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Aphex Twin (born Richard D. James, 1971) is a UK-based electronic music artist working notably in the techno, acid and ambient music styles.
Born to Welsh parents in 1971, James spent his childhood in Cornwall. He experimented with electronics from an early age, winning a competition to make a Sinclair ZX Spectrum play a tune by setting the connected television's volume to full and alternating the colours on the screen, producing different pitches of noise.
He became a DJ and musician on the local rave scene, taking on the monicker "Aphex Twin" from the name of a manufacturer of signal processing equipment combined with the word "twin"; this was because the original Richard James, his brother, died at a young age before Richard D. James' birth. James uses his middle initial (which stands for David) to distinguish himself from his late brother. These claims by Richard D. James have never been confirmed and many believe he told this story as a publicity stunt.
He was a founding partner in the Rephlex Records label in 1991 and released his first records on this label, as well as Mighty Force and R&S Records of Belgium. James soon moved to London and released a slew of albums and EPs on the Warp Records label. He was also responsible for a number of disturbing music videos in collaboration with director Chris Cunningham.
Aphex Twin is credited with pushing forward the genres of techno, ambient, IDM, acid, drum and bass (specifically drill n bass) and has claimed to have made "over 100 hours" of music which he hasn't released. One of his recent claims was the recent experimentation on his album drukqs included use of a prepared piano (specifically a Yamaha Disklavier) in the style of composer John Cage.
Aphex Twin interviews are regarded as very entertaining, laugh out loud funny, and sometimes very confusing. He has made many wild claims in his interviews which have been speculated by some to be false. Several of these claims include him owning an 1950s armoured scout car (a Daimler Ferret Mark 3), a submarine, composing acid techno music at age 13 (contradicting most music history), building all of his synthesizers from scratch, and living in a converted bank. He is also a notable amateur photographer, having done his own artwork direction for many of his albums. Aphex Twin continues to create records at the boundaries of the accepted norms of music.
Albums
EPs and Singles
Promos and Compilations
Richard D. James has also released a large amount of material under various aliases:
AFX:
Brad Strider:
Caustic Window:
Gak:
Global Goon: Aphex twin is not Global Goon, they are quite different.
Polygon Window:
Power Pill:
Q-Chastic:
In the Universal Indicator series:
Misc:
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