Avril 14th

"Avril 14th" is a piano instrumental by the English electronic musician Richard David James, released under his name Aphex Twin on his 2001 album Drukqs.

[2] It was recorded using a Disklavier, a piano with a mechanism that reads MIDI data and plays the keyboard without human input.

[4][2] Reviewing Drukqs in 2001, Pitchfork wrote that tracks including "'Avril 14th' ... rove dangerously close to the Windham Hill new age aesthetic of the 80s".

[4] It surprised some listeners expecting more electronic work, though Fact wrote in 2017 that it was "a perfect embodiment of Aphex and the line he constantly treads between the mechanical and the human".

According to James, after he was sent an early version of "Blame Game" with a heavily timestretched sample of "Avril 14th", he offered to rerecord it at a different tempo, but West's team said it belonged to them and tried to avoid paying for its use.