Music on home micros ZX Spectrum 1980s from Aphex Twin Richard D James

Music on the ZX Spectrum. Aphex Twin (Richard D James) in an interview in this documentary, at 2 minutes 24 seconds to 3:26 (link below).

“Early influences were more hardware in nature. An early touchstone was the game loading sound for the early home computer, the Spectrum ZX81.”

Says Richard:

“People who had them must have spent hours listening to hat. Its more extreme than any extreme noise music. In time you got to know the sound really well: “Ooh, good bit coming up here.”

It was always the best , sonically, when it tried to load a picture. It would be “lryurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghh!”

I always wanted to make my music sound like a game! A danceable version of a Spectrum game.”