{"product_id":"aphex-twin-didgeridoo-expanded-edition-2lp-1","title":"Aphex Twin – Didgeridoo (Expanded Edition) [2LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Digeridoo’ was released on the Belgian R\u0026amp;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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReleased 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\u0026amp;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 \u0026amp; A\u0026amp;R Renaat Vandepapeliere reflected “When I first heard Aphex Twin’s music I said\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e, ‘This is it!’, and everybody else said, ‘You’re crazy!’ …a lot of the hardcore R\u0026amp;S fans dropped us. To them it wasn’t music.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eR\u0026amp;S, 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"naturestripstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007701897457,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/8859\/0065\/files\/aphex_didgeridoo.jpg?v=1741667871","url":"https:\/\/naturestripstore.myshopify.com\/products\/aphex-twin-didgeridoo-expanded-edition-2lp-1","provider":"naturestripstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}