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?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.
