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Selected Ambient Works 85-92
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AMG Review of Selected Ambient Works 85-92
John Bush
All Music GuideSelected Ambient Works 85-92 is a desperately sparse album: thin percussion and several haunted-synth lines are the only components on most songs, and Richard D. James added only one vocal sample on the entire album ("We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"). Also, the sound quality is relatively poor; it was recorded direct to cassette tape and reportedly suffered a mangling job by a cat. All this belies the status of Selected Ambient Works 85-92 as a watershed of ambient music. It reveals no influences and sounds unlike anything that preceded it, due in large part to the effects James managed to wrangle from his supply of home-manufactured contraptions.
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On this trip to Mendocino that I just took in order to camp, I had to choose the music for the five hour drive, since I was driving up with my friend's dad and a few friends. The highlight of the whole trip came when Selected Ambient began just as we were driving through the redwoods near the end of the trip. The top was down and I was definitely feeling it. The thing about this album is that...
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