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"Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is a quality product.
by Graham24 8y ago
"Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is a quality product.
- LeonM 8y agoProbably my favorite album for programming and other work that require concentration. I still haven't encountered anything like it. I wish there was more.
- pimeys 8y agoYou should give a listen to the early Autechre or Speedy J. Or anything Warp put out in the 90s.
- whatok 8y agoYes, if you're listening to it just as background music, early Warp catalog would work.
- fredoliveira 8y agoHighly, highly, highly recommend Autechre's Incunabula, for people who are into Selected Ambient Works.
- tiben_ 8y agoWorth to mention Boards of Canada and B12 from the Warp catalog as well. Warp has been my go-to music label since early 2000's.
- Graham24 8y agoLFO are also top draw stuff
- companyhen 8y agoCheck out the artist "Actress"
- ct0 8y agoCheck out the artist Solar Fields
- munificent 8y agoI love Solar Fields. Also: Global Communication, Ocouer, Christopher Willits, Marconi Union, Eluvium, Ólafur Arnalds, Balmorhea.
- 50 8y agoCan’t forget Keith Kenniffs’s projects, Helios and Goldmund.
- glitcher 8y agoOh nice, just realized Solar Fields did both the Mirror's Edge games' soundtracks
- EForEndeavour 8y agoThe Mirror's Edge soundtrack got me into Solar Fields, and it's remained in my programming rotation since it came out, along with that of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. Example from Catalyst - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fb5_zVk2gY&t=1h46m48s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fb5_zVk2gY&t=1h46m48s
- adgasf 8y agoAphex Twin (anonymously) put some previously unreleased material on SoundCloud a few years back that is from that era.
- pbrb 8y agoYou should check out: - Autechre - Square Pusher - Bonobo - Wisp - Brian Eno In that order. All solid. If you want more you should checkout the Rephlex records current and previous artists list. All really solid ambient focused electronic music.
- aerique 8y agoWisp has done some nice remixes of Aphex Twin songs: http://wisp.kaen.org/audio/saw2reworked.zip http://wisp.kaen.org/audio/saw2reworked.zip (via: http://www.wisp.kaen.org/ http://www.wisp.kaen.org/ )
- tiben_ 8y agoGerald Donald's work (alias Dopplereffekt, Arpanet, Japanese Telecom, was part of Drexciya) works well for me for programming for years. Especially the Album "Inertial Frame" from Arpanet. Calabi Yau Space from Dopplereffekt as well (which was released on Aphex Twin's own label Rephlex)
- dijksterhuis 8y agoThanks for reminding me about inertial frame
- pera 8y agoFor those in San Francisco: he will be playing at the MUTEK festival in May.
- sbruchmann 8y agoAnother recommendation: Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
- chabes 8y agoBOC’s The Campfire Headphase changed my life. Warp Records (record label that Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada are a part of) has built a really solid catalogue over the years
- matt_j 8y agoPlaid is another cool artist on Warp Records.
- tiben_ 8y agoOh, yes, i forgot Plaid. I use to listen Plaid along with Amon Tobin back in early 2000's
- thanatropism 8y agoI agree now with BOC purists that it's not their best record, but "Dayvan Cowboy" came at such a tectonic moment of my life I wouldn't decisively argue it didn't start the earthquake.
- aerique 8y agoBesides the recommendations already done I can recommend Field Rotation: https://fieldrotation.bandcamp.com/ https://fieldrotation.bandcamp.com/ Some favorites: • https://fieldrotation.bandcamp.com/track/acoustic-tale-2 https://fieldrotation.bandcamp.com/track/acoustic-tale-2 • https://fieldrotation.bandcamp.com/album/regenzeit https://fieldrotation.bandcamp.com/album/regenzeit
- gvdenbro 8y agoTry some albums of the following artists: Biosphere, Boards of Canada, Forest Swords, Kink Gong, Johann Johannsson, Park Jiha. Hope you enjoy it!
- WorldMaker 8y agoOne path to explore is to start with interesting covers of Aphex Twin works: - The Alarm Will Sound collective has an album called Acoustica where they made acoustic-instrument-based covers of Aphex Twin songs. https://www.alarmwillsound.com/ https://www.alarmwillsound.com/ - The Bad Plus covered Aphex Twin's Flim on their These Are the Vistas album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeMre0Sp7o4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeMre0Sp7o4 Both Alarm Will Sound and The Bad Plus are somewhat different, quite interesting directions to explore for other music you might enjoy programming to.
- SanderSantema 8y agoBibio’s Phantom Brickworks do remind me a bit of stone in focus. I think Capel Celyn is an especially beautiful piece, evenmore so if accompanied by the music clip.
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- sneak 8y agoGreen Calx, while an awesome track, always breaks my concentration. I have made many playlists named SAW1-GC on different platforms and have gone so far as considering using a utility knife to cut a custom diagonal skip groove through it on one of my three vinyl copies of SAW85-92.