Aphex Twin

Misc:. Another great song is "Where do I begin". In the Universal Indicator series:. Bassey became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (the female equivalent of a Knight Commander) on December 31, 1999. Q-Chastic:. A few months later, Shirley Bassey signed to EMI Columbia, and the second phase in her recording career had begun. Power Pill:. They ended up with both in the top 3 at the same time.

Polygon Window:. Shirley also recorded Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me at this time, and while As I Love You raced up the charts, so too did this record. Gak:. In February 1959, it made #1 and stayed there for 4 weeks. Caustic Window:. It didn't sell well at first, but after a chance appearance at the London Palladium, things began to pick up. Brad Strider:. As I Love You appeared as a b-side to another ballad, Hands Across The Sea.

AFX:. In mid-1958, she recorded two singles which would end up as classics in the Bassey catalogue. James has also released a large amount of material under various aliases:. That year she also recorded under the direction of US producer Mitch Miller in America for the Columbia label, producing the single If I Had A Needle And Thread / Tonight My Heart She Is Crying. Richard D. Further singles appeared, and in February 1957 Shirley scored her first hit with The Banana Boat Song, which peaked at #8 in the British chart. Promos and Compilations. Due to the suggestive lyric, the BBC banned it, but it still sold well nonetheless, backed with her powerful rendition of Stormy Weather.

EPs and Singles. Shirley duly recorded her first single, entitled Burn My Candle, and Philips released it in February 1956. Albums. While she starred in this show, Philips A&R and record producer Johnny Franz spotted her on television, became impressed, and offered her a record deal. Aphex Twin continues to create records at the boundaries of the accepted norms of music. She toured various theatres until she got an offer of the show that put her firmly on the road to stardom, Al Read's Such Is Life. He is a talented photographer, having done his own artwork direction for many of his albums. He saw talent in Shirley, and decided he would make her a star.

Several of these claims include him owning an 1950s armoured scout car (a Daimler Ferret Mark 3), a submarine, composing ambient techno music at age 13 (contradicting most music history), building all of his synthesizers from scratch, having "over 100 hours" of unreleased music, and living in a converted bank. However, in 1955, a chance recommendation of her to Michael Sullivan, a booking agent in London, put her firmly on course for her destined career. He has made many wild claims in his interviews which have been speculated by some to be false. By this time Shirley had become sick of show business and had become pregnant at 16 years old with her daughter Sharon, so she went back to waitressing in Cardiff. Aphex Twin interviews are generally entertaining, eccentric, and confusing. She next took up a professional engagement in Hot From Harlem, which ran until 1954. In late 2004, rumours of his return to a more Acid Techno based sound are being realized with the new Analord series. In 1953, she signed up for the revue Memories of Jolson, a musical based on the life of Al Jolson.

The late '90s saw his music become more commercialized, and he retaliated with the IDM/Prepared Piano album drukqs. She enjoyed singing while she packed enamel pots, and to supplement her wage she sang in local pubs and clubs. In 1996, he began releasing more material composed on computers, and embraced a more drum and bass and IDM sound. Shirley first found employment packing in a local factory when she left school at the age of fifteen. Early releases featured a more hardcore and acid based sound (Ventolin is often called one of the harshest or most abrasive songs ever recorded due to the screeching trebles and breaking beats.), and later progressing into his critically acclaimed ambient works, while his hardcore side remained active through his pseudonym of Caustic Window. Her father left when she was just two years old. The music of Aphex Twin ranges over many different genres within the encompasing genre of electronic music. She grew up in the notorious Tiger Bay area of Cardiff as the youngest of seven children.

He also hid his face in another track (commonly referred to as "Equation") of the Windowlicker single, which can be seen in the spectral analysis of the track. Shirley had a Nigerian seaman father, while her mother came from Yorkshire, Northern England. His videos (and album covers) often exploit his unique facial features; for example, the video for "Windowlicker" uses special effects and make-up to place a grotesque image of his face onto the heads of a group of voluptuous bikini models.
. He was also responsible for a number of music videos in collaboration with acclaimed director Chris Cunningham. To date no other performer has recorded more than one of the coveted theme songs. James relocated to London and released a slew of albums and EPs on the Warp Records label, and under a bewildering set of aliases (from AFX and Polygon Window to the lesser known Gak and Power Pill). Dame Shirley Bassey (born January 8, 1937), Welsh singer, perhaps best known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Moonraker.

James was a founding partner in the Rephlex Records label, formed in 1991 and released his first records on this label, as well as Mighty Force and R&S Records of Belgium. James uses his middle initial to distinguish himself from his late brother. James joked in an interview that the origin of this name was a combination of a manufacturer of signal processing equipment with the word twin in reference to an older brother (also called Richard James) who died at a young age before his birth. He became a DJ and musician on the local rave scene, taking on the moniker "Aphex Twin".

He experimented with electronics from an early age, winning a competition to make a Sinclair ZX Spectrum play a tune by setting the connected television's volume to full and alternating the colours on the screen, producing different pitches of noise. Born to Welsh parents in 1971, James spent his childhood in Cornwall. Recent experimentation on his album drukqs included use of a prepared piano (specifically a Yamaha Disklavier) in the style of composer John Cage. Aphex Twin (born Richard David James, August 18, 1971, Ireland) is a UK-based electronic music artist, credited with pushing forward the genres of techno, ambient, IDM, acid, drum and bass (specifically drill n bass).

As "Rich" of "Mike and Rich" on the album Expert Knob Twiddlers ("Mike" being Mike Paradinas, also known as µ-Ziq). With Squarepusher, contributed "Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid" to the Warp compilation WAP100. Melodies From Mars (1995, this is an unreleased RDJ album that was given to friends at Rephlex and Warp Records on C-90 cassettes). Appeared as "DJ Olive" together with Uri Caine, Tim Lefebvre and Zach Danziger in the concert "Bedrock" in the Philharmonie in Essen, Germany on 10 September 2004.

Universal Indicator: Green (1995). Universal Indicator: Red (1989). Q-Chastic EP (1992 unreleased). Pac-Man (1992).

(Quoth) (1993). (Surfing On Sine Waves) (1993, re-released 2001). GAK (1994). Caustic Window Compilation (1998).

CAT 023 (Unreleased, only 4 copies pressed). Joyrex J9 (1993). Joyrex J5 (1992). Joyrex J4 (1992).

Bradley's Robot (1996). Bradley's Beat (1995). Mix) (appears on Rephlexions compilation album - 2003). Mangle 11 (Circuit Bent V.I.P.

Smojphace EP (2003). 2 Remixes By AFX (2001). Hangable Auto Bulb 2 (1995). Hangable Auto Bulb (1995).

Analogue Bubblebath 5 (1995 unreleased). Analogue Bubblebath 4 (1994). Analogue Bubblebath 3.1 (1997). Analogue Bubblebath 3 (1993).

Analogue Bubblebath 2 (1992). Analogue Bubblebath (1991). 2 Mixes on a 12" for Cash (2003), a 26 Mixes promo. 26 Mixes for Cash (2003), Compilation of material "remixed" for other artists.

Cock 10/54 Cymru Beats (drukqs promo). 51/13 Singles Collection (1996)(Australia-only release). Classics (1994) (Compilation of early singles, rare and live tracks). Words & Music (1994) (Interview and tracks from Selected Ambient Works Volume II).

Windowlicker (1999). Come to Daddy (1997). Girl/Boy EP (1996). Donkey Rhubarb (1995).

Ventolin/Ventolin Remixes EP (1995). On/On Remixes (1993). Xylem Tube EP (1992). Digeridoo (1992).

The Analord series (2005). drukqs (2001). James Album (1996). Richard D.