... I Care Because You Do

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... I Care Because You Do
Studio album by Aphex Twin

Publication
(s)

April 24, 1995

admission

1990-1994

Label (s) Warp Records WARP30, Europa
Sire / Elektra Records 61790, rest of the world

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Electronic music
IDM
Ambient

Title (number)

12

running time

63:44

production

Aphex Twin

chronology
Ventolin
1995 		... I Care Because You Do Richard D. James album
1996
Single release
March 27, 1995 Ventolin

… I Care Because You Do is a music album by Richard D. James, released under his pseudonym Aphex Twin . It is the third album that was published under this pseudonym. It was released on April 24, 1995.

style

The album differs from James' earlier works, which were influenced by acid house , ambient or generally techno . It contains longer drum computer loops, which are underlaid by analog synthesizers. Sometimes strings also appear. The album marks the end of James' first "analog era". Until his Analord series (2005) under the pseudonym AFX, he produced his music on the computer in the following years.

notes

The album was accompanied by two remix EPs of the track Ventolin . This track is arguably the harshest of the entire record because it has a constant, very high frequency. This long unpleasant beeping sound is supposed to imitate the sound that asthmatics hear when they overdose on salbutamol .

The EP Donkey Rhubarb features an orchestral version of the song Icct Hedral . This version was arranged by Philip Glass .

Only one promo music video was produced for the album, namely for the aforementioned track Ventolin . The video shows recordings of rotating ventilation flaps, a woman trapped in an elevator and a salbutamol dispenser .

The track cow cud is a twin contains the computer program PlainTalk from Apple . The program speaks and repeats the words “Aphex Twin” and “I care because you do” on the left channel.

The cover of the CD shows, according to the liner notes in the album, a self-portrait of James.

In Come On You Slags! the various samples come from the dialogues of the porn film Fantasia . Samples of the same actress (and possibly the same film) can be found on the Caustic Window EPs Joyrex J9i and Joyrex J9ii . Caustic Window is another pseudonym used by Richard D. James.

reception

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
... I Care Because You Do
  UK 24 05/06/1995 (2 weeks)

The album was able to place itself in the British album charts for two weeks.

David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave the board the grade A- and wrote:

"By adding warm, mellow synthesizer chords over brain-wracking electro beats, James creates sounds that are soothing and eerie at the same time - a fitting metaphor for the current clash of technology and the people it baffles."

- David Browne, Entertainment Weekly, April 24, 1995

The album could be in the ranking of all time 20 lautesten albums by the British music magazine Q placed. In the May 1995 issue, the magazine awarded the record 4 out of 5 points.

John Bush awarded four out of five points and wrote on allmusic :

"The most consistent work by James [...] combines his earlier hardcore techno times with the light rhythms and atmospheres of his ambient work, often even on the same track."

- John Bush, allmusic

Song title

Half of the song titles are anagrams :

  • by Aphex Twin: "Wax the nip", "Wet tip hen ax"
  • by The Aphex Twin: "The Waxen pith", "next heap with"
  • by Richard D. James: "Acrid Avid Jam Shred"
  • from Caustic Window: "cow cud is a twin"

James later used the method with the anagrams for his Hangable Auto Bulb EPs under his pseudonym AFX.

Ventolin and Alberto Balsam are registered trademarks in Great Britain, each of an asthma medicine and a hair care product.

Track list

On the back of the CD cover you can find the titles and the respective recording times, written consistently in lower case in James' handwriting.

All tracks composed and produced by Richard D. James.

  1. Acrid Avid Jam Shred - 7:39 (1994)
  2. The waxen pith - 4:50 (1993)
  3. Wax the nip. - 4:19 (1990)
  4. Icct Hedral (edit) - 6:07 (1994)
  5. VENTOLIN (Video Version.) - 4:29 (1994)
  6. COME ON, YOU SLAGS! - 5:45 (1990)
  7. Start as you mean to go on - 6:05 (1993)
  8. Wet tip hen ax - 5:17 (1994)
  9. mookid. - 3:52 (1994)
  10. Alberto Balsam - 5:11 (1994)
  11. cow cud is a twin. - 5:34 (1994)
  12. next heap with. - 4:43 (1993)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts UK
  2. ↑ ... I Care Because You Do: Music Review: Entertainment Weekly
  3. ↑ English original: By adding layers of soft, warm synthesizer chords over skull-grinding electronic percussion, James creates sounds that are simultaneously comforting and scary - a fitting metaphor for the contemporary clash of technology and the humans befuddled by it.
  4. ↑ allmusic (((I Care Because You Do - Aphex Twin)))
  5. ↑ English original: James' most consistent work, I Care Because You Do fuses his earlier hardcore techno days with the smooth rhythm and atmosphere of his ambient work, often on the same song.

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