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| | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It was released in 1992 by Apollo Records, an ambient subdivision of RandS Records. | | | Not all the songs were created during and after his work as a DJ; If the title of the album is to be believed, Richard would have been making songs as early as 1985 (Being born in 1971, he would have been 14 years old when he made some of these songs.) | | | The songs are faster and more upbeat than many of the earlier ambient creations of other musicians (especially Brian Eno and John Cage). |
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| | Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Selected Ambient Works Volume II at the Warp Records discography (features audio clips). | | | Blue Calx originally appeared on an Applied Rhythmic Technology compilation album ("The Philosophy Of Sound And Machine") under the artist name Blue Calx, which was released in cooperation with Rephlex Records. | | | In contrast to the fast, club-inspired ambient music of its predecessor, Volume II consists of slow, moody songs, performed much like ambient pioneer Brian Eno. |
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| | Selected Ambient Works 85 92 :: Education by Design Store |
| | He is known for making great ambient music, as he has showed his talent at making ambient music in several of his albums and singles. | | | His first full-ambient album is a success, and shows his mastery of ambient music. | | | Pulsewidth- 9/10- If Aphex Twin released a dance-oriented album, this track would be on it. |
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| | Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92: Pitchfork Review |
| | Sure, the music on Selected Ambient Works 85-92 may sound a bit dated (as does, to be fair, most electronic music more than a few years old), but there's no denying it was the defining statement of Warp's early years, and the foundation for the careers of bands like Boards of Canada and Plaid. | | | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is, rather, an album stretching back to the days before software allowed for heavy sampling or glitch technology. | | | The songs here are not ambient in the same way as those on this disc's sequel. |
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| | Aphex Twin MP3 Downloads - Aphex Twin Music Downloads - Aphex Twin Music Videos |
| | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is a desperately sparse album: thin percussion and several haunted-synth lines are the only components on most songs, and Richard D. James added only one vocal sample on the entire album ("We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"). | | | As its title alone indicates, Water was released as the counterpart to Fire, consisting of remixes by Hillage and Giraudy of nearly every track on the original album, plus one new number, all... | | | Also, the sound quality is relatively poor; it was recorded direct to cassette tape and reportedly suffered a mangling job by a cat. |
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| | MUSICMATCH Guide: Aphex Twin |
| | A second album was released that year, Analogue Bubblebath 3, for Rephlex. | | | Recorded as AFX, the LP renounced any debt to ambient music and was the most bracing work yet in the Aphex Twin canon. | | | His first release was the Analogue Bubblebath EP, recorded with Tom Middleton and released on the Mighty Force label in September 1991. |
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| | Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Music Discussion) |
| | This is the defining album of Ambient music. | | | Aphex Twin, born in 1971, released his first album, "Selected Ambient Works 85-92". | | | Xtal - One of the best songs this album has to offer and also one of the best ambient songs ever recorded. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 - Aphex Twin at Epinions.com |
| | This was the first electronic music album I ever heard and liked, and quite honestly is singularly responsible for me being the tech-head that I am today. | | | Although Richard James may well object to his music being labelled electronica, it seems in the US today this has become the blanket label for all computer generated music. | | | II" is the perfect album to listen to on those nights where you have tried a warm bath, warm milk, counting sheep, progressive relaxation, and you... |
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| | Adrian's Album Reviews : Aphex Twin |
| | This work of music is a master piece.Its a progression in music that was never and still not produced today...I love all the tracks especially the dark industrial ambient tracks,I listen to it everyday to keep me sane.A CLASSIC. | | | Ambient is a stripping away of everything to leave the bare essentials, often a single melody line with 'atmospheric' new age sound effects over the top. | | | This release ditches the ambient beauty of the previous two albums proper to return to the techno experiments of the celebrated "Digeridoo". |
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| | TrouserPress.com :: Aphex Twin |
| | Two discs of this stuff ask a lot of the listener, but none of it is so distracting that it would interfere with other activities-like, say, listening to music. | | | Not counting outside production and remix work, his discography is an international morass of releases as the Aphex Twin, AFX, Polygon Window, Metapharstic, Caustic Window, Joyrex, Blue Calx, the Dice Man, etc. His American releases, however, have not been many. | | | The On EP leans into a balance of insistent beat-itude, pop formalism and ancillary sonic action: the title track (also offered in a soft, billowy remix) sets a busily tinkling piano figure working against meteorological events and other samples in what almost sounds like a concession to chart-pop catchiness. |
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| | ByteNoise: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| | The album's title seems a bit misleading to me. The music isn't ambient in the Brian Eno sense of the word - for that, you'd be better off with Aphex Twin's later release Selected Ambient Works Volume II. | | | So this is an ambient techno album, with two exceptions: the track named i (yes, a lower case letter "I") is beatless and floaty, although it only lasts just over a minute. | | | The track after it, Green Calx, is at the opposite end of the spectrum: it is noisy and abrasive, and in my opinion has no place being on an album with the word "ambient" in the title. |
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| | In the mood for some specific techno/ambience.. - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums |
| | I highly recommend Selected Ambient Works Volume II by him as well, although those songs are more ambient and have less a beat than the other album. | | | The album Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin comes to my mind when listening to some of those samples. | | | Posted - 4/27/2005 2:12:48 AM The album Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin comes to my mind when listening to some of those samples. |
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| | Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash, Selected Ambient Works CD |
| | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin - Music CD More Info | | | Along with 'I care because you do' and 'The RDJ album', this is Aphex at his sublime best. | | | Selected Ambient Works, Vol.2 - Aphex Twin - Music CD More Info |
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| | The discs themselves are different than that of any of their commercial releases in that they too lack any graphics and have the track numbers (only - with no song titles). | | | The third begins during track #16 after the song "Girl/Boy Song (redruth mix)" is over, and continues until the end of that [shared] track. | | | Compare the song, "Metapharstic", to its original version which appears as Disc 1 / track #3 the UK double-cd for "Mayday : A New Chapter Of House And Techno '92" (MC 1). |
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| | Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Volume 2 |
| | Most of the works have no beats, but are instead made up of slowly repeating electronic sounds, some acoustic sounds such as piano, and some unidentifiable noises. | | | The music is very evocative, and is a modern classic of ambient music. | | | As a result, it works better as a complete listening experience. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Selected Ambient Works Vol.2: Music |
| | However before buying this understand it isnt ambient music in the way you normally imagine (think Orbs early stuff) but is a state of mind instead. | | | Having listened to this track a few times, I now realise it really is quite beautiful, and creates the image of the first, delicate little flower germinating and growing in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. | | | Another three note melody joins it in time, a hint at a beat works its way in as if it's just hanging out on the track because it doesn't have anything better to do. |
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| | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Hotel Resource Book Store |
| | This album does however live up to the term "ambient techno" which James is credited with either inventing or pushing to the mainstream. | | | This isn't one of James' best works, but it is quite good when compared to other dance albums. | | | This album is very typical of Richard D. James' ealier works. |
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| | Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Music Review sputnikmusic |
| | The songs here are ambient, while not being sparesly populated bits of music. | | | A most excellent review for an amazing album. | | | Or you could just have a good listen while you sleep. |
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| | next purchase - ateaseweb.com mb |
| | james album or selected ambient works 85-92, you'll never regret it. |
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| | 02/20/02: The Aphex Twin conspiracy |
| | Two tracks on LSD are laced with digeridoo sounds, and the album as a whole resembles not only the results on SAW, but many of Aphex Twin's much later works, even the stuff on his recent release, Drukqs, which is rather unique relative to the rest of James's discography. | | | Today I finally got a copy of the much-tauted 1991 Coil release Love's Secret Domain, and I can now comfortably say that everything I've been told about Aphex Twin is a LIE. | | | It's clear to me now that lauded period of Aphex Twin has been 9 years of re- hashing LSD. |
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| | Music Review: Aphex Twin |
| | Usually the beats remain relaxing, but some songs convey an aura of fear and death, such as "Icct Hedral." His most brilliant work on this recording is "Acrid Avid Jam," a calm drumline with synths lined all over the song. | | | I suggest getting either of the "Selected Ambient Works" first since some of his other stuff might scare you if you have just started listening to him. | | | This is the most relaxing music I have ever heard. |
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| | Pitchfork: Daily Music News |
| | PIAS America, the label responsible for bringing Sigur Rós (and, um, the Reindeer Section) to American shores, are currently working to give these albums their first-ever stateside release. | | | In the wake of the "success" and "widespread critical acclaim" Aphex Twin has seen with the release of his double-disc clunker Drukqs, plans are in the works to reissue two of his earlier albums. | | | Instead, their name must be a reference to the perpetual dancin' their music inspires. |
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| | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | This album is a compilation of Aphex Twin's (aka Richard D. James) earliest works, mostly of beautiful, almost spiritual, techno. | | | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk | | | Voted fourth best dance album of all time in Muzik magazine, is certainly earned through Richard D. James' magnificent debut album. |
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| | Tower Records - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin |
| | Full of sly humor ("We Are the Music Makers" samples Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), cuts like the bubbling "Pulsewidth" and "Green Calx," which sounds as if it was recorded in a video arcade under an airport runway, have no intention of serving as sonic wallpaper. | | | Aphex Twin--is proving too challenging, try warming up with these reissues of two long out-of-print albums from rave antiquity, when the Cornwall innovator was still cataloging his extensive output more or less thematically, rather than inducing whiplash in listeners by changing tack violently from track-to-track. | | | Reputedly created on homemade equipment deconstructed from standard synthesizers, the music within takes its cue from club beats and the techno rhythms of rave and acid-house culture. |
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| | BlamoNet.com - CD Music Reviews - Aphex Twin : Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| | BUT if you do have to get an ambient album by aphex twin get this and not ambient volume two. | | | It seems they have a lot of thanks for this man. "Tha" is one of the main tracks that never really hit my head in the right spot... | | | synth tones as hot as your mother envelope this song with light bass and drum machine work that is unique in its own way. |
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| | Rolling Stone : Selected Ambient Works 85-92 : Review |
| | James was cracking wise about dance music's trippy reputation, even as he proved that techno could be more than druggy dance music. | | | The music matters more than any of that, because with Selected 85-92, Aphex Twin expanded way beyond the ambient music of Brian Eno by fusing lush soundscapes with oceanic beats and bass lines. | | | Home : reviews : CD Reviews : Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
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| | Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| | Fans of Aphex's later work should find out where his mastery of perfection all began, and newcomers should give it a listen on the basis of this album's amorphous beauty and charisma. | | | Beautiful melodies that get caught in your mind form an addiction that is only appeased by another listen. | | | This album contains, in its purest form, the common link between all electronic forms of music. |
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| | Amazon.com: Selected Ambient Works 85-92: Music: Aphex Twin |
| | If you are a fan of his more recent work, I think that if you like "I care because you do" you will be very pleased with SAW I. In short, this album is one of the best examples of electronic music. | | | But without a doubt, this is the best music that RDJ has ever created, under any name. | | | Note that while SAW II has mostly creepy beatless ambient pieces, the songs in SAW I all feature beats. |
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| | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin on CD |
| | Actually, "ambient" is a bit of a misnomer; most of the tracks have a subtle, but persistent beat, so perhaps "intelligent techno" would be a better term. | | | The album is atmospheric, subtle and intricate - entirely unlike the watered-down Muzak sound that so horribly plagues most so-called "ambient" music out there. | | | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin on CD Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin |
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| | 'Selected Ambient Works 1985' by Aphex Twin from The Portsmouth Chorus. |
| | Add to this the fact that the entire CD has been mastered from tape in the first place and you've got a collection of works that sounds really special to listen to, almost as if you've stumbled across some rarities in a dusty attic somewhere! | | | I feel like I have an affinity with this album. | | | Also available on Audio Cassette - Selected Ambient Works Vol.2 [CASSETTE] |
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| | Aphex Twin - Artist Profile - Stylus Magazine |
| | Due to the minor success of an earlier single and album, “Digeridoo” and Selected Ambient Works 85-92 respectively, James was asked to sign to Warp in the early months of 1993. | | | The accompanying album, I Care Because You Do, is a blend between the hardcore rave beats that once ruled James’ songs and a more melodic and softer ambience, shown on Selected Ambient Works, Volume II. | | | After the release of “On” and an album under the Polygon Window moniker, James confounded expectations (as he would do many times in the future) by releasing a double disc set of completely ambient works, entitled Selected Ambient Works, Volume II. |
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| | Fluffhouse review - Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| | Some of it has that dated late-80's "rave" sound - it would be interesting to know which tracks came from 85 and which from 92. | | | The more dancy-sounding tracks have a bedroom-recording feel with scratchy beats, delicate muted basslines, and subtle bleepiness. | | | The bleepy noises on "Green Calx" and "Ageispolis", and some of the synth bass sounds, do show their age. |
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| | Selected Ambient Works - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Selected Ambient Works is the name of two ambient techno albums released in the early 1990s by Richard D. James (under the Aphex Twin moniker). | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994), commonly abbreviated as SAW II |
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| | Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Last.fm |
| | aersche-tag wegen die ich nach 1000 tracks noch kein profile hab alle anderen haben eins wieso ich nicht wieso aersche aersche kinder blumen all things aphex ambient ambient techno brainwave beats british albums chill electronic electronica fave for rainy days idm me like selected ambient works 85-92 warp | | | Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Last.fm |
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| | On - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It was released November 15th, 1993 by Warp Records. | | | Released after his album Selected Ambient Works 85-92, and just before his follow-up, Selected Ambient Works Volume II, On is often described as ambient techno despite the presence of harsh, abrasive beats in the title track. | | | The "28 Mix", also nothing like the original, is rumoured to be the unreleased 28th track for Selected Ambient Works Volume II. |
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| | Richard D. James |
| | Best known for his song Come To Daddy (1996), or rather for its sinister music video, directed by Chris Cunningham. | | | Early successes as Aphex Twin came "ambient" albums Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992) and Selected Ambient Works Vol. |
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| | Musical Taste: Filter tracks |
| | Still a favorite seminal ambient electronica track after all these years. | | | from Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (R & S Records (Belgium)) |
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| | Aphex Twin :: Techno Guide |
| | In 1993 he released his first album in RandS label "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" after the success of the "Didgeridoo" single, and later signed with Warp records becoming one of the most representative artists of the British label. | | | Although he is mostly known for his Ambient works, influenced by BRIAN ENO and Phillip Glass. | | | Born in Cornwall (UK) 1971, he is considered one of the most brilliant and influential artists of the past decade. |
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