Aphex Twin is also known as Richard David James, a British electronic music artist who is considered to be the most influential and inventive of the genre. The name “Aphex Twin” is from a brand of audio signal processing equipment called Aphex Systems Limited and is used with permission as noted on the back sleeve of his Drukqs and Richard D. James albums. The word “twin” was placed in memory of his stillborn brother, who was also named Richard James. Aphex Twin began composing ambient techno music when he was 13 and has over a hundred hours of his early creations. His musical influences are avant garde artists like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and John Cage. He lives in Southeast London in a space that used to be the Bank of Cyprus.
