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Where to start with Aphex Twin
Start with #1 — Selected Ambient Works Volume II, 1994. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 50 Aphex Twin tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 50 Aphex Twin tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 50 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 25 of the 50 tracks come from Selected Ambient Works Volume II alone.
Every dated track here falls between 1992 and 1996, so this room holds one stretch of the discography and not the whole of it.
The head/body knob swings 60 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
#1 — Selected Ambient Works Volume II, 1994. Of the 50 Aphex Twin tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the cerebral end
#3 — Selected Ambient Works Volume II, 1994. The lowest head/body reading of any Aphex Twin track in the room (0 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
Tha — Selected Ambient Works 85-92, 1992. The highest, at 60. Same artist, opposite corner — a 60-point swing from the track above.
Where Aphex Twin sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Aphex Twin's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 48 | 25–50 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 52 | 10–55 | ambient → driving |
| density | 56 | 18–60 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 52 | 0–60 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 | 25 |
| Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 | 12 |
| Richard D. James Album | 1996 | 9 |
| Selected Ambient Works Vol. II | 1992 | 1 |
| Drukqs | — | 1 |
Every Aphex Twin track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Actium | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Ageispolis | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Delphium | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Green Calx | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Hedphelym | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Heliosphan | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| I | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Ptolemy | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Pulsewidth | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Schottkey 7th Path | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Tha | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| We Are the Music Makers | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 |
| Untitled (#23) | Selected Ambient Works Vol. II | 1992 |
| #1 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #10 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #11 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #12 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #13 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #14 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #15 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #16 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #17 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #18 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #19 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #2 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #20 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #21 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #22 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #23 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #24 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #3 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #3 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #4 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #5 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #6 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #7 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #8 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| #9 | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 |
| Carn Marth | Richard D. James Album | 1996 |
| Cornish Acid | Richard D. James Album | 1996 |
| Fingerbib | Richard D. James Album | 1996 |
| Girl/Boy Song | Richard D. James Album | 1996 |
| Goon Gumpas | Richard D. James Album | 1996 |
| Logan Rock Witch | Richard D. James Album | 1996 |
| Peek 82454201 | Richard D. James Album | 1996 |
| To Cure A Weakling Child | Richard D. James Album | 1996 |
| Yellow Calx | Richard D. James Album | 1996 |
| Avril 14th | — | — |
| Nanou2 | — | — |
| Ruglen Holon | Drukqs | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Aphex Twin's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with R. D. Burman — bollywood, 33 tracks
- Where to start with Miles Davis — jazz, 34 tracks
- Where to start with S. Kiyotaka & Omega Tribe — city pop, 58 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Aphex Twin as a solo artist, from Limerick, Ireland and born in 1971. Its contributors tag the artist electronic, idm, ambient and ambient techno. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Aphex Twin tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 50, across 5 albums. 47 of them carry a date, running from 1992 to 1996. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. 50 of these 50 tracks carry an individually placed coordinate rather than the room's default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 50 of these 50 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.