“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.” ‘Didgeridoo’ 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.” ‘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 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.