\u201cIt\u2019s just too easy to make a standard dance track,\u201d Aphex Twin said of his mindset back in 1992. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to put a bit of thought into it to get something a bit different.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2018Didgeridoo\u2019 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. <\/p>\n
\u201cI 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\u2019t dance,\u201d Richard D James, AKA Aphex, told Select magazine back in the 90s. \u201cDigeridoo came out of that.\u201d <\/p>\n
Released as a 4 track EP that also included early Aphex productions (now classics) including the industrial, acidic clang of \u2018Flap Head\u2019 and hyperbolic futurism of \u2018Isopropanol\u2019, the release cemented a relationship with the R&S label that went on to release the \u2018Xylem Tube\u2019 EP and the pivotal album \u2018Selected Ambient Works 85-92\u2019 in the same year. The label\u2019s owner & A&R Renaat Vandepapeliere reflected \u201cWhen I first heard Aphex Twin\u2019s music I said, \u2018This is it!\u2019, and everybody else said, \u2018You\u2019re crazy!\u2019 \u2026a lot of the hardcore R&S fans dropped us. To them it wasn\u2019t music.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2018Didgeridoo\u2019 (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 \u201cfelt right at the time\u201d. 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\u2019s most endearing releases. <\/p>\n
\u2018Didgeridoo\u2019 (Expanded Edition) by Aphex Twin is available on R&S Records from 31st May 2024.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":585170,"template":"","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[12362],"product_tag":[32264],"giftcard-category":[],"musicartist":[4090],"musiclabel":[7829],"musicstyle":[37883,37884,37900,37955,37964,38021],"distributormusic":[33503],"musicyear":[39499],"musiccountry":[39487],"weekmusic":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-585169","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-out-of-stock","7":"product_tag-discogs","8":"musicartist-aphex-twin","9":"musiclabel-rs-records","10":"musicstyle-abstract","11":"musicstyle-acid","12":"musicstyle-breakbeat","13":"musicstyle-house","14":"musicstyle-idm","15":"musicstyle-techno","16":"distributormusic-above-board","17":"musicyear-39499","18":"musiccountry-uk","20":"first","21":"outofstock","22":"featured","23":"taxable","24":"shipping-taxable","25":"purchasable","26":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/585169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"giftcard-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/giftcard-category?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"musicartist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/musicartist?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"musiclabel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/musiclabel?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"musicstyle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/musicstyle?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"distributormusic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/distributormusic?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"musicyear","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/musicyear?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"musiccountry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/musiccountry?post=585169"},{"taxonomy":"weekmusic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/weekmusic?post=585169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}