Selected ambient works volume II / Marc Weidenbaum.
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TextSeries: 33 1/3Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2014Description: 132 pages ; 17 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781623568900 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Aphex Twin. Selected ambient works volume IIDDC classification: 781.6'48 Summary: Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex Twin's Selected ambient works volume II, released by the British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was his first full length on Sire Records (home to Madonna and Depeche Mode), which helped usher in Richard D. James, for whom Aphex Twin is but one of numerous monikers, as a major force in music, electronic or otherwise. This book contends that despite a reputation for being beat-less, the album exudes percussive curiosity, providing a sonic metaphor for our technologically mediated era of countless synchronized nanosecond metronomes.
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Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex Twin's Selected ambient works volume II, released by the British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was his first full length on Sire Records (home to Madonna and Depeche Mode), which helped usher in Richard D. James, for whom Aphex Twin is but one of numerous monikers, as a major force in music, electronic or otherwise. This book contends that despite a reputation for being beat-less, the album exudes percussive curiosity, providing a sonic metaphor for our technologically mediated era of countless synchronized nanosecond metronomes.
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