1993, A Great Year in Ambient Music: Poll and Discussion (with a corrected album list)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

I've been kinda wondering whether this should be included, despite the title? I've never listened to the full album, but all the tracks I've heard from it sound like techno to me. Is the majority of the album still ambient?

Most of it has beats but I think the point is it works in an ambient way; it's not really music for dancing vigorously to and there is a ton of reverb and environmental ambience on most of it. It's no more banging than the PWOG record. I suppose they are both part of an idea of ambient that was around at the time.

Having said that it would likely get votes just because it's probably a lot more recognisable than anything else in the list. If you wanted to leave it off on a technicality I wouldn't mind.

Good interview with Mixmaster Morris here. Worth it for the working titles of a possible new Irresistible Force album. Also apparently he did make an album in 2001 but Ninja Tune didn't want to release it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hlz3GE-UjQ

Should probably drop this here.

http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/ambient-archaeology.html

enjoyed that !

ta for posting as i rarely check SR's blog.

i wonder whatever became of that kevin foakes bloke.

i wonder whatever became of that kevin foakes bloke.

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