices to be

fair.

 

lol

[Blir]

Were you Wouter Visser then?

 

Also - Heh! He says feel free to distribute Sounds Of Machines Our Parents Used any way you feel, they were never paid for it.

[awepittance]

ithis is quite fascinating! i'm loving these posts.

 

It makes me wonder what pseudonyms he goes under on watmm or xltronic (if any)

 

if he couldn't resist in 2001 to go in and confront fans , i would be surprised if he managed to stay away from current discussions.

 

me thinks that Hanal on xltronic might not just be a 'very good friend of Ae' but may be one of the members either Sean or Rob

[perunamuusi]

dave hanal you mean?

[awepittance]

dave hanal you mean?

 

don't know, the guy just goes under the name Hanal on xltronic. Why do you know for sure he's not Sean or Rob?

 

this dude:

is Dave Hanal, not certain if it's the same person on xltronic?

[thehauntingsoul]

lols

[awepittance]

> How narcissistic to be looking in on your own newsgroup. Do you think RDJ

> would ever do this? No, as he knows a little about mystique..

 

yes i know he does. except he'd never reveal himself like this.

 

at the time this was true,but since he has revealed himself on at least 2 occasions. once on the Analogue Haven mailing list and once in the Planet-mu forum.

[perunamuusi]

yep, thats him

 

i know because he is Dave Hanal and not sean or rob

[thehauntingsoul]

I'm surprised he hasn't revealed himself on Watmm yet because apparently he posts on here from time to time

[perunamuusi]

clitterhaus

[thehauntingsoul]

yeah right

[awepittance]

maybe sending messages through Dava Hanal is the way Sean or Rob prefers to interact with internet fans these days? The guy has dropped a lot of information that is either prophetic or shows an intimate knowledge of Ae's plans or methods. All he has said is that he is friends with the group, but he also appears to have access to unreleased AE song archives and took it upon himself to share some of those. If he did it without the permission of Ae i would be very surprised.

[thehauntingsoul]

when you say he shared a bunch of unreleased Ae material does any of it not include what has already been covered in this forum?

[awepittance]

yes

[perunamuusi]

 

he's an old mate of sean and rob

 

look at your cavity job 12" sleeve

[awepittance]

sorry i don't own cavity job, is this supposed to be obvious information?

 

either way doesn't change what i've just said above, you're right that he probably isn't AE but he does seem to post information AE wants him to.

[perunamuusi]

don't understand the picard thing

 

[awepittance]

cool , never actually seen the cover of the 12" . i have no doubt that he is a real guy at this point, im just wondering does he sometimes let Sean or Rob use his account or surrogate post

[perunamuusi]

of course he does

[awepittance]

ok then!