![]() There's nothing new about this re-release, aside from improved availability and decreased cost. ![]() Now, as a new wave of mostly twenty-somethings step to the forefront of IDM, redefining electronic music for the third time in a decade, it becomes more and more obvious just how far reaching James' influence was. But James was still the posterboy, the presumed ringmaster, single-handedly defining a style of music in the minds of many. Sure, there were upstarts \xB5-Ziq, Squarepusher and Autechre were all on the scene by the time this collection hit shelves. James was to this new breed of ambient and electronic music what Babe Ruth was to baseball. After last year's disappointing Drukqs, it's easy to forget that, back in the Warp Records heyday, Richard D. ![]() What's become apparent since is that I probably wasn't the only one affected. Back then, Aphex Twin was making music like nothing I'd ever heard before. The creeping basslines, the constantly mutating drum patterns, the synth tones which moved with all the grace and fluidity of a professional dancer, the strange noises that I'd be unable to identify even if I tried. Long ago, before I was old enough to drive, I would sit in a small, cluttered bedroom in my parents' suburban ranch house, absorbed for hours by the sounds contained on this disc. Because Selected Ambient Works 85-92- recently reissued by PIAS America- was the very first electronic music I ever bought, and certainly the first I ever heard over and over again.
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