"Aphex Twin" (R & S Records).
Term coined circa 1978 by Brian Eno to describe his forays into drifting instrumental composition. Beginning with the 1975 album Discreet Music, Eno began producing a series of records partially influenced by the piano music of early-century French composer Erik Satie; intended as background music, the discs highlighted tape loops and “treated sounds.”
The combination of fast-paced electronic dance music and Ecstasy that began to dominate clubs worldwide in the late ’80s paradoxically created an appetite for soothing sounds and still surroundings.
Ambient music made an ideal soundtrack for “chill out” rooms in clubs; the word became a catchall label for spacey variations on numerous established forms, including house, techno, and dub.
The “textural soundscapes” and “rich timbral explorations” (they bring out the worst in rock critics) of name-brand groups like the Orb and Aphex Twin rework the socially acceptable elements of progressive rock (no solos, please) for the rave generation, and for proprietors of New Age-y restaurants and boutiques.
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