Aphex Twin - Didgeridoo (Expanded Edition)
R & S Records – RS9201X2024
»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. 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. »Digeridoo» 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.»
