Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath 5 (1995)

'Analogue Bubblebath 5' was recorded in 1995, and had been intended to be released on Richard James' own Rephlex Records label, under his alias AFX, as the fifth installment in his 'Analogue Bubblebath' series. The EP would have consisted of nine tracks, in alternating acid house/techno and ambient styles, but James decided that it was not up to par with the others in the series, so only a handful of vinyl test pressings were made. In January 2005 Rephlex mailed out black vinyl/binder editions of 'Analord 10', but due to problems at the manufacturing/mail out stage, approximately 20 buyers did not receive their package. Rephlex mailed out a second batch in June 2005 to those who had not received their order, and this second batch included a free copy of 'Analogue Bubblebath 5', although this distribution was never officially announced. No information is printed on the record's blank white labels (although some copies do have 'AB5' written and circled onto them), but the identifying call number of 'CAT 034' has been etched into its run-out grooves. There are no plans of a commercial release for the album, but with 20 copies out there, it wasn't long before bootleg CDR's started to appear, so we can hear for ourselves if it really is sub-par compared to the first four volumes. Only one of the tracks has a title, which is 'Cuckoo'.

Track listing

01 Untitled
02 Untitled
03 Untitled
04 Untitled
05 Untitled
06 Untitled
07 Untitled
08 Untitled
09 Cuckoo