Artist: Aphex Twin
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Electronic
Industrial
Experimental
Other
Ambient
Techno
Dance
Alternative
R&B: Soul
Pop
Discography:
Rubber Johnny
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Analord 10
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Analord 09
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
Warp Promo December 2004
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Run Jeremys Window Licker
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
26 Mixes for Cash CD2
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
26 Mixes for Cash CD1
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
26 Mixes for Cash CD 2
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
26 Mixes for Cash CD 1
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Selected Ambient Works Volume
Year: 2002
Tracks: 24
Drukqs CD2
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
Drukqs CD1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
Drukqs
Year: 2001
Tracks: 30
Windowlicker
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Selected Ambient Works II CD2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Selected Ambient Works II CD1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Richard D. James Album
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
Come To Daddy
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Richard D. James Album (+US bonus tracks)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
Girl / Boy
Year: 1996
Tracks: 6
Girl # Boy CDEP (1996)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 5
Girl # Boy (EP)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 6
51/13 Singles Collection
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
51#13 Aphex Singles Collection
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Ventolin CDS
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
Ventolin CD5 (1995)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
Ventolin (Part I)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 6
Ventolin
Year: 1995
Tracks: 6
Peel Session 1
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
I Care Because You Do
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Donkey Rhubarb CDEP
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Donkey Rhubarb
Year: 1995
Tracks: 1
Classics
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Analogue Bubblebath Vol.5
Year: 1995
Tracks: 8
Words and Music CD5
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
Words and Music
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
Selected Ambient Works Volume II CD 2
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Selected Ambient Works Volume II CD 1
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Selected Ambient Works Volume II (cd2)
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Selected Ambient Works Volume II (cd1)
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
On
Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
Melodies From Mars
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Surfing On Sine Waves (As Polygon Window)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
On CD5
Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
On (Remixes)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
1993 Surfing On Sine Waves (as Polygon Window)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Power Pill (As Pacman)
Year: 1992
Tracks: 5
Pacman
Year: 1990
Tracks: 5
Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves
Year:
Tracks: 9
Exploring the experimental possibilities inbuilt in acidulent and ambiance, the deuce major influences on home-listening techno during the late '80s, Richard D. James' recordings as Aphex Twin brought him more critical praise than whatever other electronic artist during the nineties. Though his first major single, "Didgeridoo," was a part of acidic drub designed to bore dancers during his DJ sets, ambient stylists and critics by and by took him under their wing for Selected Ambient Works 85-92, a sublime measure in the field of ambient techno. James' reaction to the exposure depicted an artist unwilling to suit either pigeonholed or categorizable. His second Aphex Twin album, Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2, was so minimal as to be just conscious -- in what appeared to be an expound jest on the electronic community. Follow-ups showed James bit by bit returning to his hard-core and acidulent roots, regular spell his declared desire to ram the British Top Ten (and perform on Top of the Pops) resulted in a serial of cartoonish pop songs whose perverted wizard was near-masked by their many absurdities. His iconoclastic conduct amazingly aligned with MTV audiences turned on to end-of-the-millennium nihilist pop along the lines of Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.
St. James the Apostle began pickings apart electronics gear as a teen growing up in Cornwall, England. (If the title Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is to be believed, it contains recordings made at the age of 14.) Inspired by acerbic house in the late '80s, James began DJing raves around Cornwall. His first discharge was the Analogue Bubblebath EP, recorded with Tom Middleton and released on the Mighty Force label in September 1991. Middleton left by and by that class to signifier Global Communication, after which James recorded a sec bulk in the Analog Bubblebath serial. This EP (the first to include "Digeridoo") got some airplay on the London pirate tuner place Kiss FM, and prompted Belgium's R&S Records to sign him early the following twelvemonth. A re-recording of "Digeridoo" made issue 55 in the British charts but after its April 1992 acquittance date, and James followed with the Xylem Tube EP in June. He as well co-formed (with Grant Wilson-Claridge) his have Rephlex label about that time, cathartic a serial of singles as Caustic Window during 1992-1993. Available in cruelly limited editions, most of the recordings continued the cold sulfurous preciseness of "Digeridoo" -- though several expressed temper and fragility barely dreamed of in the hardcore/rave scene to that point.
The climate for "intelligent" techno had begun to ardent in the early '90s, though. The Orb had proved the commercial viability of ambient firm with their chart-topping "Blasphemous Room" single, and R&S scrambled to chance utilitarian corporeal from its own artists. In November 1992, James acquiesced with Selected Ambient Works 85-92, consisting mostly of house material recorded during the past few days. Simply declared, it was a masterpiece of ambient techno, the genre's second work of brilliance after the Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. As his star began to reflect, respective bands approached him to remix their work, and he complied, with by and large unrecognisable reworkings of tracks by St. Etienne, the Cure, Jesus Jones, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Curve.
Early in 1993, Richard James signed to Warp Records, the influential British label that virtually introduced the concept of futuristic "electronic hearing music" with a series of albums (subtitled Artificial Intelligence) by ambient techno pioneers Black Dog, Autechre, B12, and FUSE (aka Richie Hawtin) among others. James' acquittance in the series, coroneted Surfboarding on Sine Waves, was recorded as Polygon Window and released in January 1993. The album charted a trend between the raw muscle of James' epistaxis techno and the unpretentious reductivism of Selected Ambient Works. A apportion betwixt Warp and TVT gave Surfriding on Sine Waves an American freeing (James' outset) by the summer. A minute record album was released that year, Parallel Bubblebath 3, for Rephlex. Recorded as AFX, the LP renounced whatsoever debt to ambient euphony and was the most bracing work yet in the Aphex Twin canon. On a spell of America with Orbital and Moby later that year, James clung to the headbanging material, to the hurt of his more often than not unreplaceable geared wheel. He later cut depressed on his springy performance docket.
In December of 1993, the new single "On" resulted in James' highest chart placing, a number 32 spotlight on the British charts. The two-way single included remixes by old buddy Tom Middleton (as Reload) and future Rephlex hotshot µ-Ziq. Despite James' appearance on the pop charts, his following record album, Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2, appeared to be a jocularity on the ambient techno community. So minimum as to be scarcely conscious, the quartette album left wing most of the beatniks slow, with only tape loops of unsettling ambient interference unexpended. The album for the most part struck out with critics only hit number 11 on the British charts and earned James a major-label American contract with Sire shortly later on. During 1994, he worked on the ever-growing Rephlex stable, signing µ-Ziq (Michael Paradinas), Kosmik Kommando (Mike Dred), and Kinesthesia/Cylob (Chris Jeffs) to the label. In August 1994, he released the one-quarter Parallel Bubblebath, this one a five-track EP.
The year 1995 began with the January freeing of Classics, a compilation of his early R&S singles. Two months later, James released the single "Proventil," a harsh, fitly asthmatic ode to the bronchial asthma dose on which he relied. I Care Because You Do followed in April, pairing his hardcore experimentalism with more than symphonic ambient corporeal, aligned with the work of many post-classical composers -- including Philip Glass, wHO staged an orchestral version of the album's "Icct Hedral" on the August 1995 single Donkey Rhubarb.
Later that year, the Hangable Auto Bulb EP replaced Parallel Bubblebath 3 as Aphex Twin's most brutish, inflexible release -- a fusion of experimental music and jungle being explored at the same time on releases by Plug and Squarepusher. In July 1996, Rephlex released the long-awaited quislingism betwixt Richard James and Michael Paradinas (µ-Ziq). The album, Good Knob Twiddlers (credited to Mike & Rich), watered down the experimentalism of Aphex Twin with µ-Ziq's easy-listening electro-funk. The one-quarter proper Aphex Twin album, November 1996's Richard D. James Album, continued his forays into acid-jungle and experimental music. Retaining the observational edge, just with a stated wish to give the British pop charts, James' side by side 2 releases, 1997's Fall to Daddy EP and 1999's Windowlicker EP, were acid storms of industrial drum'n'bass. The ensuant videos, both directed by Chris Cunningham, featured the bodies of small children and female models (severally) terpsichore around, all with special-effects-created Aphex Twin faces grin maniacally.
William James released goose egg during the year 2000, but did record the score to Twist, a Chris Cunningham curt photographic film exhibited as part of the Apocalypse exhibition at London's Royal Academy. With very small kick upstairs admonition, another LP, Drukqs, in conclusion arrived in late 2001. Although James continued fashioning sponsor DJ appearances, he released no more material until 2005, when Rephlex issued the first installment in a lengthy, 11-part serial of 12" singles coroneted Analord. The singles' minimalist sulphurous techno harked back to his Caustic Window/Analogue Bubblebath material of the early '90s. Elect Lords, a CD compilation of some of the Analord material, appeared in April 2006.
Canned Heat
