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...I Care Because You Do (Album) by Aphex Twin

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Richard David James Born 18 August 1971 Best Known As Aphex Twin Is An Irish-Born British Musician Composer And DJ. He Is Known For His Idiosyncratic Work In Electronic Styles Such As Techno Ambient And Jungle. Journalists From Publications Including Mixmag The New York Times NME Fact Clash And The Guardian Have Called James One Of The Most Influential Or Important Artists In Contemporary Electronic Music. Raised In Cornwall James Began DJing At Free Parties And Clubs In The Area In The Late 1980s. His Debut EP Analogue Bubblebath Released In 1991 On Mighty Force Records Brought James An Early Following He Began To Perform Across The UK And Continental Europe. James Co-Founded The Independent Label Rephlex Records The Same Year. His 1992 Debut Album Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Released By Belgian Label Apollo Garnered Wider Critical And Popular Acclaim. James Signed To Warp In 1993 And Subsequently Released Charting Albums Such As ...I Care Because You Do 1995 And Richard D. James Album 1996 As Well As Top 40 Singles Such As "Come To Daddy" 1997 And "Windowlicker" 1999 The Latter Two Were Accompanied By Music Videos Directed By Chris Cunningham And Brought James Significantly Wider International Attention. After Releasing Drukqs In 2001 And Completing His Contract With Warp James Spent Several Years Releasing Music On His Own Rephlex Label Including The 2005 Analord EP Series Under His AFX Alias And A Pair Of 2007 Releases As The Tuss. In 2014 He Made Available A Previously Unreleased 1994 LP As Caustic Window. He Returned Later That Year With The Aphex Twin Album Syro On Warp Winning The Grammy Award For Best Dance/Electronic Album. He Has Since Released Charting EPs Including Cheetah 2016 And Collapse 2018 . Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Aphex_Twin Studio Albums
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 1992 Selected Ambient Works Volume II 1994 ...I Care Because You Do 1995 Richard D. James Album 1996 Drukqs 2001 Syro 2014

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...I Care Because You Do Is An Ambient-Electronic Music Album By Richard D. James Under The Pseudonym Of Aphex Twin. James' Third Studio Album Recorded Under This Moniker The Album Was Released On April 24 1995. The Album Is Quite Different From His Past Acid House Ambient And General Techno Pursuits. It Features Long Repetitive Tracks Performed On Analogue Synthesizers And Drum Machines And Occasionally Features String Pieces. This Album Marks The End Of James' First Analogue Era His Next Decade Of Albums Being Composed On Computers Until Analord. ...I Care Because You Do Peaked At Number 24 On The UK Albums Chart. It Was Supported By The Single And EP Release Of The Track "Ventolin". The Album Received Positive Reviews With Entertainment Weekly Spin And Rolling Stone Commending It As A Return To Form For James. It Garnered Comparisons To The Work Of Composer Philip Glass Who Later Re-Recorded The Track "Icct Hedral" For James' 1995 EP Donkey Rhubarb. In 2017 Pitchfork Ranked ...I Care Because You Do The 13th Best IDM Album Of All-Time. Each Track On ...I Care Because You Do Is Annotated With A Date Revealing That The Tracks Were Created Between 1990 And 1994. It Was James' Final Album To Be Recorded Primarily With Analogue Technology Before He Turned To Digital Production Methods. Many Of The Song Titles Are Anagrams. According To AllMusic The Album Finds James "pairing His Hardcore Experimentalism With More Symphonic Ambient Material Aligned With The Work Of Many Post-Classical Composers" Such As Philip Glass. Writer Dave Thompson Described The Album As "pulling Together Calm Serene Moments Then Launching Into Battering And Bruising Beat-Heavy Tracks " Observing That The Rhythms Shift "from Trancey To Hip-Hoppish." Thompson Also Noted The Influence Of Modern Composers Such As Glass. Rolling Stone Stated That The Music Had "little To Do With Techno In Any Of Its More Popular Guises " Also Comparing It To The Work Of Composers Glass And John Cage But Asserting That The Album Draws "most Strongly From Hip-Hop. James' Trademark Is To Put Rhythm And Percussion Above All Else His Beautiful Haunting Melodies Are Relegated To The Back Of The Mix." Exclaim! Stated That The Album Has Been Described As "occupying A Middle-Ground Between Philip Glass And The Wu-Tang Clan." Spin Wrote That The Album "showed Up Trip-Hop Laziness" While Dummy Mag Described James As Taking Trip-Hop And "refashioning The Voguish Genre In His Own Image". Entertainment Weekly Wrote That "By Adding Layers Of Soft Warm Synthesizer Chords Over Skull-Grinding Electronic Percussion James Creates Sounds That Are Simultaneously Comforting And Scary." In 2003 NME Summarized The Album As "a Shotgun Wedding Of Analogue Rave And Ambient Porridge". Rolling Stone Stated In 2004 That The Increasingly Active Drum Backing On The Album Was Inspired By The Presence Of Drum And Bass Music In The United Kingdom. ...I Care Because You Do Was Released On 24 April 1995. It Was Released On Vinyl Compact Disc And Cassette. It Charted For Two Weeks In The United Kingdom Peaking At Number 24 On The UK Albums Chart. I Care Because You Do Was Re-Issued On Vinyl By The Record Label 1972 On 18 September 2012. Warp Also Re-Issued The Album In Vinyl With A Download Card On 8 October 2012. In 2017 The Album Was Re-Released In Digital Format With Eight Bonus Tracks. The Cover Artwork Is A Self-Portrait Painted By James. It Was The First Of Several Aphex Twin Releases To Feature An Image Of His Grinning Face On The Cover. Following The Album's Release Composer Philip Glass Contributed An Orchestral Arrangement To "Icct Hedral" That Was Included On The 1995 EP Donkey Rhubarb.

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