Aphex Twin

For anyone raised on rock & roll, the new world of electronic music can seem like a strange
and forbidding place. From trip-hop to techno, acid house to drum and bass, the myriad
styles and subgenres bear names far more exotic than "punk" and "grunge," and the music
doesn't play by rock's rules. Songs rarely follow verse-chorus-verse formulas, they don't
often have singers, and even when you get a guitar riff, chances are, it's been s... More >

Jungle sure has livelied up this prematurely ambient postdance snoozemeister. His latest synth tunes are infested with hypertime electrobeats that compel the tunes themselves to get a move on. And where once he settled for austere classical aura, now he cuts big whiffs of 19th-century cheese. He even sings. Hey, fella--I hear Martha Wash needs work. (Grade: B+)