>Listening now...
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>There's a lot of these artists that I wonder if they aren't
>too derivative...but I still enjoy the tracks they make.

it's so funny that you should say that because i just made this "shout" on wisp's last.fm page (http://www.last.fm/music/Wisp) last night/this morning:

...i'm listening to his rephlex 12" right now, and it amazes me that richard and grant would sign him and release something so unabashedly aphex twin influenced. i've always thought wisp was talented, but i guess i have to agree with that quote ("Wisp is 'wanting to do something good, but not being able to'") until his rephlex album proves otherwise. at least he's much better than the flashbulb though!
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the track i posted here, "cultus klatawa," is by far the most original (and IMO the best) of the 4 on the rephlex 12", which, don't get me wrong, are good and enjoyable but just as derivative as his tracks he releases for free and on other (net?) labels.

an artist i like a lot who is also derivative sounding (mostly of plaid; he even works with plaid's occasional guitarist) is ochre, but he's never had the honor of releasing anything on a big label like rephlex. i think he's more talented than wisp, too.