Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
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Artist: Aphex TwinEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-01-06
Music Label: Msi
Soundtracks:
- Xtal
- Tha
- PulseWidth
- Ageispolis
- i
- Green Calx
- Heliosphan
- We Are The Music Makers
- Schottkey 7th Path
- Ptolemy
- Hedphelym
- Delphium
- Actium
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Free Music Review: A must have ambient electronic album. Why is so much good stuff out of print?
Hit: 4 Stars
I've owned this Aphex Twin album for many years and find it a great way to overview Richard D. James and his early development. He would go on to much more experimental stuff in the years after the early 1990s but this album is a great jumping on place for people who need an easier place to start before getting into his later electronic/ambient experimentalism.
First thing you'll notice is that this album is not as ambient as advertised. You're not getting the kind of background sonic wallpaper that you find with Brian Eno. The tracks here are much more involved and up tempo with a mostly firm beat. It's an honest electronic score with even more techno parallels than usual. That's not a bad thing of course. There is much gorgeous melodic content to be found here and can be used as an outstanding album for relaxation and contemplation. Seriously, this is no masterpiece but it should not be out of print and hopefully finds it's way back onto the market soon.
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Poster
Re-released at a lower price for a limited time.1996 Belgian release on the R&S label featuring 13 tracks,including 'Xtal', 'Tha' and 'Actium'. Standard jewel case.SAW 85-92 boasted the promise of an exceptional recording career for Richard D. James from the English county of Cornwall; a bedroom musician at age 12 in 1985 and an electronic music pioneer by 1998. From the adolescent sexual tension of the strings and basslines of "Ageispolis" and the militant rhythms and subterranean adventure effects of "Schottkey 7th Path," SAW veers to "Green Calx," a booty-shaking, soul-stirring techno song that has much in common with any single to emerge from Detroit in the early 1990s. The album hints clearly at influences from the prevailing dance music regiments of the era--new wave, house, techno, and industrial--but each track possesses a desire and an intention to break free of established formulas and enter a new realm. Subsequent works from James have been often more complex and almost always more menacing, but SAW 85-92 recalls the days of a kinder, gentler Aphex Twin, already on his game. --Tamara Palmer
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