The first Warp release I bought was the On single. I had actually just heard Didgeridoo at a rave (days LONG gone) and was on a mission to find anything by this Aphex Twin guy. I walked into the local "alternative" record store and found one lonely Aphex CD staring at me, so I bought it. It was (and is) awesome.
bye Rob :(
Philip Sherburne wrote:
quoted 9 lines I'm sitting here, trying to write something about Warp and the place it's had in> I'm sitting here, trying to write something about Warp and the place it's had in my musical history, and I'm listening to Amber, which was not only the first Warp album I ever bought, but the first "electronica" I ever bought. Aphex's SAWII followed shortly thereafter.
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> I bought Amber in Providence, RI, at Fast Forward -- the record store I visited weekly, where I bought all my emo and hardcore and indie rock. Judy was the "metal chick" there, the expert in all things hard and fast and loud; Ron was the "techno guy," a veteran of acid house and basically the only person in Providence who knew shit about experimental techno. I'd gone in one day to pick up, I dunno, the latest release on Gravity or something. I'd just gotten back from Turkey, and as chance would have it, Autechre's Amber stared up at me from the racks, emblazoned with a luscious photograph from Turkey's Cappadoccia region. I'd just been there, it was one of the most incredible places I'd ever seen (still is). So I bought the record on sight, unheard, brought it home, and quickly had my mind rearranged.
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> What was your first Warp record, and how'd you get turned on?
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> (This is all a way of saying thank you to Rob Mitchell -- you changed my world, more than a little. RIP.)
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> Philip
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