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The surprising artist who has overtaken Taylor Swift in monthly YouTube listeners

Aphex Twin, the British electronic music producer Richard D James, has unexpectedly surpassed Taylor Swift in monthly YouTube listeners, attracting nearly 450 million across the platform. This is vastly higher than Swift’s, who reportedly receives 396 million to 399 million listeners a month on YouTube. This surge is primarily attributed…

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“Emotional and soul crushing”: Aphex Twin has more Youtube listeners than Taylor Swift and this is the reason why

“Emotional and soul crushing”: Aphex Twin has more Youtube listeners than Taylor Swift and this is the reason why

QKThr seems to be a go-to track for Youtube shorts

“Got many requests for this one from a few years back”: Aphex Twin uploads two previously-unheard tracks to his Soundcloud page

“Got many requests for this one from a few years back”: Aphex Twin uploads two previously-unheard tracks to his Soundcloud page

It’s his first unheard music for two years

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“Richard James is quite a nice young man”: How Aphex Twin and Philip Glass came to work together – and what they thought of each other’s music

The minimalist classical figurehead and electronic icon reflect on each other's work in a classic Future Music interview

"They should’ve been honoured. It would have sounded better than any rubbish song they wrote": The unbelievable story of Aphex Twin's laziest remix

"I just sped the whole song up so it was like a half-second long, which took ages, but I made it into one sound: a snare drum"

“After I’d finished with the food mixer, I threw it over the balcony and it hit some kid on the head - he found me afterwards and said ‘can you sign this’”: How Aphex Twin almost knocked out a fan at his weirdest gig ever

Microphones in blenders, sandpaper on the decks and a potential lawsuit - it's just your average Aphex Twin show

Aphex Twin's MIDI-modded Yamaha GX-1 goes up for sale for almost £100,000

Fewer than 100 of these ultra-rare analogue behemoths were ever made - and this one was owned by Richard D. James himself

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Selected Ambient Shirts: Aphex Twin just dropped a 191-track playlist for sportswear brand Supreme (and there’s a rare Aphex treat buried in there too)

He’d already put his name and face on the brand, now here’s the perfect music to listen to while wearing it

“The risk is that I never finish a piece - I want to push them further, to see how far they can be deformed without tearing”: How Aphex Twin fought the temptation to continually refine, and how we can learn from his example

“The risk is that I never finish a piece - I want to push them further, to see how far they can be deformed without tearing”: How Aphex Twin fought the temptation to continually refine, and how we can learn from his example

It’s easy to carry on fiddling with our tracks, but as Richard D. James knows all too well, that urge to keep going can prove a problem

Aphex Twin: Music from the Merch Desk (2016-2023) review – Santa’s sack overspills with AFX bounty

Aphex Twin: Music from the Merch Desk (2016-2023) review – Santa’s sack overspills with AFX bounty

Compiling the highly sought-after limited vinyl releases sold at recent festival sets, this surprise 38-track release filled with bangers and beauty is a trove for fans

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Aphex Twin just surprise-dropped a thirty-eight track, two-and-a-half hour compilation album

Aphex Twin just surprise-dropped a thirty-eight track, two-and-a-half hour compilation album

The album compiles material previously only released in physical formats and sold at live shows across the last few years

Aphex Twin drops new compilation of super rare vinyl releases

Aphex Twin drops new compilation of super rare vinyl releases

Music From The Merch Desk is available now

Aphex Twin DJ'd at a friend's wedding

Aphex Twin DJ'd at a friend's wedding

Reports suggest that James played the set as a wedding gift, with Luke Vibert also performing

Celebrating 60 years of the synth: the '90s

Celebrating 60 years of the synth: the '90s

As the '80s drifted from mostly analogue to largely digital, would the '90s be the decade when the synth scene settled? Not really…

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Is Aphex Twin's new EP named after this hardware sequencer?

The "blackbox" referenced in the EP's title appears to be the Cirklon, a powerful multi-track sequencer from Sequentix

The unlikely story of Aphex Twin's weirdest gig, when he DJ'd with sandpaper and stuck a microphone in a blender

"I mixed some sandpaper together, played a food mixer and threw it at someone. I thought I would get sued for that, but he wanted me to sign it afterward"

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