“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.”

‘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 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&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 & A&R Renaat Vandepapeliere reflected “When I first heard Aphex Twin’s music I said, ‘This... more
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released May 31, 2024

All tracks written & produced by Richard D. James
CR7E Versions encoded from original master tapes on a modified Nakamichi CR7E cassette deck at speeds that felt right at the time.
Remastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven
Marketed & Manufactured by R&S Records Ltd.
P & C 2024 R&S Records

Tracklist:

Disc One Black Side
A1 Didgeridoo
A2 Flap Head

Disc One Silver Side
B1 Phloam
B2 Isoprophlex

Disc Two Black Side
C1 Didgeridoo (Cr7e Version)
C2 Didgeridoo (Live In Cornwall) (Cr7e Version)

Disc Two Silver Side
D1 Isoprophlex (Slow) (Cr7e Version)
D2 Phloam (Cr7e Version)