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Richard James, an electronic music artist that typically goes by the moniker Aphex Twin, personifies the problems inherent in trying to market electronica. His music ranges from hard-core techno frenzies to delicate, ethereal passages, none of which can be easily pigeonholed into a style or genre. On his latest release, Come To Daddy, he runs the gamut of electronica types, revealing both the limitations of the genre and its vast potential...
This is not music to listen to casually. The main theme in Aphex Twin's work seems to be that we lose our humanity to machines or perhaps that machines are taking on their own humanity. This is a scary thought, and Aphex Twin's music mirrors that thought, even when it tries to sound comforting. The twisted, evil vocal distortions are the only human sounds in a world of machines--voices decrying our increasing lack of real human companionship. This is music for the next millennium indeed...
...with U2 on their consumerific Zoo TV tour (any augur could have seen where such a pairing would lead). So I heard no more from my little forest nymphs. Black Francis changed his name again and again and put out a mediocre album. Kim Deal joined up with her twin sister and started making rather uninspired pop. Until...
...Your twin is the closest person to you," Uche says and is quickly reminded by Oni that the divorce rate among twins is higher than the national average...
Think of an old-dark-house party catered by Noel Coward. A place as creepy as the Pascals' needs a virgin sacrifice, and that would be Lesly (Tori Spelling), a waitress engaged to the young master of the house, Jackie-O's twin Marty (Josh Hamilton). He's halfway between normal and nuts, while Jackie lives in lunacy as if it were the garden room at high tea. Her favorite delusion is that she is Jacqueline Kennedy on the day of her husband's death. She's just a bit confused about the identity of the assassin...