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The Aphex Twin fan experience can be quite piecemeal. Sometimes Richard D. James gives us carefully curated packages like last year’s Selected Ambient Works<\/em> reissue<\/a>. And sometimes we get unpolished gems dumped onto the internet with haphazard filenames. So it went on Thanksgiving, when James posted two versions of a track called “Zahl am1” to his SoundCloud. The name is an reference to the Z\u00e4hl, the soundboard<\/a> James used to mix the track. The art accompanying both uploads is a photo of the electronic music pioneer at the beach in Italy with a woman, who Reddit sleuths<\/a> have identified as filmmaker Cordelia Angel Clarke<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the SoundCloud description, James wrote, “got many requests for this one from a few years back, italy, pic with my love from scilly recently\u2026need sun\u2026relentlessly raining in uk\u2026mixed down on the zahl, think theres better mixes, will upload if i find em,”<\/p>\n Yes, his sentence ended with a comma. You can do that if you’re Aphex Twin. Hear the music below.<\/p>\n