...I Care Because You Do

1995 studio album by Aphex Twin March 2024 January 2020 ...I Care Because You Do studio Aphex Twin AphexTwinICareBecauseYouDo.jpg yes A self portrait of Richard D. James grinning yes 1995 4 24 1990–1994 IDMPollard Vincent Translator http://exclaim.ca/music/article/translator-idm Exclaim! 28 April 2017 20 June 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170620142911/http://exclaim.ca/music/article/translator-idm liveKeep Your Vintage Champagne I'm Buying Synths https://www.magneticmag.com/2015/04/keep-your-vintage-champagne-im-buying-vintage-synths/ Magnetic Mag 23 October 2018 30 April 2015 23 October 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181023200230/https://www.magneticmag.com/2015/04/keep-your-vintage-champagne-im-buying-vintage-synths/ live technohttps://books.google.com/books?id=mPK6NgwlOaAC&pg=PA74 Aphex Twin: I Care Because You Do Spin 11 4 July 1995 21 January 2019 Weisbard Eric 74–75 0886-3032 4 December 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231204064728/https://books.google.com/books?id=mPK6NgwlOaAC&pg=PA74#v=onepage&q&f=false live avant-garde trip hopAlbum of the Week: Aphex Twin – 'Syro' https://www.dummymag.com/features/album-of-the-week-aphex-twin-syro-review/ Dummy Mag 12 January 2019 3 October 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201003155801/https://www.dummymag.com/features/album-of-the-week-aphex-twin-syro-review/ live ambient classical acid techno2020-11-15 Aphex Twin — ...I Care Because You Do https://soundcheck434477142.wordpress.com/aphex-twin-i-care-because-you-do/ 2023-06-22 Sound Check! ru-RU 22 June 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230622202137/https://soundcheck434477142.wordpress.com/aphex-twin-i-care-because-you-do/ live 63:49 Warp Richard D. James Richard D. James Ventolin E.P 1995 Donkey Rhubarb 1995 Aphex Twin album studio Classics 1995 ...I Care Because You Do 1995 Richard D. James Album 1996 ...I Care Because You Do is a studio album by the British electronic music artist and producer Aphex Twin. It was released on 24 April 1995 through Warp Records and contains material recorded between 1990 and 1994. It marked James's return to a beat-driven sound following the mostly ambient album Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994), and combines abrasive rhythms with symphonic and ambient elements. The cover artwork is a self-portrait of James. I Care Because You Do entered the Dance Albums Chart at No.4 and the Albums Chart at No.24. It was supported by the single and Extended Play (EP) release of the track "Ventolin". The album received positive reviews. It garnered comparisons to the work of composer Philip Glass, who later created an orchestral version of the track "Icct Hedral", and John Cage. The reviewers for Entertainment Weekly, Spin, and Rolling Stone preferred it to his two previous albums. In 2017 Pitchfork ranked ...I Care Because You Do the 13th best IDM album of all time. Composition Each track on ...I Care Because You Do is annotated with a date; the tracks were created between 1990 and 1994.Frere-Jones 2004 21–23 It was James' final album to be recorded with mostly analogue technology before he began using digital production methods.Hudson Alex Aphex Twin's ...I Care Because You Do and Richard D. James Album Get Vinyl Reissues https://exclaim.ca/music/article/aphex_twins_i_care_because_you_do_richard_d_james_album_get_vinyl_reissues Exclaim! 25 July 2012 18 September 2018 18 September 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180918054529/https://exclaim.ca/music/article/aphex_twins_i_care_because_you_do_richard_d_james_album_get_vinyl_reissues live According to AllMusic, the album finds James "pairing his hardcore experimentalism with more symphonic ambient material, aligned with the work of many post-classical composers" such as Philip Glass.Bush John http://www.allmusic.com/artist/aphex-twin-mn0000493848/biography Aphex Twin Biography & History AllMusic 9 July 2016 19 July 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160719130857/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/aphex-twin-mn0000493848/biography live Writer Dave Thompson described the album as "pulling together calm, serene moments then launching into battering and bruising beat-heavy tracks", and said the rhythms shift "from trancey to hip-hoppish".Thompson Dave Alternative Rock 2000 Hal Leonard Corporation 158 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC 9780879306076 Thompson also noted the influence of modern composers such as Glass. Rolling Stone stated the music has "little to do with techno in any of its more popular guises", and compared it to the work of Glass and John Cage, and said the album draws "most strongly from hip-hop ... James' trademark is to put rhythm and percussion above all else; his beautiful, haunting melodies are relegated to the back of the mix." According to Exclaim!, ...I Care Because You Do has been described as "occupying a middle-ground between Philip Glass and the Wu-Tang Clan". Spin wrote the album "showed up trip-hop laziness",https://books.google.com/books?id=wF1pZCI8MZYC&pg=PA88 Aphex Twin: Richard D. James Spin 12 11 February 1997 Hermes Will Will Hermes 88 0886-3032 while Dummy Mag said James was taking trip hop and "refashioning [the] voguish genre in his own image". Entertainment Weekly wrote: "By adding layers of soft, warm synthesizer chords over skull-grinding electronic percussion, James creates sounds that are simultaneously comforting and scary". In 2003 NME summarized the album as "a shotgun wedding of analogue rave and ambient porridge."NME Aphex Twin 2003 7-8 12 40 https://books.google.com/books?id=Fj5LAAAAYAAJ IPC 6 August 2019 4 December 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231204064752/https://books.google.com/books?id=Fj5LAAAAYAAJ live In 2004 Rolling Stone stated the increasingly active drum backing on the album was inspired by the presence of drum and bass music in the United Kingdom.Frere-Jones 2004 21–23 Release ...I Care Because You Do was released on 24 April 1995http://warp.net/records/releases/aphex-twin/i-care-because-you-do 20 July 2015 Aphex Twin: ...I Care Because You Do Warp https://web.archive.org/web/20111019015313/http://warp.net/records/releases/aphex-twin/i-care-because-you-do 19 October 2011 on vinyl record, compact disc, and cassette. It entered the CIN Chart Information Network's Dance Albums Chart at number4 and the Albums Chart at number24, remaining on the latter for two weeks.Specialist Charts: Dance Albums https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-UK/Music/Archive-Music-Week-IDX/IDX/1995/Music-Week-1995-05-06-IDX-47.pdf Music Week London 35 Steve Redmond Spotlight Publications 6 May 1995http://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/...i%20care%20because%20you%20do/ ...I Care Because You Do Official Charts Company 20 July 2015 25 July 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150725194544/http://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/...i%20care%20because%20you%20do/ live The label 1972 re-released the album on vinyl on 18 September 2012. Warp also re-issued the album in vinyl with a download card on 8 October 2012. In 2017, the album was re-released in digital format with eight bonus tracks.https://aphextwin.warp.net//release/71105-aphex-twin-i-care-because-you-do Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do. Aphex Twin. Aphex Twin aphextwin.warp.net 12 August 2019 12 August 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190812234656/https://aphextwin.warp.net//release/71105-aphex-twin-i-care-because-you-do live The album's cover artwork is a self-portrait painted by James using Adobe Photoshop, a software his friend Johnny Clayton taught him how to use when he received his first Apple Mac. It was the first of several Aphex Twin releases to feature an image of James' grinning face on the cover.https://consequence.net/2015/04/glitch-mob-revists-aphex-twin/ The Glitch Mob's Justin Boreta Revistsy Aphex Twin's ...I Care Because You Do Consequence of Sound 30 April 2015 Bush Derek 12 July 2017 13 August 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170813105527/https://consequenceofsound.net/2015/04/glitch-mob-revists-aphex-twin/ live Following the album's release, composer Philip Glass contributed an orchestral arrangement to "Icct Hedral" that was included on the 1995 EP Donkey Rhubarb. Reception AllMusic 4 5http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-care-because-you-do-mw0000175276 I Care Because You Do – Aphex Twin AllMusic 20 July 2015 Bush John 5 August 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150805095105/http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-care-because-you-do-mw0000175276 live Entertainment Weekly A−http://www.ew.com/article/1995/06/02/i-care-because-you-do ...I Care Because You Do Entertainment Weekly 2 June 1995 20 July 2015 Browne David David Browne (journalist) https://web.archive.org/web/20121021192603/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20185460,00.html 21 October 2012 live The Guardian 3 4Aphex Twin: I Care Because You Do (Warp) The Guardian 21 April 1995 Smith Andrew The Philadelphia Inquirer 3 4The Orb: Orbus Terrarum (Island) / Aphex Twin: ...I Care Because You Do (Sire) The Philadelphia Inquirer 28 May 1995 Warren Bruce Rolling Stone 4 5https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/206170 I Care Because You Do: Aphex Twin Rolling Stone 4 May 1995 20 July 2015 Prince David J. https://web.archive.org/web/20081011210824/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/206170/review/5941217/icarebecauseyoudo 11 October 2008 dead The Rolling Stone Album Guide 3.5 5Frere-Jones 2004 21–23 Select 4/5Aphex Twin: I Care Because You Do Select 59 May 1995 Grundy Gareth 93 Spin 8/10 The Sydney Morning Herald 3.5 5From Chaos To Convention The Sydney Morning Herald 4 September 1995 Danielsen Shane 12 Tom Hull – on the Web A−https://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=aphex+twin Grade List: Aphex Twin Tom Hull – on the Web Hull Tom Hull 12 November 2023 12 November 2023 12 November 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231112172656/https://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=aphex+twin live Select ranked ...I Care Because You Do at 42 on its 1995 "Top 50 Albums of the Year" list,Grundy Gareth January 1996 Top 50 Albums of the Year Select 78–79 http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2012/03/50albums.jpg 2022-09-13 27 March 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180327212014/http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F03%2F50albums.jpg live saying the album is "Leftfield, sound-pop brilliance" and James' "most coherent work to date". Another review in Select stated James had the ability to "make the avant-garde sound pop" and that he "delivers complex contemporary systems music in the most deliciously simple forms". The Sydney Morning Herald gave the album a positive review, stating: "As ever, [James'] palette of sound is astonishing, his arrangements effective and deliberate". Rolling Stone described the album as "classical music for a generation raised on samplers", stating James was "making some of the most engaging and important music of our time". Entertainment Weekly praised ...I Care Because You Do and called it superior work to Selected Ambient Works Volume II, writing it "reintroduces tension, more beats per minute, and sonic grime into his music", and that it "creates sounds that are simultaneously comforting and scary – a fitting metaphor for the contemporary clash of technology and the humans befuddled by it". Spin also stated that album is superior to Selected Ambient Works Volume II because ...I Care Because You Do "cut the middle of [techno]'s kitchen-sink aesthetic without sacrificing melody coherence or rhythm". Spin also described it as "a real album with its own gestalt", in which capacity it betters the "truly great" Aphex Twin albums Selected Ambient Works 85–92 (1992) and Classics (1995). In a retrospective of James' work in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Sasha Frere-Jones said the album's more-recent tracks were its best ones.Frere-Jones 2004 21–23 Justin Boreta from the group The Glitch Mob reviewed the album in 2015, praising it for "the juxtaposition between heavy darkness and gentle depth". The A.V. Club reviewer Kyle Fowle described ...I Care Because You Do as "a perfect bridge between James' implementation of experimental techno and glossy ambient".Fowle Kyle A beginner's guide to the many sounds of Aphex Twin https://avclub.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-the-many-sounds-of-aphex-twin-1798272281 The A.V. Club 22 September 2014 28 October 2024 1 October 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181001182414/https://music.avclub.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-the-many-sounds-of-aphex-twin-1798272281 live In 2017, Pitchfork ranked it the 13th-best intelligent dance music (IDM) album of all time.Weidenbaum Marc The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10011-the-50-best-idm-albums-of-all-time/?page=4 4 Pitchfork 24 January 2017 8 February 2019 8 May 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190508163544/https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10011-the-50-best-idm-albums-of-all-time/?page=4 live Track listing Each track on ...I Care Because You Do is annotated with the year of its recording.Frere-Jones 2004 21–23 ...I Care Because You Do track listing Acrid Avid Jam Shred 1994 7:38 The Waxen Pith 1993 4:50 Wax the Nip 1990 4:19 Icct Hedral (edit) 1994 6:07 Ventolin (video version) 1994 4:29 Come On You Slags! 1990 5:45 Start as You Mean to Go On 1993 6:05 Wet Tip Hen Ax 1994 5:17 Mookid 1994 3:51 Alberto Balsalm 1994 5:11 Cow Cud Is a Twin 1994 5:34 Next Heap With 1993 4:43 63:49 On 20 February 2017, James uploaded the album to his website with 8 additional tracks. ...I Care Because You Do aphextwin.warp.net track listing Acrid Avid Jam Shred 1994 7:38 The Waxen Pith 1993 4:50 Wax the Nip 1990 4:19 Icct Hedral (edit) 1994 6:07 Ventolin (video version) 1994 4:29 Come On You Slags! 1990 5:45 Start as You Mean to Go On 1993 6:05 Wet Tip Hen Ax 1994 5:17 Mookid 1994 3:51 Alberto Balsalm 1994 5:11 Cow Cud Is a Twin 1994 5:34 efil pearls ,e,+4 5:57 winding road ,e, +4.1 3:15 with my family [48k] * 4:11 consta-lume 7:04 merry maidens e,ru,ec +4 2:18 no cares [48k ] * 2:49 consciousness utopia 7:18 sekonda e, +2 10:44 Next Heap With 1994 4:43 107:25 Personnel The album credits only state: "Everything by Richard D. James. Self portrait painted by me. Design help from John."...I Care Because You Do 1995 Warp WARP LP 30 Charts +Chart performance for ...I Care Because You DoChart (1995)PeakpositionScotland 70 19950430 true 23 August 2019UK2 24 19950430 true 23 August 2019UK Dance Albums Chart (CIN)4 See also 1995 in music Music of the United Kingdom (1990s) Notes References Frere-Jones Sasha Sasha Frere-Jones Aphex Twin Brackett Nathan Hoard Christian The New Rolling Stone Album Guide The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4th Simon & Schuster 0-7432-0169-8 2004 Category:Aphex Twin albums Category:1995 albums Category:Warp Records albums Category:Sire Records albums Category:Elektra Records albums Category:Trip hop albums by British artists Category:Classical albums by British artists Category:Acid techno albums Category:Avant-garde music albums Category:1995 classical albums