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Aphex Twin, ← click here for a ton of his music, is a legendary electronic music pioneer. There is a massive amount of information about his work online, because he famously shares very little about his process, but his endless fans are always happy to discuss, pick apart and surmise! Direct inspiration can be found in the legendary Keyosc forum and Reddit's We are the Music Makers community. Much of his music catalog has led to the meta genre described as “IDM - Intelligent Dance Music", but Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) refers to the music and artists famously released through his own label, Rephlex Records, as Brain Dance music.

The Soundcloud Dumps

Back in 2015, 280+ unreleased songs were quietly dropped to the public. Shortly afterwards higher quality versions were made available in Flac format on archive.org as User18081971. Songs are still occasionally released to the Soundcloud account! ← Look directly, since newer tracks may not be on archive.org yet. You can freely download the entire archive torrent here.

Enjoy the massive back catalog of hundreds of tracks, recorded across decades, and made available for all of us to enjoy.

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