We Are The Music Makers is a website concerning (mostly IDM - a term originally referring to music on Warp Records, coined on the IDM mailing list) electronic music, with emphasis on the coverage of Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada, µ-Ziq and Squarepusher. It is administrated by James E. Thomas, aka Joyrex.

Features

The site comprises a main page, with news concerning these artists, as well as sections which filter the news items to those comprising information regarding specific artists. The subsites are under heavy development, but will eventually comprise complete media repositories for these artists, comprising of interviews, live bootlegs, images, and other items.

The other main feature of WATMM is the lively forums, found at forum.watmm.com. The forum is divided into three sections: General Banter (everything from cheese to scatology to music), Featured Artists (for discussion regarding the artists mentioned above) and EKT (Expert Knob Twiddlers), a forum for aspiring artists to discuss techniques and share their creations.

History

The site started as joyrex.com, a fan site about Aphex Twin. The name of the site, also used as the pseudonym of its webmaster, was taken from a series of Aphex Twin releases. As the site gained popularity, Joyrex renamed the site over concerns that it could be mistaken for an official site. The new name was named "We Are The Music Makers", after an Aphex Twin track of the same title, and the new domain name was watmm.com.

The site expanded further beyond Aphex Twin in ????, when sections on two other artists were added, Autechre and Boards of Canada.

In 2003, WATMM ran the An Eagle In Your Mind video contest, a BoC fan video contest where the results were judged by the band themselves.

In 2004 (2005?), the scope of the site was further increased when sections for µ-Ziq and Squarepusher were also added.

In the past, the artist sections were much richer than they are today, containing images, articles, inteviews, recordings and videos. They were taken down in 2003? for a redesign. For a long period, there was nothing on the site at all aside from the forums. There are now artists sections once again, but they consist primarily of news items.

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