selected ambient works 85-92 was released 25 years ago today

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bliss

  On 2/12/2017 at 4:42 PM, MIXL2 said:

bliss

Pure and absolute.  

Nice incentive to remind everyone that Renaat from R&S was interviewed on Belgian radio during the Syro media hype, where he told he was in contact with Aphex for... Something undisclosed. Not long after we had Aphex posting that SAW 1.5 playlist on soundcloud, omitting certain tracks and alt versions of some released tracks for a possible future release. 

Not expecting anything because you know how things go, but that would be lovely :) proper release of Sams Car is totally warranted.
 

thanks rich for this gift!

  On 2/12/2017 at 5:11 PM, Herr Jan said:

Nice incentive to remind everyone that Renaat from R&S was interviewed on Belgian radio during the Syro media hype, where he told he was in contact with Aphex for... Something undisclosed. Not long after we had Aphex posting that SAW 1.5 playlist on soundcloud, omitting certain tracks and alt versions of some released tracks for a possible future release. 

 

Not expecting anything because you know how things go, but that would be lovely :) proper release of Sams Car is totally warranted.

 

Came here to post that ha ! I do hope an updated SAW will see the light of the day - if it's not this year, then maybe for the 30th, 35th, 40th anniversary???

x2

  On 2/12/2017 at 5:11 PM, Herr Jan said:

 proper release of Sams Car is totally warranted.
 

x 2 

Same here

I feel so old thanks to this news, thanks Richard!

the first Aphex I ever heard... substantial impact. Still probably my most-listened to record of his, though the sc stuff has been in my rotation nonstop since the dump.

xtal is now and since the very first time on my top ten of all time...

Saw 3 would make my year tbh

xtal, tha and actium till i die

This was actually the last Aphex Twin album I got around to checking out for some reason, after years of spinning Drukqs/ICBYD/SAW2/RDJ Album etc. I was even into stuff like Chosen Lords and The Tuss before I laid ears on SAW85-92, which I'm aware is quite a strange trajectory.

But yeh I got around to it eventually and fackin loved it. Soundtracked many of my rainy bus/train commutes in 2010.

Hope that 25th anniversary reissue is imminent/actually happening. I don't own this on vinyl yet and I've held off getting it since the SAW1.5 playlist. C'mon doods! (don't forget the Heliosphan acid mix either)

Cool image

yeah that is pretty cool

Tha is one of his greatest. Just perfectly navigates the border between braindance (stuck to a sofa and stuck inside the primal cerebral pathways inside your skull) and a fucking savage, rave in a field (locked into some primal dance).