Select Ambient Works II Expanded Edition

I had a really lovely birthday this past Sunday, listening through this album twice in a row, drinking tea, and re-reading the Alan Moore run of Swamp Thing comics.  The album is such a masterpiece.

when i was a teenager i wanted a casette copy of this album so bad that i made my own bootleg copy and printed out a scan of the j-card from the first edition.  now, as an adult, i dont really care.

great album but ive listened to it so many times that its greatness has worn off for me.  it doesnt sound much more special than traffic or muffled neighborhood dogs barking these days.

  On 10/10/2024 at 8:34 AM, chenGOD said:

Ugh, Tower Japan has the 4LP set and a 3UHQCD set, and they both have different stickers....

Ended up going with the 4LP set. Will pick up next week - how exciting!

  On 10/12/2024 at 3:14 PM, drillkicker said:

when i was a teenager i wanted a casette copy of this album so bad that i made my own bootleg copy and printed out a scan of the j-card from the first edition.  now, as an adult, i dont really care.

great album but ive listened to it so many times that its greatness has worn off for me.  it doesnt sound much more special than traffic or muffled neighborhood dogs barking these days.

When were you a teenager, 5 years ago?

  On 10/12/2024 at 8:05 PM, killabyte11 said:

When were you a teenager, 5 years ago?

im 27

oh well, thats what i get for opening watmm.com i guess

Watmm is full of old souls lol

Im 22 myself and I genuinely thought everyone on herenwas at least 20 years older than me

  On 10/13/2024 at 3:23 PM, thumbass said:

Watmm is full of old souls lol

Im 22 myself and I genuinely thought everyone on herenwas at least 20 years older than me

I am the demographic of which you speak. 
For me, I was in high school when picked up SAW2 in 95 and it was my main sleeping record. I would put the headphones of my Discman under my pillow (wtf, spell-check is red-lining that) and listen to it muffled/quietly through my pillow every night. 
 

Side note, when I was younger and I was very tired, sometimes I used to close my eyes and my body would feel like it was spinning and flipping around, head over heels in a bizarrely euphoric way (completely sober). I haven’t felt that feeling in many years but was curious if anyone else ever felt that way.  
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Anyway, thinking of listening to SAW2 in high school makes me miss that feeling. 

Finally got my copy delivered! It sounds amazing, worth the wait. One of the first “electronic” albums I ever owned in my early teenage years, so happy as a middle 40s dad to be listening to this on a nice system. Just in time for the shorter fall/winter days, this will be a fireplace listen on the regular.

Cancelled my online order and brought LP from local record store which felt better buying this album from them so feel double good now that I’ve listened to it today all the way through! 
 

Rhubarb Orc.19.53 Rev is a lovely fitting for end of this record imo! Even more my favourite album now 

i have been having it on loop last week every time when I go to bed.
Just reading a book, have little bit light on, drink some tea and drift away into dream lands. The best is when it starts to rain outside. 
 
 

  On 10/13/2024 at 4:57 PM, J3FF3R00 said:

I am the demographic of which you speak. 
For me, I was in high school when picked up SAW2 in 95 and it was my main sleeping record. I would put the headphones of my Discman under my pillow (wtf, spell-check is red-lining that) and listen to it muffled/quietly through my pillow every night. 
 

Side note, when I was younger and I was very tired, sometimes I used to close my eyes and my body would feel like it was spinning and flipping around, head over heels in a bizarrely euphoric way (completely sober). I haven’t felt that feeling in many years but was curious if anyone else ever felt that way.  
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Anyway, thinking of listening to SAW2 in high school makes me miss that feeling. 

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i used to listen to robert rich and sleep research facility while sleeping during high school.  it gave me crazy dreams.

i also liked the feeling of sleep deprivation back then.  i intentionally gave myself an irregular sleep schedule and had my alarm set to wriggle like a fucking eel by whitehouse, connected to my guitar amplifier with the gain way up on the far side of my bedroom to force me out of bed with no time to mentally wake up.  the result was that id spend the first couple hours of school hallucinating in a dreamlike state.  saw ii was my favorite album to listen to while experiencing that.

anyone know if volume 2 expanded edition is on Tidal? it appears to be on spotify

Selected Ham-bient Porks

anyone actually compare this remaster to the original cd release? difference seems usually pretty subtle to me

  On 10/13/2024 at 3:23 PM, thumbass said:

Watmm is full of old souls lol

Im 22 myself and I genuinely thought everyone on herenwas at least 20 years older than me

I tried to watmm when I was 16 in 2005, didn't go so well, came back at 26 and now I'm 36

Managed to snag a great offer on an upgrade to RX11 yesterday, was curious to hear the improvement in the vocal isolation so offered it a challenge with track 12.

Needed to manually re-pitch bits of the track 'by ear' as the speed was all over the place, and the dynamic reverb and filtering means it'll be impossible to get it much clearer but I thought you'd be interested in the conversation in slightly better clarity:

  On 10/18/2024 at 12:10 AM, mcbpete said:

Managed to snag a great offer on an upgrade to RX11 yesterday, was curious to hear the improvement in the vocal isolation so offered it a challenge with track 12.

Needed to manually re-pitch bits of the track 'by ear' as the speed was all over the place, and the dynamic reverb and filtering means it'll be impossible to get it much clearer but I thought you'd be interested in the conversation in slightly better clarity:

 

https://ilovecubus.co.uk/pete/sawII_tr12_denoise.mp3

 

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Thanks for this! Very interesting. 

Maybe it can be made on some other tracks as well? Really great stuff to hear this!

  On 10/11/2024 at 11:21 AM, Kennylogg Bubblebath said:

well that's simply not true. i own 3 of warp's records from this year and they have all included DL cards.

most labels don't seem to offer it, but i think the ones that always have, still do.

interesting. i havent been buying much vinyl this year but all my warp releases from the past 3 or so years don't have any. maybe its done on a case by case basis.

  On 10/17/2024 at 4:09 AM, Hodorsbn said:

I tried to watmm when I was 16 in 2005, didn't go so well, came back at 26 and now I'm 36

read the rules.

I bought the vinyl and also the  AFX Jockeyslut/Disco Pogo book in one order.  Used to have the shitty brown vinyl version years ago but lost it/sold it down the line.  The repress sounds fantastic.

  On 10/22/2024 at 3:45 AM, Dragon said:

read the rules.

and a read the rules to you too *bikes away*

My records arrived from Tower Japan last week but I've been laid up with some cross-strain of the common cold and covid that has had me feeling like absolute trash until today. No DL code in mine either but I guess that's because I bought it in Japan and not off the Warp website. Not fussed.

Some pics of the goodness. Tower Japan doesn't take any chances with the box they sent it in, not a chance of damage in the shipping. The actual record box is thicker than I was expecting so that was a nice surprise. The back of the poster has a lovely message from Richard to his parents.

Has anyone in the US gotten their box set yet? I ordered it and it charged to my card but I haven’t seen anything yet. 

  On 10/23/2024 at 12:33 AM, Hodorsbn said:

and a read the rules to you too *bikes away*

when i posted that i was thinking, "i wonder how many of those assholes are still posting on watmm". then i checked the replies in here and it was ChenGOD's post [/burger]

  On 10/26/2024 at 11:34 PM, Hail Sagan said:

Has anyone in the US gotten their box set yet? I ordered it and it charged to my card but I haven’t seen anything yet. 

Same here. Checked my account for the status on the order. Nothing much other than it’s tracked shipping. Beyond that no extra information. Perhaps we’re in the second batch?