Artist
Aphex Twin
Aphex Twin appears 8 times in our IDM, Ambient, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and Warp lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 8
- Appears on
- IDM, Ambient, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and Warp
- Years
- 1992–1999
- Highest placing
- No. 1 in IDM
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Appears on
Didgeridoo
1992 · R&S
Ranked No. 1 in IDM
Made, by his account, to clear a rave floor of people who would not go home. It is far too fast and far too hostile, and it announced that this music was going to be about one person's judgement.
Xtal
1992 · Apollo / R&S
Ranked No. 2 in Ambient
A wordless vocal loop over a soft breakbeat, made by a teenager on home-built equipment. Ambient music discovering it could have a pulse without losing its stillness.
Also on The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Windowlicker
1999 · Warp
Ranked No. 4 in IDM
An R&B pastiche with the vocal processed into something inhuman, sold as a pop single. James proves he can do the thing he is refusing to do, which is the only way that refusal is worth anything.
Also on The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, Warp
Windowlicker
1999 · Warp
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
An R&B pastiche processed into something inhuman and sold as a pop single. Proof that he could do the thing he spent a career refusing to do.
Xtal
1992 · Apollo / R&S
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
A wordless vocal over a break that has been degraded until it sounds remembered rather than played. Ambient's most-loved record by someone who denies making ambient.
Also on Ambient
Windowlicker
1999 · Warp
Picked by Warp
A genuine pop single, with a Chris Cunningham video on daytime rotation, made by the artist least interested in being one. The label's tenth year, and it is still signing off on things nobody could have planned for.
Also on IDM, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred