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Sat 4 Jul – WARPed Out Live Electronic Spectacular

Plaid and Clark were pretty dance orientated. Would have liked a bit more low tempo/trancey stuff from their back catalogues. Plaid are always a joy to experience though. The new album should be good.

Grasscut were fantastic, a real 'must watch out for' find. They put on a very polished performance, those boys have lots of talent to show off. Tim Excile put on exactly the kind of set I was hoping for. Sick bass, crazy sampling and really fun to watch. Slightly more refined than I've heard before. He appeared to throw in a few comedy cock-ups, but did not follow them up with "Mummy I fucked up again". Shame.

Luke Vibertstood there in the 2-3am slot, cool as ever and put on a memorising performance. The things he did with The Tuss' Rushup Edge were bordering on insane but worked perfectly. Well worth a trip out to the big city from my sleepy East Anglian way of life.

1. How did you get into 29?
Everyone liked The Prodigy back in the day

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb I think. Could of been Money either

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
The Tuss - Just the one and its their/his/her only release. Absolutely brilliant though

4. What is your favorite song by 5?
Aphex Twin? Jesus I don't know. I guess 4 has always been endearing. Or Z Twig. Or Mt St Micheals Mix. Or anything really!

5. What is your favorite song by 15?
Venetian Snares - Pwntendo (or anything from that Rossz album)

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Squarepusher - Hello Meow, Iambic 9 Poetry and Beep Street :)

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Jefferson Airplane - Tripping in a mates house and thinking that it wasn't clichéd at all!

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Jurassic 5 - probably I don't know the names of the tracks

10. How many times have you seen 26 live?
Mike & Rich - Never, don't think they ever played live together.

11. What is the first song you heard by 23?
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
múm - Finally We Are No One

13. Who is your favorite member of 1?
Global Communication - I don't know who's in them. I don't really like specific people in bands anyway, its more about the collaborative effort.

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Hopefully at E.P. (well sans Bob unfortunately)

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
Digitalism - Electiric Picnic 2008

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
1200 Micrograms (probably my current faves!) - Tough one but might say Salvia Divinitor or Acid for Nothing

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
Autechre - Amber


18. What is your favorite song by 21?
The Gift Of The Gab - Just Because

19. What is the first song you heard by 25?
Pendulum - Slam

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
Orbital - Orbital 2 but I'm partial to the Middle of Nowhere and the Blue Album too

21. What is your favorite song by 3?
Shpongle - Once Upon The Sea Of A Blissful Awareness

22. What is your favorite song by 8?
Sonic Youth - impossible to pick. so I'll just pick first few I think of: Bull in the Heather, The Empty Page, Candle, Drunken Butterfly, Pattern Recognition, Scizophernia, Dirty Boots...shit, most songs I do love and the new album's added even more!!!

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
The Bloody Beetroots - Almost once

24. What is the worst song by 12?
Air - Probably something from 10000Hz or whatever its called. Their other albums are amazing but thats a sore point

25. What was the first song you heard by 28?
The Doors - The End

26. What is your favorite album by 7?
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
The Velvet Underground - Heroin

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
The Higher Intelligence Agency - Most of them do but I'll say Speedlearn (Empathy Mix) cos its great!

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Zero 7 - Simple Things

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
My Bloody Valentine - All of them as far as I know. But Loveless totally outshines the rest.

1. How did you get into no.29?
Deadmau5 - All my friends were raving on about him so I reckoned I'd give him a shot and he was deadly.

2. What's the first song you ever heard by no.22?
The Doors - The End

3. Whats your favourite lyric by no.33?
The Velvet Underground - "Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life/Because a mainer to my vein/Leads to a center in my head/And then I'm better off and dead/Because when the smack begins to flow/I really don't care anymore"

4. How did you get into no.49?
MGMT - I didn't really, my ex did though

5. How many albums by no.13 do you own?
My Bloody Valentine - 3

6. What is your favorite song by no.50?
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation

7. Is there a song by no.39 that makes you sad?
Jefferson Airplane - None. Only that I wish it was the 60s!

8. What is your favorite song by no.15?
Justice - Newjack

9. What is your favorite song by no.5?
Global Communication - 14 31

10. Is there a song by no.6 that makes you happy?
Orbital - Just about most of them but I'll go with Remind as I'm listening to it right now!

11. What is the worst song by no.40?
Pixies - Something from Trompe Le Monde I'd imagaine

12. What is your favorite song by no.10?
Boys Noize - &Down

13. What is a good memory you have involving no.30?
Blackalicious - um...they got me back into proper hip hop

14. What is your favorite song by no.38?
Autechre - Silverside

15. Is there a song by no.19 that makes you happy?
Shpongle - Star Shpongled Banner

16. Is there a song by no.25 that makes you sad?
The Bloody Beetroots - Nope, I love the Bloody Beetroots!

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
múm - We Have a Map of the Piano

18. What's your favorite lyric by no.11?
The Orb - *gibberesh* Ha ha ha, Ha ha ha - Perpetual Dawn

19. Who is a favorite member of no.1?
Aphex Twin - Thats a tough one but I'd have to go with Richard.

20. Is there a song by no.14 that makes you happy?
The Higher Intelligence Agency - Ketamine Entity

21. What is a good memory involving no.27?
Lemon Jelly - Me and my bessie mate Niall dancing like loonies screaming at people that 'All the ducks were swimming in the water'

22. What is your favorite song by no.16?
Bob Marley And The Wailers - Redemption Song

23. What is the first song you ever heard by no.47?
Röyksopp - Eple

24. What is your favorite album by no.18?
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

25. What is your favorite song by no.21?
The Chemical Brothers - The Sunshine Underground

26. What is the first song you ever heard by no.26?
DJ Shadow - The Numbers Song

27. What is your favorite album by no.3?
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy

28. What is you favorite song by no.2?
Air - La Femme D'Argent (still!)

29. What was the first song you ever heard by no.32?
Sigur Ros - Vaka

30. What is you favorite song by no.8?
Digitalism - The Pulse

31. How many times have you seen no.17 live?
Venetian Snares - never cos he played before I got into him. Shit one

32. Is there a song by no.44 that makes you happy?
De La Soul - Me, Myself and I

33. How did you get into no.12?
Daft Punk - When I decided to give up on rock and get into electro, these were the first heads recommended to me

34. What is the worst song by no.45?
Jon Biron - They're all very pleasent...

35. What was the first song you ever heard by no.34?
Surkin - Next of Kin

36. What was the first song you ever heard by no.48?
ELO - Mr Blue Sky

37. How many times have you seen no.42 live?
Vitalic - Once. Left a lot to be desired but La Rock 01 and My Friend Dario were great

38. What is you favorite song by no.36?
The Gift Of The Gab - Moonshine

39. What was the first song you ever heard by no.28?
Pendulum - Plastic World

40. What is you favorite album by no.7?
Zero 7 - Simple Things

41. Is there a song by no.31 that makes you happy?
Jurassic 5 - If You Only Knew

42. What is your favorite album by no.41?
1200 Micrograms - 1200 Micrograms (they should really be up higher, my new faves!)

43. What is your favorite song by no.24?
Pink Floyd - Sheep (although it changes like the wind)

44. What is a good memory you have involving no.46?
Polygon Window - That Richard D James' non-Aphex stuff is also deadly

45. What is your favorite song by no.35?
Tiga - (Far From) Home

46. Is there a song by no.9 that makes you happy?
Sonic Youth - The Empty Page

47. What is your favorite album by no.4?
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

48. Who is your favorite member of no.37?
The Prodigy - eh...the one who makes the beats...

49. What is the first song you ever heard by no.43?
Warp Mix Night - not really an artist, so Cock Ver 10 I guess

50. What is your favorite song by no.20?
The Tuss - Synthacon 9

ya'll let me know where to start! ;-)The TussAnalordAphex TwinAnalord

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Some surprises here to be honest!


chrisashley's top albums
1. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (302) 2. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (272) 3. Tujiko Noriko - Trust (270) 4. The Tuss - Rushup Edge (269) 5. Susumu Yokota - Sakura (258) 6. Amon Tobin - Permutation (236) 7. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (187) 8. Ilkae - Pistachio Island (182) 9. Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do (178) 10. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (167) 11. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy (166) 12. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (163) 13. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... (161) 14. Lemon Jelly - '64-'95 (153) 15. Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason (145) 16. Ólöf Arnalds - Við Og Við (143) 17. múm - Loksins erum vid engin (138) 18. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn (134) 19. Rex the Dog - The Rex The Dog Show (132) 20. Susumu Yokota - Magic Thread (122) 21. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor (114) 22. Tujiko Noriko - Solo (114) 23. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things (110) 24. múm - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy (102) 25. Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - 28 (101) 26. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By (enhanced version) (101) 27. DJ Shadow - The Private Press [Special Package] Disc 1 (99) 28. Various Artists - Supermodified (98) 29. Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (98) 30. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (95) 31. The Future Sound of London - Accelerator (93) 32. The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms Disc 1 (93) 33. Ólöf Arnalds - Við og við. (91) 34. múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is Ok (87) 35. Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir (WARPCDD161) (87) 36. Aphex Twin - Drukqs (disc 2) (86) 37. Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place (86) 38. The Roots - Game Theory (85) 39. Efterklang - Parades (85) 40. Susumu Yokota & Rothko - Distant Sounds of Summer (84) 41. Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk (82) 42. Aphex Twin - Drukqs (disc 1) (79) 43. Groove Armada - The Best Of (78) 44. The Cardigans - Gran Turismo (75) 45. Ladytron - Witching Hour (74) 46. Plaid - Not for Threes (74) 47. Tujiko Noriko - Shojo Toshi + (73) 48. Fischerspooner - Odyssey (72) 49. Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me (72)

I.D.M. defines the progressive nature inherent in the works of Richard James the Aphex Twin who espounded on the term I.D.M. during his early history in Cornwall, England. Aphex Twin decided that his work must be named Intelligent Dance Music due in part to the fundamental reality of his superior intelligence level. Anomalys indicate that some may question I.D.M. and decide to censor it on particular forums. However the overwhelming logic and reason states that Intelligent Dance Music is the correct term for the works of Aphex Twin. In conclusion we must tag I.D.M. more often and not tag electronic so I.D.M. is the far superior name. We must ensure that unintelligent people realise that they are not invited to hear the advanced nature of Aphex Twin

I.D.M. is the product of an balanced equation inherent to musicology. Anti-I.D.M. people are the eventuality of an anomaly, and henceforth should be ignored. Despite sincere efforts from the I.D.M. community some still wish to censor I.D.M. and ensure through their dispositions that Intelligent Dance Music will not continue. Precision and accuracy must define the limits of our creations as it is a burden assiduously avoided by the lack of intelligence in our culture. Applying vision to those in the services industries renders us as looking down our nose at their grotesqueness. We naturally know that we are the greatest people to roam the earth. Our art is beyond comprehension. As the authour is a brilliant I.D.M. artist themself, they are unquestionably certain that I.D.M. is the only suitable name for the work of Aphex Twin. We are the best of the best, everyone else is stupid.

We are the special children of intelligent dance music. We are the alpha and omega. The world belongs to us. We are the foundation of intelligence in music and we will progress our ideas through history and time. IDM defines our lives and rules our lives and we will subordinate ourselves accordingly.

I.D.M. was created and invented by Aphex Twin himself, not by American messageboards and not by Wire magazine. Aphex Twin claimed to Grant Wilson Clariddge that more intelligence was required in the complicated processes involved in the creation of futurism's subjugatic cormoxity. Liars are roaming all around us. Liars will censor I.D.M. and force us to suffer the fate of electronic endowments. Believe or not, Electronic Music is the devil in the details, electronics must be ignored. We must continue to progress the conception of a duality based on the forensic examination of intelligent dance music.

You can help the cause of I.D.M..

1. Inexorably we must tag Aphex Twin as I.D.M. else the entire world of music will fall into the hands of the unintelligent proletariat and the small brained commonwealth slaves. Somehow a certain paradox has attempted removal of Aphex Twin from the mindset of the I.D.M. elite. If Aphex Twin's works were somehow removed from I.D.M. it would be the greatest disaster to affect us in decades.

2. We must convince webmaster to censor electronics and electronic music and make sure I.D.M. is written in large JPEG imagery therefore to condition the minds of the proletariat that I.D.M. is the correct term as defined by Aphex Twin in his works Greatest I.D.M. Works.

3. We must discontue the progression of African musical ideas. The time has come for us to create a now bond in our music. A bond between the American "college" spirit of traditional I.D.M. with the works of M3rck records. We must continue our pursuit of small music created on laptops. The trends of modern day must be crushed and therefore we will no longer pursue the works of "acid" or other proletariat concerns. We must continue to deny the effect of Aphex Twin in particular matters.

4. Autechre must be given the recognition that they deserve. They are afterall the true nature of I.D.M. (intelligent dance music). If and when Autechre become the paragon of intelligence in future technology the IQ level of the proletariat will decrease further and the intelligence of the elitists will defend everything. Save I.D.M. and the potential for new engenders in our society will become possible.

5. M3rck records points to the future of I.D.M. based solutions to the next levels of granular and cerebral entertainment spheres.Aphex Twin, AutechreThe TussAFXidm

muserock7997's top albums
1. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (1589) 2. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1419) 3. Aphex Twin - Drukqs (369) 4. Radiohead - OK Computer (292) 5. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (275) 6. Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir (267) 7. Radiohead - Amnesiac (242) 8. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction (198) 9. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry (198) 10. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (173) 11. Leftfield - Rhythm And Stealth (171) 12. Boards of Canada - Trans Canada Highway (162) 13. Radiohead - Com Lag: 2+2=5 [EP] (138) 14. Radiohead - Kid A (129) 15. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (117) 16. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (116) 17. Radiohead - Towering Above the Rest (disc 1) (113) 18. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into (111) 19. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor (110) 20. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume (109) 21. Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (106) 22. Squarepusher - Hello Everything (105) 23. Muse - Starlight DVD Single (105) 24. Leftfield - The Classic Chillout, Vol. 3: From Dust 'Til Dawn Disc 1 (101) 25. AFX - Chosen Lords (100) 26. Radiohead - Com Lag (97) 27. Autechre - Amber (94) 28. Apparat - Duplex (93) 29. The Verve - Urban Hymns (92) 30. Radiohead - Karma Police (84) 31. Digitalism - Idealism (83) 32. Clark - Body Riddle (82) 33. Burial - Untrue (76) 34. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (72) 35. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szueletett (71) 36. GAK - GAK (70) 37. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (68) 38. Radiohead - In Rainbows (68) 39. The Tuss - Rushup Edge (66) 40. Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy EP (62) 41. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (CD1) (50) 42. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (50) 43. Foals - Electric Bloom Remixes (49) 44. MGMT - Kids (48) 45. Radiohead - Towering Above The Rest Comple (48) 46. Portishead - Dummy (48) 47. Chris Clark - Empty the Bones of You (48) 48. Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher (46) 49. Four Tet - Dialogue (42) 50. Locust Toybox - A Kettle Of Wealth (42)

January:
Nothing

February:
Nothing

March:
Autechre - Quaristice (2008)

April:
Deaf Center - Pale Ravine (2005)
Mossa - Some Eat It Raw (2006)
Autechre - Cichlisuite (1997)
Autechre - Peel Session (1999)
Autechre - Gantz Graf (2002)

May:
Gramm - Personal Rock (1999)
Acrnym - Flowers (2007)
The Gasman - Love Collection (2007)

June:
Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower (2007)

July:
Barry Lynn - Balancing Lakes (2008)
Esthero - Breath From Another (1998)
Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub (2005)
Gas - Nah Und Fern (2008)

August:
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (2007)
Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do (1995)
Gescom - A1-D1 (2007)
Jimmy Edgar - Color Strip (2006)
Nightmares on Wax - Carboot Soul (1999)
The Tuss - Rushup Edge (2007)
AFX - Chosen Lords (2006)
Richard Devine - Asect:Dsect (2003)
Ilkae - Pistachio Island (2001)
Murcof - Remembranza (2005)
Xela - For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights (2007)
Autechre - Anti EP (1994)
Autechre - Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae (2008)
Murcof - Cosmos (2007)
Tom Burbank - Famous First Words (2006)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)

September:
Murcof - Martes (2002)
Jan Jelinek - Loop-finding-jazz-records (2001)
Stars of the Lid - Stars Of The Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline (2007)
The Ace of Clubs - Benefist (2007)
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid (2001)
Lights Out Asia - Tanks And Recognizers (2007)
Strategy - Drumsolo's Delight (2004)
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (2008)

October:
Luomo - Tessio (2000)
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor (2003)
Loscil - Plume (2006)
Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet (2006)

November:
Jimmy Edgar - Bounce, Make, Model (2004)
Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals (2008)
Asymmetrical Head - Feeling Sorry For Inanimate Objects (2008)
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again (2001)

December:
Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words (2008)
Fennesz - Black Sea (2008)
Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative (2008)



Top5 best albums bought in 2008:
1. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
2. Murcof - Remembranza
3. Luomo - Tessio
4. Gas - Nah Und Fern
5. Tim Hecker - Radio Amor

Most addictive month:
August

Releases bought:
49 CDs