Warp Records is bringing Aphex Twin’s 2001 album Drukqs back into physical circulation for its 25th anniversary. The reissue lands on 30 October across vinyl, CD, and cassette — the first time in years the double-album will be widely available in hard formats.
The 30-track record, long a touchstone for Richard D. James’s blend of hyper-detailed drill ’n’ bass and prepared-piano melancholy, will appear in a standard 4LP edition and a boxed 4LP set. The box adds a six-panel poster and an AFX logo stencil. A 2CD version and a double-cassette are also confirmed. Highlights such as “Vordhosbn,” “Avril 14th,” “Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount,” and “QKThr” remain the obvious pull, though the album’s sprawl rewards deeper digging.
Pre-orders for the boxed vinyl edition close on 4 August. At a moment when physical editions of canonical electronic works are being treated less like novelties and more like essential documents, this Drukqs run arrives without anniversary bloat — just the music, remastered and pressed again, on the formats it was never fully given in the first place.
