5 Very Important British Electronic Albums Up To 1989
3. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Here's how it went (you ARE getting the picture by now, surely?). Richard James in his bedroom/coal garage/home studio, sometime 1985. Hes surrounded by "some stuff". A coal bucket. Merlin. (you remember!). A Casio calculator. A Sinclair C5 (He wishes it were a tank, but, hey, that's what dreams are made of). A mop. A mangle. A Bangle. A Bojangle even. What! A knock on the door? Who's this??? A Fairy Godmother??? No, it's Doctor Who!!! Problem is, it's David bloody Tennant, going on about Time being a wibbly, wobbly, timey-wimey "thing"...until you realise that yes, Doctor Who, even him, David bloody Tennant, can, yes, save you from the horrors of everyday Cornish life (and coal buckets). LET'S FAAAASSSST!!!! forward to 1992, assimilating every form of ambient AND house AND dance AND techno AND acid music and THEN let's go back to 1985 and "mingle" it with what you've got in your (coal) garage (sorry, home studio) and then let's make an album BUT dont release it until 1992 BUT then still let everyone think the majority of it was made in 1985 thus making you out to be a (delete as appropriate) Poet / Visionary / Dreamweaver / Genius / God / Weirdo. Seriously, folks: I bought this in 1992 on import on CD (without the barcode). True fact. In fact, that's the first actual fact I've written so far. Well, apart from "Martyn Ware Is A Living God". Another fact: Delphium sounds horribly like Nude Photo (which rather blows the Doctor Who story to shreds. Sorry kids!). Listen to: This. Just make sure you get the re-mastered version.Dont listen to: SAW 2. Really. Its rubbish. Go buy 26 Mixes For Cash instead.