Featured in everything from Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”, to being sampled in the SNL digital short “Iran So Far” and Kanye West’s “Blame Game”, Aphex Twin’s melancholic masterpiece “Avril 14th” has an unmistakable appeal.

As expressed in this analysis “‘Avril 14th’ was recorded on a Yamaha Disklavier: a standard Yamaha acoustic piano rigged to accept MIDI data, meaning you can write on computer and have an acoustic piano perform it. This makes the song rather difficult to play live with a standard set of human hands but it can be done.

As Scott Wilson writes in his guide to Aphex Twin gear,

the result is something that sounds human but not quite” – a tussle that’s long been at the heart of James’ music, where melody and technology-fueled cacophony constantly interweave."

An early version of the track was released in Aphex Twin’s Soundcloud dump with its original title being, “avril altdelay”.