- Jan 29, 2015 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 3 (2015) Volume 4 is here - AFX - Selec.
- 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.
| by Marc Weidenbaum
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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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Important Notice! Someone tried to vandalise the database by deleting about 76k entries. I restored those entries and have temporarily disabled the delete and edit functions to prevent further damage. Studio Albums Released as Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (February 12, 1992), Selected Ambient Works Volume II (March 7, 1994).I Care Because You Do (April 24, 1995), Richard D. James Album (November 4, 1996), Drukqs (October 22, 2001), Syro (September 19, 2014) Compilation Albums Released as Aphex Twin Classics (December 1, 1994), 51/13 - Aphex Singles Collection (November 30. 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. By WEA Manufacturing Printed on single-sided insert: Designed at prototype 21, Fax: Blue Calx taken from.
Important Notice!
Someone tried to vandalise the database by deleting about 76k entries. I restored those entries and have temporarily disabled the delete and edit functions to prevent further damage. In foresight I have implemented those functions in a non-destructive manner. Nothing is actually deleted but just flagged as such. Edits just create a new copy of an entry but leave the previous version intact.
This incident makes me think about introducing user accounts where users can only edit or delete their own entries. Maybe I will keep it simple by letting every album be created with some kind of password that the user can define when uploading the log. This way they can edit or delete their entries but not others. There have been other deletions in the past, mostly by people who think that vinyl, MP3 or self-improved versions of albums should not be there. I will address this issue in an upcoming FAQ at some time in the future.
I deliberately designed this project as a community project with wiki-like user privileges (everyone can do everything). I'm not a company, I (a single person) run this project in my free time and it is not my top priority in real life. This is why I don't respond to e-mails in most cases and why I don't introduce updates often. But I care about this project nonetheless and see that it is important to people. Major issues are always addressed at some point.
(51 albums total)
| Artist | Album | Year | avg DR | min DR | max DR | Codec | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aphex Twin | Aphex Mt. Fuji 2017 | 2017 | 10 | 06 | 16 | lossless | Unknown |
| Aphex Twin | Analord 10 | 2009 | 09 | 08 | 09 | lossless | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 | 07 | 04 | 10 | lossless | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Collapse EP | 2018 | 10 | 10 | 11 | lossless | Vinyl |
| Aphex Twin | Syro | 2014 | 11 | 10 | 13 | lossless | Vinyl |
| Aphex Twin | Collapse | 2018 | 06 | 05 | 08 | lossy | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Come to Daddy | 1997 | 11 | 08 | 13 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Richard D. James Album | 1996 | 07 | 05 | 10 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Drukqs (Disc 2) | 2001 | 11 | 06 | 18 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Drukqs (Disc 1) | 2001 | 10 | 06 | 16 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | On | 1993 | 09 | 08 | 10 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | 26 Mixes For Cash (Disc 2) | 2003 | 07 | 04 | 09 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | 26 Mixes For Cash (Disc 1) | 2003 | 09 | 08 | 10 | lossless | CD |
| Polygon Window (Aphex Twin) | Quoth | 1993 | 10 | 09 | 11 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Come To Daddy | 1997 | 11 | 10 | 12 | lossless | Vinyl |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 | 09 | 07 | 12 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Cheetah EP | 2016 | 08 | 05 | 10 | lossy | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 | 11 | 10 | 17 | lossless | Vinyl |
| Aphex Twin | Windowlicker | 1999 | 09 | 05 | 17 | lossless | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP | 2015 | 09 | 07 | 13 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Syro | 2014 | 06 | 03 | 13 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | ...I Care Because You Do | 1995 | 09 | 07 | 12 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Volume II (CD 2) | 1994 | 10 | 08 | 11 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Volume II (CD 1) | 1994 | 10 | 07 | 13 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Cheetah EP | 2016 | 07 | 05 | 10 | lossless | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 2008 | 07 | 06 | 10 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 2013 | 10 | 07 | 12 | lossless | Vinyl |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 2004 | 10 | 07 | 13 | lossy | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Syro (Unofficial Full Dynamic Range Remaster) | 2014 | 11 | 08 | 13 | lossless | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Come to Daddy | 1997 | 11 | 08 | 13 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Drukqs | 2001 | 12 | 06 | 17 | lossless | Vinyl |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 2006 | 09 | 07 | 11 | lossless | Vinyl |
| Aphex Twin | Computer Controlled Instruments PT2 EP | 2015 | 09 | 07 | 13 | lossy | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Syro | 2014 | 06 | 03 | 13 | lossy | Download |
| Aphex Twin | On (Original U.K. Version) | 1993 | 09 | 08 | 10 | lossless | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Analord 10 | 2005 | 09 | 09 | 09 | lossless | Vinyl |
| Aphex Twin | Drukqs (CD 2) | 2001 | 11 | 06 | 18 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Drukqs (CD 1) | 2001 | 10 | 06 | 15 | lossy | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Windowlicker [CD single] | 1999 | 09 | 05 | 17 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Richard D. James Album | 1996 | 07 | 05 | 10 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | ...I Care Because You Do | 1995 | 09 | 07 | 12 | lossless | CD |
| The Aphex Twin | Classics | 1995 | 08 | 06 | 11 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Vol. II (CD2) | 1994 | 10 | 08 | 11 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Vol. II (CD1) | 1994 | 10 | 07 | 13 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 | 09 | 07 | 12 | lossless | CD |
| Aphex Twin | Qutoh [vinyl] | 1993 | 09 | 08 | 10 | lossless | Vinyl |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 | 07 | 06 | 10 | lossless | Download |
| Aphex Twin | Richard D. James Album [Sire 62010] | 1996 | 08 | 05 | 10 | lossless | CD |
| Caustic Window (aka Aphex Twin) | Caustic Window LP | 2014 | 09 | 05 | 12 | lossless | Vinyl |
| The Aphex Twin | Classics | 2008 | 07 | 06 | 08 | lossless | Unknown |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 2008 | 07 | 06 | 10 | lossless | Unknown |
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works
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