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

Alternative Press (May 1997)

APHEX TWIN [THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE] After a career fuelled by strange rumours and obstinate behaviour, Richard James – the contrary, sleep-deprived, tank-driving genius behind Aphex Twin – is finally ready to open up, or is he? Ken Micallef flies to London for a closer look at James’ sunnier disposition. Photos by Tim Owen. Back

30 years of On EP

Hello sorry it took me so long to create this one, probably needs a bit of polishing! Thanks to Plunderphucked for some additions, cheers! First released by Warp Records on the 15th of November 1993, Aphex Twin’s On Ep celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. After various releases such as Surfing on Sine Waves, Quoth

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

Aphex Twin, Request Line (January, 1997)

LC: This interview was extraordinarily difficult to track down, well for me anyway! I assume its because it was originally hosted as a RealAudio streaming media file, a long obsolete file format used widely a few decades ago. These files are usually lost to the mists of time as the servers hosting the aforementioned files

Aphex Twin, Sonic Envelope (May, 1998)

COME TO DADA (nastybyte mix) an interview with Richard D. James of Aphex Twin, by Nasty Byte originally found on sonicenvelope.com Interviews usually take place either backstage, on tour buses, or occasionally, in my house. Richard James didn’t want to talk in any conventional place – instead, he opted for the backseat of a car!

Aphex Twin, Hypno Magazine (Vol 3, 1994)

Aphex Twin’s Mechanical Wonderland Thanks again to my brother Paul for scanning this interview for me, cheers Paul! Richard James has a lot in his mind. His is certainly a busy brain. Some might go so far as to call Richard a workaholic, but in definitive ambient techno circles, he’s known as Aphex Twin, Polygon

Aphex Twin, OOR Magazine (30th November 1996)

Many thanks again to my brother Paul for doing the scanning for me, cheers Paul! ‘There is a lot of playing it safe these days’ He is here again. the Aphex Twin has been making his own strange and tortuous tracks in electronic music for years and is now busy injecting personality into the anonymised

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, Syro & Some Prominent Fans, The Guardian (19th September 2014)

Aphex Twin. Illustration: Paul Willoughby Aphex Twin: ‘His music is a perfect mix of mystery and adrenaline’ Richard James’s alter ego is back with his first album in 13 years. We asked Björk, Ian Rankin and some of his other famous fans to explain the enduring appeal Horny” and “smug”, said Richard James when asked by

Contemporary Reviews: Windowlicker

dotmusic (12th March 1999) APHEX TWINWIndowlicker (Warp)Released on Fri 12 Mar 1999 Richard D James’ first offering since 1997’s Come To Daddy reached to Top 40, presents a more accessible vibe than the average Aphex release. This is on a twisted electro tip and is surprisingly catchy, with no small commercial appeal – relative to

Aphex Twin, Clash Magazine (May 2006)

Words: Brian Murnin, Photo Wolfgang Tillmans There’s a lineage that can be traced throughout the history of electronically composed music. It starts with mid 20th century pioneers Karl Heinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis and Tod Dockstader and flows through melodic revolutionaries like Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and Erik Satie. Moving onto modern day Detroit techno geniuses like

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.

Aphex Twin, NME (26th March 1994)

Thanks again to my brother Paul for scanning my magazine, cheers Paul! FRAME TWIN COMES ALIVE! Viva Tate! He may not know much about art – but THE APHEX TWIN knows what he likes. ROGER MORTON, no oil painting himself, guides the techno Mozart through London’s canvas jungle, admiring the brushwork of surrealist masters along

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