While Aphex Twin went quiet for much of the next decade, Kanye West sampled “Avril 14th,” from “Drukqs,” for “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (2010). The title reflects the album’s sound: a bit off. It was a double album of songs that alternated between the woody tones of acoustic instruments and fluttering, rebarbative rhythms that sounded as much like random generations as like compositions. “Drukqs,” the previous album released under the name Aphex Twin, came out in 2001. James, an electronic musician from Cornwall, U.K., who has, since the late eighties, recorded as Aphex Twin and under many other names, has a reputation for mischief and red herrings. Illustration by Ian Wright / Photograph by James Walters / Getty There are few figures in electronic music as important and as mercurial as Aphex Twin.
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