Aphex Twin

When Richard David James—best known as Aphex Twin—began releasing his bracing, boundary-pushing electronic music in 1991, everything was up for grabs.

Rave culture was smashing social norms and reshaping pop music.

Born in Ireland in 1971 and raised in Cornwall, in South West England, where he learned to take apart electronic gizmos, the mischievous producer embodied the era’s anarchic spirit.