• Aphex Twin Releases More Music To user48736353001 Soundcloud Account

    Aphex Twin has been quiet over the past couple months after an uncharacteristically productive few finish to 2014 and start of 2015 that saw the reclusive pioneering electronic music producer release an album, Syro, an EP and hundreds of demos. He started a few random soundcloud accounts to try and clandestinely upload old demos and unfinished music to the streaming service. The dumps have come in waves and are now concentrated on one account, user48736353001, who now has almost 200 tracks on the account. Over the weekend, Aphex Twin, real name Richard D. James added a few more tracks to the collection.

  • Grammys 2015 Best Dance/Electronic Album, Who Should & Will Win: Aphex Twin Completes Comeback

    Entering its 11th year, the Best Dance/Electronic Album category has an interesting group of nominees. Past winners have included everyone from Madonna to Daft Punk -- Bassment Jaxx to Skrillex and this year provides a varied group of five newcomers, veterans and comeback kings. It appears to be a two-horse race, but when it comes to the Grammys selecting a genre they aren't very familiar with, you never know for certain what they might do.

  • Aphex Twin Has Uploaded Another 40 Songs to user48736353001

    Aphex Twin -- real name Richard D. James -- has been dumping unreleased demos onto an anonymous SoundCloud account over the past 10 days, which in total came to 110 demos. It was thought that after all of them had been put online and made available for free download that the uploading was over and he had exhausted his store of available music. Thankfully, we were wrong. As of this writing James has uploaded another 40 songs onto user48736353001's account, and there may be more going up as the day goes on.

  • Aphex Twin Makes 110 Songs Available for Free Download as 'user48736353001' [LISTEN]

    Over the past week, Richard D. James -- better known as Aphex Twin -- has unloaded a treasure trove of previously unheard music onto SoundCloud under the username "user48736353001." In total, 110 demo songs were eventually uploaded to the account, and James has made them available for free download for a limited time only. Through the user, he left the following note via "Resident Advisor," "***hello humans, hopefully im gonna start making all these tracks downloadable from 6pm next Saturday 7th Feb, [if I can find some internets] - user48736353001."

  • Is Aphex Twin Releasing Hours of Unreleased Music on Soundcloud?

    Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned mystery? We know Aphex Twin loves them. Over the past few days, hours of mysterious music has been uploaded to a couple of different soundcloud accounts that appear to be under the guise of Aphex Twin, but no one is totally certain. Richard James has not confirmed or denied the whole affair, though he is pretty tightlipped about most things that aren't technology.

  • Aphex Twin Shares New Song 'Diskhat ALL Prepared1mixed' from New EP [LISTEN]

    Tomorrow, Jan. 23, electronic artist Aphex Twin — aka Richard D. James — will be releasing his new EP "Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments PT 2," but today he has offered a small taste of the EP by sharing a remix of its opening track "Diskhat ALL Prepared1mixed 13" through his newly created SoundCloud page, which you can check out below. The track is relatively low-key and moody, with some krautrock-inspired percussion and an emphasis on the space between notes as much as the notes themselves. As the title of the EP implies, the track seems to be rooted in acoustic instruments such as drums and piano, which have then been manipulated by computers. You can't really dance to it — do people really dance to Aphex Twin? — but it is still incredible.

  • Aphex Twin Announces New EP Via Warp Records

    Aphex Twin, real name Richard D. James, just released his first album in 13 years last September and he already gearing up for another multi-track release on Warp Records. The "Syro" producer will be releasing a 14-track EP titled Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt. 2. Announced via Warp Records today (Jan. 9), there is not much further information about the EP except that it will be released on Jan. 23 and the tracklist. It still isn't clear what happened to part 1, but that could come at some point. Aphex Twin has never been one to do things conventionally, just look at the track titles, so the first EP may never hit stores or just might be something for a later date.

  • Aphex Twin Answers 25 Questions from Skrillex, Richie Hawtin, Nicolas Jaar and Others

    The enigmatic and at times odd Richard David James, better known as Apex Twin, shocked the world when he released an album this year after being silent for the previous 13. Using some rather ingenious marketing techniques, including an Aphex Twin Blimp over the London skies and Aphex Twin logos graffitied onto the streets of New York. The release of "Syro" has impressed his fans and music critics alike, earning plaudits and landing in the top spots of most end-of-year rankings. In honor of his 2014 and the 25th anniversary of "Groove" magazine, he fielded 25 questions from other highly touted DJs, including Skrillex, Caribou, Ben Klock and Richie Hawtin and answered them in kind. Below are some of the highlights, via "FACT."

  • 8 Best Musical Comebacks of 2014: Garth Brooks, D'Angelo and More

    For whatever reason, 2014 was the year where a ton of musicians decided to get their acts together and reunite, come out of retirement or finally release that album we have been desperately craving for more than 10 years. Here are 2014's eight best comebacks:

  • Pitchfork Name Top 50 Albums of 2014: Aphex Twin, FKA Twigs and The War on Drugs Place, But Who Takes No. 1?

    A few days ago we relayed to you the Top 10 tracks of the year as decided by Pitchfork, a publication that's long had a finger on more genres than its competition. Now we've got their list of the best 50 albums of the year, and you can check out the Top 10 listed below. If you'd like to see the full 50, follow this link. A word of warning: Don't be surprised to see a lot of repeat performers between the song and album list.

  • 10 Best Album Covers Of 2014: FKA Twigs, St. Vincent, The Roots, And More

    Music lovers often experience album covers before hearing the album itself, so it's pretty appropriate that we're publishing our list of the best album covers of 2014 before our list of best albums of 2014 (stay tuned for that one in a few weeks, by the way). Here are the year's top 10 album covers.
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