![]() ![]() The conceit was that it collected material James had composed all the way back to early adolescence. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was released through Belgian house label R&S and marketed as a compilation. With his friend DJ Tom Middleton (a future house star), he was soon a fixture on the Cornish free party scene, where he would splice his sets with his own gorgeously wonky compositions. Those bedroom composer horizons had expanded in his late teens when he discovered clubbing culture. ![]() While at school he had created his own instruments out of gutted ZX Spectrum computers and whatever spare parts were to hand. ![]() James was a self-taught musician from the Cornish town of Redruth, population 14,000. It was also the work of a natural-born outsider, who delighted in wrongfooting his audience by putting out music under a variety of pseudonyms – including AFX, Polygon Window and Blue Calx. ![]()
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