>Filled with songs from when he was literally 14-17 years old>Brutally mogged by his vastly superior future releases>2 good tracksWhy is this the Aphex Twin album people hold in the highest regard? It feels extremely adolescent.
>>127975693SAWII and Drukqs are better than SAW85-92, but all of his albums are good.
>>127975693Accessibility.
>songs from when he was literally 14-17 years oldimagine believing richard d james lies
>>127975693I think Syro is my favorite but you gotta admit this is like the most accessible non-vaporslop ambient album
>>127975803It's believable, it's on the whole rather simplistic compared to his later work.
>Accesible = bado i am laffin
>>127975835It's so accessible its laughable. Any normie would find it gay.
>>127976284WOULD
>>127976292a coworker of mine described this album as ''new age music with boom-tss-boom-tss beats'' back in 1997.
>>127976322It's 2025 and now every zoomer hates anything that's slightly strange and not Top 40 Hits. Have no clue why >>127976292 cares what a normie would think, assuming he's young.
>>127975849most of the album is from 1990 and latermike P. thinks none of the tracks were made in 85.
It's probably the best sounding of the early 90s ambient techno/ambient house albums. Probably sounds prettier than a lot of ambient techno that came after, too like Actress, Andy Stott etc. Most of his other stuff has schizo drums or is pure ambient which is cool but doesn't capture the same feeling.
>>127975693This album is basically electronic easy-listening music.
>>127975693*1 good trackXtal, which wears out its welcome
>>127976419I agree the album is very front-loaded, but xtal is the perfect length. cirklon 3 (the video from cheetah) is a track that wears out its welcome for me.
>>127976409So, like 90% of electronic music?
>>127976419I think green calx is good too
>>127976469i didn't listen to 100% of electronic music but I doubt it.
>>127975803It's totally believable, production-wise it's rather simple, and when it comes to composition, it's catchy but repetitiveYou want it to be a lie because you're not capable of doing something like that. It's a very Reddit mentality; very cynical and always dismissing anything great or interesting because "nah that can't be true, I was playing video games at that age."
>>127976535mike p. think it's a lie too.
>>127976477normieeeeeeeeeee
>>127975693Poor man's Carl Craig's BFC psychic.And afx made that music in the 90s
>>127976535It was a valid question.though. No need for deep psychological analysis of OP.
>>12797569390s techno is just better than breakbeat wankery
>>127975693SAW85-92 is simply less polarizing than his more evolved releases, which are more 'Love it or hate it:'
>>127976554The evidence of this is solely that the finished recording contains equipment not available until later, but that doesn't mean he the composition can't have been started beforehand.
>>127976292This shit came out in 92 and it's lofi as fuck, it doesn't sound normie at all in its context, of course you've heard so many cheap internet imitations and today there are too many artists with the same sound, so it doesn't sound special anymore but that doesn't make it "normie" you pretentious sub human zoomer
>>12797739540 year old virgin meltdown LOL
>>127976535>writing all that because someone dissed your idolthe only redditor here is (You)
>>127977709He literally called the music simplistic and basic lmao
>>127976284Imagine cumming on the Aphex Twin logo
>>127976284
Tha is a great track, the rest i can do without
>>127977665Do you guys think the people who say lol are really lol'ing as they type? 'Lol' seems to mark a desperate attempt to keep up the facade of not being triggered in a pointless fight rather than joy and levity
>>127975693I think most people who get really into Richard's discography hold his later works in higher regard, while still respecting SAW.
>>127975693it's because it got popular
I feel like syro came out last yesterdayTime flies/mu/ was still decent back then, and more relevant
2000s RDJ > 2010s RDJ > 1990s RDJ
>>127976350https://www.tiktok.com/@stillateacher/video/7541156136012057887You couldn't be more wrong.
>>127975693Selected Ambient Works Volume II [Sire, 1994]"Veering between an eerie beauty and an almost nightmarish desolation," intoneth Frank Owen. "Imbuing machine music with spirituality," saith Simon Reynolds. And, most incredibly, "Always a groove going on," quoth J.D. Considine. I mean, what are these dudes talking about? Not that ambient-techno wunderkind Richard James is offensive--when I played all two-and-a-half hours of this at a quiet thermal spring in Puerto Rico, the worst any of the attendant pensioners could say about James's nightmarish desolation was "interesting." And smack dab against Eno's instrumental box--well, if James really gets "physically ill if [his] music sounds like anybody else's," that's one consumer object he'd best not sully his expanded consciousness with. Thing is, James is rarely as rich as good Eno, not to mention good Eno-Hassell or Eno-Budd. One piece here does the trick (no titles or track listings--too Western, y'know--but it is, how crass, the lead cut) by folding in a child's voice (or is that one of his electronic friends?). In general, however, these experiments are considerably thinner ("purer," Owen wishes) and more static ("pulse dreamily," Considine dreams) than the overpriced juvenilia on the import-only Volume I. Anyway, a lot of Eno's "ambient" music could also be described as bland wallpaper. When Kyle Gann or (please God) Tom Johnson pumps a minimalist, I wonder whether I'm missing something. Otherwise I believe my own ears--and pull out David Berhman's On the Other Ocean/Music From a Clearing when I need deep background. B-
>>127976383>It's probably the best sounding of the early 90s ambient techno/ambient house albums. Come to daddy
it was not good enough for underground resistance
>>127975693tha is so kino i cri evritiembut yes it's certainly not his best. that honor goes to syro. i used to be a drukqsfag, but syro is the culmination of honing his skills over the years. it's fantastic from start to finish.
>>127975693I like it because it's simple
>>127976419Faggot noob opinion. There are many great tracks in there, my favs being Ptolemy, WATMM, and Schottkey 7th Path.
I just like how it sounds
>>127985865d-don't enjoy it you bastard!!! I'm telling you it's not good!
