Blah Blah Magazine (November 1996)

Future Sound Of North London HIS FIRST NAME’S RICHARD, HIS MIDDLE NAME’S DICK, HE SENDS PEOPLE HAIR IN THE MAIL, AND HE IS, AT LAST, WORTHY OF THE TITLE ‘THE MOZART OF TECHNO’. YOUR POST-DANCE, PRE-MILLENNIUM ATTENTION, PLEASE, FOR MR APHEX TWIN… The phone rings. A voice says: “He’s in the café.” The rendezvous is

Intro Muzik Magazine (November 1996)

Many thanks to DADONCK for sending this one in, Cheers mate! (Interview originally in German) The hunt for the latest prime numbers. It is known that culturally recycled pop music from developed countries is gaining momentum, seasoned with several innovations. Pop music, by nature, has the greatest (apparent) dynamism. It’s a form of expression, and

Aphex Twin,The Face Magazine (October 2001)

The Further Adventures of the Aphex Twin Text: John O’Connell You think his records sound like cutlery being chucked down the stairs? One of them is. Then there’s the one where he sampled his friend’s diarrhoea…Welcome back, the genius that is the Aphex Twin. It used to be pink, Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre. Famously

Lemonheads Remix

Thanks to reddit users SnooTomatoes4225 & goldorakgo for help in researching this article, cheers! Amongst the many apocryphal anecdotes that have accompanied Richard during his career is the infamous and amusing story of his ill fated remix for the American indie rock band The Lemonheads. During the early to mid 90’s Richard was oft tasked

Warp/Aphex Mailouts, News, Release Schedules & Miscellaneous items 1995/1996

Huge thanks to Steve from the excellent Rareafx blog for sending me these items. Again big thanks to my brother for doing the scanning, cheers! I will probably sort and distribute these items through the site for various articles but I thought I should present them altogether here as well. By the way all the

Aphex Twin, Mixmag (October 1996)

Getting away with it On his new single the Aphex Twin sings a song about a milkman. His new album is called ‘Richard D James’ but it’s not named after him. If his mum and dad died, he says, he’d wait a couple of weeks before taking the piss. And he’s arranged to meet us

Remixes By Aphex Twin

Thanks to my brother for help with the first five scans on this page, like most of my articles I’m sure it will be updated as/if more content comes to light. Melody Maker (5th March 1994) APHEX DREAMS OF LEMONHEADS THE LEMONHEADS are set for an unlikely collaboration with APHEX TWIN (Above). He intends to

Aphex Twin, Opscene Magazine (December 1996)

Interview by Erik Quintphoto © Jan Willem Steenmeijer The Aphex Twin: “My tapes are my diaries.” Strange but true. Musicians often say the nicest things when the tape recorder is turned off after 45 minutes of pure interview time. Richard D. James, aka The Aphex Twin says.. “This may have be my last interview.” He

Aphex Twin, Sonic Press (1996)

I’ve heard some wild stories about your living situation in London… Oh yeah, it’s true. I almost had to bail from that place. Apparently because you were too loud. That’s right. It’s a sorry tale. My windows have been smashed and my neighbours have hung denunciatory notes on the trees warning me that if I

Aphex Twin, NME (November 1996)

TEDDY OR NOT… Thanks to my brother for the scans, cheers Paul! Techno’s eccentric ginger prince APHEX TWIN likes to make noises that upset people. Incredible, the, that he’s sold tons of records and made a wad from a tyre ad. His ‘Richard D James Album’, should bring yet more acclaim to the knob-twiddling Cornishman.

Contemporary Reviews: Richard D James Album

NME (9th November 1996) Thanks to Plunderphucked for fixing the image alignment, colour issues!, and Dame Deee for the future music review cheers! ALL HAIL RICHARD THE NERD! APHEX TWINRichard D James Album(Warp/All formats) WHICH CAME first, the acid or the Aphex? Was Richard James born the weird, contrary, visionary Aphex Twin, or was he

Blenders & Sandpaper

One of the most pervasive anecdotes surrounding Richard is that he played a (prank) set consisting of a microphone in food mixer, and a turntable stylus being rubbed against sandpaper. What is fact and what is fiction? This event did actually happen, Although it might have been seen as a piss-take, some people wrongly thought

Aphex Twin – Lodown Magazine (issue 29, 2001)

Many thanks to knallfurz for scanning and sending me this interview, cheers! A warm summer’s day in London and the Aphex Twin is relaxing in the city’s most famous open space, Hyde Park. He lies down on the grass, slips on the big silver headphones he takes everywhere and points his parabolic microphones, a device

Aphex in Advertisements

Thanks to Zoë Blade for help compiling this article, cheers Zoë ! This Advert for Pirelli tyres from 1995 features the legendary Olympic athletic Carl Lewis, athletically running and jumping around prominent New York landmarks with tyre treads on the soles of his feet. This advert is accompanied by the Caustic Window track ‘The Garden

Richard D James & Videogames

Many thanks to SYROBONKERS for finding the Select Magazine excerpt and allowing me to reproduce it here! I intend to fill out this article in the future, with screenshots of the games mentioned and possibly some video footage too! As a child of the 70s and growing up during the advert of the home microcomputer,