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2LP – Black Vinyl Reissue, Remastered
Digeridoo 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 couldnt dance, Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin, told Select magazine back in the 90s. Digeridoo came out of that.
Released as a 4track EP that also included early Aphex Twin productions (now classics) including the industrial, acidic clang of Flap Head and the 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 8592 in the same year.
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 D. 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 musics most endearing releas
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