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Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is a British electronic music artist, credited with pushing forward the genres of techno, ambient, acid and drum and bass. Richard D. James was born of Welsh parents Lorna and Derek James at 5:00 AM on August 18, 1971 in St. Munchins's Limerick Regional Maternity Hospital, Ireland. He grew up in Lanner, Cornwall, England, enjoying, along with two sisters, a "very happy" childhood during which they "were pretty much left to do what [they] wanted." "I liked growing up there, being cut off from the city and the rest of the world." The children studied in Redruth School, Cornwall. As a child he experimented on the strings and hammers of the family piano. According to Benjamin Middleton, James started producing music at the age of 12. As a teenager he DJed at the Shire Horse in St Ives, with Tom Middleton at the Bowgie Inn in Crantock, and also along the numerous beaches around Cornwall. From age 16 to 18...This information was automatically generated from Freebase article Aphex Twin. You should replace/update it...