quoted 7 lines ...the ambient picture in 1993 is confusing. Brian himself is confused.>...the ambient picture in 1993 is confusing. Brian himself is confused.
>"There's one area that I don't know much about that gets called ambient," he
>confesses, "which is the Aphex Twin type area. Whenever I do hear things, I
>don't particularly recognise it as what I call ambient." Of some of these
>new ambient tracks, he comments, guardedly, that they "sound like what I
>would do if I had just bought synthesiser. But then why not?" he adds. "I'm
>sure that's what a lot of people think I do."
I definately got a different idea about what this comment meant
before reading it than I have now. What Eno seems to be saying
is that if he were to start making music today, he'd probably
be making ambient music like that of the Aphex Twin. This seems
to me to be high praise.
I think it's important to make it clear whether you're talking about
Ambient music or Ambient Dance music or Ambient Techno or whatever.
There's a big difference between Eno's music for Airports and UFORB.
Yet, I'd call them both ambient music. The difference is that Eno
is attempting to recreate the feel of an airport, while the orb is
attempting to recreate the feel of (say) an out of body experience
(in oobe). The orb also would like their tracks to be danceable.
In short, Ambient is an overused term and as such there is lots of
room for misunderstanding.
I would consider most of SAW II to be ambient in the Eno-esque sense.
[fletcher]