Rephlex Records

Rephlex Records is a 1991 by musician Richard D. James ( Aphex Twin ) and Grant Wilson - Claridge founded record label for electronic music. For a description of the most difficult uncategorizable publications, the style name " Brain Dance" was coined. Rephlex Records' own definition of " Brain Dance" is:

The publication policy of the label is not particularly stringent. According to James, the operators find long-term contracts " silly ". Some artists only released one or two albums, before they switched to other labels. Other plates were announced for years before they finally appeared. More than 200 albums, EPs and singles were released since 1991.

History

James and Wilson - Claridge both worked from 1989 as a DJ in the club The Bowgie near Newquay in Cornwall. Together they took the decision to initially publish their own music as records for their circle of friends James. After James as Aphex Twin with his publications didgeridoo and the Xylem Tube EP on other labels like R & S Records had first national success, the label moved to London in 1992. With his next releases on Warp Records James established his fame as a pioneer of intelligent dance music (IDM ). His commercial breakthrough as a musician also caused an unprecedented surge in popularity of the business it small labels.

In the aftermath appeared on Rephlex Records next to James ' own publications as AFX or Caustic Window number ranging stylistic influences on the works of artists such as the Drill'n'Bass musicians Thomas Jenkinson ( Squarepusher, Chaos AD ) and Luke Vibert ( Amen Andrews, Vibert / Simmonds ), the electric synthpop pioneer Ed Upton (DMX Krew ), the easy-listening band The Gentle People and the German Bitpop group Bodenständig 2000. on Rephlex still appeared some remastered reissues earlier works of Acid House and IDM bands 808 State and The Future Sound of London.

Artist (selection)

  • AFX - pseudonym of Aphex Twin
  • Bochum Welt
  • Bogdan Raczynski
  • Ceephax Acid Crew
  • Cylob
  • D' Arcangelo
  • DMX Krew
  • Drexciya
  • The Gentle People
  • Global Goon
  • Hecker
  • The Cosmic Command
  • The Lisa Carbon Trio ( Lisa Carbon, Peter Kuhlmann, Uwe Schmidt)
  • Luke Vibert
  • Seefeel
  • Squarepusher
  • The Tuss - most likely another pseudonym of Aphex Twin
  • Universal Indicator

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