Raveline (November 1996)

STRANGE SOLUTIONS FOR EVERYDAY PROBLEMS: THE APHEX TWIN To understand that the crucial events in David Lynch’s television series primarily occur during the dream sequences of the individual characters, one doesn’t necessarily need to have watched all 30 Twin Peaks episodes in one go, although an orgiastic two-day non-stop binge of the TV story can lead to entirely different interpretations than consuming one episode per week in small doses. Special Agent Cooper receives the most important clues in his investigation into the extremely tricky murder case of “Laura Palmer” in his dreams. A similar phenomenon of reality-linked dreams exists in the world of electronic music. Richard D. James, better known to many as The Aphex Twin (we’ll just ignore the fifty other pseudonyms!), composes in his sleep, recording the sequences immediately after waking up with his quirky, mostly self-assembled or at least heavily modified equipment and his private sound library. And, although according to him…