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From:
Josh Davison
To:
Giles Bowkett
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Date:
Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:38:10 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:
Re: [idm] afx
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that's such bullshit. the robot is going to cambridge. -- String Theory : Digital Music for Humans http://www.enteract.com/~yoshi/index.cgi On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Giles Bowkett wrote:
quoted 31 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. > > 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. > > that's what I heard. > > > g > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >
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