T69 Collapse Music Video Analysis

The music video for the track T69 Collapse, produced by frequent Aphex Twin collaborator & visual artist Weirdcore, contains several interesting details that’s I will attempt to unravel within this article. In particular the first 25 seconds of the video contains several visual elements that require some analysis Within the first second of the video,

Contemporary Reviews: …I Care Because You Do

Melody Maker (1995) TLC 30, TLC 60, TLC 90, GO! Fancy some neon-lit, soft-focus forms floating through that space between your ears? Or maybe you need a bit of dustbin-lid percussion to shock those sleep synapses? DAVE SIMPSON wakes up, rubs his eyes and discovers both, handily on the same album THE APHEX TWINI CARE

Aphex Twin, i-D Magazine (June 1993)

Again loads of thanks to my brother Paul for scanning this article for me, cheers Paul! The Man Machine Interview by Kodwo Eshun. Photography by Sam Robinson THE APHEX TWIN IS THE BOY GENIUS OF TECHNO – A COMPULSIVELY CREATIVE NINTENDO-PLAYING INSOMNIAC FROM CORNWALL WHO BUILDS HIS OWN ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS AND HAS BEEN RECORDING INSPIRED

Aphex Twin, NME, (January 8th 1994)

Hey, you don’t have to be mad to be a Cornish ambient techno innovator but…oh sorry, you do. RICHARD JAMES, aka THE APHEX TWIN, loathes the music biz, does his accounts on acid, owns a tank and is forced to make pioneering soundscapes so that the noises rattling in his head don’t get stuck there.