Writer and broadcaster John Doran examines the life and career of one of the most discussed but least understood figures in late twentieth/early twenty-first century popular culture, Aphex Twin.

Presented as a kaleidoscopic work of new biography, this book is as much an alternative history of Cornwall, spicy riposte to polite nature writing, Wunderkammer of occult information, walker's guide to the remote and eerie West Country, history of electronic dance music, heartfelt portrait of what it means to be a music obsessive, and irreverent study of pre-Christian and early Christian beliefs (not to mention the first attempt to grapple with the extremely odd history of the Cornish pasty), as it is the first, long overdue, biography of Richard D. James: aka Aphex Twin.