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Aphex Twin: Richard D. James (Sire/Elektra)

Will Hermes, Spin, February 1997

IF EVERY DJ IS essentially a critic, as Robert Christgau once noted, then Aphex Twin Richard James is a critic's critic, using rave music signifiers less to embrace tradition than to demonstrate how hogtied that tradition is.

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