Aphex Twin, Select Magazine (May 1995)

You don’t have to be mad to work here… but it helps Richard “Aphex Twin” James is branching out these days. Now he creates challenging sounds by using a Black & Decker sander on a stereo stylus. He’s done a fully-orchestrated tune with Philip Glass. And he’s getting into easy listening. Is the 21st century

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 Twin, Jockey Slut Magazine (October/November 1996)

CHOPPER ‘EM OUT! Is the Aphex Twin completely mad? Well he has a new album out named after his dead brother. His neighbours in London are waging a hate campaign against him because he’s so noisy. He finds supermarkets trippy and his record company suggested he do the interview in a helicopter. Richard Hector Jones

Aphex Twin, The guardian (5th October 2001)

Tank Boy Richard James, aka Aphex Twin, is the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music. He is also the most unpredictable. Which probably explains why he is so late for the interview. With a new 30-track album called Drukqs about to hit the shops, James, hardly your typical self promoting pop star,

Aphex Twin, Q Magazine (March 1994)

Armed And Fairly Dangerous They’re calling 22-year-old Richard James, aka The Aphex Twin, the Mozart of Ambient. And as befits any emergent superstar nutter genius with the dance world in the palm of his hand, he’s spending all his money on tanks. Stuart Maconie dons the tin hat. AND BY their conspicuous celebrity consumption you

Aphex Twin/Chris Cunningham, It’s all gone pair shaped, NME (20th March 1999)

He’s surreal. He’s warped. He’s the Aphex Twin Text: Ted Kessler Photography/Effects: Kevin Westenberg & Chris Cunningham Aphex Twin is a lush. He’s a petty crook, a villain. He loves his mum, his dad, his sisters too. Aphex Twin never sleeps. Aphex Twin’s name is Richard James, but Richard James is dead. Aphex Twin drives

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.

Mixmag (May 1995) (updated 23/04/2022)

Many thanks to monjupe (sending me high quality scans) and Plunderphucked (liaison/research) for helping me update this article to a higher standard. Cheers guys! True Lies Possibility One: He is a genius, the MDMA Mozart. Possibility Two: He is a complete bullshit artist with a big gob and a few wild ideas. Possibility Three: He’s