Title: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Artist: Aphex Twin Release Date: 1993 Label: Apollo, Distance, PIAS America, Play It Again Sam, R & S Duration: 74:20 Album Type(s): Instrumental UPCs: 5055274700076, 632427763321, 805551010429, 5411659159226, 5411659169225, 796028144023 Genre: Electronica Styles: Techno, Ambient Techno, Experimental Techno, Experimental Ambient, IDM Moods: Eerie, Trippy, Circular, Eccentric, Fiery, Fractured, Freakish, Hypnotic, Ominous, Volatile, Cerebral, Clinical, Wintry, Calm/Peaceful, Complex, Detached, Ethereal, Intense, Irreverent, Melancholy, Nocturnal, Playful, Soothing, Whimsical, Aggressive, Gentle, Laid-Back/Mellow, Quirky, Visceral Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 12 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. 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

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD R & S 3922 2002 CD PIAS America 4 2000 CD Apollo 1003 2000 CD Distance 003 1993 CD Apollo 32332 ------ CD Play It Again Sam 000004

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Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is a desperately sparse album: thin percussion and several haunted-synth lines are the only components on most songs, and Richard D. James added only one vocal sample on the entire album ("We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"). Also, the sound quality is relatively poor; it was recorded direct to cassette tape and reportedly suffered a mangling job by a cat. All this belies the status of Selected Ambient Works 85-92 as a watershed of ambient music. It reveals no influences and sounds unlike anything that preceded it, due in large part to the effects James managed to wrangle from his supply of home-manufactured contraptions. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Name Credits Aphex Twin Synthesizer, Main Performer Richard D. James Composer, Producer