Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works Volume II
(Warp, 1994)
150 minutes of quality brain de-focusing from Cornish techno frightener.
On hearing some of the first of this two-disc set, writer’s six-year old son says, “This is TARDIS music.” And it does sound like something that might play in Doctor Who’s multi-dimensional, possibly sentient time machine, if such a thing was real. Suitably for pieces of music that don’t have titles (they’re identified by images of everyday objects like wires, the back of a radiator and bark, all made to look slightly disturbing by being photographed in extreme close-up), the whole thing is an exercise in opaqueness, with often pretty electronic tones and textures ebbing and departing like blobs of watercolour dissipating in a jamjar of water. Occasionally there are rhythms, but they’re more like synaesthesic impressions of germs multiplying in a Petri dish than a party soundtrack, which is possibly why some of the tracks later appeared on Chris Morris’ ghoulish TV comedy Jam. For his next album, the ever-perverse Aphex moved onto making brain-shredding drum and bass, but partially returned to Satie-esque minimalism for 2001’s drukqs.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 20/03/2008
Further Listening
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (R&S, 1992)
Brian Eno – Music For Airports: Ambient 1 (EG, 1978)
Anal – Zero Beats Per Minute (KAK, 1995)
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One of my top 5 favorite albums ever.
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