Contemporary Reviews: Analogue Bubblebath Volume 4

Melody Maker (September 24th 1994) – Single of the week AFX – ANALOGUE BUBBLEBATH 4 (Rephlex)One side is industrial pish and the other a beautiful collage of textures to convince all Aphex Twin doubters. Myself Included. Slow it down to minus eight and the mood of the deep synths will melt your heart and cause

30 Years of Analogue Bubblebath Volume 3

This article has been fairly difficult to assemble so apologies for any errors that you might find currently. Very special thanks to Ben Middleton for providing me with the photos from Cligga Head and to Mike Paradinas , Plunderphucked, RareAfx and freefall for help with this article. Cheers! February of this year (2023) marks 30

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

Contemporary Reviews: Quoth

Music Week (20th March 1993) POLYGON WINDOW Quoth (Warp WAP33). This heavy percussion workout has been plucked from the critically-acclaimed Surfing On Sine Waves LP by Richard James, better known as The Aphex Twin. The clear vinyl 12-inch single, featuring an additional new mix plus two new tracks, is being released and deleted on March

Aphex Twin, Bassic Groove (2001)

Many thanks to reddit user Boskakkalobbes for allowing me to reproduce his photos and Dutch to English translation, Cheers! Aphex Twin: Water Balloons and Double-barrelled Breakbeats There he is again, the bearded, windowlicking technobimbo. His newest release is called ‘Drukqs’ and might have never seen the daylight if it wasn’t for Aphex Twin to lose

Bassic Groove (issue 10, 1993)

Aphex Twin, Polygon Window, Caustic Window, AFX and Blue Calx. All pseudonyms for one person: Richard D. James The work drive of this twenty-two-year-old Brit seems unstoppable. He only sleeps a few hours a night. So much to do, so little time. The true deluge of releases that have since been credited to the young

Contemporary Reviews: Ventolin EP & Remixes

Bassic Groove (April 1995) APHEX TWIN – VENTOLIN, REMIXES(CDs/12” Warp/PIAS-UK) WAP60/60RAbout three million people suffer from asthma in the UK alone. One is Richard James. He also carries the inseparable blue/grey plastic device with which the Ventolin capsules (an asthma medicine) can be taken. Ventolin is therefore a very personal single and seen in that