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Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do - 02-Feb-09 09:13 AM
James seems to have a fascination with encoding information such that it becomes unintelligible without another key piece of knowledge.

Several track titles on this album are anagrams:

1) acrid avid jam shred = richard david james
2) the waxen pith = the aphex twin
3) wax the nip = aphex twin
8) wet tip hen ax = t(h)e aphex twin
11) cow cud is a twin = caustic window
12) next heap with = the aphex twin

The theme of encoding has run throughout Jamess career. For instance, he also used the anagram technique on the Hangable Auto Bulb EPs. Many of the track titles on the double-album Drukqs are written in Cornish, a language similar to Welsh in that it is all but gibberish to the uninitiated English speakers. For example, "Cymru" translates to "Wales". Another example is the track "Lornaderek" a concatenation of his parents first names.

Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt* - A Meeting By The River - 25-Dec-08 05:25 AM
I second The Orbs ringing endorsement of this album. Although I cant exactly call it an "ambient" album, it is most certainly in my top 12 of all time.

This is an amazing meeting of two fantastically talented musicians having a light-hearted, joyous musical conversation. To describe it any more in words would be a disservice to the performance.

The event was captured perfectly by Tim de Paravicini of Esoteric Audio Research (EAR). The absolutely minimalist recording techniques produce a CD that transports the listener to the performance. It shines compared to other recordings; the sonic equivalent of wiping a layer of grime off a window. And it seems to do so regardless of the playback equipment: headphones, speakers, and even computer speakers (the castrato of the music world) all seem capable of reproducing the event with great fidelity.

If you are encoding your music in iTunes or the like, do yourself a favor and make this one Lossless.