DIGERIDOO: EXPANDED EDITION (VINYL)

'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 is it!'''', and everybody else said, '''You''''re crazy!'''' '<<'a lot of the hardcore R&S fans dropped us. To them it wasn''''t music."

'''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.