Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

"Xtal", lame but true

We've done this before.

"heliosphan" is the one that springs to mind for me.

I always go back and forth between Ageispolis and Delphium but it's usually Ageispolis. (They're actually quite similar both in structure and melodically, but I just love the bleep sound on Ageispolis.)

We've done this before.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Saturday, 18 September 2010 12:29 (2 minutes ago)

rly? i thought so too but none in the archives unless it has a strange title

Yeah, it was probably called something stupid like Xtpoll - then again, perhaps it was SAWII I'm thinking of.

(Not that I'm complaining, mind you, there can never be enough Aphex Twin threads for me.)

That said, I'm still dithering about Rephresh tonight because I hate going to things like that by myself. :-(

http://www.rephresh.com ?

Ah, this one. Apologies. : http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/london/event/the-return-of-rephresh/at/corsica-studios/

I like Ptolemy.

heliosphan!

tha

The first 4 are all great and after that I can't remember which tracks are which. But, damn, those first 4 are really great. Probably voting xtal or Ageispolis.

Tha

Ageispolis, for the bassline. Heliosphan also great.

Noodle otm

Surprisingly, it doesn't look like we have done this before.

Xtal.

you think he got permission from Gene Wilder for the sample on We Are The Music Makers?

http://m.blog.hu/le/lemezborze/image/bor%C3%ADt%C3%B3k/blue-nile-a-walk-across-the-rooftops.jpeg

haha woooooops wrong thread

THA btw

Xtal, Tha, We Are The Music Makers*, and Schottkey 7th Path are all great, but the winner is Ageispolis.

*whose sample I was alarmed to stumble across while briefly watching Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

I'm still convinced, convinced I can hear Only Fools and Horses samples in Tha. I can hear Del Boy saying "king in the castle" at one point.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Ptolemy! all the way ptolemy ptolemy ptolemy!

this is such a special album, could conceivably vote for at least half the tracks

another album i didn't srsly take an interest in for years despite liking most of the rest of afx, but i'm mystified in retrospect because this is such a transparently brilliant record

the gossamer synths and electro insistency create a lighter-than-air driftiness that's really unplaceable, not kosmische but not of this world (whereas the second selected ambient works is very much a chthonic creature)

nothing gets close

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

that's pretty conclusive

maybe it's the only track name ppl can remember? not saying xtal isn't loved (has its own thread) but there are so many good tracks on this

Would've voted Green Calx

oops i missed this. different favorites over the years, probly ptolemy right now

Anyone know if there is a discernible difference between the original version and the 2008 remaster? I have an early US CD version of this that's showing signs of disc rot and want to upgrade, but I'm wary of remasters (unless the differences are negligible)

"Music Makers"