Tides (Arovane album)

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Tides
Tides arovane.jpg
Studio album by
Released1 June 2000 (2000-06-01)
Recorded1999
Genre
Length39:51
Label City Centre Offices
Producer Uwe Zahn
Arovane chronology
Atol Scrap
(2000)
Tides
(2000)
AER (Valid)
(2001)

Tides is the second studio album by German electronic music producer Arovane, released on 1 June 2000 by City Centre Offices. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Muzik 5/5 [3]
NME 8/10 [4]
Pitchfork 8.8/10 [5]

Resident Advisor placed Tides at number 99 on its list of the 100 best albums of the 2000s; in an accompanying write-up, critic Todd Burns dubbed the album "a small masterpiece of ambient music that seemed to have nary a Max/MSP patch in sight." [6] In 2017, Tides was ranked at number 44 on Pitchfork 's list of the 50 best IDM albums of all time. [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Uwe Zahn.

No.TitleLength
1."Theme"3:40
2."Tides"5:32
3."Eleventh!"4:45
4."Tomorrow Morning"1:51
5."Seaside"3:35
6."A Secret"4:39
7."The Storm"7:23
8."Deauville"5:43
9."Epilogue"2:43
Total length:39:51

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [8]

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References

  1. "City Centre Offices: Release Blocks". City Centre Offices. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  2. Carlson, Dean. "Tides – Arovane". AllMusic . Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  3. Bush, Calvin (August 2000). "Arovane: Tides". Muzik . No. 63. p. 101.
  4. "Tides". NME . 30 June 2000. Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  5. Cooper, Paul (11 May 2000). "Arovane: Tides". Pitchfork . Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  6. "RA Poll: Top 100 albums of the '00s". Resident Advisor . 25 January 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  7. "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time". Pitchfork . 24 January 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  8. Tides (liner notes). Arovane. City Centre Offices. 2000. TowerblockCD001.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)