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Doka presents a listening session on an amazing audio system by HiFi Klubben with Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85’-92’ Part 1 & 2.
During this intimate listening ‘sit down’ in Doka, the basement of Amsterdam’s Volkshotel, we’ll listen to Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85’-92’ Part 1 & 2 in their entirety.
“When Richard D. James first visited R&S label boss Renaat Vandepapeliere in Belgium, he brought with him a box full of cassettes. On those cassettes were tracks that James, then in his early 20s, had been writing since the age of 14, a haphazard collection of electronic music sketching the contours of a mind both brilliant and unpredictable.
Vandepapeliere had first heard of James via a white label of his 1991 Analogue Bubblebath release. From the cassettes James brought to Belgium, they picked out 13 tracks to become Selected Ambient Works 85–92, the first official Aphex Twin album and the inaugural release on the Apollo label, a subsidiary of R&S through which Vandepapeliere had made a name for himself as a champion of electronic dance music.
SAW was released 25 years ago, on February 12, 1992. As Vandepapeliere himself has admitted it wasn’t an obvious album for many. But it was the right album at the right time, a manifesto for electronic music situated somewhere between the dancefloor and the bedroom, free from the shackles of tradition and expectation. It is one of those rare works that feels unbounded by time, as capable of surprising you today as it was then and perhaps in another 25 years — a quality that has made it one of the most beloved works of an artist who still refuses to conform to expectations.” – Laurent Fintoni for Factmag
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Info:
Doors open: 14:30
Start sit down: 15:00 – 17:00
Tickets: €7,50,- (sold out)
ADE delegates: Free entry
