Tag: Selected Ambient Works
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Aphex Twin and the morals of sampling
I didn’t know Aphex Twin‘s XTAL from the seminal electronic album Selected Ambient Works Vol 1 is based off samples from a track from Steve Jefferies, Mary Carewe & Donald Greig called Evil At Play…but in a very cool way. But the original writer says it is ‘morally wrong’ and Richard D. James just lifted…
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A must for AFX fans
The snappily titled user48736353001 is posting some gems over at Soundcloud – 150 at the latest count, and is a certain Richard D. James. Here is a live version of Heliosphan which is amazing and definitely for the fans of his Selected Ambient Works, and I see he’s just posted a ‘slo’ version of Red…
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Bars & Pipes & Dub & Happy
My Portastudio arrived, so been digging out old tapes and converting old files. Here’s two tunes I wrote circa 93 or 94 on Bars & Pipes on my Amiga…I suspect I have these on 8 track tape somewhere but here are the re-MIDI’d versions from ‘Reality Engine’. The first track I originally recorded in the…