Rephlex Records

Rephlex Records
Founded	1991
Genre	Braindance, various others
Country of origin	UK
Official Website	http://www.rephlex.com/

Rephlex Records is a record label started in 1991 by electronic musician Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) and Grant Wilson-Claridge. With more than a decade active, the way they act and the music they promote creates curiosity and ultimately this has resulted in a huge cult following. Over the years the independent label has become one of the most important and relevant references in electronic music's history. Rephlex coined the term Braindance to describe the otherwise uncategorisable output of Aphex Twin and Rephlex Records. The official definition is as follows:

Braindance is the genre that encompasses the best elements of all genres, e.g traditional, classical, electronic music, popular, modern, industrial, ambient, hip hop, electro, house, techno, breakbeat, hardcore, ragga, garage, drum and bass, etc.^[1]

Rephlex has released the music of many notable and influential electronic artists, among them Mike Paradinas, the founder of Planet Mu Records, synth pop revivalist and electro pioneer Ed Upton, prolific dance musician Luke Vibert, and electronic musician and virtuoso bass player Squarepusher. The label has also remastered and re-released the early works of its acid heroes 808 State and The Future Sound of London, and relaunched the career of electronic duo producers Black Devil with a re-release of their first record.

The label no longer accepts demos.

Roster

• Aleksi Perälä
• AFX
• Bochum Welt
• Bodenstandig 2000
• Bogdan Raczynski
• Boom Blaster
• Brian Dougans (as Humanoid) of FSOL
• The Bug
• Ceephax Acid Crew
• Cylob
• D'Arcangelo
• DJ Rephlex Records (Grant Wilson-Claridge)
• DJ Scud
• DMX Krew
• Drexciya
• Ensemble
• Gentle People
• Global Goon
• Peter Green
• hecker
• JP Buckle
• J.K
• Kiyoshi Izumi
• Kosmik Kommando
• Leila
• Lektrogirl
• The Lisa Carbon Trio
• Luke Vibert
• Ono
• PP Roy
• The Railway Raver
• Sam and Valley
• Seefeel
• Slipper
• Soundmurderer & SK-1
• Squarepusher
• Synectics
• The Tuss
• Urban Tribe
• Universal Indicator
• Victor Gama
• Voafose
• Wisp
• Vulva
• Yee-King

See also

• List of record labels
• List of electronic music record labels
• Rephlex Records discography

References

1. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20010302124112/www.rephlex.com/braindance.htm

External links

• Official site
• Rephlex discography
• The Rephlex Manifesto
• Rephlex Records at Discogs.com

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