Richard D James AKA Aphex Twin had, by this point, moved to London, started a record label with Grant Wilson-Claridge, and released a few EPs. However, this compilation actually constitutes his first full-length long-playing release.
James was born in 1971, meaning that some of these tracks were written/recorded when he was only 13 or 14 years old. By all accounts he seems to have been an audio experimenter from a young age, tweaking, rebuilding, and otherwise fiddling with synthesizers and computers.
The tracks are (aside from a sample of the Willy Wonka "we are the music makers...." quote) entirely instrumental. The bleeps and bloops, sparse beats and bass lines with synthy shadings are well ahead of their time, even without taking into account James' young age when making them.... "start as you mean to go on" as they say.
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