Biography

Richard David James was natural to Welsh parents Lorna and Derek James within 1971 in Limerick, Ireland. James spent his childhood within Cornwall, United Kingdom. As the stripling, he became a DJ and musician on the local rave scene, taking on the moniker "Aphex Twin". James formed a Rephlex Records label in 1991 with his friend Grant Wilson-Claridge and released his foremost records on this label, too when Mighty Force and R&S Records of Belgium. When profits by owning his early act, James relocated to London & released the mass of albums and EPs on the Warp Records label, under a bewildering placed of false name (from either AFX & Polygon Window to the lesser known Gak & Power Pill).

Around 1996, he began releasing further poop composed in computers, & embraced the more drum and bass sound mixed with the homesick childhood theme & unknown computer generated acid lines. A early adoption of Native Instruments' softsynthesizers predated the late popularity of utilizing computers to produce music. A late 1990s saw his music become other popular & mainstream, when he freed deuce singles, "Come to Daddy", & "Windowlicker", which were shown in MTV and the covers of music magazines including NME.

Around 2001 Aphex Twin released his virtually all household album eventually, drukqs, a Deuce-Video album which featured Prepared Piano songs under the influence of Erik Satie and John Cage. Likewise involved were abrasive, convenient, & meticulously programmed computer-mass produced songs. A level of detail & prowess was then high, that reviewers & fans complained that a music was less in the style of innovative pop music, & supplementary astir elaborated beautiful & family musical art. drukqs is perhaps Richard's virtually all controversial album up to now; the album lacked a novelty detected around his more albums, and so reviewers estimated this album wwhen freed as a contract breaker by using Warp Records - a believable believe, as James' next large release come out in his have Rephlex label.

Within late 2004, rumours of James' link to to the other acid techno based sound were realised by having a Analord series. For these records, James utilized his extensive collection of Roland drum machines which he bought when it were however at bargain price levels. Besides he utilized one of a rarest, & virtually all desirable synthesizers of his generation, the [http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb99/articles/syntonfenix883.htm Synton Fenix], & a notoriously hard to program Roland MC-4 sequencer (a sequencer by using a reputation for fantabulous timing), also when the notorious Roland TB-303 for his trademark acid melodies.

Apart from either music, Richard D. James occurs as gifted photographer, having done his have graphics counsel for several of his albums. On the "Windowlicker" individual, James hid the picture of his face in the 2nd track (usually known as "[Formula]", "[Symbol]", or "[Equation]"), which may be seen within the [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52426,00.html spectral analysis] of the track.

Influences

On Aphex Twin

James has stated inside many interviews that he has there are no musical influences differently himself. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,563163,00.html] He claims to own listened seldom to songs on the radio as a child & that he is unable to understand sheet music.

On the other h&, James has said that he has listened to numbers of elastic & creative person for inspiration and sampling (notably Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin for their use of breakbeats, but he has besides expressed appreciation for The Fall). He signed fellow musicans & individual friends Tom "Squarepusher" Jenkinson to his Rephlex record label, when well as Luke Vibert.

More debated influences include:

808 State, whom he has remixed for Amnesia John Cage and his prepared piano technique (itself inspired by Henry Cowell and Erik Satie independently) in the piano tracks in Drukqs Coil Tod Dockstader An electronic musician who worked by having tape, mangling sounds into music of the frequency & kinetics spectrum. Brian Eno pioneer of ambient music, and for the art of his ambient records. Larry Heard (One song in Analord is known as Laricheard, an conspicuous pun on a names Larry Heard & Richard, when the song resembles Larry Heard's techno style.) Kraftwerk and their electropop styles. Reese Derrick May Techno pioneer. Erik Satie whose melodic style was borrowed on Drukqs. Squarepusher and Luke Vibert for their extreme versions of drum and bass.

Influence of Aphex Twin on others

As a innovational creative persin on Warp Records, James' operate has been grouped by electronic music fans by using more creative persin on Warp Records into a modern genre labels Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) and Drill n bass. Because of the varied nature and severity of James' function, such broad labeling is quite deficient as the description, even so these labels use proven utile for forthcoming creative person searching to buy a genre title for their have music, influenced by James' & Warp Records. Inside James' words on the dyslogistic 'Intelligent Dance Music' label: "I just think it's really funny to have terms like that. It's basically saying 'this is intelligent and everything else is stupid.' It's really nasty to everyone else's music. (laughs) It makes me laugh, things like that. I don't use names. I just say that I like something or I don't."

James has, mayhap accidentally (he tends to few feet away himself from either rock/pop music), experienced an influence on the rock scene. Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Peace Burial at Sea have all claimed Aphex Twin as an influence in their music. He laid-off running on the road by using Radiohead: "I wouldn't play with them since I don't like them."[http://www.kludgemagazine.com/interviews.php?id=82]

Aphex Twin's press

Aphex Twin click interviews come typically entertaining, nonconcentric, & confusing.

Aphex Twwithin has the reputation for lying in interviews, which he has [http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,563163,00.html admitted] to the Tutelary newspaper. Arduous to verify 'information' typically mentioned in the click come Richard with the tank (actually the 1950s armoured scout car, a Daimler Ferret Mark 3), the submarine bought from eBay, composing ambient techno at age 13 (contradicting virtually all music history), with "over 100 hours" of unreleased music (including songs in his answering machine that could be wiped away by allowing the message), existence a cappella to incorporate lucid dreaming into the run of making music & sleep in the born-again bank.

The lie confirmed by his friend & label mate Mike Paradinas is Richard building his own synthesizers & samplers from either scratch around his early years. Richard it used to be that built the fake sampler pack, & the photo & article of it was view as the UK electronic music magazine. Although this was the fraudulence, Richard is had around electronics & electricity, & has modified & circuit bent his devices from either the immature age.

Quotes

''I personally'm upright a select few irritating, mendacious, ginger child from either Cornwall world health organization should keep around been locked higher inside a few youth bullpen. I personally good managed to escape & blag it into a music.

Discography
Albums
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992) Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994) ...I Care Because You Do (1995) Richard D. James Album (1996) drukqs (2001)

EPs and Singles
Digeridoo (1992) Xylem Tube EP (1992) On/On Remixes (1993) Ventolin/Ventolin Remixes EP (1995) Donkey Rhubarb (1995) Girl/Boy EP (1996) Come to Daddy EP (1997) Windowlicker (1999) Analord Tenner in the Analord Series (2004)

Promos and Compilations
Words & Music (1994) (Interview and tracks from Selected Ambient Works Volume II) Classics (1994) (Compilation of early singles, uncommon & survive tracks) 51/13 Singles Collection (1996) (Australia-only release) Cock 10/54 Cymru Beats (drukqs promo) 26 Mixes for Cash (2003), Compilation of material "remixed" for more creative person (+ quaternion original tracks) Two Mixes in the Twelve" for Cash (2003), a 26 Mixes promo

Aliases

AFX Analogue Bubblebath (1991) Analogue Bubblebath 2 (1992) Analogue Bubblebath 3 (1993) Analogue Bubblebath 4 (1994) Analogue Bubblebath 5 (1995 unreleased) Analogue Bubblebath 3.1 (1997) Hangable Auto Bulb (1995, Re-released 2005) Hangable Auto Bulb 2 (1995, Re-released 2005) 2 Remixes By AFX (2001) Smojphace EP (2003) "Mangle Xi (Circuit Bent V.I personally.P. Mix)" (appears on Rephlexions compilation album (2003)) Analord (EP series, mostly as AFX) (2005) AFX/LFO (Split 12" between AFX/LFO.) (2005)

Analord

Bradley Strider Bradley's Beat (1991)/(1995 re-issue) Bradley's Golem (1993)

Caustic Window Joyrex J4 (1992) Joyrex J5 (1992) Joyrex J9 (1993) CAT 023 (Unreleased, sole Quartet copies pressed) Caustic Window Compilation (1998)

Gak GAK (1994)

Martin Tressider

In the Universal Indicator series:

Universal Indicator: Red (1989) Universal Indicator: Green (1995)

Polygonal shape Window (Surfing On Sine Waves) (1993, re-released 2001) (Quoth) (1993)

Power Pill

Pac-Human (1992)

Q-Chastic Q-Chastic EP (1992 unreleased)

Universal Indicator

In the Universal Indicator series:

Universal Indicator: Blue (1992) Universal Indicator: Yellow (1993)

Various others Melodies From Mars (1995, this is an unreleased RDJ album that wwhen given to friends at Rephlex and Warp Records in C-90 cassettes) This release purportedly includes selections from either concluded 200 tracks James offered computer game corporations to utilize as soundtracks. Sustaining Squarepusher, contributed "Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid" to the Warp compilation WAP100. When "Rich" of "Mike and Rich" on the album Expert Knob Twiddlers ("Mike" existence Mike Paradinas, also referred to as µ-ziq) The remixed versoin of afx237 v7 from either a album drukqs'' wwhen utilized as a soundtrack to the short film, "Rubber Johnny", directed by Chris Cunningham. A AFX logotype was featured in the videos games 'Worms Armageddon' and 'Worms World Party'. "The Diceman" - Polygon Window (Track One) - Artificial Intelligence - (Warp 6) - Compliation freed by Warp Records - 1992) Acoustica: Alarm May Healthy Performs Aphex Twin (2005), performed by Alarm Will Sound