What is the creepiest Selected Ambient Works Volume II track?

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This is, I think, the only Aphex album I haven't heard. Could someone YSI it please?

chrisco (chrisco), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link

dude, it's a double album with massive everlasting tracks - you'll be lucky. that said i'm not saying no-one should.

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link

YSI? it's a double album!

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jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link

All the more tedious to get off of slsk in its entirety, and at a university where bittorent is blocked, I can't use oink. That said, completely understandable, size-wise. All I need is one kind soul.

chrisco (chrisco), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

just buy the CD, lazy bones.

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, go buy it at warpmart even.

cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

errr, bleep.com

cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps I will

chrisco (chrisco), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Christ, it's the last track on the first disc, for sure. The one with all the nervous, edgy crowd noise. One of his signature sinister moves to wake you up out of your bliss'd ambient stupor. I was always tempted to edit this track out when playing it as sleep music but it just didn't feel right ... I remember waking up more than once, terrified, completely unsure of where I was but suffering from sensations of ghost people rezzing in and out all across the room.

Dare (Dare), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I have never found this record creepy. is wonder creepy? this record is too architectural to be creepy. it's like Shadow of the Colossus, or that Borges story where the guy finds the city of the immortals. it's the feeling of wandering around mysterious ruins, washed out by too-bright sunlight, knowing that there is no other human being within a hundred miles or a thousand years. there is a word for that feeling, but creepy is not that word.

bernard snowy, Monday, 16 July 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Is it just me, or are the song names hugely varied depending on what release one has? I have track titles on my copy that dont match up with, for eg, what lastfm lists as the track titles. For example what lastfm calls "Z-Twig" is called something else on my copy (some one word noun. I dont have it on me to check right now).

Trayce, Monday, 16 July 2007 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link

There are a couple of variants. I didn't know there were any versions where the tracks were actually named on the artwork. All the UK releases had just pictures, as far as I know.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 16 July 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link

No youre right I dont think mine has titles, just whatever it pulled off of freedb.

Trayce, Monday, 16 July 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link

this record is too architectural to be creepy. it's like Shadow of the Colossusyes!

haitch, Monday, 16 July 2007 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link

oops. but that is the perfect analogy, it's the aural equivalent to that bleached-out and abandoned look of shadow... and ico.

haitch, Monday, 16 July 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link

I missed the chance to buy this on vinyl a couple of years ago :( Worst "I'm gonna wait another few weeks and then decide" ever.

Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 16 July 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link

toss-up between "Curtains" and "Tassels"

Mr. Snrub, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link

I think the only track I find flat-out creepy is the penultimate one on Disc 2 (White Blur 2, I think) -- just a short evil-circus loop with sped-up laughter on top, repeat for 11+ minutes. I guess it's almost cliche-creepy. OMG guys fingers crossed that they'll use it during the baby-stabbing scene in Saw 7!

Lie Bot, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

search: more aphex shit that sounds like disc 1 track 8 please

get a goal (rionat), Friday, 26 February 2010 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link

there isn't any
it's pretty singular

nakhchivan, Friday, 26 February 2010 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link

this is the track i mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu8TsWN-nHg

get a goal (rionat), Friday, 26 February 2010 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link

got no sound on work computers, remind me which one this is using words

National Sockpuppet Helpline (Noodle Vague), Friday, 26 February 2010 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link

for the deep loping bass try some of the analords

for the general air of distracted menace try xepha off the on ep or icct hedral off i care because you do

Karen Tregaskin, Friday, 26 February 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link

it's the track with the filtered tabla beat and massive b-line

get a goal (rionat), Friday, 26 February 2010 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh shi

Yeah, Karen kind of on the money. Couple of the tracks on Analogue Bubblebath 4 go there a bit too.

National Sockpuppet Helpline (Noodle Vague), Friday, 26 February 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

Dude. I've probably listened to Pomme Fritz nearly as many times as SAW II (which is to say a metric fuckton of times), so how did I only just now notice that 'His Immortal Logness' contains the same creepy laugh sample (apparently taken from whatever the original source is???) as SAW II track 2.11 ('White Blur 2')?

(at roughly 0:54, if the embed doesn't work)
https://youtu.be/GpCWtLtKJGc?t=54

Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link


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