Making experimental, electronic walls of noise, Aphex Twin has built a
reputation as a groundbreaking dance producer, equally adept at creating
throbbing, industrial soundscapes or challenging sensibilities with screeching
drum & bass weirdness. Born in Limerick, Ireland on 17 August 1971 and raised in
Cornwall, Richard David James earned a diploma in engineering and used the
skills he had learned to start making his own analogue synthesisers and
electronic equipment. Widely regarded as an eccentric genius who lived in a
disused bank and survived on two hours of sleep a night, he...