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Aphex Twin, born Richard David James, August 18, 1971, in Limerick, Ireland to Welsh parents Lorna and Derek James, is an electronic music artist. He grew up in Cornwall, United Kingdom and started producing music around the age of 12.
Richard has been hailed as “the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music”, with his works ranging from ambient pieces to acid techno.
Quoted in Mixmag Richard said ” I just love electronics and music and putting the two together just came naturally. I did electronics in college. Electronic music is just so lush basically I love messing with acid, jungle, and playing it out to my mates in a night club. Get out there and dance. Let’s have it! If anyone’s coming to my shows I just want everybody to just dance and have a laugh basically.” At a Rephlex party in 2001 Aphex Twin was asked by a journalist if he used the term IDM and he replied “only for rubbish mp3.com music that I don’t really like, basically if I say that it’s for something shit that I don’t care about. It’s just funny how online people just copy each other and it’s so lazy. Quite funny I reckon.”
In 1991 Aphex formed the Rephlex record label with his friend Grant Wilson-Claridge. Signed artists include Mike Paradinas (aka µ-Ziq) and Squarepusher.
Richard has been hailed as “the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music”, with his works ranging from ambient pieces to acid techno.
Quoted in Mixmag Richard said ” I just love electronics and music and putting the two together just came naturally. I did electronics in college. Electronic music is just so lush basically I love messing with acid, jungle, and playing it out to my mates in a night club. Get out there and dance. Let’s have it! If anyone’s coming to my shows I just want everybody to just dance and have a laugh basically.” At a Rephlex party in 2001 Aphex Twin was asked by a journalist if he used the term IDM and he replied “only for rubbish mp3.com music that I don’t really like, basically if I say that it’s for something shit that I don’t care about. It’s just funny how online people just copy each other and it’s so lazy. Quite funny I reckon.”
In 1991 Aphex formed the Rephlex record label with his friend Grant Wilson-Claridge. Signed artists include Mike Paradinas (aka µ-Ziq) and Squarepusher.
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VillaFuzz wrote:
dix and weed
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caffeineandvase wrote:
new mixtape ann! http://www.zolinsagt.de/2012/02/mixtape-29-ann.html
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SAC666 wrote:
not funny :|
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optimistic_tour wrote:
arrow to the drop
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eumani wrote:
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oshimiruku wrote:
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VillaFuzz wrote:
richard d james what are you doing
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Mezori wrote:
V 0/10 try harder
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DJFluffyCuban wrote:
thought this was going to be some epic dubstep, but it turned out just to be some shitty guy poking at his keyboard. 0/10 stupid as fuck
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Treason_is_bad wrote:
Fuck off with all the "Where's the drop". It's about as funny as arrow to the knee jokes.
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no-thanks wrote:
The Animal Collective shotbox, pre and post Merriweather was the greatest thing in Last.fm history.
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MikeyTheChef wrote:
What an awful musician.
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Wowowowow. It's the Animal Collective shoutbox.
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@kuriharaisgod nope, but that moose banging anime lolicons in your profile is quite amusing!
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kuriharaisgod wrote:
wheres the drop xDxD AM I FUNNY xD
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no-thanks wrote:
The Drop is the new album by Aphex Twin, dropping soon. Ha, puns.
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Mezori wrote:
V lol
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http://i.imgur.com/6Vm32.jpg
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robbyb0t wrote:
making jokes about Richard making dubstep is just not cool, man
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ke$ha - cum to daddy
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Future Music Festival 2012
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