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Richard D James invented ambient.
Richard D James is the man who never sleeps.
Richard D James with his countless pseudonyms certainly doesn't help to organize his discography: he also went by AFX, Polygon Window, Analogue Bubblebath... quite a mess. His first big hit "Digeridoo", a fast track featuring a sampled didgeridoo, I had never heard it before, and I find this collection from the Belgian label R+S, for which he recorded the first things before moving to Warp in Sheffield, very appropriate.
The track "Analogue Bubblebath I" is equally magnificent, this time slow and light. "Isopropanol" is as analog as it gets. "Polynomial-C" is a continuous crescendo. And you can always notice the care for the analog sound sought in old instruments, always without words. Words aren't needed.
This collection is unmissable for anyone who loves Aphex Twin, because the 12 tracks of this CD are impossible to find individually. For once a collection that makes sense to exist! The thirteenth track is "Digeridoo (Live in Cornwall)". And you can tell that even back then he alternated slow tracks with violent and obsessive ones. And I'm talking about the maximum violence later expressed in the masterpiece "Come To Daddy".
Richard D James is a genius.
And I'm not the only one saying it.
He just is. Here's a genius.
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