The following year, he’d release two albums—Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92, his full-length debut, and Polygon Window’s Surfing on Sine Waves—along with half a dozen EPs that. Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II turns 25 today. The album was a departure from Selected Ambient Works 85–92 in that it is largely beatless, dropping much of the techno stylings of its predecessor. SAW II delves into dark ambient territory, with eerie soundscapes, drones, and repeating loops that approach the 10-minute mark. Listen free to Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol II. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.
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▼Tags ▼LibraryThing Recommendations ▼Member recommendations None Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Showing 2 of 2 Would have enjoyed a bit more inside baseball on the album itself, but the focus on context and influence was illuminating. Like a great set of liner notes, this book sent me in a dozen directions seeking out new-to-me albums, books, and more. ( ) matthewmcvickar | Jun 21, 2020 | Unfortunately a missed opportunity on the biographical, musical, and sociocultural tip. Invests too much writing on audience reaction and comes off as needlessly defensive. ( ) triphopera | Apr 14, 2018 | Showing 2 of 2 ▼Published reviews Belongs to Series▼Common Knowledge
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (2)Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was Richard D. James's first full length on Sire Records (home to Madonna and Depeche Mode) under the moniker Aphex Twin; Sire helped usher him in as a major force in music, electronic or otherwise. Faithful to Brian Eno's definition of ambient music, Selected Ambient Works Volume II was intentionally functional: it furnished chill out rooms, the sanctuaries amid intense raves. Choreographers and film directors began to employ it to their own ends, and in the intervening decades this background music came to the fore, adapted by classical composers who reverse-engineered its fragile textures for performance on acoustic instruments. Simultaneously, 'ambient' has moved from esoteric sound art to central tenet of online culture. This book contends that despite a reputation for being beatless, the album exudes percussive curiosity, providing a sonic metaphor for our technologically mediated era of countless synchronized nanosecond metronomes. No library descriptions found. ▼LibraryThing members' description
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