Editing ...I Care Because You Do (section)

==Composition==
Each track on ''I Care Because You Do'' is annotated with a date; the tracks were created between 1990 and 1994.{{sfn|Frere-Jones|2004|pp=21–23}} It was James' final album to be recorded with mostly [[Analog electronics|analogue]] technology before he began using [[digital electronics|digital]] production methods.<ref name="Exclaim">{{cite web |last1=Hudson |first1=Alex |title=Aphex Twin's '...I Care Because You Do' and 'Richard D. James Album' Get Vinyl Reissues |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/aphex_twins_i_care_because_you_do_richard_d_james_album_get_vinyl_reissues |website=[[Exclaim!]] |date=25 July 2012 |accessdate=18 September 2018 |archive-date=18 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918054529/https://exclaim.ca/music/article/aphex_twins_i_care_because_you_do_richard_d_james_album_get_vinyl_reissues |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to [[AllMusic]], the album finds James "pairing his hardcore experimentalism with more symphonic ambient material, aligned with the work of many post-classical composers" such as [[Philip Glass]].<ref name="Bio">{{cite web |last1=Bush |first1=John |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/aphex-twin-mn0000493848/biography |title=Aphex Twin {{!}} Biography & History |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=9 July 2016 |archive-date=19 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160719130857/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/aphex-twin-mn0000493848/biography |url-status=live }}</ref> Writer [[Dave Thompson (author)|Dave Thompson]] described the album as "pulling together calm, serene moments then launching into battering and bruising beat-heavy tracks", and said the rhythms shift "from trancey to hip-hoppish".<ref name=dave>{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |title=Alternative Rock |date=2000 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC|isbn=9780879306076 }}</ref> Thompson also noted the influence of modern composers such as Glass.<ref name=dave/> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' stated the music has "little to do with techno in any of its more popular guises", and compared it to the work of Glass and [[John Cage]], and said the album draws "most strongly from hip-hop&nbsp;... James' trademark is to put rhythm and percussion above all else; his beautiful, haunting melodies are relegated to the back of the mix."<ref name="rs-review" />

According to ''[[Exclaim!]]'', ''...I Care Because You Do'' has been described as "occupying a middle-ground between Philip Glass and the Wu-Tang Clan".<ref name="Exclaim"/>  ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' wrote the album "showed up trip-hop laziness",<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wF1pZCI8MZYC&pg=PA88|title=Aphex Twin: Richard D. James|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|volume=12|issue=11|date=February 1997|last1=Hermes|first1=Will|author-link=Will Hermes|page=88|issn=0886-3032}}</ref> while ''Dummy Mag'' said James was taking trip hop and "refashioning [the] voguish genre in his own image".<ref name="dummy"/> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' wrote: "By adding layers of soft, warm synthesizer chords over skull-grinding electronic percussion, James creates sounds that are simultaneously comforting and scary".<ref name="ew"/> In 2003 ''[[NME]]'' summarized the album as "a shotgun wedding of analogue [[rave music|rave]] and ambient porridge."<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[NME]] |title=Aphex Twin |date=2003 |volume=7-8 |issue=12 |page=40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fj5LAAAAYAAJ |publisher=IPC |access-date=6 August 2019 |archive-date=4 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204064752/https://books.google.com/books?id=Fj5LAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2004 ''Rolling Stone'' stated the increasingly active drum backing on the album was inspired by the presence of [[drum and bass]] music in the United Kingdom.{{sfn|Frere-Jones|2004|pp=21–23}}