From DzrtMusic Sent Mon, Feb 22nd 1999, 18:35
From DzrtMusic Sent Mon, Feb 22nd 1999, 18:35
> I agree. The quality of his music has gone down big time. All his > older stuff is great and most of it still sounds fresh. The HAB eps > were ok, not nearly as good as i would have hoped...but interesting. > the Milkman song is pretty weak. I really liked HAB1, I liked it alot actually, but I admit it is not for everybody. HAB2 is just 2 songs,.. they're pretty cool tracks, but they are very different from HAB1. He only did that milkman song because somebody told him he could never do lyrics even if he wanted to.. not that said reason will ever be a good reason to do a song. > Rephlex as a label just puts out silly crap for the most part. Definately a reflection of richard and grant's sense of humor.. > There are too many really awesome electronic artists out there now to > really even care about Aphex Twin (if he continues to do just ok Very true, it's funny how at one time many people revered ol' aphex to be the top of the hill of "idm"... at the time a term which was used only on this list. > If he is retiring (which I don't think he is). It's probably for the > best. Probably. Lots of people on this list are very worried about who's on top of the knowedge pile and who's the most jaded. It's a common unspoken rule between idm'ers that whoever is the most jaded obviously must have the most experience and therefore must be the most cool. Hence many people avoid talking about aphex because of that fierce "been there, done that" attitude. -allen