Seventeen years old, living in Minnesota and listening to REV105, I visited
a used CD store by the university. "In-store Ambients: Aphex Twin/The Black
Dog" - a promo sampler, half tracks from ICBYD, half from Spanners. It was
my first electronic CD, and it sat there in my collection like the monolith
from 2001 - mysterious, impossible to ignore, eventually changing my
record-buying completely. Before I bought it I was a music fan.
Now...thanks, R.M.
Lukas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Sherburne" <psherburne@mindspring.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:05 AM
Subject: [idm] warp
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.
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.
What was your first Warp record, and how'd you get turned on?
(This is all a way of saying thank you to Rob Mitchell -- you changed my
world, more than a little. RIP.)
Philip
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