SAW2 limited brown vinyl - No. #000003 on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aphex-Twin-Ambient-Works-Vol-II-Vinyl-Mint-Ed-No-3_W0QQitemZ180640435109QQcategoryZ9993QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_

The starting bid is £45, and it's got six days to go...

Where do you think No. #000001 is? Oh wait, yeah, Joyrex has two copies of it.

I've got No.000004. Which will shortly be for sale, concidentally! I'm intrigued as to how much no.3 will go for. Surprisingly little, I'd guess.

20 second samples repeated untill the song reaches the 10 minutes mark? For 45 pounds? No thanks.

Bid on the Spanners instead.

  On 3/17/2011 at 3:49 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

20 second samples repeated untill the song reaches the 10 minutes mark? For 45 pounds? No thanks.

You have just severely underrated one of the greatest albums of all time. Honestly, if that's really what you think of tracks like [rhubarb], [stone in focus] or [lichen], there's something seriously wrong with you.

i can understand why you'd call it repetitive at first glance, but that's the same as calling a song repetitive because it has dozens of 808 snare snaps over the course of the track.

Hes fuckin' with you lads.

  On 3/17/2011 at 3:49 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

20 second samples repeated untill the song reaches the 10 minutes mark? For 45 pounds? No thanks.

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  On 3/17/2011 at 5:55 PM, chassis said:

Hes fuckin' with you lads.

i know. i enjoy writing pedantic, know-it-all answers to troll questions

  On 3/17/2011 at 1:48 PM, xy_politics said:

I've got No.000004. Which will shortly be for sale, concidentally! I'm intrigued as to how much no.3 will go for. Surprisingly little, I'd guess.

If you do actually have #4, how did you come by it? Amazed these wouldn't be owned by Richard / Warp employees

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:02 PM, Solo Strike said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 1:48 PM, xy_politics said:

I've got No.000004. Which will shortly be for sale, concidentally! I'm intrigued as to how much no.3 will go for. Surprisingly little, I'd guess.

 

If you do actually have #4, how did you come by it? Amazed these wouldn't be owned by Richard / Warp employees

because the ones sold to the public aren't like, numbered as they come off the press - literally all that would have happened is the sleeves sit there in some random order, someone puts stickers on them, and then the records would've been put in the sleeves.

what is most likely is that Warp employees / artists would have test pressings

Surely the artists don't ONLY have test pressings? Personally I'd be pissed if a label didn't give me actual copies of my own release, in addition to the tests. And low numbers too. The assumption that the artists/labels keep the lower numbered ones isn't so far off...

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:12 PM, Mellow U said:

Surely the artists don't ONLY have test pressings? Personally I'd be pissed if a label didn't give me actual copies of my own release, in addition to the tests. And low numbers too. The assumption that the artists/labels keep the lower numbered ones isn't so far off...

*shrugs* test pressings are rarer than the actual ones

  On 3/17/2011 at 12:04 PM, Rhombix said:

 

Where do you think No. #000001 is? Oh wait, yeah, Joyrex has two copies of it.

lol, signed by BoC and Karen Tregaskin too.

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:14 PM, oscillik said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:12 PM, Mellow U said:

Surely the artists don't ONLY have test pressings? Personally I'd be pissed if a label didn't give me actual copies of my own release, in addition to the tests. And low numbers too. The assumption that the artists/labels keep the lower numbered ones isn't so far off...

*shrugs* test pressings are rarer than the actual ones

No I agree with you, just in the case of my own music - I have to say my experiences with vinyl (or any numbered edition of a release) have been to the contrary. Plus, as years go on, tests are fine and good but you never play them. I find it much more inspiring to go back to previous works if they're in the actual packaging.

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:14 PM, oscillik said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:12 PM, Mellow U said:

Surely the artists don't ONLY have test pressings? Personally I'd be pissed if a label didn't give me actual copies of my own release, in addition to the tests. And low numbers too. The assumption that the artists/labels keep the lower numbered ones isn't so far off...

*shrugs* test pressings are rarer than the actual ones

I doubt the artists themselves are after the rarest of their own release. It does make sense that they would could have a test pressing tho (aswell as a reg one).

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:18 PM, AcrossCanyons said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:14 PM, oscillik said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:12 PM, Mellow U said:

Surely the artists don't ONLY have test pressings? Personally I'd be pissed if a label didn't give me actual copies of my own release, in addition to the tests. And low numbers too. The assumption that the artists/labels keep the lower numbered ones isn't so far off...

*shrugs* test pressings are rarer than the actual ones

I doubt the artists themselves are after the rarest of their own release. It does make sense that they would could have a test pressing tho (aswell as a reg one).

oh yeah, definitely...i just mean that if there is a supposed rare version (if i'm not mistaken, there were at least two runs of the brown version, and one run of the black version which is actually rarer) i think...

oh fuck it, i dunno what i'm talking about now and i'm too tired to try to defend my admittedly posturing point.

i have no idea what i'm talking about, and i am just supposing.

ignore me, i need sleep my head and back hurts :(

Ironically in this case I have to assume that if RDJ pulls this record out on vinyl, he probably goes for the black wax, since the brown pressing sounds pretty terrible.

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:28 PM, Mellow U said:

Ironically in this case I have to assume that if RDJ pulls this record out on vinyl, he probably goes for the black wax, since the brown pressing sounds pretty terrible.

yeah, as far as i can tell, most Warp coloured vinyl sounds like complete and utter shit and as a consequence i try my best to steer well clear of the coloured vinyl.

having said that, i have a very shit sounding 'virgin' vinyl record so it can go both ways

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:32 PM, oscillik said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:28 PM, Mellow U said:

Ironically in this case I have to assume that if RDJ pulls this record out on vinyl, he probably goes for the black wax, since the brown pressing sounds pretty terrible.

yeah, as far as i can tell, most Warp coloured vinyl sounds like complete and utter shit and as a consequence i try my best to steer well clear of the coloured vinyl.

 

having said that, i have a very shit sounding 'virgin' vinyl record so it can go both ways

Absolutely! I have colored 12"s from other labels besides Warp that sound fantastic, but then others from both Warp and Rephlex can get pretty dodgy (Empathy Box by Kinesthesia on the white vinyl comes to mind - OUCH!). I don't have it but I've heard the silver pressing of Incunabula is pretty rough too.

  On 3/17/2011 at 7:02 PM, Solo Strike said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 1:48 PM, xy_politics said:

I've got No.000004. Which will shortly be for sale, concidentally! I'm intrigued as to how much no.3 will go for. Surprisingly little, I'd guess.

If you do actually have #4, how did you come by it? Amazed these wouldn't be owned by Richard / Warp employees

I bought it from a Rephlex artist, it was given to him by RDJ. I'm planning on putting all my records up for sale to fund my euro©rack habit.

  On 3/17/2011 at 8:29 PM, xy_politics said:

I bought it from a Rephlex artist, it was given to him by RDJ. I'm planning on putting all my records up for sale to fund my euro©rack habit.

Now I'm seriously curious which Rephlex artist you've been in contact with. Care to divulge?

  On 3/17/2011 at 8:34 PM, ganus said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 8:29 PM, xy_politics said:

I bought it from a Rephlex artist, it was given to him by RDJ. I'm planning on putting all my records up for sale to fund my euro©rack habit.

Now I'm seriously curious which Rephlex artist you've been in contact with. Care to divulge?

I'd gladly divulge that info in exchange for, mmm, a Cwejman VCO6. I'd throw in the record for free too

he got it off global goon

I pretty much assumed it was either goon or cylob, as I can't imagine anyone else on rephlex richard would've given one of his copies