When I was a mere high school student... I used to publish a small
alterna-zine, and somehow managed to get a lot of promotional items. At this
point in time, TVT (who were distributing Wax Trax, one of my favorite
labels at that point in time) licensed a series from Warp called "Artificial
Intelligence" ... little did I know that this was to be a defining period in
electronic music. The first thing I heard that made any real impact on me
was Polygon Window's "Quoth" ... appealing to the industrial fan in me with
its relentless, klangity percussion and complete lack of melody. That
"Surfing on Sine Waves" discs remains one of my favorite Warp releases. I
also got at that time albums by Black Dog Productions (Bytes), B12, the AI
compilations, FUSE (when I didn't even know who Plastikman was) and a group
called Autechre, whose "Incunabula" I thought even then was just a few
notches better than the rest of the lot. So I guess it was a combination of
those two, Polygon Window and Autechre, that really made an impression on
me. And of course, within the next year I heard Aphex Twin's "Selected
Ambient Works II" and I was hooked. :-)
quoted 11 lines From: "Philip Sherburne" <psherburne@mindspring.com>
>From: "Philip Sherburne" <psherburne@mindspring.com>
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: [idm] warp
>Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:05:34 -0700
>
>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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