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

OOR Magazine (March 1994)

Thanks again to my brother Paul for scanning this interview in for me, cheers! Richard D. James is the Aphex Twin. the outsider of British techno and only 22 years old. Richard makes his own sounds and hates the music circus. He never wants to do anything twice, but has been making enough songs for

The Ten Commandments of Aphex Twin (Spring 1994)

Article taken from Project X Magazine Issue 28 Apologies to anyone still waiting for my SAW II article, it’s still coming in the meantime here is a bit of fun! Every proper clubber knows Aphex Twin. Or at least every globe-hopping techno-head should. He is the original boy wonder of Techno who paved the way

Paper Magazine (February 1997)

GAME THEORY Aphex Twin’s magical musical manipulations By Eric Demby “If you put 5,000 beats of a snare drum into a millionth of a second, it’ll go pfffffft brrraang. When you do that, it stops sounding like the sound you’re working with and just turns into this noise.” Over sushi (aka Aphex Twin) explains how

Aphex Twin, Tsugi Magazine (October 2014)

August the 18th. After multiple teases – from the screens of the Route du Rock to the passage of a zeppelin in the sky of London – a tweet from the “official” Aphex Twin account takes us to a page of the “dark web” displaying a tracklisting, and the name, Syro, from this which seems

Disco Dance Magazine Interview (1993)

Original translated from Dutch, this is one of the best early interviews I’ve found so far, if anyone has original copy of this in magazine form, I’d love to get it scanned and archived cheers! Innovator Looking for His Limits Around the middle of last year, house music threatened to seriously flatten out. Even the

Aphex Twin, OOR Magazine (September, 2014)

Many thanks to Jan for providing me with his excellent translation of the interview and Bonus Beats part #1, Bonus Beats #2 translation by Toastmann and to my brother for scanning my magazine, Cheers! APHEX TWIN – THE REVENGE OF THE MASK Suddenly he is there again, Aphex Twin. The grinning head amidst shaking breasts

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, Independent Music Catalogue (March 1993)

Thanks again to Paul for the scans, cheers Paul! APHEX TWIN by Julian Carrera Question: What do you do when you’re stuck in Cornwall two hours from the nearest good record shop? Answer: You make your own music. Another question: What do you do when you can’t afford the hardware? Answer: You make that too.

Aphex Twin, Lime Lizard (May, 1993)

Thanks again to my brother Paul for doing the requisite scanning, cheers Paul! Aphex Twin sine of the times Photo: David Tonge Releasing more records in the last 18 months than most artists put out in a career, Richard D James, alias Polygon, alias Joyrex, alias Aphex Twin is no mere sample jockey. Following in

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

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

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

Indiecator Magazine (April 1993)

Thanks again to my brother for doing the scanning, cheers Paul! Twin Peaks! POLYGON WINDOW A.K.A APHEX TWIN RICHARD JAMES has more pseudonyms than you could shake a very large stick at, but he still manages to garner a healthy reputation as a techno-meister through his POLYGON WINDOW and APHEX TWIN releases. JOHN PAVELEY meets

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, The Lizard (April/May 1995)

Again many thanks to my brother for scanning this material for me, cheers Paul! Revolutionary or Idiot-Savant? RICHARD JAMES is one of the most prolific and enigmatic composers of our age. Most baffling of all is his inability to explain his own work. RAZOR channel hops through the ether in search of an answer. Ghostly

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.

Outlook Magazine, (March/April 1993)

Again many thanks to my brother Paul for doing the scans for me, cheers Paul! Techno Tunnel Twin Neil Fraser talks to techno king pretender Richard James about weird buildings with concrete tunnels You’ve really gotta test-drive your techno to get the best out of it believe me. If it cuts through the speakers at

Aphex Twin, Request Magazine (July 1994)

Many Thanks to Edward in America who kindly scanned this magazine for the website, Cheers Edward!! HEAD MUSIC UNNERVING AND UNIQUE SOUNDS INHABIT APHEX TWIN’S AURAL UNIVERSE. BY DAVID J. PRINCEPHOTOGRAPH BY STEVE DOUBLE MOST PEOPLE USE MUSIC AS A SOFT PILLOW, a resting place for the mind. But current electronic dance music, from hardcore