The title seems a bit suspicious, not just for the well-noted fact that, if «85-92» is to be believed, James must have recorded some of these tracks when he was 13 years old (he is not trumping W. Now it has to be made clear that, by any possible standard established in the vast jungle world of Electronica, Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is a damn good album. James to dig 'em up, give 'em a good dusting, modernize them with techno beats and, in the process, become a worshipped trendsetter. If anything, it mostly goes to show how deep in the ground all the talentless people had managed to bury the classic achievements of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, and Klaus Schulze by the end of the Eighties that it took somebody like Richard D. Pangaeian reverence does not get much stranger than the pedestal established for Aphex Twin and, in particular, this album, critically acknowledged as his masterwork. But just where exactly do we draw the line? And what about history? How come we apply the moniker of IDM to Nineties' electronica? Isn't Prince supposed to be IDM? The early Beatles? Chuck Berry? Johann Strauss, Sr.?. Where does one draw the line between «intelligence» and its opposite (say, «dumbness») in dance music? So let us assume that the average nameless techno rave at your local club, say, three or four notes looped ad infinitum with a minimum of pitch and tone mutations counting as «development» is «dumb dance music», as opposed to the «intelligent» works of Richard D. Musical genre names do not get much sillier than «IDM». APHEX TWIN: SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS 85-92 (1992)ġ) Xtal 2) Tha 3) Pulsewidth 4) Ageispolis 5) I 6) Green Calx 7) Heliosphan 8) We Are The Music Makers 9) Schottkey 7th Path 10) Ptolemy 11) Hedphelym 12) Delphium 13) Actium.
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