Mystery user makes 110 supposed Aphex Twin demos free to download

Over 8 hours of material made available by unknown account

More than 100 purported Aphex Twin demos have been made available to download for free through SoundCloud by a mystery user.

The uploads began on Monday (January 27) by a member who went by the name of user487363530. The first uploaded track ‘8 Utopia’ was tagged #likeearlyaphex and included a description saying: “Like early aphex but I’d never heard of him when I wrote all these tracks im going to be uploading.” Other tracks were accompanied by similar notes.

The anonymous user had also previously commented on Aphex Twin’s ‘Diskhat ALL Prepared1mixed [snr2mix]’, while whoever is behind the SoundCloud that uploaded the song – thought to be Aphex Twin (real name Richard D James) himself – replied to the comment, writing: “beautiful stuff, would love to hear more”.

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Pitchfork previously reported that Planet Mu founder Mike Paradinas, who worked with James on 1996’s ‘Expert Knob Twiddlers’ under their Mike & Rich moniker, said he “recognised some tracks from James’ old tapes.” The user has deleted and relaunched the page several times and changed his url twice.

Aphex Twin’s official new EP ‘Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments PT2’ was released last week (January 24). The EP is the follow up to Aphex Twin’s latest album ‘Syro’, which was released in September 2014.

The electronic musician and prankster has in the past used a number of anonymous monikers to release his music, including Caustic Window, Polygon Window, Bradley Strider and AFX.

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