Selected Ambient Works
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Selected Ambient Works is the name of two ambient
albums released in the early 1990s by Richard D. James
(under the Aphex Twin moniker):
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
albums released in the early 1990s by Richard D. James
Aphex Twin
Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...
(under the Aphex Twin moniker):
- Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992), commonly abbreviated as SAW 85-92 or SAW I
- Selected Ambient Works Volume IISelected Ambient Works Volume II-Formatting notes:The cassette version of the album featured six songs on each side, barring side three, which contained seven . The vinyl version featured four songs on each side, excluding side four, which contained five ....
(1994), commonly abbreviated as SAW II