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Kanye West sampled a song by Aphex Twin, tried to avoid paying for it and claim he had written it, and when Aphex offered to redo the sample for him, the response was, "It's not yours, it's ours, and we're not even asking you anymore."

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Kanye actually credited Aphex Twins (R. James) as a writer in the song where he used the sample from.

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1. For the huge crowd scene at the end of the film "Strange Days," director Kathryn Bigelow threw a rave, headlined by Aphex Twin and Deee-Lite. Tickets were $10. Food and drink was free. 14,000 people showed up.

2. British musician Aphex Twin embedded a demon-like image of himself in his song "ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C[i]Fji[n − 1] +Fexti[n−1]]," (commonly known as 'Equation') which can be seen when viewed through a logarithmic spectrogram.

3. Electronic music producer Aphex Twin was once hired to make music for an advert. The company kept sending the tape back to the record label, thinking there was an error with the tape. It wasn't until the 4th time, they realised that was what it was supposed to sound like.

4. The Futurama Theme is based on the Amen Break, one of the most used Samples (N.W.A., David Bowie, Aphex Twin, Snow)

5. Aphex Twin was inspired by lucid dreams when producing Selected Ambient Works Volume II, and upon awaking would attempt to re-create the sounds and record them. He claimed to have natural synaesthesia, contributing to the album.

6. Musician Richard D. James of Aphex Twin managed to hide an image of his face in the spectrogram of one of his songs.

7. "Come To Daddy" by Aphex Twin made the top ten in Denmark

8. You can hide images in audio files. Aphex Twin hid a picture of his face in a track which could only be seen when analyzing it's spectrogram

9. The track Ventolin by Aphex Twin is named after a drug whose side effect is tinnitus. According to Allmusic, it is considered "one of the harshest singles ever recorded".

10. Avril 14th was written by Aphex Twin and not Ludovico Einaudi

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The song people in the 90's widely shared on p2p sites as "Aphex Twin Outside Kickass Violin Solo" is actually a song called "To forgive but not forget" by the jazz band Outside

Aphex Twin sampled/remixed Kavinsky's Nightcall under his other moniker The Tuss. - source

My favorite Aphex Twin song of all time, Alberto Balsam, was named after a shampoo line. - source

Aphex Twin "Windowlicker" and Mr. Oizo "Flat Beat" were released on the same date. They are both turning 20 today.

Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of Minecraft owns a rare copy of "Caustic Window" an unreleased album by Aphex Twin. - source

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Aphex Twin's first major single, "Didgeridoo", was a piece of acid thrash designed to tire dancers during his DJ sets. I don't know about you, but the thought of a bunch of 90s IDM hippies flayling around to the sound of a digeridoo while on acid amuses me.