Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
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Enotron
October 30th 2011


7695 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

i dig the dated sound, the sort of eery, low-quality beats. it all has like a really delicate, refreshing effect on me.

Rev
October 30th 2011


9882 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This is so easy to get lost in

robertsona
Staff Reviewer
October 30th 2011


27438 Comments


i do love the way he employs reverb. "xtal" and "tha" kill

seriously though people who like this, check out basic channel

Valerius
October 30th 2011


1137 Comments


I don't consider this true ambient as well for the same reason. It isn't bad, but the beats keep it from being great ambient, and the beats aren't strong enough to be really memorable. It was a pretty good listen to me, though.

I'm not as pro about electronic as some users on here, but from what I've been listening to recently:

Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht: This shit here is mind blowing. This is my favorite so far. This music will go right into your mind, and then right into your body.

Tangerine Dream - Phaedre: This is really damn good. This album set the bar for ambient I think, and to some it has not been beat.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn: this might be their most instrumental album. Autobahn itself is an amazing track, but the other tracks are awesome and what I consider more ambient.

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene: another great one.

robertsona
Staff Reviewer
October 30th 2011


27438 Comments


those all rule, check out oneohtrix point never and emeralds and harald grosskopf if you haven't

Valerius
October 30th 2011


1137 Comments


Thanks.

Mikesn
Emeritus
October 30th 2011


3707 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

seriously though people who like this, check out basic channel
I wasn't able to get into BCD the last time I listened to it, but I'll try again later tonight I guess

Valerius
October 30th 2011


1137 Comments


If you think this is superb, then Klaus Schulze is about to blow the top of your head off. I'd wear a helmet. You might want to strap yourself down, or lay down comfortably as well. Just remember to breathe, and remind yourself - this is just music....right?

robertsona
Staff Reviewer
October 30th 2011


27438 Comments


"I wasn't able to get into BCD the last time I listened to it, but I'll try again later tonight I
guess"

just close your eyes and imagine you're playing one of those shitty old fps games where the framerate
is super bad and everything is shaped like a block and the only colors are white and off-white

aok
October 30th 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

i just bought jerome froese's 'C8 H10 N4 O2' and that is a rather incredible track.



tangerine dream is more mobile ambient if that makes sense but i absolutely love both td and rdj, even though i feel like rdj isn't for everyone

Mikesn
Emeritus
November 1st 2011


3707 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

just close your eyes and imagine you're playing one of those shitty old fps games where the framerate

is super bad and everything is shaped like a block and the only colors are white and off-white
ha awesome

Deviant.
Staff Reviewer
November 1st 2011


32289 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't consider this true ambient as well for the same reason. It isn't bad, but the beats keep it from being great ambient, and the beats aren't strong enough to be really memorable.




I can agree with this to an extent, but I personally think it's the beats themselves that really drive this album. Aphex is a man who concerns himself with what things might sound like when they're turned inside out and ripped into shreds. I don't think more minimal musings are his true calling, and I think that the beats are a way for him to experiment while still falling within the realms of ambient

Valerius
November 1st 2011


1137 Comments


Since you 5 this Deviant, I'll give it another spin sometime.

Also Brian Eno and Steve Roach have some great ambient that's more soothing. Their stuff kind of puts me to sleep but if you like that kind of ambient I'd definitely check them out.

aok
November 1st 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Aphex is a man who concerns himself with what things might sound like when they're turned inside out and ripped into shreds




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Jekub
November 1st 2011


289 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

thinking about giving this a 5, it's so good

Aids
November 14th 2011


24512 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

holy exaggeration batman

aok
November 14th 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

hehe - baseline's the worst

Jekub
November 14th 2011


289 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

you should do it then, I would listen to it

aok
November 14th 2011


4621 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

(@base) to your credit i wouldn't ever accuse you of being boring. more like misguided and an attention whore, but to each his own i s'pose

Yotimi
December 19th 2011


7666 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

both rule



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