Rewind: 10 albums still sounding fresh 20 years on

Aphex Twin's career was already in full flow by the time this came out on Warp, but this is a record that's had copious mentions in any Aphexmania articles and rightly so. Titled after his birth name, Aphex combined intricate, bubblegum melodies ('Fingerbib'), jungle breaks suitable for a nursery ('Girl / Boy Song') and string-filled delicacies ('Goon Gumpas') to create an album joining the dots between the frantic and the far from ferocious. His status as Mr Experimental was well solidfied by this point, following releases on Apollo and Warp, and this one just strengthened his ties to sounds of the weird and abstract kind. Even if the music wasn't all that, this record would probably be remembered for the creepy artwork itself. The music was quality, though, and Aphex returned with more demented photos when promoting last year's 'Syro'. He just doesn't do normal, but we wouldn't have him any other way.

Alex Reece is probably best known for 1995 single 'Pulp Fiction', a gold-star standard drum 'n' bass track released on Metalheadz. Everything about it screams swagger: the bassline twangs, the sexy saxophones (sampled from Coolio's 'Can-O-Corn'), the bird-like cries and that sensual female vocal that appears throughout. However, his biggest tune couldn't be included on his debut album, 'So Far', because Metalheadz had used it on a compilation. Reece's response? A little re-jig and renaming it 'Pulp Friction' for the LP, a slight insinuation that the mood between him and 'headz may have turned sour. 'Feel The Sunshine' unsurprisingly delivered the feel-good, carnival-worthy vibes, the kind to later be heard on material by Brazilian maestro DJ Marky, but 'Acid Lab' is the Hyde to Reece's Jekyll, expressing a much nastier, sinister side to his production. No follow-up album has arrived and 2014's 'The ElectroFlyz Series Vol.' was the last we heard from him.