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

Dallas Observer, (20th February 1997)

Fish and microchips “Classical music for the next millennium,” said The New York Times upon the release of Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II in the spring of 1994–a hefty label for a young lad from Cornwall who was only 22 at the time. Richard James–aka Aphex Twin–has gotten used to this… By Philip Chrissopoulos

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, 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

Aphex Twin, Melody Maker (14th December 1996)

Again many thanks to my brother Paul for the scanning, Cheers Paul! Shrink Rap Interview: DAVE SIMPSON Photo: MATT BRIGHT Mozart Of Techno THE APHEX TWIN lies down on the THE Maker’s psychiatrist’s couch for a spot of word association MOODI’LL tell you what my mood is: I’m f***ing knackered cos I’ve just been shagging.

Contemporary Reviews: Syro

NME (20th September 2014) Thanks to Plunderphucked for the record collector review THE DETAILS RELEASE DATE September 22. LABEL Warp. PRODUCER Richard D James. LENGTH 64:3. TRACKLISTING: 1. minipops 67 (source field mix) 2. XMAS_EVET10 (thanaton3 mix) 3. produk 29. 4. 4 bit 9d api+e+6 5. 180db_. 6. CIRCLONT6A (syrobonkus mix). 7. fz pseudotimestretch+e+3. 8.

Mike Paradinas, Richard D. James, Luke Vibert, Frieze Magazine (April 1997)

Many thanks to grapht_sound for sending me this excellent article! THE SOUND OF MUSIC Can music mean something? Does it describe the world? The intimate relationship between music and the body makes it hard to answer such questions; the experience of music is somehow a far more direct and unmediated one than the visual. You

Aphex Twin, Bassic Groove (September 1996)

Many thanks to reddit user Boskakkalobbes for allowing me to reproduce his photos and Dutch to English translation, Cheers! Aphex Twin teaches his computer how to sing Brilliance and craziness are often barely distinguishable. During his dreaded dj-sets Richard D. James prefers to use sandpaper as a slipmat and places a kitchen mixer on the

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

Aphex Twin,Q Magazine (November 2014)

Thanks to Reddit user Plunderphucked for sending me this interview and assisting me with any typos! Being Aphex Twin You may know Aphex Twin as Richard D James, the genius and agent provocateur of Generation Rave, as prone to DJing with sandpaper as he is to recording heart-bursting electronica. But what is James, married father-of-two,