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Aphex Twin (born Richard David James, 1971) is a UK-based electronic music artist, credited with pushing forward the genres of techno, ambient, IDM, acid, drum and bass (specifically drill n bass). Recent experimentation on his album drukqs included use of a prepared piano (specifically a Yamaha Disklavier) in the style of composer John Cage.Born to Welsh parents in 1971, James spent his childhood in Cornwall. He experimented with electronicsElectronics is the study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. The pure study of such devices is considered as a bra from an early age, winning a competition to make a Sinclair ZX SpectrumThe Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a small home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Based on a Zilog Z80 CPU running at 3. 50 MHz, the Spectrum came with either 16 KB or 48KB of RAM (an expansion pack was also available to upgr play a tune by setting the connected televisionSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p's volumeVolume (also called capacity is a quantification of how much space an object occupies. The SI unit for volume is the cubic metre (American spelling meter). The volume of a solid object is a numerical value given to describe the three-dimensional concept o to full and alternating the colours on the screen, producing different pitches of noiseIn general usage, noise can be considered data without meaning; that is, data that is not being used to transmit a signal, but is simply produced as an unwanted by-product of other activities. Noise is still considered information, in the sense of Informa.
He became a DJ and musicianA musician is a person who plays or composes music. Musicians can be classified by how they make music: A singer (also called a vocalist) uses his or her voice. An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument. Composers and songwriters make up music and wri on the local raveThis article is about a form of party. For other uses of the term, see rave (disambiguation). raver. A rave party more often just called a rave also called free parties, is typically an all-night dance event where electronic dance music and rave music are scene, taking on the moniker "Aphex Twin". James claimed in an interview that the origin of this name was a combination of a manufacturer of signal processing equipment with the word twin in reference to an older brother (also called Richard James) who died at a young age before his birth. James uses his middle initial to distinguish himself from his late brother.
James was a founding partner in the Rephlex Records label, formed in 1991 and released his first records on this label, as well as Mighty Force and R&S Records of Belgium. James relocated to London and released a slew of albums and EPs on the Warp Records label, and under a bewildering set of aliases (from the well known AFX and Polygon Window to the ultra underground Gak and Power Pill) . He was also responsible for a number of disturbing music videos in collaboration with director Chris Cunningham.
Aphex Twin interviews are inevitably entertaining, eccentric, and confusing. He has made many wild claims in his interviews which have been speculated by some to be false. Several of these claims include him owning an 1950s armoured scout car (a Daimler Ferret Mark 3), a submarine, composing ambient techno music at age 13 (contradicting most music history), building all of his synthesizers from scratch, having "over 100 hours" of unreleased music, and living in a converted bank. He is a talented photographer, having done his own artwork direction for many of his albums. Aphex Twin continues to create records at the boundaries of the accepted norms of music.
Ventolin is often called one of the harshest or most abrasive songs ever recorded due to the screeching trebles and breaking beats.
