Classics (Aphex Twin album)

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Classics
Compilation album by Aphex Twin
Released December 1994
Recorded 1990
Genre Drill n Bass
BrainDance
Gabber
Hardcore techno
Length 74:03
Label R&S Records
Producer Richard D. James
Professional reviews
Aphex Twin chronology
Selected Ambient Works Volume II
(1994)		 Classics
(1994)		 Ventolin
(1995)
This article is about the Aphex Twin album. For other uses, see Classics (disambiguation).

Classics is an electronic music compilation album by Richard D. James, more commonly known by his pseudonym of Aphex Twin. The album was released in December 1994 (see 1994 in music).

The album consists of the Digeridoo and Xylem Tube EPs combined onto one CD with a handful of other songs. The album contains James' signature acid house sensibilities. It mostly features repetitive tracks performed on analogue synthesizers and drum machines, with some rather harsh-sounding remixes of Mescalinum United's "We Have Arrived". It was released by R&S Records following James' success on Warp Records.

A remastered version of the album was released June 2, 2008.

[edit] Notes

  • "Isopropanol" is an extended mix of "Isopropophlex" from James's Analogue Bubblebath.
  • "Analogue Bubblebath 1" is extended by a few seconds from its original version, with a different ending.
  • "Tamphex" contains looping samples from a television advertisement for Tampax.
  • This album was chosen as one of Q magazine's 50 heaviest albums of all time in July 2001, noted for its crunching, metallic malevolency.
  • "We Have Arrived (Aphex Twin QQT Mix)" was later re-released on the remix compilation 26 Mixes for Cash.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Digeridoo" – 7:11
  2. "Flaphead" – 7:00
  3. "Phloam" – 5:33
  4. "Isopropanol" – 6:23
  5. "Polynomial-C" – 4:46
  6. "Tamphex (Hedphuq Mix)" – 6:31
  7. "Phlange Phace" – 5:22
  8. "Dodeccaheedron" – 6:08
  9. "Analogue Bubblebath 1" – 4:46
  10. "Metapharstic" – 4:33
  11. "Mescalinum United - We Have Arrived (Aphex Twin QQT Mix)" – 4:23
  12. "Mescalinum United - We Have Arrived (Aphex Twin TTQ Mix)" – 5:06
  13. "Digeridoo (Live in Cornwall, 1990)" – 6:21
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Richard D. James
As Aphex Twin
Digeridoo (1992) – Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992) – Xylem Tube EP (1992) – On (1993) – Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994) – Classics (1994) – Ventolin (1995) – ...I Care Because You Do (1995) – Melodies from Mars (unreleased) (1995) – Donkey Rhubarb (1995) – Girl/Boy EP (1996) – Richard D. James (1996) – 51/13—Aphex Singles Collection (1996) – Come to Daddy (1997) – Windowlicker (1999) – drukqs (2001) – 26 Mixes for Cash (2003) Analord 10 (2005) – Chosen Lords (2006)
As AFX
Analogue Bubblebath (1991) – Analogue Bubblebath 2 – (1991) – Analogue Bubblebath 3 (1993) – Analogue Bubblebath 4 (1994) – Analogue Bubblebath 5 (unreleased) (1995) – Hangable Auto Bulb (1995) – Analogue Bubblebath 3.1 – (1997) – 2 Remixes By AFX (2001) – Smojphace EP (2003) – Analords 1-9, 11 (2005) – AFX/LFO (2005) – Chosen Lords (2006)
As Polygon Window
Surfing on Sine Waves (1993) – Quoth (1993)
As Power-Pill
Pac-Man (1992)
As Bradley Strider
Bradley's Beat (1991) – Bradley's Robot (1993)
As Caustic Window
Joyrex J4 EP (1992) – Joyrex J5 EP (1992) – Joyrex J9i (1993) – Joyrex J9ii (1993) – Untitled (unreleased) (1994) – Compilation (1998)
As GAK
GAK (1994)
As Q-Chastic
Q-Chastic EP (unreleased) (1992)
As Green Calx
Green Calx (unreleased) (1993)
With Mike & Rich
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