Mike & Rich

Expert Knob Twiddlers is an ambient-techno album by Mike & Rich, more commonly known as Mike Paradinas and Richard D. James, respectively. The album was released in June of 1996.The album is an amalgam of the music stylings of Aphex Twin and µ-ziq, complete with peculiar samples of jazz and of the human anatomy; "Upright Kangaroo" features a prominent sample of a belch as part of the beat. Familiar elements of both artists' works appear through; for example, "Winner Takes All" features a beat quite similar to that of "cow cud is a twin" from Aphex Twin's album ...I Care Because You Do, at a much faster tempo.The album cover features Mike and Rich playing the game Downfall by Milton Bradley Company, designed as a parody of the original game's box art.A song titled "Brivert & Muons" was left over from the session and was released via Mike Paradinas's official website in mp3 format.