Marc Weidenbaum

Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous — Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was Richard D. James's first full-length on Sire Records (home to Madonna and Depeche Mode) under the moniker Aphex Twin. Sire helped...