On Fri, 18 Feb 1994, Adam J Weitzman wrote:
quoted 5 lines No seriously folks, I wish more people would try to take music at face> No seriously folks, I wish more people would try to take music at face
> value. Regardless of all the extraneous twaddle, do you like the music?
> Why? Why not? Tell us. But don't tell me that Richard James is so cool
> that his dog is named 0.481673992, because that tells me nothing about
> the sounds emitted by the speakers.
Yep, the music is cool, I think every one now knows my opinion there, but
is there anything *wrong* with the Aphex Mystique?
Hype or not, the Aphex Twin has a very cool underground image. The way he
appeared on the scene, his eccentricities, his odd 'hideaway' live
performances all add to this mystique. The fact that his music can be just
so unbelievably mind fuckingly HARD, to the point of just sounding like
static, yet *still* have rhythm, punch, dancability is just amazing.
I still remember his live performance on radio 1 here in the UK, to millions
of listeners, did he play his more listenable stuff, digeridoo etc? Did he
fuck. He played a few still unreleased tracks (AFAIK) that were so hard or
minimal that it left everyone wondering what was wrong with their radio.
Now if that isn't cool what is.
What is wrong with being different? Giving mad press interviews etc?
Four words - Listen to the music.
RDJ is a techno god.
greg
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