Day: April 23, 2014

Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Vol II at 20

I’m in a state right now where 20 year anniversaries don’t seem like such a big deal.  After all, we just commemorated the 30th Anniversary of Steve Roach’s Structures from Silence and the 40th Anniversaries of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells.  I think that divide might say something…

Wednesday April 23rd-Echoes Program 1417C

Interview: Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II at 20 It was 20 years ago that Aphex Twin released his double CD, Selected Ambient Works Volume II. It’s the album that’s most responsible for launching the second generation of ambient music and it still remains controversial. We talk with journalist Marc Weidenbaum who has just released an…