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Aphex Twin
|Aphex Twin
James performing in Turin in March 2007
|Background information
|Birth name
|Richard David James
18 August 1971
Limerick, Ireland
|Lanner, Cornwall, United Kingdom
|Musician, composer, remixer, DJ
|Synthesizer, piano, softsynth, turntables, drum machine, sequencer, sampler, laptop
|Years active
|Associated acts
|Universal Indicator, Mike & Rich, Squarepusher, Nine Inch Nails
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Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known by his stage name Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born English electronic musician and composer. He is known for his influential and idiosyncratic work in electronic music styles such as IDM and acid techno in the 1990s, for which he won widespread critical acclaim.[1][2] He is also the co-founder of Rephlex Records with Grant Wilson-Claridge.[3]
Initially releasing acid and techno music as AFX and other aliases, James first received widespread acclaim for his 1992 album Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and his subsequent 1994 release Selected Ambient Works Volume II. He rose to mainstream popularity with his 1997 EP Come to Daddy and his 1999 single "Windowlicker". After a period of relative inactivity following the release of his 2001 album Drukqs to mixed reviews, James returned in 2014 with a new album titled Syro, which won him a Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
Early years
James was born in Limerick, Ireland,[4] and grew up in Lanner, Cornwall, UK, with two older sisters, in a "very happy" childhood during which they "were pretty much left to do what [they] wanted".[5] He enjoyed living there, feeling apart from nearby cities and the rest of the world.[6] James attended Redruth School in Redruth, Cornwall,[7] and claimed to have produced sound on a Sinclair ZX81 (a machine with no sound hardware) at age 11:
When I was 11, I won 50 pounds in a competition for writing this program that made sound on a ZX81. You couldn't make sound on a ZX81, but I played around with machine code and found some codes that retuned the TV signal so that it made this really weird noise when you turned the volume up.[5]
According to musician Benjamin Middleton, James began producing music the following year.[8] As a teenager he was a disc jockey at the Shire Horse Inn in St Ives, with Tom Middleton at the Bowgie Inn in Crantock and along the beaches around Cornwall. James studied at Cornwall College from 1988 to 1990 for a National Diploma in engineering. About his studies, he said "music and electronics went hand in hand".[9] James graduated from college; according to an engineering lecturer he often wore headphones during practical lessons, "no doubt thinking through the mixes he'd be working on later".[10]
Early 1990s: Early career
In 1989, James befriended Grant Wilson-Claridge when they were working alternate weeks as a DJ at the Bowgie pub near Newquay. Wilson-Claridge was intrigued by his sets, and when he discovered that James was playing tapes of his own music he suggested that they make records. At first, putting Aphex Twin's recordings on vinyl was a way of making music the duo's friends wanted to hear; because of their geographic isolation they could not access the music they wanted to hear, so they decided to create their own.[7]
James' first release as Aphex Twin, later changed to AFX, was the 1991 12-inch EP Analogue Bubblebath on Mighty Force Records. The track "En Trance to Exit" was recorded with Tom Middleton, also known as Schizophrenia.[11] The EP made the playlist of Kiss FM, an influential London radio station, which helped it become successful.[12]
In 1991, James and Wilson-Claridge founded Rephlex Records to promote "innovation in the dynamics of Acid — a much-loved and misunderstood genre of house music forgotten by some and indeed new to others, especially in Britain".[13] From 1991 to 1993 James released two Analogue Bubblebath EPs (one without a band name on it, one as AFX) and an EP, Bradley's Beat, as Bradley Strider. Although he moved to London to take an electronics course at Kingston Polytechnic, he admitted to David Toop that his electronics studies were being evacuated as he pursued a career in the techno genre.[14]
After leaving the polytechnic, James remained in London, releasing albums and EPs on Warp Records and other labels under a number of aliases (including AFX, Polygon Window and Power-Pill); several of his tracks, released under aliases including Blue Calx and The Dice Man, appeared on compilations. Although he allegedly lived on the roundabout in Elephant and Castle, South London, during his early years in the city, he actually lived in a nearby unoccupied bank.[5][14]
1992–1995: Gaining success
Sample of "Ageispolis" from the 1992 album Selected Ambient Works 85-92
"Ventolin (Video Version)"
Sample of "Ventolin (Video Version)" from the 1995 album ...I Care Because You Do
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The first full-length Aphex Twin album, Selected Ambient Works 85–92, was released in 1992 on R&S Records to critical acclaim; John Bush of Allmusic described it as a "watershed of ambient music".[15] In 2002 Rolling Stone said about the album, "Aphex Twin expanded way beyond the ambient music of Brian Eno by fusing lush soundscapes with oceanic beats and bass lines."[16] Pitchfork Media called it "among the most interesting music ever created with a keyboard and a computer".[17] However, critics noted that the songs were recorded on cassette and their sound quality was relatively poor.
In 1992 James also released the Xylem Tube EP and Digeridoo (first played by DJ Colin Faver on London's Kiss FM) as Aphex Twin, the Pac-Man EP (based on the arcade game) as Power-Pill, and two of his four Joyrex EPs (Joyrex J4 EP and Joyrex J5 EP) as Caustic Window. "Digeridoo" reached #55 on the UK Singles Chart, and was later described by Rolling Stone as foreshadowing drum and bass.[18] He wrote "Digeridoo" to clear up his audience after a rave.[19] These early releases were on Rephlex Records, Mighty Force of Exeter and R&S Records of Belgium.[20]
In 1993 James released Analogue Bubblebath 3; the "On" EP and its accompanying remix EP; his second Bradley Strider EP, Bradley's Robot; two more Caustic Window EPs and his first releases on Warp Records, Surfing on Sine Waves and "Quoth EP", as Polygon Window. Warp Records released Selected Ambient Works Volume II in 1994, with a less beat- and melody-driven sound than the previous album. The track names were described with pie chart symbols, each of which was meant to be paired with a corresponding image in the album jacket (except "Blue Calx"). To decipher the titles, listeners had to compare the length of each track with the size of the pie-chart symbols; for example, the first title (often called "Cliffs"), is realised by pairing the first symbol with the first image (a rocky cliffside).[21] James said in The Wire magazine and elsewhere that the tracks were inspired by lucid dreams and synaesthesia. Other releases were a fourth Analogue Bubblebath; GAK (derived from early demos sent to Warp Records), and Classics, a compilation album with "Digeridoo" EP and the Xylem Tube EP.
For his 1995 release ...I Care Because You Do James used an image of his face for the album cover, a motif which would be repeated on many of his later records. The tracks on this album were composed between 1990 and 1994 in a range of Aphex Twin musical styles. This was James' last record during the 1990s to emphasise analogue synthesizers. He commissioned Western classical-music composer Philip Glass to create an orchestral version of "Icct Hedral" (a song on this album), which appeared on the Donkey Rhubarb EP.[22] Also in 1995, James released his Hangable Auto Bulb EP, which spearheaded the shortlived drill 'n' bass style.[23][24]
1995–2000: Commercial height
In November 1995 The Wire published an article, "Advice to Clever Children". During the production of the interview a package of tapes with music from several artists (including Aphex Twin) was sent to Karlheinz Stockhausen, who said:
I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James (sic) carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work "Song of the Youth", which is electronic music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations.[25]
James, an admirer of Stockhausen, replied, "I thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: "Digeridoo", then he'd stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to".[25]
Richard D. James Album, James' fourth studio album as Aphex Twin, was released on Warp Records in 1996. The album includes his personal name (Richard David James) in the title and features use of software synthesizers and unconventional beats. John Bush of AllMusic noted that this was James' first studio album to work with jungle music, noting that the album was "more extreme than virtually all jungle being made at the time" with beats that were layered over his more slower melodies that characterized James' earlier ambient works. Pitchfork opined that the album was one of the "aggressive combinations of disparate electronic forms when it was released", with its "almost-brutal contrast between its elements creates a seal that's locked in freshness since way back in 1996."[26] The album garnered high acclaim from music critics, and was named 40th in Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s" list.[27] It was also placed #55 on NME's Top 100 Albums of All Time in 2003.[28]
James garnered attention the following year after the release of his Come to Daddy EP. The EP's title track was conceived as a death metal parody, with James stating: "Come to Daddy came about while I was just hanging around my house, getting pissed and doing this crappy death metal jingle. Then it got marketed and a video was made, and this little idea that I had, which was a joke, turned into something huge. It wasn't right at all."[29] Accompanied with a music video directed by Chris Cunningham, he became disenchanted by its success. It was followed by "Windowlicker", a critically and commercially successful single promoted with a music video also directed by Cunningham, which was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Video in 2000.[30][31]
2000–2003: Prepared piano and digital technology
"Jynweythek Ylow"
Sample of "Jynweythek Ylow" from the 2001 album Drukqs
Sample of "Vordhosbn" from Drukqs
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In 2001 Aphex Twin released Drukqs, an experimental double album featuring computer-controlled piano (influenced by Erik Satie and John Cage) and abrasive, fast, meticulously-programmed songs. Many track names are written in Cornish—for example, "Jynweythek" ("Machine Music"). Rolling Stone described the piano pieces as "aimlessly pretty".[32] The release polarized reviewers, some believed that Drukqs was released as a contract-breaker with Warp Records, since James' next major release was on his own Rephlex label. The musician told interviewers he accidentally left an MP3 player with a large number of new songs (labelled "Aphex Twin—unreleased tracks") on a plane, and rushed the album's release to preempt an Internet leak.[33] In 2001 James also released a short EP, 2 Remixes By AFX, with remixes of songs by 808 State and DJ Pierre. It also had an untitled third track, consisting of a SSTV image with high-pitched sounds which can be decoded to a viewable image with appropriate software (such as MultiMode for Macintosh or MMSSTV for Windows). In 2002, James was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male.[30]
2004–2009: Synthesizers and drum machines
"Fenix Funk 5"
Sample of "Fenix Funk 5" from the 2009 EP collection Analord
"VBS.Redlof. B"
Sample of "VBS.Redlof. B" from Analord
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In late 2004 James released his Analord series under his previously used pseudonym of AFX: 11 EPs with a total of 42 tracks (initially averaging two to four tracks per EP). The series was created by playing and sequencing analogue and digital electronic musical equipment such as synthesizers and drum machines (predominantly the Roland 303, 808 and 909 machines) recorded on magnetic tape and then pressed on vinyl. James also utilized his collection of vintage synthesizers and drum machines, some of which were rare by that time. Some record inserts have photos of rare synthesizers like the Synton Fenix, the notoriously difficult-to-program Roland MC-4 sequencer and the Roland TB-303.
James was meticulous about the process of recording, mastering and pressing. He tried a number of pressing plants until he was satisfied with the quality of each EP. James prefers vinyl or tape to digital. However, label co-owner Wilson-Claridge convinced him to release a CD compilation (Chosen Lords) with 10 tracks from the Analord series.
Twenty more tracks were added in December 2009 to the Analord series (available by download from the Rephlex Records website), and each EP now contains up to nine tracks.
The Tuss
Media speculation in 2007 suggested that Aphex Twin was recording under another new alias, The Tuss, attributed to the names "Brian Tregaskin" and "Karen Tregaskin". The Guardian newspaper and others printed rumours of The Tuss being a pseudonym of or a collaboration with Richard D. James.[34][35][36] Contesting that, Rephlex's co-founder, Grant Wilson-Claridge, stated in a 2007 e-mail interview that The Tuss is not James, saying, "People seem more interested in speculation and celebrity than content, quality or music. Be careful you don't miss something really great that isn't really famous."[37] However, all The Tuss tracks are published in the BMI repertoire under "James Richard David",[38][39] and the two The Tuss works use a Yamaha GX1, an exceptionally rare and expensive analog synthesizer that James is known to own.[35][40]
When Syro was announced in 2014, Bleep.com confirmed that The Tuss was an Aphex Twin alias.[41] In a pre-Syro interview with Dutch magazine OOR, James finally confirmed that he had been busy, in fact, "recording two EPs as The Tuss"[42]
2010–2013: Live performance and remote orchestras
In an October 2010 interview with the British magazine Another Man, James said that he had completed six albums (one of which was a remake of the unreleased Melodies from Mars, originally produced around the time of Richard D. James Album).[43]
In June 2011, James spoke to the Spanish newspaper El País. When asked about the six albums, James answered: "More than 10 or 11 are already compiled, and many more songs are orphans". He also said that a new album "[would] show in a while" and the reason for the delay since his last album was that he was divorcing his wife, though some fans assumed the latter comment to be a joke.[44] In September 2011, James appeared as Aphex Twin in a live tribute to avant-garde Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Alongside Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, James performed his remix of Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima", as well as a version of "Polymorphia", at the tribute concert that was held in Poland. The following month, an Aphex Twin set was part of the lineup at the Pitchfork Music Festival Paris event.[45][46]
In October 2012, James brought his remote orchestra act to London for one 3-act performance including the "Interactive Tuned Feedback Pendulum Array", which paid tribute and expanded upon Steve Reich's "Pendulum Music".
2014–present: Syro
On 16 June 2014, the 1994 Caustic Window LP (originally a test pressing, of which at least five copies were made and given to µ-ziq, Cylob and Rephlex co-founder Grant Wilson-Claridge) was released as a digital download to backers of a Kickstarter campaign to buy a copy of the vinyl record from an anonymous seller on Discogs. The purchase of the vinyl and the subsequent vinyl rip was organized by We Are the Music Makers, an online electronic music forum. The crowdfunding was approved by Rephlex Records and James, with each contributor receiving the right to keep their digital copy of the album.[47] When the campaign finished, the LP was placed for auction on eBay and purchased by Markus Persson, designer of the video game Minecraft.[48]
On 16 August 2014, a green blimp with the Aphex Twin logo and "2014" written on its side was identified flying over London, UK. The sighting of the blimp was reported in both the NME and Pitchfork music publications. Soon after, a photo on Twitter appeared showing the Aphex Twin logo sprayed on the footpath outside of Radio City Music Hall in New York City.[49] Two days later, the Aphex Twin Twitter account posted a link to a hidden service using deep web browser Tor, providing the title and tracklist of a then-upcoming album release called Syro, which was the first Aphex Twin studio album since Drukqs in 2001.[50]
An official press release was shared by the Pitchfork online music publication on 21 August 2014, providing readers with both the album cover artwork and further album details. Syro was released on the Warp label on 23 September 2014 and the cover artwork, which reads like a tax receipt, is by the Designers Republic brand. A limited-edition box set version of the album was released through the Bleep label, limited to 200 copies. Interested buyers were required to enter a lottery to become eligible.[51]
On 23 January 2015, James released Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP.[52]
Soundcloud tracks
In a November 2014 interview about Syro, James revealed another set of 21 tracks, labeled Modular Trax, that were made available on SoundCloud — both the interview and the tracks were later removed.[53][54][55]
Between January and November 2015, an anonymous user posted 268 tracks on Soundcloud (later removing the tracks "4 Red Calx" and "5 Girl Boy Dark Version"), under the names "user487363530", "user4873635301", "user48736353001", and finally "user18081971".[56] Philip Sherburne stated on Pitchfork:
... the hallmarks of the production recall specific moments in James' catalogue ... you can hear the same machines, the same processes, and above all, the same ideas—if this isn't James, then it's a musician who's every bit his peer, and what are the chances of one of those going undiscovered for all these years?[57]
Mike Paradinas (aka μ-Ziq) who worked with James on the 1996 Expert Knob Twiddlers album, confirmed the authenticity of several of the tracks.[57] That same day, the official Aphex Twin Twitter account tweeted a link to the SoundCloud page for the user named "user48736353001".[58] In a piece for the Guardian, Stuart Aitken argued that Aphex Twin's experiments with SoundCloud and other digital media should encourage musicians to similarly explore the creative opportunities of the internet.[59]
On 27 February 2015, James created the "saw 1.5" playlist on SoundCloud, comprising 11 tracks from the hundred or so posted over the months, presumably tracks that did not make it onto Selected Ambient Works 85-92. He commented that "there are more, inc. versions of the tracks that were released on SAW 1, those will come out on a re-release one day hopefully, so saving those for that." In May, James compiled 36 of the posted tracks as the playlist "Surfing on Sine Waves 2", with the statement "Would love to release this on Warp, all mastered properly, maybe a double album."
On 6 May 2015 James' secondary Soundcloud account, along with the 200+ tracks shared, were deleted without any explanation. Two days later the account was resurrected with all 200+ tracks and comments intact under the name "user18081971". The new username refers to Richard's birthday, which is 18 August 1971.
On 1 July 2015, Richard uploaded a new track to his official Soundcloud account (the Aphex Twin one, not the user18081971 one) announcing a new EP, titled Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008, returning to his AFX moniker for the first time since the Analord series.[60][61][62] Almost all of the Soundcloud tracks on the user18081971 account have since been removed.[63]
On 5 June 2016, Aphex Twin released a poster teasing his upcoming EP "Cheetah". The EP will contain some of the tracks Richard uploaded to Soundcloud.[64]
Musical style
In a September 1997 interview with Space Age Bachelor magazine, James said he composed ambient techno music at age 13, had "over 100 hours" of unreleased music and had invented music-composition software consisting of algorithmic processes which automatically generated rhythm and melody. In the interview, he also claimed to have experienced synesthesia and could incorporate lucid dreaming into his compositions.[65]
James' Rephlex Records, which he co-owned with Grant Wilson-Claridge, coined the word "braindance" in 1991 to describe Aphex Twin's music.[35][66][67] According to the label: "Braindance is the genre that encompasses the best elements of all genres, e.g. traditional, classical, electronic music, popular, modern, industrial, ambient, hip-hop, electro, house, techno, breakbeat, hardcore, ragga, garage, drum and bass, etc."[68] In a review of Astrobotnia's Parts 1, 2 & 3 Rephlex release, a Pitchfork Media writer said in 2002:
Breakbeats liberated producers from the impositions of relentless four-to-the-floor stomping, and "braindance" escaped the mind/body binary opposition of electronic music--here was a rhythmically hyper, complex genre that retained its club roots by appending fantastically supple limbs to the listener's fervid imagination.[69]
In 2001, The Guardian described James' musical lineage as Stockhausen, John Cage, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and Derrick May.[70] Acknowledging another influence, James released Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop: a compilation of music recorded by the pioneers of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (including Delia Derbyshire)[71] on Rephlex. Although he has said "I don't really like rock & roll" he appreciates Led Zeppelin (as a source of "great breakbeats")[72] and Pink Floyd (for their psychedelic music).[72]
Intelligent dance music (IDM) is mentioned on the home page of the Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) mailing list (created in August 1993) about the music of Aphex Twin and the Artificial Intelligence Series released by Warp Records.[73] The series features James' recordings as Polygon Window and early productions from artists including Autechre, Black Dog, Richie Hawtin's FUSE project and Speedy J. The term spread to the United States and internet message boards. James responded to the IDM term in a 1997 interview:
I just think it's really funny to have terms like that. It's basically saying, "this is intelligent and everything else is stupid." It's really nasty to everyone else's music. (laughs) It makes me laugh, things like that. I don't use names. I just say that I like something or I don't.— Aphex Twin[74]
In an essay for the UK magazine The Wire published in February 2013 (15 years after James' comment in the 1997 PerfectSoundForever interview), Joe Muggs reflected on the Artificial Intelligence Series in relation to the IDM label:
So, although genre speciation was accelerating even as these albums were being made, and even though they have been seen as representing a separation of non-dancefloor Electronica as a gentrified genre in its own right, the Artificial Intelligence series could equally be seen as an extended attempt to hold on to the rave explosion's all-inclusiveness in opposition to its fragmentation. This stands in direct opposition to the philosophy of Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) which followed, and which tended to consider itself above mere dancefloor music. Post-1994, the idea of 'listening Techno' would become lost as IDM, Triphop, chill out and mellower strains of drum 'n' bass occupied its place in the ecosystem, while the Artificial Intelligence diaspora would follow wildly different routes ...[75]
Use of James' face
James' face, grinning or distorted, is a theme of his album covers, music videos and songs. According to him, it began as a response to techno producers who concealed their identities:
I did it because the thing in techno you weren't supposed to do was to be recognized and stuff. The sort of unwritten rule was that you can't put your face on the sleeve. It has to be like a circuit board or something. Therefore I put my face on the sleeve. That's why I originally did it. But then I got carried away.— Aphex Twin[76]
The cover of ...I Care Because You Do features a painting of James, and that of Richard D. James Album has a close-up photograph. His face is superimposed on the bodies of other people in the music videos for "Come to Daddy" and "Windowlicker". Near the end of the second track of the "Windowlicker" single (known as "Equation"), a photo of James' face is a steganogram which is revealed as a spectrogram.[77] Another image of James and collaborator Tom Jenkinson is embedded (in SSTV format) with text in the third track of 2 Remixes by AFX, "Bonus High Frequency Sounds". He has used his own photography for some releases, including the album sleeve for Selected Ambient Works Volume II.
James has recorded as AFX, Blue Calx, Bradley Strider, The Universal Indicator, Brian Tregaskin, Caustic Window, The, Smojphace, GAK, Karen Tregaskin, Patrick Tregaskin, Martin Tressider, PBoD (Phonic Boy on Dope), Polygon Window, Power-Pill, Q-Chastic, Dice Man, The Tuss, and Soit-P.P.[78] In a 1997 interview, James commented on the difference between works released under different names, saying "There's really no big theory. It's just things that I feel right in doing at the time and I really don't know why. I select songs for certain things and I just do it. I don't know what it means".[74]
In a 2001 interview, Richard D. James has commented on the ambiguous nature of his own releases and the speculation that surrounds many anonymous artists working in electronica: "a lot of people think everything electronic is mine. I get credited for so many things, it's incredible. I'm practically everyone, I reckon—everyone and nobody".[79]
Influence and legacy
Writing in The Guardian in 2001, journalist Paul Lester described James as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music".[3]
In 2005 Alarm Will Sound released Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin, acoustic arrangements of James' electronic tracks. Although he has influenced Radiohead, especially on their album Kid A,[80] he does not wish to tour with them: "I wouldn't play with them since I don't like them."[72]
The London Sinfonietta performed arrangements of Aphex Twin songs in 2006.[81]
In 2007 Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk cited Aphex Twin (particularly "Windowlicker") as an influence for the duo's 2nd album Discovery. Bangalter said he liked it because "It wasn't a big club beat, but it also wasn't a laid back, quiet one.".[82] Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante said that Aphex Twin is "the best thing since sliced bread", and his Outsides EP and PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone are examples of James' influence.
James premiered new music with Radiohead guitarist-composer Jonny Greenwood in a 2011 collaboration with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.[83] Animator David Firth has much of his work soundtracked by Aphex Twin.[84]
In 2012 a FACT Magazine review of the 100 best albums of the 1990s listed the LP Selected Ambient Works 85-92 in No.1 position.[85]
In 2013, Thom Yorke of Radiohead named Aphex Twin as his biggest influence, saying: "He burns a heavy shadow ... Aphex opened up another world that didn't involve my fucking electric guitar ... I hated all the music that was around Radiohead at the time, it was completely fucking meaningless. I hated the Britpop thing and what was happening in America, but Aphex was totally beautiful, and he's kind of my age too."[86]
In June 2014, Answer Code Request (Patrick Gräser) called James "one producer who always inspires" him in the "Influences" section of the Ransom Note website. Gräser used the Aphex Twin song "Analogue Bubblebath 1" to exemplify James' influence: "I guess being obsessed with your own music is what makes him that brilliant."[87]
In June 2014, Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit stated "Cliffs" or possibly "Rhubarb" from Selected Ambient Works II as being the song he would listen to for the rest of his life if he had to pick one.[88]
Personal life
James described himself in a Guardian interview: "I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music."[3]
In a 2010 interview with the FACT publication, James revealed that he was living in Scotland at the time after relocating from London—according to FACT, he "extolled the virtues" of his new residential location.[89] As of 2014, he lives in Scotland with his two sons—from his first marriage[90]—and his second wife, a Russian art student.[91]
Partial discography
- Studio albums as Aphex Twin
- Selected Ambient Works 85–92 (1992)
- Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
- ...I Care Because You Do (1995)
- Richard D. James Album (1996)
- Drukqs (2001)
- Syro (2014)
- Cheetah (2016)
- Studio albums as Polygon Window
- Surfing on Sine Waves (1993)
- Studio albums as Caustic Window
- Caustic Window (2014)
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- ↑ Pattison, Louis (26 May 2007). "Dancing in the dark". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 November 2008.
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- ↑ "Aphex Twin and Aliases". Bleep. 2014-08-20. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
- ↑ Poolman, Koen. "Aphex Bonus Beats (2): Meer Interview Outtakes". OOR. OOR. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
- ↑ "Aphex Twin Says He's Got Six Albums Completed | News". Pitchfork. 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ↑ "Google Translate". Translate.google.com. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
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- ↑ "APHEX TWIN'S CAUSTIC WINDOW TEST PRESSING BOUGHT BY MINECRAFT CREATOR NOTCH". Factmag. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-30.
- ↑ Evan Minsker (16 August 2014). "An Aphex Twin Blimp Is Flying Over London". Pitchfork. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
- ↑ Bowe, Miles (18 August 2014). "Aphex Twin Announces New Album SYRO Via Deep Web". Stereogum. Retrieved 2014-09-22.
- ↑ Amy Phillips (21 August 2014). "Aphex Twin Reveals Amazing SYRO Album Artwork and Bio". Pitchfork. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
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MTV: Were there any specific events or records that affected the shift in styles between albums? Bangalter: The only one that I can really see is "Windowlicker" [the 1999 single] by Aphex Twin. We asked ourselves what would be the meaning of the music we were doing: Could electronic music, outside of a club, be the soundtrack of our lives? "Windowlicker" was a real shock for us because it was neither a purely club track at one extreme of the electronic-music spectrum, nor just a very chilled-out downtempo relaxation track at the other end. Right now the two categories in electronic music are this downtempo music and DJ/club music, and we found that there is a middle that could have a very strong emotional dimension and that was instantly accessible to our ears and very experimental at the same time.
- ↑ Robbins, Winston (11 September 2011). "Video: Jonny Greenwood, Aphex Twin perform alongside Krzysztof Penderecki". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
- ↑ "Re: Salad Fingers". Semantikon.com. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ↑ "The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s – FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music". Factmag.com. 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ↑ "Splitting Atoms". Dazed. February 2013.
- ↑ Answer Code Request. "Influences". The Ransom Note. The Culture Space. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
- ↑ "Kerrang! Sonisphere 2014 Podcast: Wes Borland - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
- ↑ "APHEX TWIN: "I'VE GOT SIX ALBUMS COMPLETED"". FACT. The Vinyl Factory. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
- ↑ "Aphex Twin on New 'Syro' LP: 'I'm Feeling Really Horny About It – and Very Smug'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
- ↑ Spex October 2014, p. 26: Aphex Twin: Ein Backup für Millionen (German interview)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dave Robinson (April 1993). "The Aphex Effect". Future Music.
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- ↑ "Music Thing: Aphex Twin sleevenotes, scrawled on a vintage synth". Musicthing.blogspot.com. 2007-07-16. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
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"I was trying to look on the bright side."
David Josef Hansen is this year's actor in Shakespeare and Company's third annual presentation of "The Santaland Diaries." He plays David, a successful actor who early in his career spent a season at Macy's Department Store playing a Santaland elf, self-named Crumpet. As David prepares his apartment - with a startlingly beautiful view of New York City - for a holiday party he recounts the story of this mis-spent season when, broke and lonely, he took on a role for which he was emotionally and psychologically unprepared.
Hansen gives us a somewhat darker view of David and his work than his predecessors have done. Peter Davenport in December, 2010 was able to transform himself from a handsome, happy man into the ogre-like elf whose oddities were both unpleasant and yet charming. Ryan Winkles, last December, was whimsical, silly, fascinating and clearly a flawed Crumpet with a winning way about him. Hansen, even with his openness and generosity to early-arrival guests (the audience), always seems to be lurking on the edge of the dark side. His David seems almost a creation of Stephen King, horror-meister author of scary books, with a split personality that transcends the usual actor's ability to simply transform. Long before his tale of that wintry season of a life in the hell of commercial Christmas takes shape, Hansen's David is alluringly seductive in the sense of a demon pursuing a maiden.
It is when he falls into his Crumpet manifestation that the real darkness, a humorous darkness but a grim world nevertheless, really takes shape. For the first time, for me, the ongoing references to Satan and his pursuits became the reason for the play, for the diaries themselves. In Hansen's hands the dark side wins out - at least temporarily - and the resultant party to come in the place of beauty that David inhabits seems almost sardonic.
Not that I didn't laugh a lot during the 71 minutes performance. I did. I had a fine time celebrating an experience that clearly had ramifications on a life and a lifestyle. What I also had was a small bumpy road of realizations. Sedaris, the author, experienced all of this and Hansen, just like Winkles and Davenport, also experiences what the author went through in the darkest days of a dawning career. He, with the guidance of his director Tony Simotes, comes out the other side still whole and still healthy but changed. Unlike the previous viewings with Davenport restored and Winkles rejoiced, Hansen brings us to a place where the reality of his experience is turned into an unreality where darkness and light are reversed.
I noticed a subtle sense of changes in the lighting of this show, I believe. Stephen Ball seems to have given the actor opportunities to struggle through the harder moments in a dimmer light than usual. Hansen's sharp features lose definition at times as he is placed out of direct light and the result here is a mood change that is fostered by certain points in the story he recounts. If the intention was to bring us a sense of that old, wonderful black-and-white television show, "The Twilight Zone." then the outcome is an almost perfect replication of its quirkier moments.
With a new actor in the role, the director has managed to redefine some of the author's playful references and some of the adapter's pointed ones. Christmas, the time of light in darkness, emerges here in its commercialized state at a big store as its reflected image and it makes you think a lot about childhood, the transition into adulthood and the mania of aging. This is not just another "Christmas Carol" with its redemption of a soul; this is about the opposite, about the loss of personal dignity, about the need to hit a new low point in order to achieve the heights. The Santaland Diaries, 2012, is about all of us who travel a constant road to self-realization.
The Santaland Diaries plays a principally week-end schedule at Shakespeare and Company's Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, located at 70 Kemble Street in Lenox, MA through December 30. For information and tickets go to their website at www.shakespeare.org or call the box office at 413-637-3353.
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Why Great Design Is the Future of Content Marketing
Although it's still early in 2012, the importance of visual storytelling is clearly one of the year's breakout trends. Facebook Timeline, Pinterest, and Instagram are forcing brands to think and act more visually. Couple that with the impact of mobile browsing, and these emerging trends give new meaning to the phrase "show, don't tell."
In other words, the "beautification of the web" era is upon us. How does this shift toward visual storytelling impact your content marketing plan? Let's explore some trends that illustrate where we are and where we're going.
Apps Are Leading the Way
Flipboard's design made people think about content consumption differently. Path showed us how stunning app design impacts the user experience. Instagram's filters added creativity, style, and aesthetics to photos, which helped evoke more emotion and a stronger response from viewers. The to-do app Clear showed us how navigation is becoming obsolete.
The strategic emphasis on the intuitive design of these services contributed to their popularity and fast growth. As a result, app design is forcing web-based designers to be more innovative and creative. Just look at some of today's up-and-comers. For companies like AirBnB and Kickstarter design is a critical pillar of their overall brand experience. It's part of their success, and the rest of the web has taken note.
That's why Google and Facebook are no longer just buying technology, they're hiring designers who can create visually rich and memorable experiences. Even Microsoft is refocusing on design. That's because forward-thinking businesses know that good design is good for business.
Special Effects Are a Key Factor
Users continue to spend more time on tablets and smartphones, leaving behind the archaic desktop navigation paradigms of the early 2000s. This shift has led to a new crop of slick web designs that feature more complex interactions and visual effects, thanks to technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
For example, we're seeing more interactive buttons, sliding and fading visual elements, parallax experiences on scrolling sites, and even elements of augmented reality. The list goes on and on.
A Variety of Browsing Experiences is the New Norm
A wide range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, PCs, and televisions allow users to view web-based content. When designing websites, it's imperative to account for these various browsing experiences.
Instead of creating a website for desktop viewing and a parallel site for mobile browsing, a responsive design adjusts based on the viewer's screen of choice. The content a viewer sees depends on how they're accessing the site. For example, desktop browsers may get the full experience, while mobile users may see more "task-oriented" content and minimal design.
Less is More
Tumblr is known for its minimalist, user-friendly design — an attraction that's led to the creation of 50+ million blogs on its platform. In fact, that "less is more" approach to design is popping up across the web.
Other great examples of this include Simple, Square, and Dropbox. Simple, a new online banking platform, has a largely page-free website. One main page serves as a point-of-interaction to guide you through their story and sign-up process. Square's slide-based site gets right to the point and simply shows you how the product functions with imagery and very little text. Dropbox's cloud storage system embraces a "Google-esque" minimalism.
In each case, ease of use is a priority. Why? Simply put, sites that are intuitive and easy to use inherently create a memorable experience that can enhance user loyalty and word of mouth marketing. Dieter Rams said that "good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials." As designers we need to make it easy for users to do what they need to do in a fast, responsive, and intuitive way, thus producing higher satisfaction.
Beautification is the Future
The beautification of the web is also good news for startups. The old web was based on design standards born in the newspaper and magazine industries. Today, we're in the midst of a renaissance that puts the online and mobile experiences first. This ever-growing array of connected devices point to a future where users will understand and appreciate a more cohesive and intuitive interface.
As we're already beginning to see, companies that innovate their approach to design will be rewarded with new growth opportunities. Companies like Pinterest, Instagram, and others have shown that design can differentiate a company from its' competition, and create the kind of user loyalty that is priceless.
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Accenture Life Safety Solution featuring Cisco Wireless & MSE Awarded New Product of the Year
Occupational Health & Safety magazine honors the outstanding product development achievements of companies that create products which are considered particularly noteworthy in their ability to improve workplace safety. This year, they have awarded the Accenture Life Safety Solution, a wireless-enabled multi-gas detection system that helps protect workers in potentially hazardous environments, as industrial hygiene product of the year.
Developed by a partnership between Cisco, Accenture, Industrial Scientific, and AeroScout, the Accenture Life Safety Solution links wireless infrastructure and location-based technologies to gas detectors. These detectors are classified as multi-gas, meaning each device can detect hydrogen sulphide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbon and oxygen. With the innovative product, enterprises can now lookout for the safety of their employees on their company grounds by being able to monitor incidents and to locate workers in hazardous locations. Manufacturing and industrial industries are known to be particularly difficult to deploy reliable wireless due to steel infrastructure or harsh interference environments, but the solution is designed specifically for enterprises in these situations.
The Accenture Life Safety Solution was originally developed to meet the needs of a large oil and gas company. The client was already deploying Wi-Fi and wanted to leverage it in the solution, so Accenture reached out to Cisco. Because the solution concerned life safety, the entire project was governed by stringent requirements and the final product went under a rigorous certification process. The environment was especially challenging because there was a lot of outdoor coverage required.
As mentioned in our earlier MSE blog post, MSE is an appliance-based solution that supports a suite of software services. The Mobility Services Engine transforms the wireless LAN into a mobility network by abstracting the application layer from the network layer, effectively allowing for the delivery of mobile applications across wired and wireless networks.
In the Accenture Life Safety Solution, Accenture's patent-pending design leverages Cisco Unified wireless infrastructure by integrating it with Industrial Scientific's Ventis LS multi-gas detector and Gas Detection as a Service solution iNet®. MSE is a key element of the solution, layering into the wireless infrastructure and delivering location analytics and location history of employees by tracking AeroScout Wi-Fi tags.
For example, if one area of the company began to accumulate unsafe levels of toxic gases, the solution can identify exactly who is in that hazardous area and quickly send emergency alerts to those employees with directions to leave the premises at once. The solution, powered by MSE's strong location services, allows a company to know who is on the ground at all times and gives them an effective means to keep their employees safe.
For more on MSE, check out our product page and stay tuned for our MSE blog series.
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Asian soybean rust has been found in extreme southeast Arkansas. Hard on the heels of the latest discovery in Mississippi (see Soybean rust in Mississippi), the Arkansas find is of low severity and has not necessitated a blanket recommendation for fungicide applications.
"Rust was found south of Lake Village in Chicot County around Lakeport," said Scott Monfort, Arkansas Extension plant pathologist, shortly after the disease confirmation. "It's very close to the Mississippi River on some R-7 soybeans — at full maturity. It isn't unusual to find rust on mature beans. Since the field has reached maturity the rust won't harm the crop whatsoever."
Of the 100 leaves collected in the field, only one leaf was found to have the disease. And on that leaf "there were only a couple of pustules — less than 1 percent severity. That's a very, very low incidence."
Many surrounding Lakeport fields were also checked and found to be clean. "That's one reason we're holding off a fungicide recommendation. We'll revisit the area and see if (the disease) is building up or acting differently. There's no need for a panic, right now."
Interestingly, the Arkansas and Mississippi finds are less than 50 miles apart and almost on the same latitude.
How many acres — and how vulnerable — is Arkansas' late-planted soybean crop?
"We probably have 3.4 million to 3.5 million acres of soybeans, total in the state. The estimate is that at least 1 million acres of those — probably 1.5 million acres, actually — are late-planted.
"That means at least a third of our crop could be damaged by rust if it builds up and moves north. Right now, there haven't been a lot of good, strong winds to push the rust spores north, though. Winds have largely been moving towards the southeast."
In 2008, soybean rust "came in late and hung around without doing very much. The weather kept it in check. This year, we want to wait a bit and see if the rust is more aggressive before growers start putting out a bunch of fungicides."
Monfort encourages growers "not to get in a hurry and not to worry about soybean rust. Right now, everyone needs to continue to manage fields for the other diseases we know are out there: mainly frogeye, aerial blight and anthracnose."
If those diseases are in the field, "go ahead and treat with the typical strobilurin fungicide. If this rust begins to develop and move — and we'll be quick to let everyone know — it may be necessary to change over to triazoles. Right now, don't focus on soybean rust and ignore the diseases we have on hand."
Monfort requested that samples pulled from fields with suspected soybean rust be sent to diagnostic labs in either Monticello or Lonoke.
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Battle of GPU Transcoders: ATI Avivo Converter and NVIDIA Elemental Badaboom
GPU Transcoding in your future
I have to admit I have been less excited about GPU-based video transcoding than I should have been. For me, moving content between a DVD collection and your phone was never a top priority as I just didn't use media in that fashion. With the iPhone, a lot of that changed and being able to put some movies or videos on your mobile device for a couple hour flight for some meetings became a much more interesting prospect. Apparently the same is true for the engineers and marketeers at NVIDIA and AMD.
GPU transcoding applications were first introduced by ATI three years ago but since then has stymied until this summer. Both NVIDA and AMD have taken to promoting their own versions of GPU-based video transcoding as a means of easily demonstrating the power and promise of the GPU computing in general. Most recently, NVIDIA was the first to have a modern GPU assisted transcoding application on the market with the help of Elemental Technologies in the form of the "Badaboom" program - available for free with a watermark or $30 without one, Badaboom now has to compete with AMD's analogous application that comes bundled free with the pending release of the Catalyst 8.12 drivers.
In this article, I'll be looking at both applications, Badaboom and the ATI Video Transcoder, to see what advantages each has and comparing performance and quality where applicable. As it turns out, there probably more differences between these two applications than there are similarities making a 1:1 comparison difficult; but heck, we've never let that stop us before!
For NVIDIA: Badaboom!
While Badaboom might sound cheesy as a name for a video transcoding application, it is somewhat catchier than the ATI Video Transcoder. You can find it available for download at badaboomit.com where you can see some demos and get some information from the people actually making the program. It will ONLY work with NVIDIA GPUs that support CUDA technology, namely the GeForce 8-series and up, and will cost you $29.99 if you want to use it longer than 30 days, for more than 30 transcodes or to get rid of the watermark. Basically, you need to buy it.
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Most prominent on the output options are Apple products: iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, etc but there are also options for the Xbox 360, Sony PS3, PSP and PC-based home theater PC that is their most generic output. Once you have selected your output format you use the options in the middle to decide the quality of the video.
Once your options are set, you simply need to hit the "Start" button at the bottom and transcoding process will commence.
Another important not on Badaboom is that it only supports individual video files of either MPEG2 or H.264 for transcoding and will ONLY transcode TO H.264 media. You will not be able to encode from or to DivX, MPEG-4, Windows Media, etc.
The transcode process itself is detailed with a progress bar along the top, frame rate of video encoding as a reference for speed and a preview of the video on the screen as it transcodes. Once completed you can simply navigate to the created file and put in your iTunes library or wherever the appropriate content type is stored on your system.
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U.S. Clinches Berth in 2003 Women's World Cup with 7-0 Win Over Costa Rica
SEATTLE, Wash. (Wednesday, November 6, 2002) - The U.S. Women's National Team became the sixth team to qualify for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup by virtue of its 7-0 victory over Costa Rica in the first semifinal of the 2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup. Forward Cindy Parlow led the way for the USA, scoring a pure hat trick, two on acrobatic headers.
The top two finishers in the Women's Gold Cup qualify from this region for the 4th Women's World Cup, being held in China from Sept. 24-Oct. 11, 2003, and by advancing to the championship game, the USA has earned one of those berths. The USA will now face the winner of the Mexico-Canada semifinal - the second half of tonight's doubleheader - on Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., for the championship of this region. Kickoff for that match is 7 p.m. PT and it will be broadcast live on Fox Sports World. It will be the second championship final for the U.S. women at the Rose Bowl, the first being the 1999 Women's World Cup Final.
"It is wonderful for our team" said Heinrichs, who captained the U.S. team to the 1991 Women's World Cup title in China. "The best part about today was our players' response to winning. They were absolutely, genuinely elated that we earned the right to go back to the World Cup."
A steady rain fell on Seattle during the entire day, but it no effect on the pitch. The Safeco Field roof was closed for the match and the cool, crisp night was perfect for soccer as the USA notched its fourth consecutive shutout in the tournament.
"We still have a very important game left," said U.S. forward Mia Hamm. "Our first goal was to qualify for the World Cup, and we did that, so now our goal is to win the Gold Cup."
An extremely young Costa Rican team came out in a highly defensive formation that at times featured five backs plus a sweeper, and packed the back, making it difficult for the U.S. team to find space in the attacking third. Costa Rica's best offensive weapon was the booming goal kicks of team captain Gabriela Trujillo, but the U.S. backs won almost every air ball. U.S. goalkeeper Briana Scurry was not bothered during the match, touching the ball a handful of times with her feet and made just one save.
Despite the multitude of white Costa Rican jerseys inside the penalty area, the U.S. chances came often and it was only a matter of time until the Americans got a goal. In the 6th minute, Shannon MacMillan struck a shot off the right post. Joy Fawcett skimmed a header off the crossbar in the 8th minute and Aly Wagner's driven header was pushed off the underside of the crossbar by Costa Rica goalkeeper Marie Claire Herra in the 40th. In between, Herra, made a handful of outstanding staves, denying a point blank blast from Parlow early in the game and pushing a Cat Reddick shot around the post that had started as a cross, but skidded off the damp turf dangerously close to the right corner.
The goal finally came in the 30th minute as a deft flick from Wagner flick Julie Foudy behind the defense in right side of the penalty area. The U.S. captain drilled a cross that darted through goal mouth traffic to Parlow at the far post, who tapped the ball in with the outside of her right shin to give the USA the lead.
After pushing hard for goals in the first half, the U.S. broke the game open after the break, scoring six times in the second half. Just four minutes into the second half, Parlow got her second goal as Reddick hit a beautiful cross from deep on the right flank into the middle. Parlow destroyed her defender, going over her to nod the ball into the lower left corner. Herra got her hands on the ball, but couldn't turn it outside the post.
"The service I received tonight was the best I've received all year with the national team," said Parlow, who upped her international goal total to 57 with her fifth career hat trick. "I was talking with Cat Reddick at halftime and I was telling her that the early service behind the defense was on, and five minutes into the second half, she puts it right on my head."
Parlow completed her hat trick three minutes later, her third goal inside of 22 minutes, rising above her defender to head a Kristine Lilly corner kick into the lower left corner.
"We were pleased with way our team started off and the way we pursued goals," added Heinrichs. "We talked at halftime about being patient and confident, and if someone could please knock that glass shield off the goal so that we can put in a few in the second half. And that person was Cindy Parlow."
Second half substitute Angela Hucles added the fourth goal in the 65th minute, the first of her international career, after she ran onto a Parlow cross that had been flicked on by the head of MacMillan. Hucles stabbed at the bouncing ball with the bottom of her cleat and re-directed it with class past Herra into the lower left corner.
The USA benefited from an own goal in the 79th minute, but credit must go to Lorrie Fair, who sent in a dangerous cross from the left side, and Lilly, whose pressure caused the ball to bounce off Cinthia Lopez' shoulder and into the net.
The USA ended the match with two crackers, as MacMillan ran onto loose ball in the right side of the penalty area and drove her shot across the 'keeper into the upper left corner in the 86th minute. Lilly added a goal in the 90th minute, ironically, her 90th career international goal, as Wagner touched a pass back to her 25 yards from the net she volleyed the bouncing ball, ripping a dipping shot into the net just under the cross bar at the right corner.
"(Costa Rica) was relying on the bunker and counter, and taking their time by being patient, but I have to give credit to our team," said Hamm. "We didn't get frustrated like we had in prior games when we had out-shot teams. The team stayed focused and extremely positive, and that allowed us when we came out in the second half to get some goals. And once Cindy got the first two, it opened up the field for us."
The USA played without forward Tiffeny Milbrett, who scored five times in the last match against Panama, as she got the night off to rest a minor knock suffered in that match. Hamm came off the bench, replacing Parlow, and played the last 19 minutes of the game.
The USA now joins host China, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Russia as the six teams who have already earned berths to the 2003 Women's World Cup, which will be played in five Chinese cities.
"It's a tremendous honor to play in a World Cup for your country," added Hamm, who has three on her resume. "It will be for the new players that will get the their first chance and it will be for the players who are playing in their fourth tournament."
Participants: United States Women's National Team vs. Costa Rica
Competition: 2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup Semifinal
Venue: Safeco Field (Seattle, Washington)
Date: November 6, 2002; Kickoff - 7:00 p.m. (PT)
Attendance: 10,079
Weather: Cool, dry, roof closed - 45 degrees
Scoring Summary: 1 - 2 - F
United States 1 - 6 - 7
Costa Rica 0 - 0 - 0
USA - Cindy Parlow (Julie Foudy), 30.
USA - Cindy Parlow (Cat Reddick), 49.
USA - Cindy Parlow (Kristine Lilly), 52.
USA - Angela Hucles (Shannon MacMillan), 65.
USA - Own Goal (Cinthia Lopez), 79.
USA - Shannon MacMillan (unassisted), 86.
USA - Kristine Lilly (Aly Wagner), 90.
USA - 1-Briana Scurry; 4-Cat Reddick, 6-Brandi Chastain, 14-Joy Fawcett, 17-Jenny Benson (2-Lorrie Fair, 46); 5-Tiffany Roberts (3-Angela Hucles, 46), 10-Aly Wagner, 11-Julie Foudy; 8-Shannon MacMillan, 12-Cindy Parlow (9-Mia Hamm, 71), 13-Kristine Lilly.
Subs not used: 7-Heather O'Reilly, 15-Kate Sobrero, 16-Tiffeny Milbrett, 18-LaKeysia Beene.
CRC - 23-Marie Claire Herra; 3-Gabriela Trujillo, 4-Karol Segura, 5-Monica Salazar, 15-Cinthia Lopez, 6-Xiomara Briceno, 13-Maricela Rojas, 16-Cindy Rodriguez (19-Heilyn Barrantes, 82), 10-Shirley Cruz, 9-Ericka Castro (17-Jackeline Alvarez, 46), 11-Megan Chavez (8-Ana Gabriela Campos, 74).
Subs not used: 1-Alejandra Alvarez, 2-Emilia Solano, 7-Martha Chavez, 12-Laura Sanchez.
Statistical Summary: USA / CRC
Shots: 37 / 1
Saves: 1 / 11
Corner Kicks: 17 / 0
Fouls: 11 / 9
Offside: 2 / 1
Misconduct Summary:
Referee: Sonia Denoncourt (CAN)
Asst. Referee: Isabel Tovar (MEX)
Asst. Referee: Jackeline Sawz (PAN)


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Serves one. Why is it that I hardly ever see a recipe that "serves one"? I only really started cooking (and loving it) when I lived on my own, and more often than not, I was cooking to serve one. Aside from learning how to cook, I was also learning to reduce recipes to the smallest serving. I didn't want to be eating the same thing for weeks (I discovered the hard way…with two weeks of beef kaldereta) so I trained myself to shop, market, prepare, and cook for one. I got really good at it.
I never went to culinary school; I wasn't learning to cook as a profession. I didn't learn to cook growing up to feed a large family. I learned to cook because I was far away from home and I was hungry. My whole cooking experience, my love for food and everything about it, no matter where it is now, or where it will go in the future, started with just the one: One ravenous me. And I loved it…I reveled in it. Cooking for myself excited me…eating what I cooked excited me. I looked forward to dinner. I ate by candle light. It was a gastronomic love affair with myself. I cannot recommend this experience enough.
This is why, no matter who I cook for now, or will cook for in the future, there will always be times when my hands will itch to "serve one" again, when I will want to cook something just for me. Culinary Me Time. This is also the perfect opportunity to make dishes that I have been wanting to try, but are not really C's cup of tea. This pasta is one such dish.
Crispy Sage and Brown Butter Pasta
(adapted from Donna Hay Magazine, issue #32)
- 100 grams fettuccine or spaghetti noodles
- 25 grams butter
- Juice of ½ a lemon
- 10-12 sage leaves
- Salt and freshly cracked black pepper
- Freshly grated parmesan cheese
– Cook pasta as per package directions in a saucepan of generously salted water. Drain and set aside.
– In a skillet, heat the butter until melted.
– Add the sage to the butter and let this fry until the sage is crispy and butter is browned.
– Stir in lemon juice, pasta, salt and pepper. Toss until combined and pasta is coated with the brown butter mixture.
– Top with freshly grated parmesan to serve.
– Serves one.
This is a very simple dish relying on a few flavor elements – the nutty-ness of the browned butter, the heady aroma of the sage, both tempered by the tang of the lemon. I really enjoy these types of pasta dishes, but if you are one who loves more complicated sauces laden with ingredients, this may not be for you. C's taste runs towards tomato based sauces so this isn't for him either. It's for me 🙂
This is my entry for Weekend Herb Blogging, a fantastic event created by Kalyn of Kalyn's Kitchen. This round is hosted by Ellie of Kitchen Wench. You can learn more about sage in the link above, or here.
You may think this quite a strange post coming at the heels of my anniversary, but every marriage is sweeter when you've got quality "me/alone time"…and just because C is at work, doesn't mean I have to eat leftovers! 😉


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