Talk:Aphex Twin/Archive 3
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"other debated influences"
Somebody deleted this entire section for no apparent reason? Funks
A lot of it was quite true or near accurate. It just needed sources to back it up. Why was it deleted?
- As part of Wikipedia's official Policy on verifiability, unsourced statements can be removed at any time by any editor. It's really up to the contributing editor to cite his or her sources. Twelvethirteen 21:06, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
The Philip Glass influence was sourced and discussed elsewhere in discussion...? whatever.
P.S. I'm not the person who keeps adding this collaboration to the Biography section, where it doesn't belong. Funks 21:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Infobox
I've updated the infobox. There is no need to list every genre and subgenre that he has explored, becouse a complete list should include almost everything related to electronic music, that is a really huge list.--Dr. Who 22:37, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
- Well, the list of genres pretty accurately describes the music of Aphex Twin's career. It's pretty accurate, isn't it? The list doesn't need to become any bigger than about 8 genres because everything is covered by Electronic Music. I think it's great to show that Aphex Twin makes noise music as well as electronic music. The list is long because Aphex Twin worked in all those genres. The list doesn't need to become bigger again, but having it like this shows the reader more of the colour of Aphex Twin's palette than he'd see otherwise.Newsnight Watcher 08:33, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- The list is too long, no other musician on Wikipedia has such huge list, it's like saying that Pink Floyd's genres are:Psychedelic rock, symphonic rock, music concrete, noise, electronic (art) music, progressive rock, hard rock, folk ballads, that is true, but the term progressive rock is enough. Anyway, I'll change ambient with Ambient music, becouse he explored both the pure drumless Ambient Music (the Eno style) and the more recent Ambient house and Ambient Techno. The Ambient page should be a disambiguation one, given that the word itself has so many meanings to different people and contexts, even outside music. The word IDM is meaningless, it's a sort of hyperonym that will to encompass all the above genres, so it's not really needed. Prepared piano is not a genre, it's a technique used in many different Contemporary classical music and Avantgarde music contexts. Oh, I forgot to mention that Mr Aphex Twin has so many fans and listeners that really do not care about the obsessions that many Wikipedians have with regard to classifying information, facts and people.Dr. Who 13:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- Aphex Twin worked in very seperate genres, and it's good to note them all down. It's wrong to compare him to a rock band or another musician as he is not exactly the same as them, we should just treat him on what he does rather than compare him to rock bands. You are dead right about prepared piano. I agree that only wikipedians care about a tiny little genre name list, that's why it's good that we get it right, because we're the ones geeky enough to care enough to correct it! P.S. I personally like the genre list right now. Newsnight Watcher 19:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- There is no problem in mentioning al the subgenres of Electronic Music, electronic dance music and so on along the article and/or the discography. I just believe that it's useless if those are listed in the infobox (I would list just one, maybe 2 or 3, not 5 or 8!); and beside useless, it makes the page and the infobox more difficult to read. The infobox should represent information so that you can fully watch and read it in less than 1 second. With regard to my VHS tape reporting a video by Aphex Twin on MTV Europe in early 1990s, I do not have the right videocard for uploading, I am very sorry. I would be pleased that someone else aged about 38/42 would help such articles, but I sadly realized that people of my generation are not great Wikipedians, they seem too busy with work, and in many cases they come here, stay for a while and then leave becouse they do not want to have nothing to do with younger people. Too bad.Dr. Who 02:13, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- Aphex Twin worked in very seperate genres, and it's good to note them all down. It's wrong to compare him to a rock band or another musician as he is not exactly the same as them, we should just treat him on what he does rather than compare him to rock bands. You are dead right about prepared piano. I agree that only wikipedians care about a tiny little genre name list, that's why it's good that we get it right, because we're the ones geeky enough to care enough to correct it! P.S. I personally like the genre list right now. Newsnight Watcher 19:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- The list is too long, no other musician on Wikipedia has such huge list, it's like saying that Pink Floyd's genres are:Psychedelic rock, symphonic rock, music concrete, noise, electronic (art) music, progressive rock, hard rock, folk ballads, that is true, but the term progressive rock is enough. Anyway, I'll change ambient with Ambient music, becouse he explored both the pure drumless Ambient Music (the Eno style) and the more recent Ambient house and Ambient Techno. The Ambient page should be a disambiguation one, given that the word itself has so many meanings to different people and contexts, even outside music. The word IDM is meaningless, it's a sort of hyperonym that will to encompass all the above genres, so it's not really needed. Prepared piano is not a genre, it's a technique used in many different Contemporary classical music and Avantgarde music contexts. Oh, I forgot to mention that Mr Aphex Twin has so many fans and listeners that really do not care about the obsessions that many Wikipedians have with regard to classifying information, facts and people.Dr. Who 13:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Assorted comment
The bit where it says windowlicker was a release from the come to daddy ep is wrong, windowlicker was a stand alone single. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20.154.118 (talk) 22:53, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Steganography
Should this be noted in the article? --201.9.225.179 (talk) 14:09, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
- It is. Recury (talk) 00:00, 25 November 2007 (UTC)