Aphex Twin – Drukqs
One of my flatmates at university, in Liverpool, listened to Aphex Twin all the time, and the sound of this music was just always coming through the walls – these heavy beats and the woozy drums, and at first I was just like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ It was so intense. Anyway, I eventually asked what it was and he said I should listen to this one album, that I might like it because of the piano and of course I just fell for it and again it opened up a whole different world, the world of Richard James – his way of hearing, his sense of sound levels, the intensity. And actually it made me appreciate all his music, the relationship I had with this album.