Also, Aphex Twin’s alias on the compilation is the Dice Man, not Polygon Window, which is the track title. In a previous version, the main image showed Mike Paradinas but was incorrectly captioned as showing Autechre. This article was amended on 14 December 2022. It made me throw everything into getting cheap equipment and making music 24/7 and I haven’t looked back. The fact that it had a manifesto, that bold artwork, the incredible albums that followed by Kenny Larkin, Fuse, Black Dog – it was irresistible. I’d already followed music from hip-hop through Detroit techno and all points in between, but all of that had to be hunted down on import Warp managed to draw a narrative out of the UK’s answer to all of that. I was at Leeds College of Art in 92 and really just started being properly music obsessed. It’s music that makes me feel painfully nostalgic, like a deep longing – but also incredibly motivated to get in the studio and make music. Unfortunately, it is mostly impossible to play in most club environments these days – it’s more suitable for deep listening, lying on your back with a huge spliff in your hand … or maybe when you are dancing at dawn at the after-hours. Similar to Aphex Twin’s first album, I find it deeply moving, still forward-thinking and relevant. My early musical education was my older sister’s CD collection, which I stole from many times – I found this there years after its release. It sounds and feels like suburbia in that sense. ![]() It can be a beautiful area, even though it’s a diffuse non-genre, so hasn’t much of a cultural core. Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus, Kelela, Nala Sinephro and Yves Tumor are just a. But this zone of electronica built for home listening, which pulls from real club cultures like hip-hop and house, while making space for abstract exploration – that, I care about a great deal. In The Holdovers, plays Mary Lamb, the cafeteria manager and head cook at a snooty New England boys’ boarding school in 1970. Warps artists create groundbreaking music, videos and cinema. I’d never identified with IDM at all, it’s too culture-less of a notion. I only discovered these compilations a couple of years ago. Tags: Limited edition, Math rock, Post-punk, Record store day, Rsd21 july. I would often visit Phil at his home and he was always on that bloody computer of his, he had to be the most patient man in Sheffield – he doesn’t get enough credit for his vision. Record Store Day UK 2021 Warp Vinyl - Math Rock / Post-Punk. Alone, but together with, and connected to, technology. The image on the cover, by the brilliant Phil Wolstenholme, says it all: it just was future. There was nothing remotely hippy or retro about it. ![]() I was used to the idea of electronic music for listening at home as I’d hammered the KLF’s Chill Out long before I’d arrived in Sheffield – but this was different. Timewarp Records, Los Angeles, California.
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