You gotta love Richard D. James, right? Often imitated (attempted, at least!) and discussed, but instantly recognizable and stands in his own little microcosm. Orphaned Deejay Selek came out around the same time as Syro, and honestly, I still spin this a lot more than I do the Syro record. There is something much more imminent about this; the way the opening tracks pulse and drive makes you just want to get up and go, to reach out to the world and do something really fucking exciting.
As the EP goes on, what it loses in immediate urgency it draws up in creativity. More sparse, simpler beats are employed in a hypnotic fashion, and acid tones come out to play to drive home that AFX is going nowhere, alongside the full-time Aphex Twin handle. There has been masses of stuff from this guy released online in recent years, but Orphaned Deejay Selek remains one of my favourite "modern" Richard D. James releases (note that the download from Warp Records contains extra tracks that I have not heard on the Spotify version).
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