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NeahkahnieGold Aphex Twin Albums Ranked By Most Collected, Most Wanted, And Most Expensive

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After reading about Aphex Twin’s logic for distributing limited-edition releases at live shows and his late-night Discogs epiphany in a recent interview for Crack Magazine, we decided to take a closer look at how his work is collected, wanted, and sold on Discogs. Discogs was initally started in 2001 as a Database for Electronic music (no other generes were allowed for the first few years), and Aphex Twin was just the 45th artist added. With more than 80 Releases and 650+ Apperances to date, he’s one of the more prolific musicians on Discogs. I’m sure most of you know his importance to the high-level Electronic genre and styles of Ambient, IDM, and others. From the clean and pristine Selected Ambient Works 85-92 to the competitive idiosyncracies in Drukqs, to the pulsing Collapse EP, he proves time and time again that he’s a brilliant and ever-changing creator. With so much out there, it’s interesting to see what has surfaced as Aphex Twin’s most popular, wanted, and expensive releases.

Most Collected Aphex Twin Albums

There are no major upsets in this list of most collected Aphex Twin albums. His 1992 debut studio album, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, is leaps ahead of the rest with nearly 20,000 Discogs collectors having a release in their Collection. Seeing a single in position two might be surprising if it were any other song, but the popularity of Windowlicker and its iconic accompanying music video by Chris Cunningham brought Richard D. James as close to the mainstream’s view as anything he has produced. Eight of the ten masters were initially released in the 1990’s.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Released: 1992

Collected: 19,313

Get some headphones and revisit this album. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 proves to be one of his easier to listen to, especially for the uninitiated. It’s easy to overlook now, but there was no Ableton or other popular music production software in the 80’s and early 90’s. Luckily, Richard D. James was both intelligent and talented. At the age of 11, he was already developing applications to produce music. In this context, the album is rich with melodies and rhythms not common in electronic music at the time.

Windowlicker

Released: 1999

Collected: 16,183

Come To Daddy

Released: 1997

Collected: 13,896

Richard D. James Album

Released: 1996

Collected: 13,621

Syro

Released: 2014

Collected: 13,375

Selected Ambient Works Volume II

Released: 1994

Collected: 11,874

…I Care Because You Do

Released: 1995

Collected: 11,800

Drukqs

Released: 2001

Collected: 9,153

Classics

Released: 1995

Collected: 6,955

On

Released: 1993

Collected: 4,874

Most Wanted Aphex Twin Releases

Similar to our overview of Brian Eno’s most wanted releases, first vinyl pressings of LP’s dominate the beginning of Aphex Twin’s most wanted releases list. 8 of the top 10 are first-pressings.