…I Care Because You Do

Infobox Album |
Name = ...I Care Because You Do


Type = Album
Artist = Aphex Twin
Released = April 24, 1995
Recorded = 1990-1994
Genre = Ambient Electronic music
Length = 63:44
Label = Warp Records WARP030 (Europe) Sire/Elektra Records 61790 (rest of world)
Producer = Richard D. James
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Aiif2zfa8eh8k link]
* "Q" Rating|4|5 (May 1995)
* "Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/206170 February 2, 1998]
* "Spin" rating|8|10 (July 1995)
* Stylus Magazine (Favourable) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=338 link]
Last album = "Ventolin" (1995)
This album = "...I Care Because You Do" (1995)
Next album = "Donkey Rhubarb" (1995)
Misc = singles
Name = ...I Care Because You Do
Type = studio
single 1 = Icct Hedral
single 1 date = 1995
single 2 = Ventolin
single 2 date = 27th March 1995

"...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 25, 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.

Notes

The album was preceded by two remix EPs for "Ventolin", one of the harshest tracks on the album, featuring a high-pitched frequency which presumably mimics the sound that asthmatics hear when they overdose on salbutamol. The four song EP "Donkey Rhubarb" features an orchestral version of "Icct Hedral" arranged by Philip Glass.

Only one promotional music video was made for any of the tracks. The "Ventolin" video features footage of spinning vents, a woman trapped in an elevator, and a salbutamol dispenser.

It is also speculated that the tracks "At The Heart of It All" and "The Beauty of Being Numb", created by James for the Nine Inch Nails remix EP "Further Down the Spiral", were created during the recording sessions for this album, as both songs sound similar to James' style at the time, and both were released at the same time.

"cow cud is a twin" features Apple Computer's PlainTalk speaking and repeating the words "Aphex Twin" and "…I care because you do" in the background of the left channel. The song uses three of the program's distinctive voices: Bells, Hysterical and Bubbles, the last of which is barely audible without loosening the stereo jack on headphones.

The front cover artwork of the album is, according to the liner notes, James' self-portrait.

The album was included in Q Magazine's top 20 list of the loudest albums of all time.

In the song "Come On You Slags!" the various voice clips are dialogue in a pornographic film called Fantasia. The other clip is a heavily distorted "Come on you slags!"

A remixed version of "Ventolin" appears on V/VM's album "Helpaphextwin.

Track listing

On the back cover of the album each track is listed in James' own handwriting, accompanied by the year it was originally recorded, with capitalization as follows:

#"Acrid Avid Jam Shred" – 7:39 (1994)
#"The Waxen pith" – 4:50 (1993)
#"Wax the nip." – 4:19 (1990)
#"Icct Hedral (edit)" – 6:07 (1994)
#"VENTOLIN (Video Version)" – 4:29 (1994)
#"COME ON YOU SLAGS!" – 5:45 (1990)
#"Start as you Mean to go on" – 6:05 (1993)
#"Wet tip hen ax" – 5:17 (1994)
#"mookid." – 3:52 (1994)
#"Alberto Balsalm" – 5:11 (1994)
#"cow cud is a twin." – 5:34 (1994)
#"next heap with." – 4:43 (1993)

ong titles

Half of the song titles are anagrams:

* of Aphex Twin: "Wax the nip"
* of The Aphex Twin: "The Waxen pith", "next heap with"
* of The Apex Twin (sic): "Wet tip hen ax"
* of Richard David James: "Acrid Avid Jam Shred"
* of Caustic Window: "cow cud is a twin"

James used the same anagram technique a few months later on his "Hangable Auto Bulb" EPs.

Ventolin and Alberto Balsam are registered trademarks of an asthma medicine and a British line of hair care products, respectively.

External links

* [http://www.warprecords.com/ography/release.php?cat=WARP30 "...I Care Because You Do"] at the Warp Records discography (features audio clips).