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I'm sorry to bring Girl/Boy E.P. up again, but I just noticed the cover, flowers and gravestone with his (birthdate?) on it. Has The Aphex Twin ever commented on it? What are your impressions? David S. What I wish was playing: "Port <<Rhombus>>" E.P. - Squarepusher What is playing: "Halo" - Depeche Mode

In message <msg16893.thr-113c65.4c4c58@bubbs.biola.edu>, David Seruyange <David.Seruyange@bubbs.biola.edu> writes

quoted 4 lines I'm sorry to bring Girl/Boy E.P. up again, but I just noticed the

>I'm sorry to bring Girl/Boy E.P. up again, but I just noticed the >cover, flowers and gravestone with his (birthdate?) on it. > >Has The Aphex Twin ever commented on it? What are your impressions?

Unless he's lying (again), he said in an interview that it was his twin brother who died at birth (thus, the 'twin' in 'aphex twin'). - Ben -- Ben Coffer Hybrid Productions

On 05-Feb-97, David Seruyange wrote:

quoted 4 lines I'm sorry to bring Girl/Boy E.P. up again, but I just noticed the

>I'm sorry to bring Girl/Boy E.P. up again, but I just noticed the >cover, flowers and gravestone with his (birthdate?) on it. > >Has The Aphex Twin ever commented on it? What are your impressions?

Here's a little cut from an interview I got. -------- FP: Why did you call the LP Richard D James? RJ: Have you got the artwork? FP: No. RJ: See on the single there is a gravestone of my brother, who died at birth, he was called Richard James. And like my mom got really upset about it. When she had me, as a baby, she called me Richard David James, the same name basically. So i always felt guilty about it cause i nicked his name. So the single is basically him, and the album is me. FP: When did you find out about that? RJ: Well i`ve always known it ever since i was little, and it used to freak me out, cause my mom had a photo of this gravestone in her room, and when i looked at it when i was young, i didnt understand, why is there a gravestone with my name on it? I didnt realize, until i was older, who it was. The photo just freaks me out a bit. It's not everyday that you can look at a gravestone with your name on it. FP: Did you get that photo your mother had or did you get a new one? RJ: No, i`ve never seen the grave, it`s in canada, so it is a real old photograph from the 60s. FP: There still is the question why you do call it like that then. RJ: Well, because. Richard D (emphasis) James is the difference between me and him. Like the D makes the whole difference, and i did it for him cause i always felt guilty, and its like i wanted to give him something back, something he would be remembert by. so i wanted the photo. I`m not really fucked up about id but it`s always like been on my mind kind of thing. Pointing out the difference between the two. -- .Mikko

On 05-Feb-97, David Seruyange scribbled something about (idm) Who else but Richard?:

quoted 2 lines I'm sorry to bring Girl/Boy E.P. up again, but I just noticed the

>I'm sorry to bring Girl/Boy E.P. up again, but I just noticed the >cover, flowers and gravestone with his (birthdate?) on it.

That's not him, it's his brother who died at birth. The gravestone is the one that's in Canada. And of course since "died at birth" it is both his birthday and the day he died.

quoted 1 line Has The Aphex Twin ever commented on it? What are your impressions?

>Has The Aphex Twin ever commented on it? What are your impressions?

Sure.. He talked in an interview about how he did that as a commemoration of sorts for his dead brother, and the fact that D. is the only difference between him and his brother, Richard James. D stands for David of course, not Dick like it says on the Sire webpage. The interview can be found at: http://www.clark.net/pub/buh/Intervies/afx-keyboards.txt what I wish I was playing: afx - analogue bubblebath 2 what is playing: oobe - slobb -- Hillie aka Aurafix / PHD ja DAMONES hillien kotisivu - http://www.clark.net/pub/buh/index.html phase distortion - http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~airou/phd/ easy internet services - http://huizen.dds.nl/~eis Do re mi fa so la ti.. Oh let's see if I can make it easier...