quoted 17 lines From Details magazine March 1994:> >From Details magazine March 1994:
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> "now that techno has conquered the body with rapid-fire bpm's, the
> latest mutations of electronic dance music want to chill you out and feed
> your head. And as this magnificent double CD makes clear, the cutting
> edge belongs to Richard James - a.k.a. Aphex Twin. Squeezing haunting and
> original sounds from his self-designed gear, James crafts spacious
> grooves that are more textured and nuanced than the average acidhead
> soundtrack and more emotionally generous than `serious' electronic
> avant-garde music. These twenty-four untitled tracks conjure up visions
> you didn't know existed: orbiting cathedrals, vast plateaus of crystal,
> underground waterfalls of white noise. Selected Ambient Works II drops
> even fewer dance beats than the Twin's import-only cult classic Selected
> Ambient Works 85-92. Here James grapples with moods more than melodies,
> opening up feelings at once intimate and alien: the melancholy of
> departure, the childlike pleasure of exploring a new toy, or the eerie
> sense that you're overhearing the secret life of machines"
What the hell kinda review is that?! A typical Details/Spin/Rolling Stone/
People Weekly editor's ass-kissing piece of shite "review", that's what.
There is only one word that describes the reviewer's opinion of the disc--
"magnificent". It sounds like he/she is quoting the press release that
they got with their promo CD. I don't trust this kind of writing one bit.
Maybe it *is* magnificent, but this review is so ambiguous and too closely
resembles promotional spew that I can't take it seriously.
*spit* :)
Mike
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