Geekender Gallery: Top 10 Tech Tunes

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Aphex Twin: INKEY$

You can't really say that Aphex Twin's music is 'about' anything, except raising a righteous racket to the gods of tortured technology. But a lot of his earlier tracks include explicit references to computers, with songs named after Spectrum BASIC keyboards and including samples of programs loading in from tape. Elsewhere in the Twins oeuvre you can find images encoded through Fourier transforms, heavily modified pornography and intense geek interest, making him a good candidate for the patron saint of technologically-informed music.

Best Listened To While: Debugging a twenty page hex listing you typed in from the back of Your Computer.