Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92


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Label: Distance
Catalog#: DIST 003 CD
Format: CD, Album
Country:France
Released:1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, IDM, Ambient
Credits: Producer, Written-By - Richard D. James
Notes:Licensed from Apollo/R&S.
The sample that gives track 8 its title is Gene Wilder in the movie Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, although the line originally comes from a poem called Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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Tracklisting:

1   Xtal (4:51)
2   Tha (9:01)
3   Pulsewidth (3:47)
4   Ageispolis (5:21)
5   i (1:13)
6   Green Calx (6:02)
7   Heliosphan (4:51)
8   We Are The Music Makers (7:42)
9   Schottkey 7th Path (5:07)
10   Ptolemy (7:12)
11   Hedphelym (6:02)
12   Delphium (5:36)
13   Actium (7:35)
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manchester, Sep 20, 2005

To think that Aphex Twin made some of these tracks in his early teens is completely bewildering. This is etheral electronic music that is completely breathtaking in its simplicity, in the range of emotions it contains and in the array of landscapes it conjures up. Some of the tracks are so raw and basic, yet they outstrip so much of what passes as electronic music today (much of it too complicated and over produced) due to their sheer beauty - which for me lies in their simplicity. Just listen to Ageispolis which can remind you of the most beautiful childhood memory in the world or the most gorgeous landscape. Or listen to Heliosphan which has the most beautiful shuffling breakbeats (long before breakbeats became incorporated into electronic music widescale). The closing track Actium is a master of beautiful trancelike hypnotisim, that doesnt need to bang your brains out - its real trance music! A stunning, groundbreaking electronic album that will go down in history, if it already hasnt.

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