DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ: the cheeky dance producer who’s been mistaken for Aphex Twin

‘At one point I was supposedly Taylor Swift’ … DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ. Photograph: -

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There’s a rumour going around that DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ – the mysterious dance producer whose sprawling, sample-dense tracks have become an online sensation and led to a collaboration with the 1975 – might actually be Richard D James, AKA Aphex Twin. On a Zoom in mid-December, the polite, witty woman staring back certainly doesn’t look like James, but I double-check, just to be sure. “At one point, I was supposedly Taylor Swift,” she says with a hearty laugh. “And now Aphex Twin, that’s quite a good repertoire!”