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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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Richard D James aka Aphex Twin is one of the greatest musical geniuses of modern times. With great albums like 'Selected Ambient Works 85-92', 'Drukqs', and my personal favorite, 'I Care Because You Do', 'Selected Ambient Works, Volume 2' doesn't fit in with these others. However, that is not a bad thing as this is a unique album in itself.
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- Selected Ambient Works Volume II, an Album by Aphex Twin. Released 7 March 1994 on Warp (catalog no. Genres: Ambient, Electronic. Rated #14 in the best albums of 1994, and #472 of all-time album. Featured peformers: Richard D. James (synthesizer, writer, producer).
- Identical to Selected Ambient Works Volume II, but has SID codes. Printed around edge of CD faces: All songs BMI. ©℗1994 Sire Records Company, marketed by Warner Bros. Records Inc., A Time Warner Company. Made in U.S.A. By WEA Manufacturing Printed on single-sided insert: Designed at prototype 21, Fax: Blue Calx taken from.
- Selected Ambient Works 85–92 is the debut studio album by Aphex Twin, the pseudonym of British electronic musician Richard D. It was released by Apollo Records (a subsidiary of Belgian label R&S) on 9 November 1992. The album consists of beat-orientated ambient tracks recorded onto cassette reputedly dating as far back as 1985, when James was thirteen to fourteen years old.