― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:37 (twenty years ago) link
While I think this is balderdash, I do hold the "piano" pieces on Druqks in very high regard, despite the general spottiness of that album. If I had a CD burner, I'd make myself a special EP of just those tracks. The very last track, in particular, is so beautiful it hurts.
― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:38 (twenty years ago) link
The first track he was known for was Didgeridoo, which was pretty pounding. But the next was Analogue Bubblebath, which was classically fluffy.
His beats are crap! They really are.
― Ben Williams, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
''No dude, SAW I was his first big release on Warp! I comes before II, you see...''
ok thought it was on that label from belgium, my memory fails me again at this late hour.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Williams, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:45 (twenty years ago) link
Possibly because the track is called the "Original Mix"?
SAW 85-92 and SAWII are both gorgeous and brilliant. I couldn't possibly choose.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, okay, whoops.
It would be quite something if all the tracks on that album really had started out like that, and then had the beats removed on a whim.
― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
Just read this and I agree with everything Clarke B said. I like the long silences in the middle - they get very interesting in the wee hours, especially if you're half awake because it's the silences that make you wake up!
Um, Ben Williams is very VERY wrong btw. SAW1 was on R&S, not Warp. Polygon Window was RDJ's first album on Warp. And the Twin's beats rule. Obviously people are forgetting "I Care Because You Do", probably the most consistent (and best) beat-driven Aphex album. The RDJ Album and Come To Daddy are great as well.
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
...and Green Calx is better than all three of them.
I don't have SAWII, so I'm going to hold off on rating it until I get a copy.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
don't you just hate posting something you already said months ago on the same thread?
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
Me too Gaz. What a disappointment.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 July 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 17 July 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Clarke B., Thursday, 17 July 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
er, piano is a percussion instrument?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:12 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:22 (twenty years ago) link
Okay, does anyone here actually find nothing at all remotely disturbing about these tracks? Yes the record is in some sense quite beautiful, but god how some of those sound worlds get under my skin! Maybe it's good I've never done acid...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:32 (twenty years ago) link
Yes. I listened to SAWII while shrooming one time. Everyone went to some godawful bar to celebrate someone's birthday so I was all alone. I eventually had to turn it off because it was 'giving me bad vibes, maaan.' I do wish there were more hauntingly beautiful tracks on there, such as the one Clarke just mentioned (Disc 1, Track 3--which to me isn't lonesome, but instead evokes the feeling of lying in bed in the arms of a lover)(but it does have that 'all is right w/the world, too bad I'll eventually die' mood too)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:46 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 17 July 2003 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
Clarke B's story about his dad and Disc 1, Track 3, aka One Of the Most Beautiful Songs Ever = genius.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 July 2003 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
"Selected Ambient Works 85-92, 2x12" (R&S)Selected Ambient Works 85-92, CD (Distance)Selected Ambient Works 85-92, CD (Apollo)Selected Ambient Works 85-92, CD (Apollo)"
i dont remember it ever being on warp either.the warp site shows the 'on' ep to be the first aphex record out on warp, 15.11.93
― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 July 2003 09:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 17 July 2003 10:20 (twenty years ago) link
Call me old-fashioned, but I like my beats to have at least a minimal sense of rhythm.
― Ben Williams, Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Clarke B., Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 17 July 2003 18:30 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
SAW1 makes me immensely happy and brings make too many good memories of being in London and my conversion from serious student to clubber; SAW2 is rewarding, but not immediate in the same way as SAW1.
I listened to both this week, and SAW1 wins.
― Nik (Nik), Friday, 9 April 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
― don, Friday, 9 April 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 9 April 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
Strangely that sentiment also neatly describes how I feel about Nirvana's Nevermind and In Utero.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 10 April 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 10 April 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I never found out when the songs were recorded but Xtal gives the impression of being quite old, doesn't it?
I'm going to play this now.
― A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I know, I know ILM. Hold your breath.
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Tha always makes me feel like I'm in my high school gym. Not cause I played it in there either...
― A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyways, Killian Murphy was OTM in his initial remark that the first two tracks were the best thing on the album.
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 6 November 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer: none of th movies make scence but they r good. (latebloomer), Monday, 6 November 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― All The Furniture Is In The Garage (Bimble...), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― pipecock (pipecock), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess so..perhaps some just resonate with me more
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 7 April 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
he comes up with some gnarly bass lines, like those in 4 bit, papat4, and Xmas_Evet10 on Syro. hell, even the circlont14 (Shrymoming mix) 20-step bass breakdown is good for a calboti (an internal chuckle). the textures are surely popping, or maybe they're just remarkable. papat4 is elating, the bass is burgeoning.. but it's short-lived. oh, Aphex *sigh*
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 8 April 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/_1Pk2bKF3xs
this Aleksi Perälä character uses tonalities (Colundi Sequences?) that vaguely recall saw II.. giant catalog of his stuff on Bandcamp
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 8 April 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_ClJ9nikY
― dollar general (am0n), Monday, 10 April 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for sharing that am0n. Getting serious tingles.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link