Having dabbled liberally in both the hard and ambient sides of his psyche under a variety of techno monikers, Richard D. James unhinged a bit more of his id for 1997's "Come to Daddy." The song, possibly done as a piss take on the oafish electronica of the Prodigy, leaps out aggressively at the listener with an ultra-distorted synth bass line and James menacingly muttering about wanting "your soul." The Twin was by now an acknowledged master of the skewed and hyperkinetic drum loop, and for "Come to Daddy" he notched the tempo somewhere up near the 200 bpm mark to add to the track's sense of frenzy. Both the vocal and his beat work are periodically stretched and warped through a myriad of digital delays to create the cacophony that James was striving for. Due to his intense secrecy regarding his modus operandi, it's hard to say whether or not James had begun to delve into the world of granular synthesis at this point in his work. But the unique sounds deployed