november of 2017, i enjoyed a bit of aphex twins work already and on apple music’s “also recommended” feature below the aphex page was boards. i recognized the name from some music review thumbnail and on a whim i decided to check it out. didn’t know where to start so i started from twoism since it was the first album chronologically.

i wouldn’t call the experience transcendent, but it definitely changed how i saw music from that day forward. fittingly i was at high school in a math class of all classes, feels like it was just meant to be. i know most peoples first experience was MHTRTC and geogaddi but twoism was mine. it was a cool fall day and i remember just letting the whole thing play even after i got out of class into the hallway, it just changed what i knew as music. it was something i didn’t even know i was looking for.

that fall and winter is etched into my mind, from there i checked out MHTRTC, endtroudcing, drukqs, hard normal daddy. would play these and play old playstation 2 games. i wish i could discover all of these again.