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I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.
Aphex Twin
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Aphex Twin
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 18
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It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is.
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The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.
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If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, huh.
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The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.
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There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.
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That's just globalization. It's got good sides as well. But scenes aren't allowed to develop on their own anymore. Everyone knows about everything.
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It always sounds more right to me when it's detuned. When it's right in tune, it's like there's something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it's all about frequencies and what they do to you. That's the real core.
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The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.
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It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
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