YOU'VE GOT SO MANY MACHINES, RICHARD

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30 minutes should be ok

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Brian Eno on his friendship with David Bowie:

“Over the last few years – with him living in New York and me in London – our connection was by email. We signed off with invented names: some of his were mr showbiz, milton keynes, rhoda borrocks and the duke of ear.

“I received an email from him seven days ago. It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: ‘Thank you for our good times, brian. they will never rot’. And it was signed ‘Dawn’. I realise now he was saying goodbye.”

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Seriously one of this year’s best tracks.

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i give up

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just let me live in this song...

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Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)

As is typical of an Aphex Twin album, Selected Ambient Works Volume II is a mess of contradictions. On a whim, it easily turns from an awe-inspiring beauty to an intense psychological horror. It’s uncompromising in several ways. Richard D. James certainly doesn’t attempt to build on any of the easy listening bliss of songs like “Lichen” or “Rhubarb”; both are immediately followed up by long and difficult swathes of dark ambient. More radically, Selected Ambient Works Volume II forgoes any sense of logical sequencing. Sometimes the album graces us with a blissful peace of mind in “Rhubarb” for eight heavenly minutes, sometimes with a paranoia-inducing repetition of “White Blur 2”. James is less generous with “Z-Twig”, a beautiful piece which is criminally short at two minutes; likewise, the bewilderment of “White Blur 1” is mercifully short, preventing it from feeling overwhelming. In this respect, Selected Ambient Works Volume II differs from other Aphex Twin albums in that it doesn’t feel intentionally difficult …I Care Because You Do or drukqs sometimes do.  

In interviews (of dubious sincerity, of course), James has suggested that the record was in part informed by his considerable experience with lucid dreaming. While you have to take that with a grain of salt, Selected Ambient Works Volume II does have a definite dream-like quality. Unlike the first, more conventional sounding Selected Ambient Works 85-92, each song eases in and out seamlessly when the time is right. There are definite boundary points, as each track is its own fully formed piece; “Blue Calx” hardly bleeds into “Parallel Stripes”, which again differs greatly from “Shiny Metal Rods”. But while there is hardly any blending between songs, they each wash over into one another, as two separate dreams might over the course of a night. In this respect, it’s a remarkably abstract, hands-off album. James’ compositions feel as though they’re guided by an unconscious, fluid expressiveness. Selected Ambient Works Volume II isn’t exactly engaging, but it doesn’t aim to push listeners away either. What it does to is offer a window into a world which is both vivid, entrancing, and worth every second.

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Really neat little track

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Andreas Tilliander, aka TM404, aka Mokira, aka Lowfour, aka Svaag... having some fun with his gear

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Fkn brilliant.

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For when you run out of machines, Richard

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Magda El Bayoumi: DJ, artist & music producer, house, techno

https://soundcloud.com/me-music

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Just found this^ blog, and it’s pretty amazing. It lists female producers and DJs by tags so it’s easy to find new people in every genre to follow on soundcloud.