Name: Didgeridoo
Brand: Aphex Twin

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Catalogue number

RS9201X

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-07-19

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Supplier GB

Above Board

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Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5060944577216

Total Cap

Black 12"x2

Artist

Aphex Twin

Genre GB

Electronic

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Aphex Twin is a UK electronic musician who was born on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland. He co-founded the Rephlex label in 1991 and has released numerous albums and EPs under various aliases on labels such as Warp Records. His releases like "Come to Daddy" (1997) and "Windowlicker" (1999) achieved chart success in the UK. In 2015, he won a Grammy Award for Best Dance / Electronica Album. The iconic Aphex Twin logos were designed by an artist named Richard D. James.
Known for his innovative sound and experimental approach to music production, Aphex Twin has been a prominent figure in the electronic music scene since the mid-1990s. With his unique blend of genres and boundary-pushing compositions, he continues to inspire and influence musicians around the world.
Whether you're a long-time fan or new to his music, explore Aphex Twin's extensive discography and discover why he is considered one of the most influential electronic musicians of our time.

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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&amp;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&amp;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 &amp; A&amp;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&amp;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.

Didgeridoo

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