It’s easy to carry on fiddling with our tracks, but as Richard D. James knows all too well, that urge to keep going can prove ...

I wish I could tell you more about the gear in question, but honestly, his mini-tutorial flies by in a blur, because, well: Aphex Twin is sitting in front of me, showing off his fucking drum machine.

You might be thinking, “That just sounds like Aphex Twin,” but the material here is more disparate and scattershot than usual—especially sequenced as it is, chronologically according to the ...