Vol. 2-Selected Ambient Works (1994) ( )

Artist: Aphex Twin
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Label: Wea/warner Bros.
UPC: 00093624548225
Release Date: 4/12/1994
Buy.com Sku: 60144682
Item#: M4YXRP
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
2. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
3. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
4. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
5. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
6. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
7. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
8. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
9. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
10. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
11. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
Disc 2
Song TitleSample
1. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
2. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
3. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
4. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
5. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
6. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
7. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
8. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
9. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
10. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
11. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin
12. (untitled) ~ Aphex Twin



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
The songs on SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS VOL. 2 have no titles.
Aphex Twin: Richard James (various instruments).
Very occasionally in music, something will come at you from so far out on the left field, that not only do you not note its immediate import, you scarcely recognize it as music at all. This is the record that cemented the media's fascination with Richard James, a Cornwall bedroom DJ. Selected Ambient Works is not an entirely representative recording, as these are essentially mood pieces, unlike the more instantaneous, dancefloor-targeted material that originally brought him to the nation's attention. Nevertheless if you are prepared to make the journey, and can see past the album's intimidating length and its lack of linear framework, there are some exquisite moments - ranging in texture from melodic delirium to sweeping melancholy.

Producer: Richard James

 
Compilation Appearances
Inner Space-Chill V.1
Vol. 2-Inner Space Chill Out
Sound Of The Second Season: noche Y
Dj Kicks
26 Mixes For Cash
Fabric Live 24
Grandma's Boy (Explicit Version)
Da Vinci Lounge 806
Chosen Lords
At The Controls
Now Listen Again
Dj Kicks
Sound Unbound
Gu Mixed 3 (Unmixed)
Warp20 (Chosen)

 
Associated Artists and Works
26 Mixes for Cash ~ Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 04/12/1994
Original Release Date : 1994
Catalog ID : 45482
Label : Sire Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 2
Runtime : 120m : 0s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00093624548225

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.79)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."

Rolling Stone (6/30/94, p.72)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...it's the absence of beats that makes the music so strange and haunting, and when the beats do surface, they serve to accent a tone rather than sustain a tempo..."

Spin (9/99, p.148)
- Ranked #56 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."

Spin (3/94, p.76)
- "...undeniable proof that techno was blossoming into a new form of electronic composition...it's the restraint of James' music that paradoxically induces such an unrestrained emotional response in the listener...it's like he's playing acoustic instruments from the distant future or an alien civilization..."

Q (1/94, p.84)
- Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...[a] brilliant collection of experiments...always fascinating and somehow other-worldly, this is music as enjoyable as it is innovative and of its time..."

Alternative Press (5/02, p.104)
- Included in AP's '10 Essential Pioneering Electronic Albums'.

Option (8/94, p.90)
- "...His accomplishment here is monumental; this solo electronic album is so unusual that it needs to be stated up front that it sounds like no other recording in the genre, ever..."

Melody Maker (1/1/94, p.76)
- Ranked #10 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993 - "...Creating a soundscape like a vast, depopulated techno world, the Twin's scurrying swathes of electronics recall Eno, Kraftwerk, Terry Riley--none of whom he'd heard of until years after this stuff. Awesome...."

  
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