Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In A Room7 F760

Label: Warp Records – WAP480EP
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, EP, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: Feb 21, 2025
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Acid, Glitch

Aphex Twin returns to Warp with Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In A Room7 F760, a sharp-edged EP that distils Richard D. James’ restless, ever-evolving language into four tightly focused cuts. First appearing digitally in 2023, this vinyl edition gives the material proper physical weight, sounding urgent, intimate and unmistakably Aphex.

The title track Blackbox Life Recorder 21f balances brittle rhythms with melancholic melodic fragments, while Zin2 Test5 veers into glitch-heavy, twitchy experimentation. On the flip, In A Room7 F760 delivers one of James’ most affecting recent pieces — fractured, emotional IDM with a haunted sense of space — before the Parallax Mix of Blackbox Life Recorder 22 refracts the theme into warped, acid-tinged motion.

A concise but powerful statement from one of electronic music’s true originals — introspective, restless and quietly devastating.

A1. Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
A2. Zin2 Test5
AA1. In A Room7 F760
AA2. Blackbox Life Recorder 22 (Parallax Mix)