Let’s face it: even Richard D. James has probably lost track of all the aliases he’s forged during his decades-long career. There are the ones we are party to — Aphex Twin, Caustic Window, Polygon Window — and then there are the thousands about which we have undoubtedly been left in the dark.
…Apparently, the electronic music trickster dons his many hats “for a laugh,” as he told Pitchfork’s Philip Sherburne in a rare interview back in 2014, “And I might keep doing it, just keep being anonymous and doing different names.” You only need to glance at Aphex Twin’s ridiculous Warp Records bio for living proof that we will likely never know the truth about the smarty pants “fartist” with a silly sense of humor, and one of the most revered, peerless catalogues in the canon.

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