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I mean, it’s fine.
Holds up pretty well as an ambient album
I mean, it's what it says on the tin: ambient. There are some grooves on here, but I assume the author had heard Aphex Twin was an important figure and went with this record. It's not nearly as challenging as some of his later stuff, as someone who only knows him in passing, but it's pleasant enough when it's on. Spots sound a little dated, while other spots still sound fresh. Favorite tracks: "Tha", "Xtal"
i keep returning to this album thinking there’s got to be more in it but maybe it’s just mildly diverting background music
- Good ambient background music - Easy to get lost in
hallucinations from a warm grotto 2.8
It's ambient
This was fine, I suppose. I had a moment of amusement when I recognized "Ageispolis," which was sampled by Die Antwoord on "Ugly Boy," but I found this album a little puzzling. I felt like it was too ambient to command my attention, yet had too much of a beat to be truly ambient. I guess I'm rounding up from 2.5 stars.
ok. too much beat but good sounds
this was OK as background music, but not really my thing. i did find my head nodding a long now and then
I feel like this what super Hans from peep show would listen to with Jeremy
I’ve always heard good things about Aphex Twin but I found myself a bit underwhelmed by this record. Overrated or is the later stuff better?
So how do I judge this music? It does what it sets out to do... be ambient music you can put on in the background and forget about. Does that make it good? I enjoyed it a lot since it faded in the background as I worked, but that's not really but I'm looking for in most of my music listening. So it suffers from that. It's also quite boring musically which is the point.
Big beats are the best. But these are sort of small beats and are okay. Very chill. Fades into the background but is called selected ambient works so is that good?
3.5 stars. Electronica that is really solid ambient music. No lyrics but ethereal sound draws you in.
I can recognize that there is some incredible craftsmanship in the songs on this album. Xtal didn't really do it for me, but "Tha" is incredible. I think the songs that do more with less work best for my own sensibilities in this particular genre. The beats are incredible though, very good. Pulsewidth has incredible moments, but some lulls stop it from being great. Heliospan has some incredible sections, but also doesn't really manage to stick the landing for me. Overall, good stuff, but not for me.
Background tunes
Mun nuoruudessa vain coolit animaatio-opiskelijat kuunteli Aphex Twiniä (ja mä en ollut animaatio-opiskelija enkä varmaan kovin coolikaan), mutta onhan tämä kaunista.
Good
I respect it for the impact it has had
Selected Ambient Works 85–92 is the debut album by Aphex Twin, the pseudonym of British electronic musician Richard D. James. This ambient techno album contains psychedelic, experimental electronic musical work from 1985-1992. At release, this album received critical acclaim and earned an underground reputation. It is described as an electronica classic, for bringing techno to the mainstream through its beautiful, ambient soundscapes. I really loved this album and will be trying to listen to more from the artist.
3.7 - I can see why this album was a sensation in 1992. I appreciate the ambient elements and some impressive layering of sound, but I suspect this is another "you had to be there" record.
Interesting without being amazing
Nice ambient techno. Has a bit of a lull halfway through but it picks up steam again toward the end. I probably won’t do the entire album from A to Z again, but I can definitely see myself putting on the final five or so tracks and letting the algorithm take it from there.
Didn’t hate it, didn’t like it. Never been into Aphex Twin or most electronica, and this one didn’t change my mind.
Ik ben fan van elektronische muziek, maar dan wel het minste van ambient. Je kan er niet zoveel goed of slecht mee doen. Het is vaak prima op de achtergrond en verder springt er weinig uit. Dat geldt ook zeker voor deze variant. En dan geldt voor mij de standaard bij platen met een continue kwaliteit, maar weinig extra's: 3 sterren. Los van de waardering van de plaat, veel kudos voor de inspiratie die AT anderen heeft geleverd, met deze plaat, maar ook met later werk.
Wel interessant om dit te luisteren. Je hoort nog de jaren 70 en 80 synthesizer invloeden van de Mike Oldfield en Jean Michel Jarre, maar ook de house van de jaren 90 die hier op voortborduurt. Het is niet iets wat ik veel vaker op zou zetten, maar het stoort me totaal niet terwijl ik aan het werk ben. Prima achtergrondmuziek.
Electronica is not my forte. I liked what I heard, but at the same time, nothing really stuck out to me. Would be great for background music though. That being said, not something I would actively seek out.
I don't know the genre enough to know if this is groundbreaking, but it's not terrible. Perhaps I am jaded of its imitators?
I don't know. It's obviously influential and creative, but I just can't get into it.
First time I have listened to Aphex Twin - I really enjoyed this album.
It’s not bad- it is as described: ambient background noise. Gave me an unreal feeling of being a sims character whilst listening and going about my day
The album was as titled, ambient. It was definitely a good vibe to have on in the background while working.
Richard D James wants you to listen again
Je peux apprécier les ambiances et les textures, mais ce n'est pas un genre de musique que j'affectionne particulièrement. Je suis contente d'avoir découvert autre chose, sans plus.
It was fine to work with in the background, I guess, but it still felt extremely boring to me
Als achtergrondmuziek is dit best oké
entretenido, de fondo también lo llevé, estuvo bien
This was a better listen than I expected. I remember Aphex Twin being huge with my druggier, less boozy friends back in the day. Turns out they were on to something.
Good background music, played through it while working. Some interesting experiments with sound.
The grandfather of EDM. Clearly experimental, but interesting and ended up being good background music. Honestly, as an album, it became a lot by the end and I needed a break from sound. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Nice ambient/atmospheric stuff, but not sure I'd revist often
3.5
Je suis absolument débordé dans mes diverses activités, je passe donc mon tour pour ce review d'énième album étrange.
Atmospheric
goede vibe
I didn't have enough drugs to listen to this and chill
good ambiance music I guess
I owned a different Aphex Twin album back in the day which I rarely played. I appreciated that it was good but it's not really for me. Same with this one, its definitely a good record and was pleasant to listen to whilst working or drifting off to sleep but is not for me, Clive. Best song Xtal.
I must say I prefer the complete objects of good ambient or adequate techno to this, but it's the canvas ambient techno alright. Aphex Twin falls for the throw-it-all-in-a-bucket trap, but most of the tracklisting has something to say in its five-minute chunks.
It’s ambient music so it’s supposed to be boring and uninteresting….. but it isn’t, some catchy loops.
C'est pas mauvais, mais c'est un peu long, j'ai de la difficulté à voir l'attrait si grand envers lui. Je comprends par contre l'impact qu'il a du avoir
It sounds like the kind of music that would be playing in the background of an infomercial for extended warranty on my spaceship. Do I like it? I don't know, I can't pay attention long enough to tell.
Grappig
it was early to work with and along side but it just isn’t something i would voluntarily listen to. it isn’t bad, no complaints other than it’s just not fun?
For the most part this was a good album to listen to at work, although not all tracks were instrumental, but enough were that it helped with focus. The only song I had to skip was green calx - not sure what it was but the sounds just sounded like a wet mouth and it freaked me out. I feel like the more we go through this process, the more I say “I’m not the target audience for this but….”
You really need to be in the right mindset to enjoy an Aphex Twin album, but thankfully I was! Started strong with "Xtal" and I was vibing to the rest of the album. Was very surprised when "Ageispolis" came on. I knew he was involved in the creation of "Ugly Boy" by Die Antwoord but I didn't realize it was just a straight up sample of his song!
Very ambient?
Classic but a little boring. Not as dynamic production as some other Aphex
Ambient electronic music. It's alright as background music for studying or work.
3/5
Relaxing, calming, energetic beats. I'm not a huge electronic music fan but this is something that I can enjoy.
Ambient techno type music. Nice vibe. Nice background music.
Good background music
Generic background music. Nothing memorable about it, but fine to put on and forget about.
3.0
Might be the best electronic album of all time, but it still isn't for me. Maybe my musical ear isn't sophisticated enough to tell the difference between good electronica and bad, but I just don't get that much out of it. It can just scrape a three based on its wider contribution and because it's perfectly fine to have on in the background whilst I work, but I can't justify giving it anything more than that.
Good. It took me some time
Kraftwerk if they were from Detroit.
Enjoyed Xtal and the rest was good background noise
Definitely ambient. Not something overly exciting for me, though.
Used to really like this.
not bad
That's... incredibly boring. It's just boots and cats all the way down. Good for what it is, I suppose, but there's no real point to it, is there?
Truly ambient. Sounds fine. Well produced. 6/10
Meh, interesting but not super engaging
There are times while working I like to put on ambient music, it's typically a playlist but at other times I choose this album. It's not that I love the album per se but it's just sounds good in the background.
it's good background. can't say much more about it.
Some great moments, but really not my thing.
Enjoyed the start. Some great electronic music. Got old after awhile.
I was introduced to Aphex Twin back in the 90s through Videoflicks...always a good background soundtrack while working. I think it was all just a mish mash of tracks via the music drive we listened to as I can't recall every hearing a single album in its entirety.
I like how they warnend about the genre in advance. Really clunky. (5/10) FT: Xtal, Ageispolis
Very solid album but it's a little too techno for an album that calls itself ambient. This is basically my only gripe with this album as most of it is really good, especially from the technical point of view.
This was an enjoyable listen. It's the kind of music you can exist with while doing other things, but it also has a lot of nuances you can discover if you pay attention. As a collection of songs written over an extended period of time, obviously the album lacks a certain cohesiveness or point of view. It also could stand to be a few songs shorter. Not a bad song on here though. Fave Songs: Heliosphan, Tha, Delphium, Actium, Green Calx, Xtal
Poslušo sam ovaj album kad sam jednom nakon posla u HTu na Draški čeko 🚊. Nosio sam The Cure majicu, sjećam se jer je lik kreno pričat samnom ko da je Robert Smitha upozno, a ne jadnog mene u majici, i rekao mi za Aphex Twin da obvezno moram poslušat i tad jesam ovo prvo i jedino od aphexa možda čak. Taj lik je odrastao i postao Obama. Šalim se, al fr on je na 101 vodio rock antropologiju, kul tip, mislim da bi se razočaro u ocjenu.
I would rather the Come to Daddy EP or Drucqs - but I haven't listened to this for 20 or so years, so maybe I'm ready to 'get' this album now. Nope. It's still an interesting album, but it lacks the propulsive lunatic energy of Come to Daddy, the squelchy funk of Cheetah or the mind melting beauty of Avril 14th. It's still years ahead of its time (if you changed the dates to 1997-2004 it would make more sense!) But is more of a document of his earlier compositions than a work of genius as happened later.
Not my kind of thing, but good background music and very chilled out. Sounds like the work of one man with a clear idea of what he wants to do
Interesting and the name definitely fits. I can see how this is experimental and could inspire other ideas.
Like a soundtrack to nothingness
Música electrónica relajante. Buena para tener de fondo
Música ambiental electrónica. Agradable, pero ni fu ni fa.
Cest ambient comme le titre le dit. 1h15 de musique d’ambiance… top 1001 ok peut etre pour ce style. Potentiel de reecoute tres grand dans un loundge ? 3.25
Ambient, electrónico o algo así. Estuvo bien, disco largo con diferentes.... sonidos? Y para ser electrónica no fue desagradable terminarlo. 2.5 que subo a 3 porque sí hubo partes que me gustaron, más allá de no estorbar.
De lo que ha tocado de electrónica, lo más digerible y utilizable para mí. No se pone pretencioso, no es taaaaaaan repetitivo y no tiene cantos encima. Por otro lado, hora y cuarto de esto, tampoco me dio ganas de darle otra vuelta.
Great in the background, but lackluster in the foreground more times than not. So it goes with ambient, I suppose.
Ambient? Yes, please. I've never listened to an AT record all the way through. While the title suggests this is a compilation, it's actually a debut record. That's clever. I would say I enjoyed this record at face value. It sounds dated, but a lot of stuff on this list does - that's the nature of this list, right? Great music from all eras? Also, given the impact this record (and subsequent AT releases) had on bands that I love like Radiohead, Kent, Wilco, etc., I'm even more into it.
ambient, background, fine but not music I'm seeking out
Had me dancing a bit on my own in my room.
Nice background noise for working.
The background music of the old mobile game "Smash Hit", where you destroy triangle shaped crystals with metal balls. That bland music that is played in a seminar venue when the seminar has not yet started. A background music for exhibition arts, or a smartphone screensaver. You know, the type of show that only consists of lines and shapes. Elevator music but for airports. This is apparently ambient techno. IDM (EDM but with I for "intelligent", perhaps because it makes you feel smarter, or whatever. Fun Fact: Aphex Twin himself hates that term). It's a decent background music when working or doing homeworks. That's what this 70 minute whopper is. An interesting background music. Nothing more, nothing less.
Me gusta Aphex Twin lo he escuchado bastante. Y aunque este no es su mejor disco tiene algunos temas buenos. Es más o menos tranquilo así que no puedes equivocarte si quieres algo de electrónica suave.
Interesting background music - which I guess is all you can ask from Ambient music
3. pleasant background ambient music. Not as good as what I'd usually put on, but still good.
Much less melodically driven than other AT works, dwells more in ethereal soundscapes and ideas than grounded song structures. This works intermittently throughout the album - the highs are enjoyable, but other tracks tend to fade into the background due to repetition or lack of meaningful melodic content.
Very ambient. So ambient, I forgot I was listening to it. While not my style, good album. 3/5.
A decent album to work to, but can’t imagine when else I’d put it on
Ronseal. Ambient techno. Pleasant background music. Not something that demands attention, but a good album to review documents to and certainly a success under its own terms. Green Calx is a bit Pigeon Street. 3.5/5.
Solid casual beats, but I’m too angry to listen to this. Great for work.
Low-fi hip hop beats to chill and study to
I enjoyed this more than I thought j would, as it's not a genre I naturally gravitate to. However, it's perfect music to have playing in the background whilst cracking on with some work. I tuned in an out, which would normally be a bad thing. But it seems like an acceptable response to this album. You don't need to be paying attention. Just subconsciously groove along
Didn't hate this as much as I thought I would, ha. It wouldn't be on regular rotation but I may go back to it at some point.
Never heard of them before. Not bad. Interesting catchy tunes. Some are a bit too weird. Middle of the road electronic sounds.
I couldn't really get into the ambiance of it all.
good but not my thing
As Aphex Twin, Richard D. James lives on a diet of electronic pulses and seeds of inspiration. "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is an odyssey of experiments in sound, some immediately lush and beautiful, others subtle and vague- all fully realised. It's hard to believe some of these tracks were first sketched out as early as 1985, when ambient music had barely taken off from the airport with Brian Eno. By the time "SAW" was released in 1992, electronic dance music had exploded onto the scene, in a kaleidoscope of rave, house and techno. In the meantime, James had built up a cohesive catalogue of work to cherry-pick from, and still ended up with a 74 minute album of very long tracks. A bit of self-editing here might have been to the album's benefit and made it more accessible still, but defining a whole sub-genre isn't bad going. In "Selected Ambient Works", Aphex Twin offers a more mellow side of electronic dance music, blending steely processed drum sounds with washes of synth to give voice to an emergent sub-genre of "ambient techno." The term seems much more apt than "intelligent dance music", an elitist label that James was right to reject. Instead, the "I" might be replaced with "introspective": this album is subtle, shape-shifting, moving through its tracks almost unnoticed. It's been on while I've been writing this and I've got completely lost in it. The more beat-driven material appeals to me a lot, even if the sounds are minimal and low-key. "Xtal" is a strong opening to set up stall, with a propulsive hi-hat cutting through calming washes of pads, with some gorgeous wordless vocals hovering faintly in the background. It's soothing, calming, yet restless and urgent. "Pulsewidth", "Ptolemy" and "Heliosphan" are similar, allowing the percussion to give a sense of dynamism and occasionally letting it cut out completely, for everything else to wash over. It's difficult to go much more in depth with the other individual tracks as I was very happy to surrender to them and let them soundtrack my day, giving a stronger aesthetic to work, relaxation and walking. It's easy to imagine how the album might have seeped into its fans' daily lives in the same way, becoming part of their landscape. It makes the early 90s seem like a utopia of listeners, riding the wave of fancy new portable music players and headphones, allowing James' "Ambient Works" to soundtrack their travels, their towns and cities, their late nights alone.
A bit of a monoculture, and pretty quickly I couldn’t stand the artificial drums, but overall - not too bad, even if Aphex Twin has better stuff out there.
One of Richard D James's more melodic affairs. Like it a lot...
I mean, it's pretty chill, but also nothing really stood out to me. Might be good to play during focused work tasks?
This record is as overdressed as a bacon sandwich on a surfboard.
RIP Paul Walker
This is fine. I think that the prevalence of loop software has made things like this seem much, much less special than they actually are. Kind of like how TikTok can make me look exactly like an old man but they couldn't erase Superman's mustache in that one movie.
Solid 3
Name def suits the music. Even though it was better than expected and likely influencial-ish, it still sounds just kinda like background music on a loading screen or something
Above average electronica = electronica = 2.5 = rounding up to be polite.
Ambient
Definately ambient. Some really good tracks balanced by some indifferent one. It was OK.
Fail so see what is “must hear”.
Good, but not my thing
I've listened to this album before, but not very closely. I played the album to provide some background music at work. During this second listen, I had to work at paying attention to each track, and appreciate what the music offers. I think I like the music, but based on my rating of the individual tracks this only gets 3 stars ("Green Calx" had some repeating sound effects that were too distracting). Even with only getting 3 stars, there is a chance I'll put this album on again.
Not my kind of thing, but good background music and very chilled out. Sounds like the work of one man with a clear idea of what he wants to do
I had higher expectations for this album. I really thought I'd love Aphex Twin, because I know some of his songs like; of course Alberto Balsalm, and I really love the vibe it gives me. This album not so much. Oh wait, does it pick up after Heliosphan? No... I find it too silly most times, and not as dark og abnormal as I would've hoped 3
meh
This is your fault, Brian Eno!! I saw it was Aphex Twin, and thought “oh didn’t they have that one really weird music video? I’ve heard of them.” Then I saw the title. More ambient music 😖 A lot of these ambient works sound like great background music for haunted houses and video games where you are figuring out creepy puzzles (Myst!) or getting lost in dungeons with who-knows-what lurking around the corner. And for those purposes, this would be really fitting. But to just sit and listen, for 2 hours and 36 minutes!? No thanks. There is definitely instrumental stuff that is good for background while you work or whatever. This isn't it. (The music video was for "Come to Daddy." It was messed up. That song sounds way more like Prodigy-type late 90s semi-popular drum and bass. But it's not good.) ------------------------- Ok, so all of the above nonsense was written while I was mistakenly listening to the wrong album. Some of it still applies. But not the haunted house/dungeon thing. This album of selected ambient works sounds totally different than Aphex Twin's other selected ambient works. This one has a beat. This is closer to dance music, while the other one is background music. There's some decent stuff here, but a couple that I didn't like. But it's really amazing how different this is from their other ambient album.
September 2, 2021 Actually pretty good for working/studying. Don't think I'd listen otherwise.
This was decent. I wasn't fully in the mood for ambient music today so I didn't finish the entire album but what I heard sounded good. Definitely intend to keep this in mind for when the mood is right.
Very back of background music
Interessant disc de techno ambiental, que transcendeix el génere de l'electrònica i pot agradar a qualsevol amb interés i ment oberta
Ihan lepposaa menoa. Levyn ehdoton helmi on Agrispolis joka on tullut tutuksi aivan toisen bändin toimesta.
Ihan makeeta kamaa läpi levyn. Hauska detalji ku huomasin, että yhestä biisistä oli Die Antwoord lainannu samplen.
Telefon-Warteschlangenmusik
Apparently composed them while asleep, so might explain why its so hard to stay awake trying to listen to them
I feel like this is either background music of a club scene in a movie or an ad soundtrack. Maybe it would be better if I were high?
I can see how this album was influential at the time, I can't just never get behind electronic music, it just doesn't hit for me.
I remember liking Aphex Twin more back in the 90's, maybe because it was more novel at the time. First time I've listened to them in quite some time, and it hasn't aged well for me. It's fine, just not my thing.
not bad, just not for me
Didn’t enjoy
Bleh
So ambient you don't even notice it
It was too boring it was like the menu music for a shit racing game
Really not my thing
I’m sorry, but techno sucks. You really have to be on drugs to enjoy this stuff
This is music? Doesnt belong on this list at all, dull as all hell
No fav song
#1000. This sounds like something that was playing in the background of a porn video, but you wish it wasn't. 2/5: dumb.
This isn't even interesting enough for background music.
Pretty good songs, I liked Xtal, We Are The Music Makers and SchottKey 7th Path the most.
Fine ambient dance music. No way should this be on a list like this. A producer could recreate most of this in a few days on Logic Pro.
I could not get into this album. Background drone and quiet sounds but nothing that engaged me.
not for me
흠... 내 스타일은 아니었다. 듣기 힘들진 않았지만 그렇다고 또 듣고 싶지는 않았다. Hmm... it wasn't really my style. It wasn't hard to listen to, but I didn't feel like listening to it again, either.
Call waiting music.
this didn’t do anything for me tbh
Ok sure it's ambient, but why does it have to be so monotonous and boring. The songs very quickly become very repetitive and lack any distinguishing features to differentiate one track from another. I like a purely instrumental album, but here i just find no joy in this and didn't really like this as background music either. Fav Track: Pulsewidth
More fucking club music.
2/5
I know this is like one of the summer albums of the'90s I really don't enjoy it
I try so hard to like Aphex Twin, especially this album, and it never clicks. You know what does click? Windowlicker, Come to Daddy, and all of Drukqs. Literally all of those 3 EP/Albums, but not this. I owned the Drukqs vinyl box set, and sold it because of that awkward box size never fitting anywhere, but thats how much I liked it, and yet I cannot ever get myself to enjoy this. 2.
Half the album was the background music to a A24 wannabe film student’s personal project about life’s meaning. The other half was just meh and not that interesting.
My response to Aphex Twin is remarkably consistent yet often disappointing, which is simply: okay. I guess that ultimately his brand of electronic music, while important and good enough to stand on its own, just doesn't fulfill whatever I'm often looking for from music. Great background sounds, but if that's the ambition or the ceiling for greatness, I'm left wanting.
Lofi beats to explore a cyberpunk underground to
Just not my thing
This was like the soundtrack for a monotonous video game
This is the music that plays in the background while a music critic explains to you why Neil Young is the greatest artist of all time.
Mitä helvettiä
Really not for me. Feels like the background music they always have in the gym, good music for blocking out distractions I guess.
man really wish I could have heard works 78-84 instead. this was ignorable so I guess not bad.
Ohan taustamusaa, ei paskaa, mutta ei tästä kyllä mitään jäänyt mieleenkään joskaan ei ärsyttänytkään. 2/5
I honestly expected better. One good song and the others sound like the background music for an art display.
I wonder if anyone ever does Sunday brunch making brunch for the friends to come over on a beautiful Sunday afternoon and they put on the Apex twin to enjoy with their brunch I don’t think so who listens to this music? Is it still relevant? Does it make any sense? I don’t think anyone’s gonna be listening to this 100 years. It’s kind of boring. It served its purpose.
Assez répétitif et chiant que ce soit au long d’un même son ou même de l’album entier. La deuxième moitié de l’album est mieux.
Dance music in the 80s was shit. Like, embarrassingly shit. Then the 90s came and it got worse. And yet, unlike the previous decade there was a miniscule handful of artists making notable music in the genre. Aphex Twin was one. The outcast of the bunch. This is impressive given both the age he was when he made it and the technology he made it with. But there's nothing here I'd ever want to hear again. It's music that does absolutely nothing for me, either warbling along, or bleeping and blooping. One of his albums deserves a spot. Is it this one? Why not? But whatever it is you are supposed to feel when listening to this, I lack the capacity for.
I like aphex twin but is the odds and sods from his time in the bedroom when he was 15 must listen? It’s an act that would be much better served by a compilation. really. Stupid limitations. The one where he constructs the spectrograph reading so it looks like him is incredible stuff. This album though is kind of interesting. Not must listen.
A soundtrack to something i wouldnt want to watch.
good for aesthetic videos on tiktok but I can’t say I would just listen to it. Maybw while doing something monotonous it would be good, but I prefer songs with lyrics
Avril 14th is one of the most beautiful pieces ever composed, when you can do that why the fuck are you making this. Extra point for inventiveness
goeie studeermuziek ma BORINGGG
chepa ni mijn ding
I don't mind Aphex Twin but overall, this was pretty uneventful
It's fine for background music, but I doubt I'll be back to listen to this again. Easily forgotten for me. Call it 1.5
didn't really listen to it. What I did listen too sounded like Aphex Twin
Kind of can’t get through it, gotta be a right place right time album for sure
Im not a big fan of music with just beats and every song being around 4 minutes, with the same beat repeating again and again in the song just not something i can rate high. But I mean the beats are fire thats the least I can say.
I was kind of grooving on the ambient stuff after Sigur ros but I did not really care for this one. Seemed a bit too mellow. It was ok, I would listen to it again but would not try to find it and certainly would not buy it
música electrónica ambiental. personalmente no es un género que disfrute, si está muy bueno no lo sé reconocer. no se me ocurre cuando decidiría ponerme a escucharlo.
I can't really consider an occasion or activity where I would listen to this. This type of music is kind of farcical to me.
Uninteresting electronic sounds.
Ruined this album for myself by picturing Ross from Friends playing keyboard and it fits far too well. 1. Start drum track 2. Play a modulated keyboard with 1 finger 3. ??? 4. Profit Totally understand that this might have inspired a bunch of other electronic artists, and I appreciate "Aphex Twin" has gone on to win a load of awards etc. for his work, but this album contains work from when he was 13/14 years old, and funnily enough it _sounds_ like a 13/14 year old messing about with a synthesizer.
I think this album could have been a lot better if each song was half the length. There were some interesting stuff but it got repetitive in 5-7 minute long songs. I don't really think this should be on the list because it's just a bunch of sample tracks they were messing around with before their debut album... High 2
vibin @ the discotheque
It’s perfectly fine playing in the background, but I have no idea why you’d include it in a list like this.
29/03/2026 Even though I was willing to give it a chance, I found it quite long and boring. Spotify listeners: 3.5 million
This made me feel like I was in a nightclub I couldn’t escape from. It actually made me a bit twitchy and anxious after a while. Yet, somehow, it’s still not the worst thing I’ve heard on this generator. If I could give it 1.5* I would, but alas…
Zal wel weer aan mij liggen, maar ik vind dit echt ongelooflijk saai. Jammer dat elk elektronische album zoals dit klinkt, want nu lijkt het alsof ik elektronische muziek haat, terwijl dat 1 van m'n favoriete genres is. Maar niet als het klinkt als slaapmuziek of als heel erg rare muziek. Jammer. DNF
Weird, Schottkey 7th path has some Subtronics feel that he might have sampled from. But... forgettable and also background music.
Good background music while I was assembling some robot figurines for myself and a friend. Once the robots were complete I focused and discovered how this album should not be in the foreground. Not Kid Rock levels of bad.
Not for me
En oikein löytänyt tästä mitään tarttumapintaa, enkä kyllä keksi tilannetta jossa tähän levyyn enää koskaan palaisin. Posia täytyy antaa siitä, että jotenkin tosi ajattoman kuuloista. En olisi ikinä osannut arvata että tässä on kasarin-ysärin taitteen kamaa.
Meh
Silly. Not awful. Just silly noise.
90s clams casino
Not my taste
Fine as background noise, but didn't click.
I feel like I'm missing some context, because listening with today's ears this feels not so impressive. Nothing particularly wrong, just nothing of particular note. I guess if I'm looking for ambient music for something this would be a good choice, but I am rarely looking for ambient music. This one was not for me.
Ambient techno. This is the shit you put on when you're in the middle of doing something and you want to put on some music to fill the silence, but it has to be generic enough to not break your concentration.
Can't say I'll ever listen to this again
Really? I get to the end of the list and it’s more Aphex Twin? Well at least this one was just sort of forgettable instead of annoying
I don't really get the hype, though maybe if I listen to it some more I will
But like....where's the drop!? It definitely feels ahead of its time, and I don't doubt it has been immensely influential, but man is it hard to listen to! It's not chill enough to be actually ambient and background noise but it's way too boring and bland to be fun and dancy.
Fine enough for background music while you work
Its fine. Most memorable thing about it was the artwork
Not annoying but not necessary either.
Combination of varying speed aromatherapy massage music. But not unpleasant.
Very samey, not bad for a couple songs. Elevator music
Total background music — didn’t irritate me at all, but I don’t remember anything about the album either.
Quite pleasant sounding, but as far as music goes it doesn't do it for me. I like some bite to my repetition, some punch and this type of ambient "kraut" doesn't do it for me.
Mainly inoffensive but completely underwhelming. The clue is in the title.
This has potential, but the beats are too robotic and there are some bizarrely mixed tracks.
Just did very little for me. Nothing offensively bad about it, but nothing more than background music to my mind. I’d have a hard time remembering any distinctive songs from this album.
This kind of repetitive electronic music is one of those genres that I just don’t get. I can appreciate its significance as an early and therefore influential album, but sound-wise I simply can’t tell what distinguishes this as a great electronic album compared to anything else. I listened pretty attentively from start to finish, but only a few hours later I already can’t recall a single moment from it. It gets 2 stars because I’m assured of its significance, and because it was perfectly pleasant as background music, but I can’t see myself ever putting it on out of choice.
Can’t get into it. I thought the first half was interesting, the variation and mutation in the ambient sounds made for some nice background music. Then it became EDM that isn’t really in my taste wheelhouse.
Once again, I find myself desperately trying to figure out how the hell to rate ambient music. It completely lives in the background, which sucks, but is good? It's far from distinct and impossible to recall, which is depressing, but also the point? What the fuck do I know. There were some grooves. Fave tracks: - Green Calx - We Are the Music Makers - Ptolemy - Hedphelym
3/10
Following up a divisive country album with this feels like some sort of universal karma. Yes, there's still no accounting for taste, but the best thing I can say about this album is that it was inoffensive. It's probably doing exactly what it wants to, but I don't want it to do anything, especially for another hour and fourteen minutes. Just unimpactful music for me, personally.
I felt dizzy listening to this album.
I normally like ambient electronic, but this one felt kind of forgettable.
With titles like these I feel like I should get lab credits. Problem with this exercise is only rating after one listen maybe two. An album like this would need to be played a lot in order to may be liked. And that’s never going to happen.
I can appreciate that this music was made while the artist was quite young and that it was influential for its time, but it's just not exciting to listen to now. Too much similar music exists out there for this to really stand out in any way. Favorite Song: Xtal
Fine for background music at a store that I wouldn’t shop at
Slow not even scary edm
Not good
I don’t hate electronic music but I like to sing more
- kind of boring honestly, je comprends que ça a influencé la musique électronique mais il y a plusieurs longueurs sur l’album… - les beats sont catchy au début mais beaucoup trop répétitif, ça me rejoint pas trop
This was...okay. It was ambient, per the label, but some of the sounds were not pleasant.
From the relaxing to the unsettling. Mostly unsettling. I'm baffled by the reviews that describe this as elevator music or similar, it's much too jarring for that. I'm convinced some people have a very different subjective experience of music than I do.
Improper context to have listened to this album… I was stuck in traffic and it was really rainy and windy so this made me anxious
Not that impressed with this album , sounds like two fourteen year old kids playing their computer in the bedroom
Too slow and repetitive
Sure! This is the first time I’ve listened to Aphex Twin. I don’t really get it. Music dorks love this guy, and I thought it was fine.
Coming on the heals of a jazz album, I don't think so. Albums like this are a very occasional digression from the music genres I prefer. Sorry, can't stack this on top of a jazz album.
This is not my favorite genre but I think this is executed fairly well.
The album is beeing consisted to be a masterpiece of elektronic music.
didn’t listen to the whole thing, wasn’t my vibe
Actually kind of nice ambient noise for reading through specs at work, but will never listen again.
Ambient repetitive sounds that I don't care for
Pretty standard electronic music... Maybe ahead of it's time, but not very exciting.
Bored and annoyed by it. 4 minutes of music cut-and-pasted to 1h14m. When the song is the same 18 second loop how do you decide if it should be 4 minutes or 7?
It has some good parts, but they are few and far between. Most of the album is just repetitive and boring.
It’s not like this is terrible, but who sits around listening to this stuff? It’s like a cracker. In order to really enjoy it, you need to add some cheese or salami. Maybe the extra for Aphex Twin is a dime bag.
I understand why this is important and I understand why someone who likes this kind of music would like this a lot but by the time the next note or the next beat is audible I've already forgotten the previous one. It's not tedious to listen to, it's tedious to remember.
Felt like I was getting a massage in a rave
music for boring dentists' waiting rooms
Not kidding about the 'ambient'. This very long album slid through my brain and didn't even slow down long enough for me to remember it was happening.
Good music, but not anything special about it. picks: xtal, heliosphan
Non è il tipo di musica che fa per me
It felt like I was somewhere buying clothes for 1 hour and 14 minutes. Its not bad and I didnt mind it, but it just felt like it went on forever.
Ambient has come a long way. Kinda sounds like it was made on a calculator watch or a Speak and Spell.
Adequate
Willy Wonka jumpscare
Not my thing
It's nice enough, it's just really hard to listen to for this long. I just don't get ambient instrumental electronic music.
Not my thing
Ugly Boy is easily the best song from this album If there's no YTPMV of Ptolemy x Gabe the Dog, I'm gonna be a sad dog for the rest of this sentence Σ:< Honestly, if there were no percussion, I might have liked it
I'm guessing this was important but not for me in 2025 2
I literally started nodding off ... But I like naps!
put asap rocky on the 1st tune. why do 90s electronic artists put random sample bullshit on in the background? random goofy sound to kill the vibe in every song They need to make abridged versions of their albums for when you're not inebriated.
Background music. I listened to it and remember nothing. At least it wasn't too offensive
I acknowledge that it can be a bit unfair to rate an ambient album when it's up against the other genres in this list. I don't think it's necessarily a bad album and it probably has its place in the ambient music genre. That said, I didn't really care about it.
Ambient music is great for TV shows and movies and for elevator rides. But to sit down and listen to an album of it is too much.
Ok background music.. doesn’t do much for me though. A bit too long too. Can’t really focus too well when it’s on either… so a two for me.
Would be decent background music but otherwise I didn’t really see the hype. Pretty generic electronic music.
Unfortunately I just don't get this type of music at all. I respect the artistic value of it all, but it sounds so monotonous to me—though maybe that's point? I don't know. Either way, it wasn't unpleasant, but I wouldn't put this album on again, not even as background music. 2 stars
Pretty cool. Would never listen again
Okay enough techno album that feels just as generic as every other techno album on this list. At least there are some bop-py songs on this album, but when every sing is the same tempo it starts to get so boring. Cool moments, but those moments are fleeting. Top tracks: Ageispolis, Green Calx
Some good music here but so long it inevitably became background music
Appreciate some songs and the importance of the album but really have to be in the right mood for this.
Helt greit det.
I respect it, but just not my thing at all.
I didn’t actively dislike this or anything but it’s just not my favorite genre. 2.5 rounded down.
I had a couple of remix singles from this artist that I liked, so was excited for this. It started out OK but went downhill from there. Way too long.
It's quite literally just ambient sounds. Not white noise, or scenic river scene noises. Just randomly patterned tunes with some weird clips in it. I guess if you need noise?
Música ambiental sin más.
Boring ambient music. Fine as a background to some other, more interesting, activity.
I didn’t love this album. I know aphex twin hits, but over all this ambient album sounded more like background music instead of songs. There also wasn’t a theme that tied this album together. I honestly wouldn’t recommend this album to anyone.
Beep boop. Video game music. Maybe if I had a gummie.
It's just background music. Fine as background music, but there's only so engaging beats and the odd chord progression with no melody can be. I can't say whether this is a particularly good example of this genre because it sounds like all other background music. How it made this list I'll never know. Nobody's missing out by not hearing this
Nicht so schlimm, wie ich erwartet habe. An Stellen echt nicht schlecht, auf Dauer dann doch etwas nervig.
great background music for when you want something other than silence, but nothing memorable because it's truly in the background. The kinda stuff you'd hear at a poorly lit, try hard clothing brand store in a mall with more employees standing around than customers shopping.
The album is ok. It's simply nothing special. It sounds like somebody playing around. Not for me.
A mixed bag for me. Some nice background soundscapes at times but mostly tiresome. I'd imagine this is the sort of album an AI would pick.
No siento nada con lla electronica, no tomo drogas