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....some forwarded mail -fluid From: Stewart S. Walker <swalker@phoenix.cs.uga.edu> To: brit@chopin.udel.edu subject: try a little flakiness Anybody who has gained such rapid recognition would be hard pressed to stick to his or her original purpose. I think Rick James has stuck with his original manifesto quite well. I read an interview with him, though I don't dance music anymore (except for the fact that I danced around in gleeful circles when I first heard some bits of SAWII through the Quadra speaker, and it was tinny and soft. That was from the techno archive... Aphex does not make "Everybody in the place" songs (though I'm not dissing the Prodigy) and instead makes music more noisy than I have ever listened to. I hate industrial music for it's noisiness but Aphex stuff fits into place seamlessly. What I am trying to say is that he is a composer. Not a pop-musician, really, this music (all of the ambient and trance and mellow orgies of delay) is a new renaissance. I'm really not trying to jump any bandwagons (to be honest, I don't have the cash for it) but this kind of music I believe will have books written on it after fifty years when somebody discovers a 20th century DJ bag lost in some field (much like the "caveman" in Austria). Very few people know about this music. It's got a good beat but you can't really dance to it, you can pretty much only stare at the speaker with your mouth hanging open and your eyes wide. I know I shouldn't concentrate only on Aphex because I've heard a lot of killer music from all different cities and countries. But just from what I've heard of SAWII prompts me to. He makes sounds that were already in my head (weren't they?) but yet never to the concious mind. That's my two cents. stewart

On Fri, 11 Mar 1994, Alan Michael Parry wrote:

quoted 3 lines music I believe will have books written on it after fifty years when

> music I believe will have books written on it after fifty years when > somebody discovers a 20th century DJ bag lost in some field (much like the > "caveman" in Austria). Very few people know about this music. It's got a

And what did this caveman have in *his* record bag? Matt

quoted 3 lines SAWII prompts me to. He makes sounds that were already in my head (weren't

> SAWII prompts me to. He makes sounds that were already in my head (weren't > they?) but yet never to the concious mind. That's my two cents. > stewart

In YOUR head? Wow, RDJ is a telepath too! He can read minds OVERSEAS even! :) OK, Joking aside...I had a dream that we (me & some others, don't know who) were in this resteraunt, and RDJ was like standing at the bar. I was reading some local left paper which had concert ads, one said "Aphex Twin" with "Enhanced" in different shade behind it...and everytime I'd look towards RDJ's direction, he'd say "it's time to get enhanced, Todd" and this happen a few times...then finally I got close enough to him to say "You mean Todd Sines? I'm not Todd, I'm KC." And he goes "Oh, I thought you were Todd" and I go "You know Todd?" and he goes "Ya, on the net" and the conversation went towards netting and how he's on and all...and he offered my friends & I to sit at a table and just basically have dinner and talk with him...he was very laidback and casual too...pretty cool dream! And it's rare that I remember my dreams...wish I did more often. Anyway, SAWII may be intelligent, but are any tracks danceable at all? kc