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AFX is a project of Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin AKA God of Music. Music released under the AFX moniker tends toward a more acid-techno sound than James's other work. Richard David James was born to Welsh parents Lorna and Derek James in 1971 in Limerick, Ireland. James spent his childhood in Cornwall, UK. As a teenager, he became a DJ and musician on the local rave scene, taking on the stage name "Aphex Twin". James formed the Rephlex Records label in 1991 with friend Grant Wilson-Claridge and released his first records on this label in addition to Mighty...

AFXJIM is the work of multi-instrumentalist Travis Baird, a member of Sydney-based sound junkies Founder and folk-rock terrorists The Woods Themselves. Blackout Music - his debut album and the eighth release in Feral Media's POWWOW series, combines a kaleidoscope spread of instruments and found sound. Musical influences include Mice Parade, David Pajo, Susumu Yokota, Manitoba, Tortoise, Labradford and Four Tet. http://www.myspace.com/afxjim Melodic loops, guitars and synths collide and collude with drum machines, glocks and percussion, the songs littered with scratchy samples borrowed from children's stories, vocal jazz records, Hungarian composers, police radio scanners and the arguments of strangers. The result...