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

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

Aphex Twin, XLR8R Magazine (December 2001)

Thanks again to my brother for the scans, cheers Paul! TWIN INFINITIES RICHARD JAMES HATES TRENDS. YET HIS LATEST ALBUM AS APHEX TWIN IS BOUND TO START A FEW. WILL ELECTRONIC MUSICIANS AROUND THE GLOBE SOON BE DITCHING THEIR SAMPLERS FOR UPRIGHT PIANOS?WORDS HEIKO HOFFMANN. IMAGES DAVID J. WEISSBERG AND BEZEMER More often than not,

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

Rephlex Records, CMJ New Music Monthly (May-June 2001)

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON REPHLEX Ten years of Aphex Twin’s Rephlex Records has reshaped the techno experience. STORY: RASPBERRY JONESPHOTOS: MANUEL (Manuel Sepulveda) Where do people listen to the techno that Rephlex releases? Ask label co-founder Grant Wilson-Claridge and his stuttered laughter gives way to an acknowledgement of the catalog’s nerdy classification. “In the

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: 26 Mixes for Cash *Updated 05/02/2022*

Wire Magazine (March 2003) Richard James might be a chancer, but at least his latest Aphex Twin collection lays bare the mercenary machinations behind remix culture. By David Stubbs Aphex Twin 26 MIXES FOR CASH, WARP WARP102 CD Remix culture is one of the more deceptive as well as insidious upshots of post-rave culture. Quite

The Coolest Record Label On Earth, NME (10th March 2001)

Many thanks to Drexciya Research Lab for sourcing this article and allowing me to reproduce it here. FROM ST IVES TO THE DEAD SEA, REPHLEX RECORDS KNOWS HOW TO PARTY HARD. AND AS THE LABEL CELEBRATES ITS 100TH RELEASE, CO-FOUNDER AND RESIDENT CREATIVE MAVERICK APHEX TWIN TELLS ITS STORY TEXT: PIERS MARTIN PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID TITLOW Braindance has