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10 of the best Roland TB-303 tracks of all time: Aphex Twin, Fatboy Slim, Voodoo Ray and more

Celebrate TB-303 Day with these squelchy bassline classics

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Stockhausen vs Aphex Twin review: A thrilling performance by chamber duo

5/5 The hot contemporary stars GBSR Duo performed at the Southbank Centre with a unique combination of Stockhausen’s Kontakte and Aphex Twin’s Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2

Evening Standard

The surprising artist who has overtaken Taylor Swift in monthly YouTube listeners

Aphex Twin, the British electronic music producer Richard D James, has unexpectedly surpassed Taylor Swift in monthly YouTube listeners, attracting nearly 450 million across the platform. This is vastly higher than Swift’s, who reportedly receives 396 million to 399 million listeners a month on YouTube. This surge is primarily attributed…

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Anti-pop and an alien sigil: how Aphex Twin overtook Taylor Swift to become the soundtrack to gen Z life online

The mysterious Cornish electronic music pioneer has gained an extraordinary second life in the TikTok era. Writers and musicians explain why his glitchy slipperiness is so in tune with life today

The Guardian - UK

"This record shouldn’t, strictly speaking, be possible at all”: Here's Autechre – reinterpreted on acoustic guitar

Shane Parish is releasing a whole covers album

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“We’re in an era of conformity in electronic music – very few people get celebrated for doing anything outside of it”: How TEED went back to basics with a bedroom set-up and a borrowed synth for third album Always With Me

The artist formerly known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs dives into the making of his latest project, driven by a desire to keep things simple and find joy in the creative process

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“Got many requests for this one from a few years back”: Aphex Twin uploads two previously-unheard tracks to his Soundcloud page

It’s his first unheard music for two years

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Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom

Before it became naff music for health spas, chillout was cool – and this London club night was key. As a new generation carry its spirit forward, the originators remember the beats and bedding

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"It's one of the most powerful software sound design tools on earth – and it's free": Try out this modular audio processing playground used by Aphex Twin

Mylar Melodies reveals the genius of Composers' Desktop Project in his latest video – and shows us how SoundThread makes it accessible

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“Richard James is quite a nice young man”: How Aphex Twin and Philip Glass came to work together – and what they thought of each other’s music

The minimalist classical figurehead and electronic icon reflect on each other's work in a classic Future Music interview

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"They should’ve been honoured. It would have sounded better than any rubbish song they wrote": The unbelievable story of Aphex Twin's laziest remix

"I just sped the whole song up so it was like a half-second long, which took ages, but I made it into one sound: a snare drum"

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AI-BBA – Björn Ulvaeus is using AI to write a new musical: “It usually comes out with garbage, but sometimes there is something in it that gives you another idea”

The new project comes via Pophouse Entertainment, the company that put together ABBA: Voyage

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“After I’d finished with the food mixer, I threw it over the balcony and it hit some kid on the head - he found me afterwards and said ‘can you sign this’”: How Aphex Twin almost knocked out a fan at his weirdest gig ever

Microphones in blenders, sandpaper on the decks and a potential lawsuit - it's just your average Aphex Twin show

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‘We want to stop in our prime’: Saint Etienne on their final album, turning down Cher’s Believe, and why pop is a dying art

The Britpop-defying indie trio are calling it a day after 35 years. From having their minds blown by techno to fireworks night with Aphex Twin, they recall the highs – and explain their eternal ‘psychic’ bond

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“It’s unfamiliar, intimidating, and seemingly impenetrable for producers raised on DAWs like Ableton Live - but it can unlock a whole new world of creativity”: I tried a music tracker and it rewired my brain (in a good way)

Beloved by artists from Aphex Twin to Deadmau5, trackers swap the trusty piano roll for a text-based, vertically-scrolling interface that looks like something out of The Matrix. Let's find out how deep the tracker rabbit hole goes

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Aphex Twin's MIDI-modded Yamaha GX-1 goes up for sale for almost £100,000

Fewer than 100 of these ultra-rare analogue behemoths were ever made - and this one was owned by Richard D. James himself

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Selected Ambient Shirts: Aphex Twin just dropped a 191-track playlist for sportswear brand Supreme (and there’s a rare Aphex treat buried in there too)

He’d already put his name and face on the brand, now here’s the perfect music to listen to while wearing it

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"It's been in the real world and put back into the computer... that's the magical ingredient": Tired of lifeless synth plugins? Try this Aphex Twin-inspired sample instrument based on re-amped hardware synth recordings

Noon Instruments' Vessels breathes new life into a spectacular library of synth samples through "contemporary and experimental" re-amping techniques

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“The risk is that I never finish a piece - I want to push them further, to see how far they can be deformed without tearing”: How Aphex Twin fought the temptation to continually refine, and how we can learn from his example

It’s easy to carry on fiddling with our tracks, but as Richard D. James knows all too well, that urge to keep going can prove a problem

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NAMM 2025: Novation collaborates with GForce Software on the ultimate software version of the Bass Station

Aphex Twin's favourite room-shaking synth gets the definitive in-the-box treatment

The Guardian - UK

From Maria to Franz Ferdinand: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

Angelina Jolie portrays the peerless operatic diva while the Scottish post-punkers return with their new album

The Guardian - UK

Aphex Twin: Music from the Merch Desk (2016-2023) review – Santa’s sack overspills with AFX bounty

Compiling the highly sought-after limited vinyl releases sold at recent festival sets, this surprise 38-track release filled with bangers and beauty is a trove for fans

Louder

Aphex Twin just surprise-dropped a thirty-eight track, two-and-a-half hour compilation album

The album compiles material previously only released in physical formats and sold at live shows across the last few years

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Aphex Twin drops new compilation of super rare vinyl releases

Music From The Merch Desk is available now

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“A friend left music quietly playing for Eno while he was in hospital, which was thought to have inspired his initial idea for Music for Airports”: The origins and evolution of ambient techno

“A friend left music quietly playing for Eno while he was in hospital, which was thought to have inspired his initial idea for Music for Airports”

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