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blowing a small fortune on Aphex
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:59 am
by laurent__duval
heard yesterday that for the matter night with aphex and luke vibert, aphex alone is getting paid £23,000! no wonder he plays so infrequently!
i think thats a bit excessive to be honest. luke vibert's loads better anyway.
no real reason for this thread, just thought i'd share that information.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:08 am
by screech
wow, im producing for the wrong genre!
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:12 am
by Preacha
aphex twin is god
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:21 am
by tekka
preacha wrote:aphex twin is god
23.000 for a god is cheap!
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:24 am
by dub frequency records
Tekka wrote:preacha wrote:aphex twin is god
23.000 for a god is cheap!
Re: blowing a small fortune on Aphex
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:33 am
by esfandyar
laurent__duval wrote:heard yesterday that for the matter night with aphex and luke vibert, aphex alone is getting paid £23,000! no wonder he plays so infrequently!
i think thats a bit excessive to be honest. luke vibert's loads better anyway.
no real reason for this thread, just thought i'd share that information.
he deserves it. who makes music like him?
thats actually a small amount I have heard from other offers, I have heard that he has been offered disgusting amounts of money, it just depends if he wants to do the show or not, as in if he is in the mood.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:02 am
by clarkycatdealer
23,000 for traktor dj set, lol. still no where near tiesto levels of £££$£$......
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:49 am
by mikef
he destroyed the warehouse project in '07!
a friend also missed out on a ticket so we tried e bay and they were going for in excess of 100 big ones, safe to say my friend didn't get to see aphex!
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:34 pm
by promo
Tough one. Definitely Aphex is a god but Luke Vibert is pretty fuckin' equal imo. I'm a fan of both but listen to Luke's music more. Still lest we not forget Mike P (aka U-Ziq) who is creates incredible lush/melodic music too. Its funny tho how Aphex is just leagues ahead of his peers in terms of popularity but then he was and still is a real pioneer.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:37 pm
by kingthing
I prefer Luke and Mike to Richard. Not to take anything away from Richard of course - undoubtedly a living god - but if I was going to put on some tunes by any of those three artists, my preference would be in that order
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:39 pm
by LEQ
Compared the £ he gets for TV and film use that's not a lot, but for one night on Traktor it's a fortune!
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:40 pm
by promo
kingthing wrote:I prefer Luke and Mike to Richard. Not to take anything away from Richard of course - undoubtedly a living god - but if I was going to put on some tunes by any of those three artists, my preference would be in that order
Sounds like we've got similar taste.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:42 pm
by promo
How much are the tickets? Anyways I honestly don't see myself going because the set he played at that thing in the states mainly wasn't his music so I'm really not interested. IMO for £23k and whatever the tickets are you want some sort of live show even if its midi controller and Abletron.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:33 pm
by apathesis
preacha wrote:aphex twin is god
he's obviously a bit of a dick if he's asking 23k
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:48 pm
by Jak The lad
I'd do 2 shows a year and sit on my arse the rest of it
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:10 pm
by hpuk
Tiesto gets paid close to 100K for a show usually...
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:12 pm
by dr h
He is overpaid, especially considering all he does is (often half assed) traktor sets on his little laptop, BUT when you consider everything hes achieved in his career and his impact on music as a whole, we can forgive him.
Pop stars make millions afterall and haven't got 1/10th of Richards creativity.
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:45 pm
by asa
23k is overkill, i know sometimes he has turned up and just basically played a 'noise' set for an hour?
But his name has very much become a product now, if you book aphex twin you are going to sell out the event - no doubt. so if the venue is big enough to fecilitate revenue in the region to cover it then fair enough...... the guy is a legend in most senses. but i still think 23k for a tracktor set is a bit over the top
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:57 pm
by djake
Dub Frequency Records wrote:Tekka wrote:preacha wrote:aphex twin is god
23.000 for a god is cheap!
yup the man deserves it!
best paid man in cornwall proberly
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:08 pm
by _boring
traktor with a controller or a mouse?