Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Volume II Poll

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rhubarb

STONE IN FOCUS FOREVAH U HOZERS

ok no. Rhubarb.

lichen, then rhubarb, then stone in focus

Cause it's gonna be a landslide for "Rhubarb", I'll pick my other favourite, "Windowsill".

matchsticks

Ropes/Curtains

Wait, no, that's not right.

Top 5:

1. Stone in Focus
2. White Blur 2
3. Rhubarb
4. Radiator
5. Tassels

Probably be a stone in focus landslike tbh.

Ha, much of this album is tainted for me by Chris Morris employing a lot of it for the Blue Jam radio sketches.
I am voting for Rhubarb.

thing is, stone in focus is missing from quite a few editions, weirdly.

stone in focus (and should be a landslide for this).

shiny metal rods is also great - when I first heard that track it scared the shit out of me b/c I wasn't expecting it but that grinding beat is tiiight

match sticks

In addition to the ones mentioned above, I'd also make a special mention for the gorgeously melancholic "Blue Calx". Also, I always thought the run from "Z Twig" to "Lichen" was a particular high point on the album - not including "Stone In Focus" cause I didn't have the vinyl.

Rhubarb, then cliffs, then maybe blue calx.

If the rest of the album sounded like these tracks then it'd be as good as everyone makes it out to be.

http://pnauert.googlepages.com/rhubarb-landslide.jpg

yeh, stone in focus FTW.

the opening of cliffs is my login sound effect

You guys are missing the point.
We need to listen to the <A HREF=http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar.php?itemnr=4801916190>;popsike listing</A> that tells us "there is no track listing to the record"

oops damn my not converting simple html to bbcode lazy wayz

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C L I F F S

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who comes up with these titles?

This album.. Listening again for the first time in years and it's still fantastic. I'm definitely hearing things in this I never noticed back when. Shame polls don't let you do second and third choices because obviously track 3 won it, but what are people's other faves?

02 [radiator] 06:27 1-02 / A-2
07 [ropes] aka [curtains] 08:42 1-07 / B-3
14 [parallel stripes] 07:55 2-02 / D-2
13 Blue Calx 07:16 2-01 / D-1
18 [windowsill] aka [siding nails] 07:13 2-06 / E-1
01 [cliffs] 07:21 1-01 / A-1
19 [stone in focus] aka [wall-to-wall carpet] aka #19 10:05 - / E-2

every track on this is awesome though

Curtains is definitely a highlight. I really like the one that sounds like someone saying 'Tun tun... Tun tun'. Spooky kid voices can go either way. In this case it works.

This album works better when you sequence the songs in alphabetical order, from "Blue Calx" to "Z Twig." Gets less ambient and more out-there, and then "Z Twig" is the sound of waking up to a bright sunshiney morning.

Favourites are blue calx, cliffs, lichen and rhubarb. Used to fall asleep to this album but would wake up during the desolate windy track that feels like a hell scape, not sure the name. Usually stopped the discman at that point.

the one with the flute

no not that one pls

ahhh but it's so spooky!

ross pretty much nailed the uberpretty ones... i still can't even comprehend the pad sound he gets on disc 1 track 3, it's so so deep.

i also like the one on the first disc that's just that swinging reverbery piano... doodoodoo-doo doo-doodoo doodoodoo-doo doo-doodoo doodoodoo-doo doo-doodoo doodoodoo-doo doo-doodoo

this album has such a soft and enveloping warmth about it. i remember moving into a new place and putting it on the stereo - it permeated each room with a subtle radiance. maybe a slight observation, but it's remarkably distinctive.

great post

(apologies) to elaborate, with most of my listening, there's a conscious idea of "there's a CD playing on the stereo", but with saw2 it's as if there's no source - it sounds of the room, somehow. Stone in Focus is a longtime favorite, it never gets old.

the one with the flute

― brimstead, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 10:54 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no not that one pls

― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin)

lol, the little flute melody IMMEDIATELY resurfaced upon reading this

it is a source of nightmares, literally

serial killer vibes

right now, i'm imagining someone barging in on this thread to let me know that no, it's not that scary of a song.

if that happens, let's all agree to listen to the one with the flutes on repeat, and we'll all get creeped out and take it from there

honestly, curtains is just as unsettling, though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9Rs4c_f-4

I have a story about this album that I rarely tell but here it goes:

Around 10 years ago one of my close friends (she’s not close anymore) stole/borrowed my cd collection. She was depressed after a breakup and was in a hotel room in new york. After playing a couple of albums she got to this one. The first night she fell asleep to the first cd while listening to it in the bathtub. The second night she cut her veins while listening to the second cd. It was a cry for help and she survived but she ruined it for me. I can’t listen to it anymore without feeling these depressing “vibes”.

I have only listened to a couple of tracks ever since in some spotify olaylist but I started feeling uncomfortable and switched off.

I don’t know I love Aphex Twin but this album gives me bad trips by association.

I don’t understand how some people listen to it and think it’s warm ambience. I find it cold and menacing.

it is a source of nightmares, literally

― Karl Malone, Thursday, November 16, 2017 5:11 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Snakes. Just makes me think of sandsnakes crawling towards me

Curtains makes me think of an empty carousel going round very slowly. I think when I was a youngster getting into this album, I wrote my own list of names for the tracks.

Oh Moka, that's awful. No, I don't get a lot of warmth from this album. Maybe some of the tracks, but they're light relief from an otherwise unsettling atmosphere. What's great about this album (and most early Aphex albums) is that every track is quite different from the last. It creates its own little world. Early Aphex was hard to define in that way, he had a sound but you didn't really know what the next track was likely to sound like.

Love this album and generally sort of process it like one big mass. I’m surprised that so many in this thread saw track 3 as something that stands above the rest.

Which is “the one with the flutes”? Is that “windowsill aka siding nails”? Yes that one is creepy.

That’s too serial killer for me to spin

Extended remixes of rhubarb confirm that it is the most gorgeous song to keep spinning other than
Brian eno an ending

Xtal ftw

i'm not sure i'd heard "stone in focus" until right now. it was only included on the UK vinyl and cassette. if that's true for you too, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ET1vST_xKc

(oh, and it's not included on spotify or other streaming services, either, i don't think)

What’s this final track, “th1 [evnslower],” listed on the Wikipedia page as download only?

available here iirc https://aphextwin.warp.net

Cool, thanks! (All the energy I put into being a RDJ “completist” in the ’90s, now basically moot, haha)

I'm wondering whether those things qualify for my 20% gdpr bonus - my CD version has bitrot and I've not heard this in forever

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Excursions-In-Ambience-The-Third-Dimension/release/59922

#19 is also on this comp. (stone in focus forever)

I hadn't realised that Apex had written linear notes for a few of the tracks on this site. About track 22 -

"Someone I used to know, you know who you are, worked as a cleaner in a police station and kindly pinched me a police interview tape. It was with a woman who murdered her husband, it's the background audio in this track."