Classics (Aphex Twin album)

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Classics

Compilation album by Aphex Twin
Released	December 1994
Recorded	1990
Genre	Acid house Ambient techno Gabba Hardcore techno
Length	74:03
Label	R&S Records
Producer(s)	Richard D. James
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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.

According to a news articles on the We Are The Music Makers site [1] Classics will be reissued along with Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by R&S Records. The album was rereleased both on CD and 2x12" vinyl on July 24, 2006.

[edit] Notes

"Isopropanol" is an extended mix of "Isopropophlex" from James' Analogue Bubblebath.
"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.'