THE APHEX TWIN - Digeridoo (Expanded Edition) - 2LP - Vinyl
Label: R&S Records
SKU: ELECTRONIC, A
Barcode: 5060944577216
Catalogue ID: RS9201X
Format: Vinyl
2LP - Black Vinyl Reissue, Remastered
‘Digeridoo’ 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 couldn’t dance,” Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin, told Select magazine back in the 90s. “Digeridoo came out of that.”
Released as a 4–track EP that also included early Aphex Twin productions (now classics) including the industrial, acidic clang of ‘Flap Head’ and the 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.
‘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 D. 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 music’s most endearing releas
Tracklist:
A1 Digeridoo
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)