Aphex Twin – Didgeridoo – Expanded Edition Vinyl 2 LP

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.”

‘Digeridoo’ (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.

Black Side

A1 Didgeridoo

A2 Flap Head

Silver Side

B1 Phloam

B2 Isoprophlex

Black Side

C1 Didgeridoo (Cr7e Version)

C2 Didgeridoo (Live In Cornwall) (Cr7e Version)

Silver Side

D1 Isoprophlex (Slow) (Cr7e Version)

D2 Phloam (Cr7e Version)

R&S Records
UPC: 5060944577216
Release Date: 08/09/2024