Intense Records

Didgeridoo (Expanded Edition)

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£18.74 (£22.49 incl. VAT)

Tracklist:
A1. Didgeridoo
A2. Flap Head
B1. Phloam
B2. Isoprophlex
C1. Didgeridoo (Cr7e Version)
C2. Didgeridoo (Live In Cornwall) (Cr7e Version)
D1. Isoprophlex (Slow) (Cr7e Version)
D2. Phloam (Cr7e Version)

Its just too easy to make a standard dance track, Aphex Twin said of his mindset back in 1992. Youve got to put a bit of thought into it to get something a bit different.

Didgeridoo was released on the Belgian R&S Records label in 1992, and originally peaked at #55 in the UK singles chart in May of that year. Over the last 32 years the track has become one of the essential Aphex Twin tracks in a gargantuan catalogue that continues to amaze and inspire.

I wanted to have some tracks to play to finish the raves I used to play in Cornwall, to really kill everybody off so they couldnt dance, Richard D James, AKA Aphex, told Select magazine back in the 90s. Digeridoo came out of that.

Released as a 4 track EP that also included early Aphex productions (now classics) including the industrial, acidic clang of Flap Head and hyperbolic futurism of Isopropanol, the release cemented a relationship with the R&S label that went on to release the Xylem Tube EP and the pivotal album Selected Ambient Works 85-92 in the same year. The labels owner & A&R Renaat Vandepapeliere reflected When I first heard Aphex Twins music I said, This is it!, and everybody else said, Youre crazy! a lot of the hardcore R&S fans dropped us. To them it wasnt music.

Didgeridoo (Expanded Edition) is the first time the EP has been re-issued with extra material. Whilst digging in his DAT archive (allegedly stored in an airtight military ammo box), Richard James revisited the recordings, encoding them through a Nakamichi CR7e cassette deck, using the customised deck with vari-speed to encode at speeds felt right at the time. Alongside these CR7e versions, the original mixes have been remastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering, offering a dilated insight into one of electronic musics most endearing releases.

Didgeridoo (Expanded Edition) by Aphex Twin is available on R&S Records from 31st May 2024