Selected Ambient Works 85–92
1992 studio album by Aphex Twin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Selected Ambient Works 85–92 is the debut studio album by Aphex Twin, the pseudonym of the British electronic music producer and DJ Richard David James. It was released on 9 November 1992 through Apollo Records, a subsidiary of the Belgian label R&S Records. The album consists of ambient techno tracks recorded onto cassette reputedly dating as far back as 1985, when James was fourteen years old. On release it received widespread acclaim and entered the UK Dance Albums Chart at No. 6 on 26 December 1992.
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Released | 9 November 1992 (1992-11-09) | |||
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Length | 74:40 | |||
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Producer | Richard D. James | |||
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Selected Ambient Works 85–92 is considered a classic and defining work of electronica. Music journalists have credited it with expanding the scope of ambient music and introducing techno to fans of indie music. The website AllMusic described it as "a masterpiece of ambient techno". The record is very different from the beatless ambient music produced by the composer Brian Eno. Selected Ambient Works 85–92 has since appeared on best-of lists, with the UK magazine Fact naming it the greatest album of the 1990s in 2012.