Born in Limerick, Ireland and raised in Cornwall, Aphex Twin is the alias of Richard James, an electronic musician known for his unique music and often off-beat personality. He has created music under many other names, including: AFX, Blue Calx, Bradley Strider, Brian Tregaskin, Cuastic Window, GAK, Karen Tregaskin, Phonic Boy On Dope, Polygon Window, Power-Pill, Q-Chastic, Rutchkfard Games, Smojphace, Soit – P.P., The Dice Man, The Tuss, user18081971 and user48736353001.
Widely influential, he pioneered such genres as Ambient and Drill'n'Bass.
For James, music and electronics went hand in hand. At the age of 11 he won £50 in a competition for writing a programme to make sound on a ZX81 computer.
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