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Now, lets discuss Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II [WARP CD21]. Details can be found Any messages NOT related to this particular release will be deleted by the Moderators. Keep it clean! Please, report any abuses to the Moderators. |
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i listened to stone in focus three times today. this album, as a whole, is definitely his best work. |
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i strongly disagree. there are some blissful tracks here but as a whole, it really drags. some tracks are just downright annoying. |
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hmmm. as far as i'm concerned, this one doesn't get the attention that something like rdj album gets or even drukqs for that matter. its just got an alien yet warm quality about it that hes never come close to matching. |
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beautiful atmospheres... not in the sense that you throw it on and forget about it, but that you throw it on and it consumes you |
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it's got that quality, no doubt - and it's definitely interesting. i'd never say it's his best work though. |
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i agree mostly. it is his best work. it covers a lot, if not all spectrums of emotion,......it is beautiful one moment, dark and desperate in another, nervous, lighthearted, foolish, aloof, fantastical, its crazy good genius work material...... it doesnt get old.... [lichen] is my favorite and most beautifullest of all....... |
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probably the best album ever made for sleeping as well. its one of the few i've actually fallen asleep to, woken up in the middle of, and thought i was still dreaming because of the strangeness of the noises. some of the tracks are just scary. |
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[hexagon] and [windowsill] are gems also....... |
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z twig and rhubarb also. and blue calx. |
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im happy to listen to the album all the way through. this album would stand up as one of the best albums ever written. one side of the aphex coin i can really enjoy. |
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its interesting to me because this one seems to divide his fans. from what i've seen on this board, most people who started listening to him pre-drukqs like this album, and alot who started listening after that point can't get into it. |
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my favourite tracks are Rhubarb, Match Sticks, Blue Calx... and my absolute favourite is Weathered Stone |
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It's hard to say "best" with aphex but i'd say it's his most cohesive album, and probably the one i listen to most. |
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I only started listening to Aphex in 2002, yet this has remained my favourite of his albums right from the word go. It's the only one where I don't skip any tracks at all. I wish I could make something a thousandth as good as this. |
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i started listening with drukqs and this album is still one of my favourites... but i already loved ambient music at that point... |
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well, perhaps my generalization about drukqs fans is wrong, but it definitely seems to divide his fans. |
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That's true. |
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tragedy loves this album |
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i hated it at first because it was the second aphex release I ever bougth (the first was Drukqs, oops!). It has grown on me with time. I think it is crazy to say it is his best work though. It's downright boring. This is not an album you can just sit and listen to, you have to be doing something (preferably sleeping). |
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Speak for yourself. I don't find it remotely boring, and can easily sit down and listen to it. It's my favourite Aphex Twin release by a mile. |
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i read the majority of Lullaby while listening to it, that definately created a strange atmosphere. |
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Travelling with it as a soundtrack is excellent. |
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It's indeed his best album. Truly groundbreaking work. Truly out of this world ambient music, he had some divine inspiration for this one. This one is a means of transportation to the outerspace realms. Nothing he has done before or since even comes close to it. The nearest thing would be ICBYD but it's still pretty far removed. |
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the best album for sleeping is not SAWII , i was thinking it was untli Sigur Ros didnt came with their albims |
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() is good for sleep and or pain killer consumption |
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its true, a little bit of morphine in the arm and sigur ros in the ears make for a very relaxing time |
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its a comfort to put this album on and hear the first note, knowing whats in store... definitely my favorite aphex. :) |
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This is probably my least favorite album by him. I'm not too keen on straight-up Ambient. Although, the song 'Cliffs' is one of his best. I don't know, if I was looking to Ambient, I feel that Global Communication's '76:14' is better overall. |
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I wouldn't say it's his best, because I don't think it's right to compare it to his other albums, being that it's different alltogether. But it is a perfect album |
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5 or so songs from this album were used in the soundtrack to a documentary about amish girls in indiana turning 16 and going into "normal" society to party and decide if they want to stay amish. It was shitty and depressing. |
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its called "devils playground" and you can rent it at blockbuster but i don't recommend it. |
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wow im sorry i should have used the search engine this has already been mentioned. |
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'Cliffs' was used in some insurance Agency commercial during all 7 games of the 2001 World Series. |
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a nice album. its not drukqs, but what is? this is a quality release anyways. Rhubarb and Stone in Focus are my favs. |
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Gold. |
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rdj is my favourite aphex, followed by this. perfect for sleeping to. |
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Yeah but no but yeah but no but It has some great tracks definitely, some fucking great tracks... but I agree with magicant, weaker tracks are of course present, so with tracks these lengths the album is bound to drag. To sleep to I prefer something with a little (lot) more depth and texture; such as Eno's On Land or Global Communication's 76:14, or more variation melodically.. like on Eno/Budd album Plateaux of Mirror and Vangelis' Blade Runner. |
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This, groundbreaking? Atmospheric? Have you people not heard any dark ambient music? People like Brian Eno, Steve Roach, Lustmord, Robert Rich, Michael Stearns etc. have been doing this far better and much earlier. The Magnificent Void by Steve Roach and Stalker by Robert Rich and Lustmord shit all over this in terms of texture, atmosphere, coherancy, and depth. And YES they can be compared because all are deep, minimal, purely atmospheric works, except the former mentioned ones are miles ahead of SAWII. |
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Groundbreaking, no. Atmospheric, yes. I've heard Eno, Steve Roach, Rob Rich, and none of them come close to SAWII in terms of atmosphere for me. |
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Ok, maybe it's a personal thing. But really, SAWII sounds too unfinished and is plain bad in places, ruining the atmosphere. Stuff like Stalker is just as personal and powerful, and atmospheric, but has a bonus of being very well produced, put together, and thought out. |
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i second my opinion on this. still his best. groundbreaking? no. amazing? yes. |
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it´s an excellent album to listen to while having sex as well... and i agree that it´s his best relase so far. maybe one of the best ambient albums of all time. |
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best for sleeping is Shuttle358's Understang Wildlife or James Johnson and Robert Scott Thompson's Forgotten Places |
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what kind of sex do you have gack!? ;) |
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one thing no one mentioned yet: may be the best record to have sex to ever. |
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I actually put this on repeat when I went to bed last night. My fav Aphex release, for sure. |
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"if the monolith from 2001 could speak, this is what it would say" |
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what kind of sex do you have gack!? ;) -> transcending. |
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There are far better ambient albums. |
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