Critics also noted that the songs were recorded on cassette and that the sound quality was "relatively poor". Rolling Stone magazine wrote of the album: "Aphex Twin expanded way beyond the ambient music of Brian En by fusing lush soundscapes with oceanic beats and bass lines". John Bush of the All Music Guide described it as a "watershed of ambient music". The first Aphex Twin album, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, was released in 1992 on R&S Records. Local legend has it that James lived on the roundabout in Elephant and Castle, South London during his early years in the capital. A number of Richard's tracks (released under the aliases Blue Calx, The Dice Man, and others) were also included in various compilations during this time. After quitting his course, James remained in London and released a number of albums and EPs on Warp Record and other labels under many aliases, including AFX, Polygon Window, and Power-Pill. These early releases came out on Rephlex Records, Mighty Force of Exeter, and R&S Record of Belgium.Įarly in his career, James moved to London to take an electronic course at Kingston University, but at the time admitted to David Toop that his "electronics studies were already slipping away as a career in the techno business took precedence". Didgeridoo was recorded initially for the benefit of FIZZ-BOMB (at the Shire Horse, St Ives, Cornwall). Under the Aphex Twin name he released the Xylem Tube EP and Digeridoo (single), a fast-paced song designed to tire dancers at the end of a DJ set that reached #55 on the UK charts, and was later described as forshadowing drum and bass by Rolling Stone. Under the Power-Pill name he released the Pac-Man EP based on the arcade game Pac-Man. In 1991 James formed Rephlex Record with his friend Grant Wilson-Claridg to promote: "Innovation in the dynamics of Acid - a much loved and misunderstood genre of house music forgotten by some and indeed new to others, especially in Britain."īetween 19, James released three Analogue Bubblebath EPs under the name of AFX, two Bradley Stride EPs, and three Caustic Window EPs. It was played on the KISS FM playlist, an influential London pirate station, which helped the EP become a success. Richard James's first record was the 12-inch EP Analogue Bubblebath released as AFX, the last two tracks of which were made with Tom Middleton aka Schizophreni. Wilson-Claridge was intrigued by James sets and was later surprised to discover that James was playing tapes of his own music. James met Grant Wilson-Claridge in 1989, while they were DJing on alternate weeks at the Bowgie in Newquay, Cornwall.
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