This is interesting to me if for no other reason than you can tell how first
impressions affect how you perceive other work by an artist.... Polygon
Window was the first RDJ release I ever heard, alongside the rest of the Wax
Trax distribution of B12, Black Dog, Autechre, etc.... In my ignorance at
the time I didn't even know who Aphex Twin was. I really like the Polygon
Window CD, I think primarily because it introduced me to a whole new sound.
It has a slightly more, I don't know, alien quality than the other Aphex
material of the same time (although that material was unbeknownst to me at
the time). "Quoth" remains one of my favorite alltime Warp tracks.
Although obviously the RDJ album and all that's followed since have been way
more original.... and definitely not "senseless noise" :-) it will be
interesting to hear new aphex tracks, if we ever do.
just my .02
bye
matt
quoted 25 lines From: Andrei <andrei@world.std.com>
>From: Andrei <andrei@world.std.com>
>To: IDM <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] short Warp reviews...
>Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:28:58 -0500
>
>On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 damek@earthling.net wrote:
>
> > Polygon Window:Surfing on Sine Waves (US reissue)
> > I never thought this album was that great to begin with, having
> > myself first been exposed to Aphex with "Richard D James Album," which I
> > still think is great. I only got it because I've long been infected
> > with the completism virus,...
>
>Same thing sort of applies to me though I first got into Aphex through the
>Ventolin EP. I never picked up the PW album until this reissue and at the
>risk of being struck down by the AI gods for blasphemy I'd have to say
>it's the least compelling AFX full length I've heard. I'd take
>"Classics" or "SAW I", as far as early AFX, if I had to pick. The last
>track is pretty good though. The Quoth EP, which I've had for years, is
>more consistent (and generally harder edged) than the full length imo.
>
>Man, it kills me when people say Aphex used to make good music and now he
>just makes senseless noise.
>
>Andrei
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