From Details magazine March 1994:
"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"
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