Posted Mar 20, 2008 by Paddy O'Brien :: 4 comments

Aphex Twin Gets Remastered

Richard David James aka Aphex Twin has had his 'Ambient Works 85-92' album remastered and is available digitally for the very first time. The release comes as part of legendary misic label R & S releasing their entire back catalouge digitally, and the Limerick-born artist's work is clearly the pick of the bunch.

Having made music since the age of 14 (Aphex was born in 1971), the album is quite uptempo compared to some of James' other work. Warp Records has billed this as "Both the birthplace and the benchmark of modern electronic music," and has stated that "every home should have a copy."

Belgian label R&S Records is almost 25 years old but hasn't really been on the dance music map in recent years. In the 80's and 90's Juan Atkins, CJ Bolland, Jaydee, Capricorn, Dave Angel aswell as Aphex released music on the label and its subsidiaries.

But it's the return to the CD shelves of Aphex Twin's music that is most relevant for the re-release plan, and co-incides with a return to gigging for Aphex this summer, starting with the Coachella festival in America and includes a date at Oxegen in Ireland on Friday July 11th, aswell as Bestival and T in the Park.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92:

"Xtal" – 4:54 "Tha" – 9:06 "Pulsewidth" – 3:46 "Ageispolis" – 5:23 "i" – 1:17 "Green Calx" – 6:05 "Heliosphan" – 4:51 "We are the music makers" – 7:43 "Schottkey 7th Path" – 5:08 "Ptolemy" – 7:10 "Hedphelym" – 6:00 "Delphium" – 5:26 "Actium" – 7:32