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Aphex Twin is London-based electronic music composer and producer Richard D. James. Aphex Twin has recorded under a number of names and for various labels. His breakthrough work Selected Ambient Works 85-92 has been described as "both the birthplace and the benchmark of modern electronic music."
Aphex Twin saw mainstream success with the singles "Windowlicker" and "Come to Daddy." Videos for both songs, directed by British artist Chris Cunningham, garnered attention for their disturbing imagery.
In 2001, Aphex Twin departed from electronic music by releasing the 2-CD drukqs album, which included prepared piano tracks explicitly influenced by experimental composer John Cage. In 2004, Aphex Twin released a series of analogue pieces written and pressed exclusively to vinyl called the Analord series. Selections from the series were packaged for CD and released as Chosen Lords.
It is rumored that Aphex Twin will be appearing at several music festivals in 2008 including Ireland's Oxegen Festival.
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- Born: August 18, 1971
- Started Rephlex Records with Grant Wilson-Claridge in 1991
- Has recorded for Rephlex Records, Warp Records, R&S; Records, Sire Records, Mighty Force, Rabbit City
- AFX
- Blue Calx
- Bradley Strider
- Martin Tresseder
- Caustic Window
- GAK
- Soit P.P.
- Polygon Window
- Power-Pill
- Prichard D. Jams
- Q-Chastic
- The Dice Man
- Tahnaiya Russell
- DJ Smojphace
- Rumored to be recording under the alias "The Tuss"
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Aphex Twin on Amazon
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Director's Series, Vol. 2 - The Work of Director Chris Cunningham - $19.99
Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/28/2003
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Richard D. James Album - $11.98
If techno ever does become the sound of young America, don't expect Richard James to be its poster boy, deserving though he may be. A native of Cornwall, England, James is obsessed with the mechanics of music making: As a kid, he took apart...
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Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 - $19.98
British electronics wunderkind Richard James (alias Aphex Twin, AFX, Polygon Window, etc.) claims he heard the compositions on Selected Ambient Works, Volume II in lucid dreams. Like abstract paintings composed of shades of a single ...
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I Care Because You Do - $13.96
None of the chirpy, intricate, eclectic tracks on I Care Because You Do sound dated, certainly not in any heinous way. Richard James's work stands outside any genre cages and continues to satisfy dedicated listeners. This is at least...
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