At 02:05 AM 10/10/01, Philip Sherburne wrote:
quoted 1 line What was your first Warp record, and how'd you get turned on?
>What was your first Warp record, and how'd you get turned on?
I came into IDM mainly from the industrial side of things. I was heavily
into Skinny Puppy, Cabaret Voltaire, Ministry, the Wax Trax crew, etc. in
the last half of the 80s, but by the early 90s, I was pretty tired of that
stuff.
A friend turned me on to Orbital and The Orb, which I sort of dug. And then
I saw Greg Earle (you still here, G.?), a fellow old school rivethead,
ranting and raving on rec.music.industrial about this new artist named
Aphex Twin who was blowing his mind.
I went looking for some Aphex stuff, and the first thing I found was the
Polygon Window album. While it didn't have the same initial "WOW!" factor
as some other albums (i.e. I still remember the first time I listened to
Ministry "Twitch", My Bloody Valentine "Loveless" & The Jesus and Mary
Chain "Psychocandy"), I thought it was pretty cool.
Soon after that, another friend convinced me to check out the "See The
Light" tour with Vapourspace, Orbital, Aphex and Moby. I thought Moby was
crap, and Vapourspace & Orbital were pretty cool, but Aphex COMPLETELY
rocked my ass. Loud and raw and noisy and more "industrial" than anything
I'd heard in ages.
I was converted, and followed Warp (and Rephlex and Clear and...) pretty
faithfully from that point on.
Thanks, Rob.
Greg
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