APHEX TWIN – SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS 85-92

Description

The debut album from Aphex Twin, originally released in 1992 on Apollo Records, one of the defining records of electronica and ambient techno and one of the greatest albums ever made.

“We Are The Music Makers” features Gene Wilder’s recitation of “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams” from Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s poem Ode, from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. “Green Calx” contains samples from the 1987 film RoboCop and from the 1978 track “Fodderstompf” by Public Image Ltd, as well as distortion of the opening titles of John Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing.