Aphex Twin: Revisit 'Selected Ambient Works Volume II', first released in March 1994

'Selected Ambient Works Volume II', the first full length release by Richard D. James for Warp as Aphex Twin was released 20 years ago on 7th March 1994. The album is available from Bleep alongside the 2012 vinyl represses of '...I Care Because You Do' and 'Richard D. James Album'.

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Can't wait to hear this.

i was listening to this last night after seeing this thread. even after all these years i still feel very much that this album more than any others is...

  On 3/14/2014 at 4:38 PM, MadameChaos said:

i was listening to this last night after seeing this thread. even after all these years i still feel very much that this album more than any others is...

 

 

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quite good

 

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LOL... Blasphemy!!!

No album in the world like this. At first I hated it for a few years, took me while to tune my brain waves into the specific lay-lines of Richards Power Station.

changed my life for the better and I will always be grateful!

I played Blue Calx for some friends last night but had no idea it was the anniversary of this monumental achievement in art...

Yay!

regardless of how I rate this in my head it's the number one album I'd like to hear unused tracks from/stuff from around that era even if it's only vaguely related. Second being the Analords even with all the bonus tracks we got. And then maybe Tuss

  On 3/14/2014 at 8:24 PM, Atop said:

changed my life for the better and I will always be grateful!

 

 

this

nothing to add really, amazing album, i love it both on a musical and personal level.

Incredible album, it really shows how powerful ambient music can be..... in my opinion there is no other ambient album (ambient without beats at least, volume I is another story) that even comes close to this album. So many tracks are so alien and otherworldly, they sound like they come from some infinitely different dimension...

Meditating to this album will truly take you to another level.

Lichen pls

still no vinyl repress of this. When 1972 released a vinyl version from the CD masters, I consulted watmm forum on whether I should've purchased one. Well, at that time only RDJ Album and ICBYD were being repressed by warp, so I figured that they'd not repress SAW2. It seems I'll most likely listen to SAW2 in flac on my computer, and maybe occasionally play through the vinyl, despite a few missing tracks, when I feel like it.

I would disagree that it feels otherworldly, maybe I'm influenced by the track titles but it reminds me more of the real world but all distorted and through some weird lens, or like one of those pictures by some stoner where they just inverted the colors on a photo, except unlike the picture it feels like YOU'RE THERE man

i thought about starting a thread on the 7th - but i didn't because i was lazy.

but yes this is a landmark album - probably one of my top 5. every time it reveals something new

I only really, really like from this album: Stone In Focus, Liche, Rhubarb, Z Twig, Blue Calx. I still can't get into the other tracks

RDJ's highpoint, his best record. In my humble opinion of course

I often try to imagine what the songs would be like with their original drum tracks.

Good on WARP/Bleep keeping the tracknames untitled, the WAY IT SHOULD BE.

FKN REISSUE PLZ

  On 3/15/2014 at 6:58 AM, logakght said:

I only really, really like from this album: Stone In Focus, Liche, Rhubarb, Z Twig, Blue Calx. I still can't get into the other tracks

me too

what a special album

  On 3/20/2014 at 3:50 AM, murphythecat8 said:

 

  On 3/15/2014 at 6:58 AM, logakght said:

I only really, really like from this album: Stone In Focus, Liche, Rhubarb, Z Twig, Blue Calx. I still can't get into the other tracks

me too

what a special album

 

Those tracks are special. Damn... This type of stuff is what makes life so beautiful.

  On 3/17/2014 at 4:21 PM, Joyrex said:

Good on WARP/Bleep keeping the tracknames untitled, the WAY IT SHOULD BE.

  On 3/15/2014 at 6:58 AM, logakght said:

I still can't get into the other tracks

try to listen to Tree and Blur as well

  On 3/15/2014 at 5:54 AM, dr lopez said:

every time it reveals something new

  On 3/20/2014 at 9:21 AM, Friendly Foil said:

 

  On 3/17/2014 at 4:21 PM, Joyrex said:

Good on WARP/Bleep keeping the tracknames untitled, the WAY IT SHOULD BE.

Yea Rhubarb is sweet.

 

[untitled] was always captivating to me for some reason.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/aphex-twin-selected-ambient-works-volume-ii/