Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin was born Richard David James on 18 August 1971 in Limerick, Ireland, a fact buried beneath decades of internet myth and anonymous performance. He left that birthplace for Cornwall, where he learned to shape noise into music before the world learned his name. The gap between the quiet Irish town and the violent brightness of his sound is the real mystery: a boy from nowhere became the measure by which electronic music is still judged.