Aphex Twin Whats so great about Selected Ambient Works 85-92?

Cats love Tha. Jus so you know

Is that a fact or did you just figure cause they get up and leave when Pulsewidth starts?

i just know cats, ok

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guess what

there were loads of so called "ambient" records out long before rdj-as all of you well know

its s nice listen

it holds up with said "prior" releases

here is a little industry secret-"new age"releases still sell steadily to boomers

he got over on the word ambient

its a trick and eno learned it first

the success of saw most likely financed all the other shit we love-but then wtf do i know?

  On 11/27/2010 at 11:44 PM, yikes said:

he got over on the word ambient

its a trick and eno learned it first

not only did he learn it first, he invented it.

(edit: inb4shitstorm - not ambient, but the term)

  On 11/27/2010 at 11:44 PM, yikes said:

the success of saw most likely financed all the other shit we love-but then wtf do i know?

this is true, and i am thankful :)

I still don't own this and am entirely unfamiliar with it. I've heard his unreleased tracks more than I have heard this album. It's nice knowing there's available Aphex Twin material out there that I still have yet to explore after all these years. Pretty sure I've heard most of it at some point or other, but chances are there are a few tracks on it that would still be entirely new to me.

own it, get familiar with it, before the world ends and everything

You're unfamiliar with 85-92 only or with both S.A.W.'s?

Its still one of my favourites, along with the Orbs stuff, Howie B, Eno et all. Quite a lot of his records though do have very nice ambient moments its just that SAW 85 - 92 and SAW II immersed itself with the ambient themes. Some of the stuff he has been playing in some of the shows over the summer could easily form a basis for a SAW 3.

  On 11/28/2010 at 4:24 PM, Hi T Moonweed said:

Some of the stuff he has been playing in some of the shows over the summer could easily form a basis for a SAW 3.

Seen this yet?

that's actually pretty cool looking

  On 11/28/2010 at 3:12 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

You're unfamiliar with 85-92 only or with both S.A.W.'s?

I'm just unfamiliar with 85-92.

Absolutely love this album, headphones is the best way to listen to it imo. The record has so much soul, like someone else said

  On 11/29/2010 at 2:26 AM, Terpentintollwut said:

  On 11/28/2010 at 4:24 PM, Hi T Moonweed said:

Some of the stuff he has been playing in some of the shows over the summer could easily form a basis for a SAW 3.

 

Seen this yet?

 

 

This would make a great Melodies from Mars cover...

True, it is actually a crater on the Mars surface too

nothing really unless you got into aphex before C2D, or if you are into aphex enough that you can identify his style in earlier works and understand how it is progressed into his more recent endeavors.

take a holiday in cornwall and you will understand

I really wish I could hear another album's worth of tracks like these. He definitely has a million tracks from this era, it would be a great Christmas present from old Saint Rich.

analord era material was really nice, but SAW 8592 fossils would be the greatest gift ever

The technical and production side of it might sound a bit dated, but it's simply one of those die hard classics.

The first time I took acid I came down to this album, and after that night Ageispolis escpecially has been quite sacred to me.

  On 11/23/2010 at 1:34 PM, 40days said:

I've always thought that the acidphakist's consensus is that this is his magnum opus, anyway.

I like this music because I do

I think it might be his most consistent in terms of straight-up songwriting (keeping in mind I haven't heard everything he's done). Every other album has at least a few parts where focus is put more on crazy electro experimenting & atmosphere (which is just as good, but in it's own way), where as SAW85 for the most part feels like traditional songs that happen to be made with synths & drum machines.

  On 12/29/2010 at 2:32 AM, Cryptowen said:

I think it might be his most consistent in terms of straight-up songwriting (keeping in mind I haven't heard everything he's done). Every other album has at least a few parts where focus is put more on crazy electro experimenting & atmosphere (which is just as good, but in it's own way), where as SAW85 for the most part feels like traditional songs that happen to be made with synths & drum machines.

i like this part of the music.