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Its influence on composers, producers, and sound designers is incalculable. Not only did the 1994 release by Richard D. Yet that chilliness, that sense of isolation, and that very unknowability are exactly what have kept fans transfixed for decades.Dubspot contributor Michael Emenau investigates the creative process and inspiration behind Aphex Twin’s legendary Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 album.Īphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II is required listening for any person in the field of electronic music. In contrast to much of the contemporaneous ambient music that soundtracked the era’s chillout rooms, SAW 2 has little interest in kitsch, exotica, futurist fantasies, or virtually any kind of communal experience: It’s private music that feels like floating in space, far from any human contact. The childlike quality of Aphex Twin’s albums from later in the decade here manifests itself as the spookiest sort of melancholy, suggesting haunted dollhouses in the cobwebbed attics of houses where nobody has lived for a long, long time. Detuned synthesizers clink like melting wind chimes wordless voices droop like wilting flowers, halfway between a lullaby and a sigh. James, cryptic as always, claimed he had recorded much of the album by practicing lucid dreaming-making music in a semiconscious state, essentially-and it’s not hard to believe, given the music’s hazy, otherworldly tones. Where Aphex Twin’s debut mostly showcased ethereal techno and breakbeat house, SAW 2 zeroed in on the purist essence of ambient music, much as Brian Eno had established it 16 years earlier: beatless, mysterious, and as ineffable as a beam of sunlight. 2 was more straightforward than its predecessor in one crucial way. Two years later, the follow-up maintained the ruse: None of its 20-odd tracks (the precise number differed according to format and country) had been previously released save for “Blue Calx,” which first appeared on a 1992 compilation. From its title, his debut album, 1992’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92, looked like a best-of collection-hardly what you’d expect from a newcomer. James, introduced himself to the world with a head fake.
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