quoted 2 lines What was your first Warp record,> What was your first Warp record,
> and how'd you get turned on?
Yes, excellent thread. My first Warp record (and my first idm record) was
either Polygon Window or Black Dog's Bytes, the first in Detroit, the second
in St. Louis. Whenever anyone mentions having their head re-arranged by a
piece of music, or just fundamentally changed, I immediately think of
listening to Bytes on my way back from St. Louis during the summer of 1993.
My previous musical diet was ambient-house (Orb, FSOL) alternative-dance
(New Order, Stone Roses), industrial (Skinny Puppy, Cabaret Voltaire) and a
little bit of indie rock and hip-hop. Those may have paved the way (a bit)
for Bytes, but when I listened to it the first time, I had *no* idea what I
was hearing. It reminded me of electro (that wasn't necessarily a good
thing -- I hadn't thought of electro since I was ten and heard Rockit or
some other breakdancing theme) and it also reminded me of the Terminator
soundtrack, that brutal synth and those militaristic drums.
I can remember putting it away for awhile; I didn't exactly dislike it, but
back then I didn't listen to records that didn't make sense. (Later I
learned to keep listening to the records that didn't make sense -- because
when they finally did, they'd usually blow my mind.) I'm sure the next week
I was back listening to Lush or Ride or some other band, but all the while,
my head was being rewired so I'd start connecting with Warp the next time I
heard one of their records; sure enough, over the next few months, I picked
up all the entries in the Artificial Intelligence series and that was the
beginning of the end... ;>
Favorite Tracks: Object Orient, Clan (Mongol Hordes), Merck
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