History Music / AphexTwin

* ''Analord'' (2005)

* ''Analords 1'9, 11'' (2005)

* ''Melodies From Mars'' (1995) (unreleased; however, Richard has suggested in an interview that he is redoing it for public release)

* ''Selected Ambient Works Volume II'' (1994),

* ''Melodies From Mars'' (1995), (unreleased)

* ChildProdigy: At age 11, Richard tinkered around with a Sinclair [=ZX81=] computer and caused it to produce sound, ''even though they lack sound hardware.''
** However, he didn't gain his skills as a musician until later on, as the GAK demos prove.

** On the other hand, he once criticised the desciption of his music as "Intelligent Dance Music", as it implied everyone else's music was stupid, beofore joking it was "really nasty" to everyone else's music.

* TwentyMinutesWithJerks: The beginning of 'Windowlicker'.

* CreatorBacklash: Richard describes "Come to Daddy" as an intentionally ridiculous "death metal jingle" he wrote as a joke while pissed, and admitted to being uncomfortable with the amount of attention it received.

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

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'''Discography'''

Under AphexTwin:

Under AFX:

Under Caustic Window:

[[IHaveManyNames Other Albums under misc. aliases:]]

* Sampling: "Nannou" is composed entirely of wind-up music box samples, and that's just one example.

* NotableMusicVideos: When Chris Cunningham's involved...

** When a representative for the band TheLemonheads came to his house one morning asking for the remix he was commissioned to do, he went to his studio, ripped a random song which was irrelevant to the song he was requested to do, and gave it to him for in exchange for thousands of dollars.
*** Supposedly, the latter was due to Aphex completely forgetting about the remix he was commissioned to do, but apparently, he didn't demand money.

* SelfDeprication: He once described himself in an interview as "some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre".

* ChildProdigy: At age 11, Richard tinkered around with a [=ZX81=] calculator and caused it to produce sound, ''even though they lack sound hardware.''

* RecordOfLoudnessWar: ''SAW 85-92'' was remastered in 2008.

* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Song Naming]]: All tracks on Analord 8, 9, and 11 are titled after computer viruses (leading to catchy titles such as "[=PWSteal=].Ldpinch.D" and "W32.Aphex@mm," among others), supposedly to stop would-be torrenters from downloading them.

* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Song Naming]]: All tracks on Analord 8, 9, and 11 are titled after computer viruses (leading to catchy titles such as "PWSteal.Ldpinch.D" and "W32.Aphex@mm," among others), supposedly to stop would-be torrenters from downloading them.

*** On the other hand, [[http://www.space-age-bachelor.com/features/99/aphex.htm this]] is one of the best and most honest interviews [[{{Wheezy}} this troper]] has ever seen. He shows a few JerkAss traits (and quite a few {{hedonist}}ic ones) during the interview, but they just make it that much more real and personal.

*** OK, these two just cross over into CrowningMomentOfFunny.

** Oddly enough, when there was a snafu regarding TheLonelyIsland using Avril 14th for "Iran (So Far Away)", Aphex Twin didn't mind and was "cool" about the whole thing. His label, however, wasn't.

* AffectionateParody: The cover art for Mike & Rich [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uo_eC6uZluY/RlGjoGKY6WI/AAAAAAAAAD0/KAew9P4i4e4/s400/mikerich.jpeg parodies the box art for the Milton Bradley game Downfall.]]

* BreadEggsMilkSquick. Consider the lyrics to the song "Milkman", sung in a odd monotone-yet-cheerful jingle.
-->I wish the milkman would deliver my milk in the morning,
-->I wish the milkman would deliver my milk when I'm yawning,
-->[[spoiler:I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tits...]]
** A more jarring version appears on "Funny Little Man." The song proper isn't all that bad, assuming you don't mind that a pitched-up, autotuned James sounds exactly like [[EdEddNEddy Rolf]] on acid, but what follows is a Plaintalk program threatening to [[spoiler: sodomize, castrate, and chew on the penis of the listener]].

* CarefulWithThatAxe: All we can say about "Come To Daddy, Pappy Mix" is that Aphex has got quite a larynx on him.

* ClusterFBomb: The first half of the Windowlicker video.

* DigitalHeadSwap: One music video put his bearded face on several bikini-clad girls.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZGIrNf71Q Monkey Drummer]], a music video made by ChrisCunningham for the song Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michael's Mount.
* FanDisservice: The music video of Windowlicker has the girl's faces transforming into that of Richard's face and a really hideous woman near the end.
* ForeignLanguageTitle: Many of the songs on the drukqs album are written in Cornish. Jynweythek (Electronic Machine), hy a Scullyas lyf a dhagrow (She Spilled My Pint), and Vordhosbn (Sailboat) are a few examples.

* KubrickStare: Richard sure likes to show off his creepy smile. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L_ZEXhDQzo promotional video for 26 Mixes for Cash]] compiles some his unsettling promotional photos.
* LyricalDissonance: Once again, Milkman, which, despite the lyrics, has a melody reminiscent of children's music. The result is somewhere along the lines of [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel, albeit nowheres near as powerful]] as that of his videos.

* MoodWhiplash: LyricalDissonance aside, 'Milkman' has a happy, peaceful feel to it. However, at the very beginning of the song, James's voice can be heard unintelligibly mumbling an anecdote about [[EyeScream gouging a kid's eye out with his erect penis.]]
* PunnyName: The album ''drukqs'' was thought to be pronounced "drug use". [[WordOfGod Richard denies this]] and says that it's just a word he made up.

* Sampling: Nannou is composed entirely of wind-up music box samples, and that's just one example.
* SelfTitledAlbum: The Richard D. James Album.
* ShoutOut: On a rerelease of Surfing on S Ine Waves, Richard included a song called "Redurth School", a school he went to when he was a child.

* SweetDreamsFuel: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHkUg-QCwk Flim]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBFXJw7n-fU&feature=related Avril 14th]].

* TakeThat: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P3Wc-37pC4 The music video for Windowlicker]] parodies rap music videos..
* TastesLikePurple: Aphex is allegedly synesthetic. He claims to have used it as an inspiration for Selected Ambient Works Volume II.
* TeenGenius: He was already producing music at age 12. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was recorded during those years, which means he was making his first album at the ripe old age of 13.
* TheUnpronounceable: The "titles" on most of the "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" tracks are photographs rather than words.
** It didn't stop people from giving them names, of course. The first three are known as Cliffs, Radiator, and Rhubarb, for example.
* LongTitle: Track 2 on the Windowlicker EP has, as a title, an incredibly long mathematical equation.

!!Examples:

* ChildProdigy: At age 11, Richard tinkered around with a [=ZX81=] caluculator and caused it to produce sound, ''even though they lack sound hardware.''

* BreadEggsMilkSquick. Consider the lyrics to the song "Milkman"