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1.1 Didgeridoo1.2 Flap Head1.3 Phloam1.4 Isoprophlex2.1 Didgeridoo (Cr7E Version)2.2 Didgeridoo (Live in Cornwall) (Cr7E Version)2.3 Isoprophlex (Slow) (Cr7E Version)2.4 Phloam (Cr7E Version) |
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Number of discs: |
2 |
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Description: | ??It??s just too easy to make a standard dance track,? Aphex Twin said of his mindset back in 1992. ??You??ve 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 couldn??t 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 label??s owner & A&R Renaat Vandepapeliere reflected ??When I first heard Aphex Twin??s music I said, ??This is it!??, and everybody else said, ??You??re crazy!?? ?a lot of the hardcore R&S fans dropped us. To them it wasn??t 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 music??s most endearing releases.
- '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.Back cover, Side B, and Side D:
CR7E Versions encoded from original master tapes on a modified Nakamichi CR7E cassette deck at speeds that felt right at the time.
Label side B:
All tracks recorded at my lanerlog bedroom studio, cornwall.
On the record label:
- Side A and C are called 'Black Side', side B and D respectively 'Silver Side'.
- B2 is misspelled "Isprophlex".
Runouts are hand etched, MPO logo and IDs are laser etched. |
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No. of tracks: |
8 |
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Manufacturer No.: |
RS9201X |
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