Selected Ambient Works II

I need a to rest my head just thinking about it. My brain is risking internal combustion. Toooo much!

anyone here willing to sell a vinyl copy of SAWII?

there is one on ebay that people have 1 day left to bid on. it's about 9 bucks right now

1 day and 19 hrs

sweet, i almost bought the copy of I care because you do on ebay but then i saw it hanging on the wall in Amoeba for $10 less.

new or used? mine was only about 5!

There's a black vinyl version for sale on Discogs right now, € 120.

^ How much? Blimey. What's the brown vinyl edition worth, then?

Not that much less, and still way too much for what is presumably a bad pressing.

HEY WARP,

WHY DON"T YOU RE_RELEASE OLD APHEX WHEN NEW APHEX IS ANNOUNCED! WOULND"T THAT BE GREAT FOR YOUR LABEL!

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sincerely,

karmakramer

  On 2/20/2010 at 11:28 AM, manmower said:

Presumably a bad pressing.

Worse than the Quoth clear vinyl.

  On 2/20/2010 at 11:36 AM, steveffisher said:

  On 2/20/2010 at 11:28 AM, manmower said:

Presumably a bad pressing.

 

Worse than the Quoth clear vinyl.

Yes, it's not a good pressing at all, you're not missing out on anything unless you have the black vinyl. If I was on facebook I'd support this. The only thing I'd say is the way Warp is going if there was a 180g reissue they'd probably sell it for what, £40, £50?

I'd say that coloured vinyls and picture discs are not there to be played, unless, of course, the release is not available on black wax, CD, or other format. I can't see Warp releasing SAWII on audiophile vinyl, unless either they or RDJ are hard-up.

  On 2/20/2010 at 1:03 PM, steveffisher said:

I'd say that coloured vinyls and picture discs are not there to be played, unless, of course, the release is not available on black wax, CD, or other format.

Many of them are completely fine, and on the other hand there's plenty of cruddy black vinyl too.

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Many of them are completely fine, and on the other hand there's plenty of cruddy black vinyl too.

True. 'Drukqs' springs to mind.

Seriously?! Druqks sounds great!

why are CD copies of pacman and GAK so expensive

  On 2/20/2010 at 4:16 PM, Solo Strike said:

Seriously?! Druqks sounds great!

Yeah my brown vinyl copy doesnt sound great but it is worth having just so I can have Stone In Focus in pretty much any set I do ever.

  On 2/20/2010 at 4:40 PM, Calx Sherbet said:

why are CD copies of pacman and GAK so expensive

Link me to the site where i can buy the GAK cd .. i would pay a lot for that

  On 2/23/2010 at 12:20 AM, Boxing Day said:

  On 2/20/2010 at 4:40 PM, Calx Sherbet said:

why are CD copies of pacman and GAK so expensive

 

Link me to the site where i can buy the GAK cd .. i would pay a lot for that

http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/17717082?ev=bp_titl

you could try bidding on this

http://cgi.ebay.com/GAK-Aphex-Twin-WAP-48CD_W0QQitemZ300399058636QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CDsDVDs_CDs_CDs_GL?hash=item45f12ddecc

  On 2/22/2010 at 11:57 PM, Sir Winston said:

Yeah my brown vinyl copy doesnt sound great but it is worth having just so I can have Stone In Focus in pretty much any set I do ever.

i just got a copy of the brown vinyl and it's interesting how much surface noise it has, like how does this happen when pressing a record? i've heard 'bad' pressings before where the sound quality was just shit but this sounds like a very old heavily played record that looks visually flawless. sound quality is still pretty good though

  On 3/2/2010 at 12:15 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 2/22/2010 at 11:57 PM, Sir Winston said:

Yeah my brown vinyl copy doesnt sound great but it is worth having just so I can have Stone In Focus in pretty much any set I do ever.

 

i just got a copy of the brown vinyl and it's interesting how much surface noise it has, like how does this happen when pressing a record? i've heard 'bad' pressings before where the sound quality was just shit but this sounds like a very old heavily played record that looks visually flawless. sound quality is still pretty good though

silver incunabula doesn't sound too great either :-/ i've had two copies, and they've both had a lot of surface noise

strange, is there another version of Incunabula?

and in response to some of the people here, the noise factor has absolutely nothing to do with the vinyl being colored. Mylar (picture discs) which are not vinyl records, but play like them have lower sound quality than actual vinyl records, not because it's colored but because it's literally being cut to a lesser grade material for audio fidelity.

I have put out around 3 colored vinyls variants on my label and they sound 100% identical to their black counterparts

  On 3/2/2010 at 12:33 AM, Awepittance said:

strange, is there another version of Incunabula?

yep, there's a standard black vinyl version. the silver version was limited to 1000 pressings, and has slightly different artwork

  On 3/2/2010 at 12:33 AM, Awepittance said:

Mylar (picture discs) which are not vinyl records, but play like them have lower sound quality than actual vinyl records, not because it's colored but because it's literally being cut to a lesser grade material for audio fidelity.

 

I have put out around 3 colored vinyls variants on my label and they sound 100% identical to their black counterparts

My copy of Analord 10 (the picture disc) has unbelievably bad sound quality. I've wondered whether they were all like that, or whether Rephlex pressed too many off the same stamper and I have a copy from the end of the pressing run.

As for colour vinyl, that's right, there should be no difference in quality whatever colour is used. after all, (afaik) the natural colour of the plastic is clear - black is a colour added just like any of the others. Warp's colour vinyl pressings are an exception of course - notorious, no idea why they were so bad.