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Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), best known by his recording alias Aphex Twin, is an electronic musician from Cornwall, England. He is known for his influential and idiosyncratic work in styles such as ambient techno and IDM in the 1990s, for which he received widespread critical acclaim.

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The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.

Fan, Fans, Grail, Hear, Holy Grail, Thinking

I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.

Actually, Chords, Piano, Play, Work Out, Working

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

Artist, People, Musician, Artists, Considered, Musicians

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.

Change, Setup, Sound, Track, Years

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

Lying, Kids, Should Have, Managed, Cornwall, Centre

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Track, Melancholy, Tracks

It always sounds more right to me when it's detuned. When it's right in tune, it's like there's something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it's all about frequencies and what they do to you. That's the real core.

Day, Detuned, Real, Sound, Sounds, The End Of The Day

It's more interesting for me to stick things out anonymously - you get more of an honest reaction to what you've done.

Interesting, Done, Sticks, Reaction, Stick

Can't really despise people you don't know.

Despise, Know, Knows, People

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

Actually, Music, Nice, Think, Thinking, Writing

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

Bank, Bought, Moved, My Own, Wells

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

Good, Hacker, Hackers, Persons, Sensible

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Because I Can, Crap, Filing, Studio, Year, Years

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Keyboard, Keyboards, Like, Sound, Track, Tracks

You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.

Cheer, Cheering, Djing, People, Rely, Track

In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.

America, Done, Quite, Successful, Underdog

That's just globalization. It's got good sides as well. But scenes aren't allowed to develop on their own anymore. Everyone knows about everything.

Globalization, Good, Scene, Scenes, Sides

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

Genre, Musician, People, Thinking, Ultimate

There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most people, if you listen to one pitch in one ear, it's slightly different in the other. That's how your brain works out direction.

People, Work Out, Brain, Same, Direction

I wanted to do gigs where you've just got mirrors on the stage, and then you light the crowd so they look at the stage and all they can see is themselves. It's just like, "There you go, it's you, you cunts. "

Light, Look, Looks, Mirrors, See

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