Aphex Twin And His Impact On Popular Culture (DOCUMENTARY)

the date is august 16th 2014. the sochi winter olympics have taken place in february k-pop has been made mainstream to the western world through the popularity of gangnam style and guardians of the galaxy has become the highest grossing film of the summer it had been a very interesting year you could say but august 16th would be an important day for fans of electronic music as on that summer day a green blimp would be seen flying over london bearing the logo of one aphex twin announcing both his return and the release of his newest album that year cyro but how did aphex twin get to where he'd be immediately recognized by showing his logo how did he become a pop culture icon well to answer that question we need to rewind limerick it's not a bad old city the date is august 18th 1971 and derek and lorna james have just welcomed a young boy into the world they choose to name him richard david james little did they know young richard would make a big impact on the world in years to come his parents would later move to the small village of lana in cornwall england this is where his creative roots would begin to flourish richard would attribute his parents as one of his biggest influences creatively as they gave him the freedom to do anything he'd liked as he claimed then at the age of 10 he started to play around with the family tape recorder recording sounds that were either natural or manufactured by him this experience would carry on with him to the next major stepping stone in his life when he would begin producing his first ever songs at the age of 14 a sign for things to come [Music] richard would dj various raids across cornwall and produce eps at the same time one of his first eps being analog bubble bath under the name afx five eps later richard will release what is considered to be his most impactful album to date selected ambient works 85-92 a compilation of songs he had produced during a seven-year period as the album title has suggested under the name aphex twin fresh track of course like uh crystal it's a very classic track um i forgot to mention we are the music makers with the uh uh charlie and the chocolate factory um example that's it uh it's i remember listening to that in the car once like on a sunny day and that was the perfect it was perfect for that yeah we are the music makers [Music] well i'd say the uh the albums uh personally the album is very good uh i i i i i can certainly uh it certainly has a very personal uh effect to me because it just helps me uh like uh as a good album to listen to to do work too or whatever like that is a very like a general uh uh album for that i guess recognize why it's seen as like it's it from the way it sounds it sounds classic like for the way it sounds it's it's not surprising that it's seen as like this classic electronic album well as a classic electronic album uh electronic is a niche genre in the first place so uh whatever impacts it would have it would have within that niche space anyway that that weird band example aegis police uh ugly boy that song i can't remember who is it yeah d at woody yeah [Music] i remember listening to that song like it sounded really familiar and like oh yeah it was soon like it's crazy [Music] richard would release selected ambient works volume 2 in 1994 creating something entirely different from its predecessor to learn more about it i spoke to professor and musician david tupe about his time interviewing richard during that period i heard about him probably in 1991 or 92. um i read about his first track analog bubble boss and at the time i was writing a little bit for mix mag magazine and they asked me to interview him so he was still a student at kingston at that time and then i interviewed him again for the face magazine in two years later in 1994 and by that time he was getting well known he had a track out called didgeridoo [Music] and then um selected ambient tracks whatever the name of that album was first ambient album um that'll come out i thought they were both interesting you know and they were different from anything anybody was doing at that time and i mean that was a brilliant case of him [Music] uh putting into practice this reluctance of his to get involved in the publicity process because he suggested through walk records that we meet [Music] um i think it was a tesco in islington and i was very happy with that because you know you generally you got to interview people in record company offices or hotel rooms or whatever it's quite boring and he said we'd do some shopping and walk around and do the interview in that way which i thought was fine but he didn't show up so i was left standing there like an idiot and in the rain waiting for him and then it was rearranged two days later i guess warp said to him look you know if you want us to put your records out you've got to do something you've got to do these things i mean the face was a big deal in those days we met a couple of days later and uh yeah he did a good interview and he talked to me about the way he made music and uh he particularly wanted to talk about lucid dreaming at that time which was something that he claimed to be very experienced in just being like a lucid dreamer since i've been young had the idea to to make dreams up when i was asleep because i used to get melodies and sounds and people talking to me in my sleep and i just thought it'd be really cool to actually try and remember some of the tunes so you know he was claiming to have done all sorts of things falling off cliffs and [Music] engaging with people in various ways and he said he then got to the point where he could manipulate what was happening so he started to think maybe i can make music you know kind of have ideas for music i found that interesting as well because i'd had dreams years before where i was dreaming about strange musical instruments and music that i'd never actually heard [Music] so it seemed to me on the one hand i was kind of skeptical you know maybe maybe he's just making all this stuff up but on the other hand i was very intrigued but you know maybe it's genuinely um an original way to think about making music and he you know he was he was an interesting character and i thought the music he was doing it wasn't necessarily all very original but it had a feeling about it which was uh yeah it was definitely different my point is that aphex twin was to some degree a figurehead or a central figure for a lot of these people around the world who were no longer working in recording studios but working at home which of course gives you much more freedom and that sense of him being an inspiration and him doing things that really wound people up [Music] or thrilled people because it was so crazy and refusing to engage in this in all of the games of the commercial record industry you know that was that was a very important moment i think and that i would say is one of the ways in which his influence was very important and has continued because now it's just kind of normal thing you know i work from home making music and i do it in my own time and absolutely the way i want to and maybe you do too so it's just a kind of completely normal thing and he was certainly one of the people who was instrumental in affecting that change both soar albums would have an impact on both musicians and pop culture in years to come with the memorability of their tracks seeping into the public consciousness and the album's artworks becoming instantly recognizable upon seeing them the logo on both album covers known as the aphex a was originally designed by kingston university student and graphic designer paul nicholson to learn more about it i spoke to paul nicholson himself to learn how it came to be well i'm paul nicholson i've been doing graphic design now uh pretty much exactly 30 years because the first two jobs i did was in my final year at uni which my first logo was for a techno club in london called knowledge which would have been i'm guessing about october 91 and within a few weeks of doing that logo i'd met richard aphix twin and created his logo as well and what's interesting with both of those logos is that i submitted one design and that's the one that was used and [Music] obviously knowledge as a club is his kind of history but uh mr mr richard james still using the logo some 30 years later when there was this resurgence of interest in aphex generally i would say probably it was kicked off by his 2015 sound cloud dump effectively where he he just put everything up on sao cloud um i obviously started to get people contacting me or i would be sent articles or posts that people had written about the logo and and some of the theories about what the logo represented or how it was created just went from you know the ridiculous to the sublime because it was all over the shop uh in reality it's somewhat more down to earth in that i know at the time a friend of mine that i used to ride skateboards with he was studying fashion the year above me so he graduated in 1991 and immediately went to san francisco to work for a skateware brand called an arc adjustment so i'd been doing bits and pieces for charlie who as a side note is now the artist pure evil which you can find on internet and you know instagram what have you so i'd known charlie all the way through university because at that point in time skateboarding was incredibly uncool so if you met another skateboarder it was a very rare um occurrence because very few people skate rode skateboards so um so as i say 91 i'd have been doing bits and pieces for an arctic adjustment and broadly speaking i had an interest in creating um kind of letter forms that didn't look off this earth i was kind of very much into the whole idea of alien cultures science fiction uh around about that time that the william gibson books came out like neuromancer burning chrome and mona lisa overdrive so these were all books i was kind of reading and re-reading at that point in time so my my kind of mindset was very much in a kind of future setting um musically as well is um techno like skateboarding was a very very small scene at that point in time so when you um were a fan of techno we were part of very small clique of people and the overwhelming kind of look and feel of what techno was about that time was very much about set in the future so if you think about early warp records like sweet exorcist or test one or the first compilation lp which is artificial intelligence i mean everything was was obsessively looking to the future but in a very kind of positive um optimistic isn't technology great kind of way and this whole idea of off-world colonies and um it was it was i guess um an early version of that kind of what's now been seen as the y2k look where everything's shiny and bright and happy and jolly it wasn't dystopian or kind of blade runner 2049 dark and moody it was very much about this idea of the future being a positive thing so at that point in time a lot of the work i was doing was um kind of amorphic looking at shapes that were not linear not necessarily directly related to the letter i was trying to create but looking at new ways of making letters kind of locked together and just um yeah heavily inspired by what was going on musically and kind of culturally so when i met richard he he was just going through my sketchbooks and ideas books and just kind of picked up on a few things that i was working on and probably in particular he would have seen the anarchic adjustment work and because an arctic adjustment their logo is a letter a i was working a lot with the first letter of the alphabet he was like yep do me something like that i think with um most people that have created something that has gone on to be iconic and they're asked those questions so when you read about jamie um jamie reed who did the sex pistols never mind the bollocks or you think about um what was his name the guy that worked for factory records oh slipped my mind now but he did the joy division cover and i mean what they've said is pretty much what what i kind of feel myself i mean there's there's no way at any point in time can you assume that something's going to be iconic and i think as well is for a designer to um applaud their own abilities is somewhat vainglorious in so much that um had the joy division not been a great band uh something like the atmosphere sleeve would not have been as iconic but the two kind of sit together because when you've got iconic music that also has an iconic image it ties the two together so if someone's thinking about a particular point in time or a particular genre of music they'll know the music but if there's a visual something visual attached to the music it definitely helps um in so much that uh how can i put it it's like um there were other good new way fans around the time of the joy division who created great tracks but they didn't quite have that visual identity so where those tracks are still well remembered if you see somebody wearing joy division shirts chances are they know very little about that ear of music but the image has become iconic with a kind of post punk uh sound and a post punk uh aesthetic so it is it imborn i think with um obviously early 90s electronic music because there's been this this resurgence of interest i think uh people are looking for something that they can brand themselves with and if you want to go out and basically say i belong to this tribe unfortunately a lot of fans at that time and a lot of musicians at that time didn't really have an identity so you know aphex twin does so it does give people that identity they can wear um if there's anything that um i would um take a certain amount of pride in is that as a logo it kind of has it's not anything that necessarily looks like it um i i could send you um something somebody had written something somebody had written there was um a designer talking about the logo and i thought what they said was um really interesting and remind me to send it to you but in effect what they were saying was that um there's many things about the logo which are kind of wrong there's a certain imbalance or um kind of kind of funny feeling about it but what the guy says is that but it does it just works but there are certain things about it from a designer's point of view it would make you think that it shouldn't and maybe in part it was um maybe a certain amount of uh naivety or kind of inexperience or lack of understanding that makes you make decisions that are more instinctive rather than for one of a better term correct so um like i said i'll send you that but um it wasn't obviously inspired by anything that was going on i wasn't looking to be hip and fashionable for that point in time and i you know i wasn't trying to create something that was shouted techno or you know 1991. so it was it was something that was created um purely to be outside of all of that and i think by and large that's pretty much um a viewpoint that i've kept um all the way through as a designer i i always kind of i'm on the edge of being incredibly uncool or incredibly kind of out of it simply by avoiding fashionable styles of fashionable things going on so i mean you know i'm very much aware of um changing graphic styles but just choose not to do any of it so it you know that there's been a trend for example for this kind of very liquidy looking kind of chrome typography or like maximalism where there's kind of type of the left and type across so you know there's always that mentality that well if everybody's doing it this way i'll not do it that way but obviously you you play a bit of a dangerous game because um most design follows trends and most people who are commissioning work want to look for what's fashionable or what's on the money at that point in time so invariably i don't get that kind of work but what is good is that when people um like what i do they come to me wanting my approach so in some respects it makes selling myself a lot easier because i just put stuff up on instagram and those people that like it who needs some work done will contact me so um the process of designing is a lot easier doing it that way because i'm never having to kind of crowbar a different way of working or try and fit in so it you know it works quite well i mean to to try and narrow it down to one musician would be a bit disingenuous because there's so many musicians that i rate on par with richard um i think richard's approach and his um his attitude is as inspirational as his music i think that his fearlessness and um kind of attitude is is something that should be applauded as much as what he does as a musician because uh in an age of kind of everybody going smash the like button and wanting people to light them all the time to have somebody just go no i don't care what you think you can write what you like you know it's good that you have a little bit of that you know attitude what impact do you think apex twin and the apex twin logo perhaps has had an impact on music or pop culture if any [Music] um i would like to say i'm probably the wrong person speaks to um i would imagine that you know that 25 year old guy that has a fashion line and uses the apex lettering or takes like the xylem font and then develops a brand identity using that i mean they're going to be better answering that question because they will know what uh what it is that inspired them to want to use that as i say i think um as as time goes by and uh i i think as people write about a certain error in time i i think a certain view of that period starts to coalesce into like a perceived history so certain musicians and certain artists who were you know really hot in the early 90s have kind of fallen by the wayside whereas say somebody like richard who at the time was very much a kind of artist who was working in the underground and playing playing in clubs to three and four hundred people um he's obviously gone on to be seen as being a much greater artist than the people at the time realized so in the early 90s you'd have certain acts that were filling out um you know big clubs or you know big stadiums that they kind of where they now kind of thing so definitely uh time allows people to look at things in context and kind of be a little bit subjective and go okay well out of all of this music i like these musicians and um yeah i i think as well is that time also proves who have who have the longest legacy so if a 20 year old now or a 25 year old now is creating music or creating design and they go well you know what i've listened to a lot of stuff but i really rate what aphex twin was doing or i really love a lot of graphics from the early 90s but i really like the apex and logo i mean if enough people say that they can't all be wrong so it is really just down to uh like a collective consciousness that over time enough people believe believe the same thing um but it it's actually impossible to manufacture because people will ultimately always see the honesty in what you've done if you try to create a classic or create a monumental art movement or piece of music it's not going to work you can only do what's honest and over time that honesty will i guess being what people see um i mean i i don't know what rich's inspiration or desire was as a 20 year old working on music when i met him but um i don't think it's much different than probably what he thinks now in reflection i think paul was right to have his opinion on what aphex twins impact on pop culture has been would be difficult for him to answer as the designer couldn't exactly craft something that would immediately be loved so i took his advice and asked the fans for their opinions hello i am johnny i do stuff on tick tockers on the tubster and i am a massive fan of apex twin hello my name is millie i'm at gadio head on tiktok and um worried all on soundcloud and bank account hey there a fx mic apex twin stan um i just want to say thank you to finn for giving me the opportunity to tell my story um just a quick intro i just love apex twin richard d james everything about him lore the music the history he's a great guy and uh i look forward to uh continuing to just stand by him what was your first aphex twin song or project that you had heard and when the first aphex twin song was a like pure coincidence like me and my friend were playing rave in the redwoods it was an infinite warfare zombies and they played didgeridoo in the back [Music] uh but the like the first occasional appearance was on a smosh video they actually played rubber johnny yeah here we go apex twitter i'm gonna have you sing the star spangled banner while listening to apex twin rubber johnny i need to show them what this sounds like [ __ ] robot music in the back was trying i don't know it's so weird but my first ever project that i listened to was like um i think has to be like obviously the selected army works 85 tonight too it's like the first beginner album of course for any apex twin fan my first apex twin project was window liquor um and at the time i was really wanting to get into him but i had no idea where to start so i just kind of picked something and i was like what is this because i never really heard much like idm stuff before and it was so uh it was so genuinely weird to me but i was very much fascinated by it and i really enjoyed it and i'll never forget it um that would be the cephalus bouncing ball off of uh come to daddy [Music] i heard it outside of my high school in the parking lot we're blasting one of my friend's cars and everyone was so absolutely appalled by it i was like this is awesome this is really good so i thought it was pretty interesting i was like interesting take on taking bouncing balls of ball bearings off of different surfaces and putting them all together and i was just intrigued from there on what's your favorite apex twin song or project that you've listened to favorite project by asexual has to be selected ambient volume 2 is the best piece of like it's the best album of all time every like song on that is such a journey it just envelops in so many like landscapes textures it envelops in every develop sorry i don't know if i'm using the right words here but it just goes into every single detail like atmosphere texture feeling it just over like this two and a quarter hour like two and three quarter hour journey it's pretty it's such a ride every time and my favorite song by him has to be stone in focus because that song is such an ambiguous and vast track 10 minutes long and yet it's so simple with it's like sound as of the sound as it sounds sound design it is such a beautiful sound it makes you ponder every time because of how beautiful the soundscape is that's really hard um one of my favorite apex spin songs is milkman because it's hilarious and it is like the weirdest thing i've ever heard i love that i wish the milkman would deliver my milk in the morning um i love the richard d james album with all of my heart i think it's amazing um that's one that i i listen to a lot of the time because i have it on cd it's very cool um that's one of my favorite electronic albums um and i love the selected ambient works of volume one because it's a classic and it's just so fabulously made i love it so much i never seen this project as far as when he was um working under the tuss moniker or alias that was really he hid out of the park i really feel like he went somewhere else with that um i like that take especially uh rush up edge i believe has 2007 release or 2009 release under i believe it was under his his own uh label even though he said it was uh produced by a woman uh karen tragestan that was another interesting take on it because he was saying oh no this wasn't me this was someone else someone else produced us so i i love that one that's an interesting interesting take on uh how he went it was like later on in his career too so he was really you know all over the place with different uh machines and whatnot i mean he was really way into his career by that point so what do you think is your favorite piece of aphex twin history or trivia hmm maybe like the phonic boys on dope era like when he was first starting making music because you can really tell how far he progressed like him making his own material like a zx spectrum and making like very skeletal and bare bone beats on that it's just so revolutionary but i think my favorite one has to be like full-on favorite has to be the sand paper set like the sandpaper clips that we're at a set like in 1994 he decided to play like um um was it i forgot what's called like a food blender and a um sandpaper and he sold like at this venue 200 of these like sandpaper clip things which were like uh two pieces of sandpaper with the apex twin logo stamp on it and uh one recently sold for 223 pounds which is like in hell you spend a lot on two pieces of sandpaper jesus but all he did there was just like twist some knobs and grinded the microphone against the sandpaper and put it in a food blender there is no footage of it like on youtube but unlike the lana chronicle that's like a very deep archive of like his interviews and like pictures of stuff there's a one picture of him uh with the food blender and the uh knob thing that's the only picture of it i could find respect and obviously the uh picture the sandpaper clips that has to be kind of one of my favorite arts and stuff i do think one of my favorite uh my favorite things about apex twin is how uh some of his songs have been accidentally like bundled in with like internet memes and stuff um like a while ago one of the songs of cyro was going around as a meme song [Music] and i just kind of looking at it like oh i think it's really funny um i really i really like when um when an artist i like is in memes i think it's really cool that there's like a whole generation of teenagers who uh are into all this stuff yeah definitely especially online having that like sense of community is really important to me like it's a bit dumb but take talk especially like a bunch of people who uh like the same things and what to enthuse about it is awesome i feel like that's the way music is kind of um immortalized yeah i guess the more people talk about it the more you remember it and the more we keep it going i guess um when you said the meme like the meme side of aphex twin i don't know if you remember it but a couple years ago the flim meme was flying around like you know where's like like a video of somebody like singing dancing or shouting and then suddenly like flynn would play in the background and it's like really fast speed yes yeah i think it came back again like a couple weeks ago because um there's like this this old old video of like these group of guys from from bradford from up north who like it was like a really angry facebook video was the original thing and they were sending like threats to people like in like an ironic joking way and that and instead like somebody just ripped the vocal audio out of it completely replaced it with flim [Music] sped the video up and then that was it that was that was just it there was no joke or punishment i love it i love i like uncertainty i think fx twin really speaks to a certain kind of level of absurdity a level of weirdness um because it's such a specific like kind of it's a specific kind of uh uncomfortable humor in a lot of apex twin songs that's milkman to me that's a weird song yeah so uncomfortable uh but it's also like funny um and it's like it's this like really weird intersect of humor i came when i came across a particular bjork uh clip of how she was really throwing out there uh they come to daddy uh video oh man she was like she was all over it and she was just saying like how pioneer in the industry and everything i was just like wow just to hear say it i mean i am gonna introduce some of my favorite songs to you at least the ones that this tv channel has got the videos of the first one is the song i'm mostly excited about now this week by a man called richard but calls himself aphex twin and his new video called come to daddy which i think is a masterpiece and it's hilariously funny and he's got a lot of his energy and i think with music today for me i think he's definitely the pioneer avex twin is the king i know that they went back and forth and they've done all kinds of uh they've had all kinds of live sets together i know he's open for her all kinds of times over um i thought that was pretty cool what impact do you think afex twins music has had on you on me yeah or as in everyone or on you on your side well i think it's made an impact me on me as in like taste wise and realization-wise because a lot of i think it just kind of like whenever i was down especially during lockdown in a way i always used to play on like uh i don't know [Music] i care because you do play this or something or like when i'm not playlist but album i like sleep damn it works for him too and i just really kind of opened my eyes in a way like you know a is chill music has got your back like sometimes music i think is kind of like a friend in a way because it's always there about like you never think um music is i don't know what i'm just it's like music's great man it's just kind of it just kind of affects was like the whole at the top and it's just kind of made me find like new artists which of you know i could never really fathom of thinking about really it's just like for me i think obviously it's kind of made me a happier person not like well not like i was already sad in the first place but isn't like it's kind of made me like wow how can someone make these bloody sounds at that type of era you know what i mean it's just mind-boggling away um i think afx twins music has taught me to embrace the uncomfortable and embrace the weird i got into apex win just before i got into noise music um so it was just kind of like a predecessor to that stage of my life i guess but um i think it's taught me um to sit with your discomfort enjoy it find humor in everything um and i have like an appreciation for the way electronic music can sound um like in terms of its technicality now um i guess as like a first like idm experience 10 out of 10. um it's like um i guess learning to appreciate uh the artistry behind a piece of music and learning to embrace uh the sides of you that are slowly odd and i enjoy that i like oddball music it makes me feel very comforted um you know it's really cool um i'd say when siro came out in 2014 and i was a pretty trying time in my life i had a whole lot going on my wife at the time was sick i was having a lot of troubles in my professional career and everything so when i came up that was like wow thank you thank you very much rich um i don't know i'd say uh it's opened me up to different types of music in general um just listening to it because it's very different i know that it's very the uh the icon in general i obviously love the logo it's just it's very big it's big in the fashion so i have a gravity towards that of course paul nicholson what's up i love that guy um i don't know i just love his music just so different so unique you know i mean no one's no one's copying that it's just him and no one else so that's a big thing it's just very unique and him himself very unique how he's been over the years he's not thinking of the money he's always about the music and how he's wanted to do it absolutely cherish what impact do you think aphex twin has had on pop culture i think he's impacted quite a lot especially after creating a whole like or like fully blossoming out the idm genre i think he's really impacted the whole like other genres too like metal i heard like the lead singer of corn was inspired by apex and obviously radiohead too and like kidday and amnesia um i heard doger cat once was listening to aphex twin like and that's like man how can you like link up dogecat apex to him but um i think he's made like j likes like you i can't i can't think of it but if you think of like all the um technological synth work these days and all like the intricacies of like melodies and stuff i'd really think it all links to aphex in a way and obviously like others like outside canada like but i think he's definitely like full-on smashed it in the ballpark when it comes to like impacting other genres and stuff i don't know if that was such like a thin answer but it's just like i think so many people like obviously like in rap and pop and guitar like especially bjork as well bjork was uh um quite a fan of aphex she mentioned him on like a german interview and obviously they were supposed to collab and the emails and stuff between them and obviously the uh was it their live shows but yeah um brilliant i think he's made a more impact on the electronics that he's done on any other genre of course but he still have definitely like made a a little bit of a uh a general impact of course you know what's it um the whole music scene um i think apex twin has been like he's like the weirdos weirdo in my opinion uh like apex twin is like uh the kind of guy where if you know you know um and i i like the the impact he's had musically on like uh ambient uh ambient electronic stuff is like incredible because uh of how genuinely iconic uh his songs have become uh and like i also in terms of pop culture like the shock value um i refer again to the come to daddy music video which you know was pretty famous that it's time for being shocking [Music] um and i think like that shock value is done in a way it's not like it's not done to uh insult it's done to provoke and there's a difference um and i i really like that i think that's shock value done correctly i think a lot of artists have missed the point uh with shock value but apex twin on the nose because it retains humor you know uh window like album cover is like honestly the most awful image ever but it's funny and it works and it intrigues people you know it's surprising that's an interesting one um well i'd say that first off him being very unique um obviously he's been a huge inspiration to so many artists over the years and producers i mean ranging from all different genres i don't think there's really any genre that has been you know someone that has been like oh yeah i love his stuff um that and just uh you know obviously like i said fashion when it comes to the the logo in general i mean um you've got people getting iced out chains with that on it and stuff like that and tattoos and uh hopefully someday i'll get one but i mean i i'd say uh just definitely with the logo which has been everywhere it's all over the place he threw it up on a on a blimp from when he when he uh when he um promoted zyro and stuff like that it's like i've seen spray painted on on walls and all over the place now it's used in all different facets and then there's also just the fact that he has done some pretty crazy stuff over the years and he's been very different and his uni his unique style and the way that he goes about interviews and how he perceives the industry to be and how he wants to go and what i don't know if he wants a legacy because he's he's always just been like yeah whatever on me just i just do this and i just hide behind the scenes which is kind of cool because everyone usually has to be out and about no i'm everything look at me and uh that's another cool thing about him is that uh he's been uh the 14 year olds nowadays that love him and stuff like that he's just transcended generations so i think as far as pop culture is he just he just won't die off he's always going to be around and people just love hearing you know like i said he's been his genre jumper he's all over the place he's got ambient brick beat drilling bass everything he's all over so i think that's that's a big thing is that he's just he's transcended over the years and he's always remained relevant even when he wasn't releasing for a long time so i'd say that's my take aphex twins three decade long career has proven that new generations of fans and creatives are inspired by him personally professionally and artistically with artists showing clear influence from his music further impacting both pop culture and the future of the music industry in their own rights showing that yes richard d james has certainly had an impact on pop culture so [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Sun Aug 28 2022