Rephlex Records was a

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launched in 1991 in

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by electronic musician Richard D. James (aka

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) and Grant Wilson-Claridge. The label coined the term ''braindance'' to describe the output of Aphex Twin and fellow artists.

History

In 1989, Grant Wilson-Claridge met Richard D. James (a.k.a.

) DJing at The Bowgie, a club located just along the coast from Newquay, Cornwall. According to Wilson-Claridge, back in 1989, "the Bowgie was the best club ever...this was before Newquay turned into the Cornish Ibiza" and it was very difficult to hear new and interesting music. Wilson-Claridge and James used to DJ on alternate weeks. When he noticed that James was playing his own tapes rather than records, Wilson-Claridge suggested that they press up some records. In the beginning, committing Aphex Twin recordings to vinyl was a way of making music the duo's friends wanted to hear. Due to their geographical dis-location they did not have access to the music they wanted to hear and so they decided to create their own, and Rephlex as a label was born. Although the label was founded in 1991 in Cornwall, it moved the year after to

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in 1992, the label stated that its intent was to "promote Innovation in the dynamics of Acid" - a much loved and misunderstood genre of house music" and to "demonstrate to the rest of the world that British dance music can be entirely original". Rephlex has released the music of many notable and influential electronic artists, among them Mike Paradinas,

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, and Squarepusher. The label has also remastered and re-released the early works of its acid heroes

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and The Future Sound of London, and relaunched the career of electronic duo producers Black Devil with a re-release of their first record. In 2014, James announced the closing of Rephlex Records. James stated that the closure was "something that needed to be done a long time ago. Me and my friend would have drifted apart, but actually the label did keep us together. It got to a point where I’d actually rather be his friend than be in business with him."

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* Baby Ford * Black Devil * Bochum Welt * Bodenstandig 2000 * Brian Dougans *

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* Ceephax Acid Crew * Chimera * The Criminal Minds * Cylob * D'Arcangelo *

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* EOD *

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* hecker * Richard D. James (including releases as AFX, Aphex Twin, Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, and The Tuss) * Jodey Kendrick * JP Buckle * Kosmik Kommando * Leila * The Lisa Carbon Trio *Ovuca (including releases as Aleksi Perälä) *P.P. Roy *

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* Seefeel * Squarepusher (including releases as Chaos A.D.) *

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* Universal Indicator (collective) * μ-Ziq * Wisp *

(including releases as Amen Andrews) *

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* Yee-King

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