AFX

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Richard David James was born to Welsh parents Lorna and Derek James in 1971 in Limerick, Ireland. James spent his childhood in Cornwall, UK. As a teenager, he became a DJ and musician on the local rave scene, taking on the moniker “Aphex Twin”. James formed the Rephlex Records label in 1991 with his friend Grant Wilson-Claridge and released his first records on this label, as well as Mighty Force and R&S Records of Belgium. After success with his early work, James relocated to London and released a slew of albums and EPs on the Warp Records label, under a bewildering set of aliases (from AFX and Polygon Window to the lesser known GAK and Power Pill). There are many releases that, due to their limited nature fetch very high prices when sold. Such releases include Analogue bubblebath 2, Hangable Auto Bulb 1&2, Analord 10 (bindered edition) and the soit P-P, Q-Chastic and GAK releases.

In 2005, he released the vinyl only Analord series over 11 separate 12” singles.

On April 10th, 2006, he released the Chosen Lords album. This was a personal selection of songs from the highly succesful Analord series by Richard D James, with remastered, re-engineered versions of the originals put onto a CD for the first time.

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Analord 01
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Analord 04
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2	Pitcard	505
3	Batine Acid	461
4	Klopjob	430
5	Reunion 2	406
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7	Every Day	286
8	Boxing Day	260
9	Fenix Funk	255
10	Crying in Your Face	252
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Knifymoloko wrote:
Thursday morning

Soo... RDJ's next album is going to utilize the sounds of construction? Awesome!

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Bleach00 wrote:
Monday evening

Analord 01 is one of my favourite albums. Blows my mind time after time.

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CatalystDM wrote:
last week

Safrany that was the worst comic in the history of forever

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Snuffz wrote:
8 days ago

http://www.last.fm/group/EAT+THE+SHIT JOOIN

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Safrany wrote:
9 days ago

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1566/ichigoaphextranslatedmrtt1.jpg

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CatalystDM wrote:
last month

It's criminal that people don't get to hear Where's Your Girlfriend? or SteppingFilter 101 when they listen to Chosen Lords.

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my1nfection wrote:
last month

wanna help out a new artist? check out Lunar Day "electronic, trip-hop, experimental" the good stuff! http://www.last.fm/music/Lunar+Day

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JellyDomino wrote:
last month

Voooof!

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akkaraju wrote:
last month

Bwoon Dub rules!

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CatalystDM wrote:
last month

Wet Tip Hen Ax

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baucham wrote:
last month

Laughable Butane Bob

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jeenyus05 wrote:
last month

http://www.last.fm/group/The+Dark+Knight+is+Not+Emo

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Vammmax wrote:
last month

Nice... ;)

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last month

Hangable Auto Bulb
alasdairN wrote:
last month

yeah but vsnares releases the same album over and over again 2-3 times a year.

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cdconair wrote:
last month

vsnares releases a lot, but I really just very sincerely doubt he's that dedicated. RDJ says he'd never stop making music if someone didn't drag him away from it. what really speaks to that is just the fact that he hasn't released as much, he doesn't even bother to release much music, he's so busy making it.

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PsychoBells wrote:
last month

Venetian Snares lives in winnipeg and all he does is pretty much make music, so making a statement such as "no one will spend all day every day creating music their entire lives" is totally off the mark. there are plenty of otha examples too, son.

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cdconair wrote:
last month

there will never be a person with music like this again. no one will spend all day every day creating music their entire lives, not with this kind of focus. shame he doesn't release more, but that's his deal.

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lukejonesyes wrote:
last month

I don't even know what a falsetto is, true story.

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Dickshit wrote:
last month

Richard D. James practically invented falsettos, yes

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