on a more sour note - afx ain't gonna be releasing any more music...ever.
thats it. finito.
well, thats wot someone told me anyway #)
----- Original Message -----
From: Giles Bowkett <giles@bowkett.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:33 PM
Subject: [idm] afx
quoted 30 lines This is why Aphex was the poster boy of IDM for so long. Sure, once> >This is why Aphex was the poster boy of IDM for so long. Sure, once
> >again, his music was good, but it was his image that made him so
> >popular. People who know nothing about IDM tell me that he owns a tank,
> >lives in a bank vault and only sleeps one hour a week. There are whole
> >webpages devoted to his idiosyncracies.
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> that's not what I heard at all. I heard he builds his own samplers out of
> HP scientific calculators and bits of string. and chicken wire stolen from
> neighboring farms. and he lives in a treehouse in Yorkshire and guards his
> property with a shotgun. and when he was 12 he took acid for the first
> time, and when he was 15 he proved Fermat's Theorem, and he has a robot,
> and he built the robot, and the robot's really smart, and the robot got
> into Harvard, and now it's going to Harvard, and then it's gonna graduate,
> and then it's gonna do graduate work and get a job and give all the money
> back to Aphex Twin.
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> that's what I heard.
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