analord

does that say bird chirp for when that (filter feedback? tweet) pops in at 2:40 in here

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I remember I had all the mp3's before I got the vinyl, and when I put stepping filter 101 on the turntable for the first time, I knew how this series was meant to be played. I caught so many more subtleties it was ridiculous.

  On 12/14/2011 at 6:24 PM, LUDD said:

does that say bird chirp for when that (filter feedback? tweet) pops in at 2:40 in here

Of course! :D I was running out of less descriptive labels.

And you're right, Chosen Lords misses a lot of good tracks, such as Steppingfilter 101, Where's Your Girlfriend and I'm Self Employed. Then again, I generally disagree with which tracks were chosen for his albums, and which were left off. The 4:42 long untitled track from Analogue Bubblebath 3 seems to fit better in Selected Ambient Works Volume II, making it even more epic, for instance. For that matter, so does his Zeros and Ones remix, which I'm really starting to get into.

i wouldn't mind if the next album sounded anything like a continuation/progression of the analord 10 style, it would be an absolute bliss.

after all, that was his latest record released under the aphex twin moniker.

  On 12/15/2011 at 1:04 AM, Mcdergbit said:

i wouldn't mind if the next album sounded anything like a continuation/progression of the analord 10 style, it would be an absolute bliss.

 

after all, that was his latest record released under the aphex twin moniker.

The Tuss?

being a synth geek I love everything about the analgoue aesthetics and work flow that Analord was about and it does hold its own against older vintage work from other classic artists however although there can always be a little more refinement and variation there's little more in the way of sonic innovation with analogue synths these days as its more an established technique like any other instrument. i.e. I almost kinda know how a new AFX track would sound regardless of its musical excellence.

Whether this is a good or a bad thing I'm not so sure.

I'm just going to leave the best analord track here ..

  On 12/15/2011 at 1:53 AM, soundwave said:

  On 12/15/2011 at 1:04 AM, Mcdergbit said:

i wouldn't mind if the next album sounded anything like a continuation/progression of the analord 10 style, it would be an absolute bliss.

 

after all, that was his latest record released under the aphex twin moniker.

The Tuss?

I guess you can say Tuss, in a way, is a progression of Analord 10, or the analord series in general (i was expecting someone to point that out to me). however, the production and feel of A10 is different. i'm just going to throw 'meatier' out there as a term of explanaition

wtf i didnt have that deadcode track fuck my torrent came incomplete and i just find out about it 2 years afterwards

  On 12/6/2011 at 10:34 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

Keep in mind the binder was deliberately made to fuck up the records, so if your copy of Analord # is not fucked up by the binder you're not getting the experience RDJ had planned.

what do you mean??? My downloads are not the real deal?? Is there sumthin wrong with it?

I mean, i got the flacs and converted some to mp3 at 320 kpbs or 254 vbr so it fits on my player.....you guys are scaring me

There are hidden tracks between the grooves on the vinyl

They start a minute or so into each of the "proper" tracks to make sure the official track plays every time you put the needle down. The only way to find them is if the needle skips mid track or by manually jumping about until you find them. GENIUS

You may laugh, but it is possible to do that, making the possibilities for adding hidden tracks pretty much the only advantage vinyl has over CDs and digital downloads... :)

The only advantage??? What about sound / character / feel / artwork / everything?

and anyway - you can hide tracks a lot better on compact disc than on vinyl

  On 12/14/2011 at 8:56 PM, ZoeB said:

  On 12/14/2011 at 6:24 PM, LUDD said:

does that say bird chirp for when that (filter feedback? tweet) pops in at 2:40 in here

 

Of course! :D I was running out of less descriptive labels.

 

And you're right, Chosen Lords misses a lot of good tracks, such as Steppingfilter 101, Where's Your Girlfriend and I'm Self Employed. Then again, I generally disagree with which tracks were chosen for his albums, and which were left off. The 4:42 long untitled track from Analogue Bubblebath 3 seems to fit better in Selected Ambient Works Volume II, making it even more epic, for instance. For that matter, so does his Zeros and Ones remix, which I'm really starting to get into.

a little off topic but about SAWII, along with the tracks you mentioned I'd say 'Quino-Phec' from SOSW, 'On (28 Mix)' from On The Remixes and maybe even a few others were done in a similar vein to SAWII

  On 12/15/2011 at 10:50 AM, Kanakori said:

wtf i didnt have that deadcode track fuck my torrent came incomplete and i just find out about it 2 years afterwards

damn, that sucks. one of my favorite analords, prolly top 5. it was one that grew on me more and more

  On 12/15/2011 at 11:18 AM, LUDD said:

They start a minute or so into each of the "proper" tracks to make sure the official track plays every time you put the needle down. The only way to find them is if the needle skips mid track or by manually jumping about until you find them. GENIUS

http://en.wikipedia....#Double_Grooves

also

  On 12/15/2011 at 11:27 AM, ZoeB said:

pretty much the only advantage vinyl has over CDs and digital downloads... :)

I disagree with this. I know there should not really be a difference in sound, but I have played songs on vinyl at the same volume as flac or cd versions, and heard way more in the vinyl versions. I don't know why and I don't know how to explain it, but vinyl seems to have a lot more depth to it. Plus yeah, dat album art. It's such a shame that we went from huge sleeves, to tiny pieces of paper, to thumbnails. Plus, you can play vinyl without digital technology or even electricity, so if you get an album released on vinyl, your music could live on for a very, very long time if you get lucky. CDs and digital files probably won't last 20 years, let alone 100 or more.

(sorry for derailing)

If I had to pick 1 for a desert island disc it would be Deadcode

  On 12/15/2011 at 11:43 AM, LUDD said:

If I had to pick 1 for a desert island disc it would be Deadcode

fuck yes

  On 12/15/2011 at 11:41 AM, PhonicBoyOnDope said:

a little off topic but about SAWII, along with the tracks you mentioned I'd say 'Quino-Phec' from SOSW, 'On (28 Mix)' from On The Remixes and maybe even a few others were done in a similar vein to SAWII

Yeah, that's my SAW II playlist, basically. The original album (including [stone in Focus]), then On (28 Mix), [untitled] (track 11 from AB3), Zeros and Ones, and Quino-Phec. I'd be up for any other suggestions of what to add to it! And for SAW 85-92, I've added Analogue Bubblebath, CAT 00897-AA1, Cordialatron, On the Romance Tip, Cuckoo and [untitled] (track 4 from AB4). Now they're even longer long plays to listen to while I work. :D ...except now I'm making music for a living again, which is great, but I can't listen to music at the same time, so no Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack for me yet either...

  On 12/15/2011 at 11:42 AM, ganus said:

I know there should not really be a difference in sound, but I have played songs on vinyl at the same volume as flac or cd versions, and heard way more in the vinyl versions. I don't know why and I don't know how to explain it, but vinyl seems to have a lot more depth to it.

As a guess, because vinyl's a lower fidelity format with a not too great dynamic range, you need to compress the master more, which brings up the volume of the quieter things in the mix, so you hear more? Although I'm not an engineer, and I haven't owned any records or tapes in a long time, I'm just going by what I've read in Sound On Sound articles and the like.

  On 12/15/2011 at 11:42 AM, ganus said:

Plus yeah, dat album art. It's such a shame that we went from huge sleeves, to tiny pieces of paper, to thumbnails.

It's a tradeoff, and although the album art included with most digital downloads isn't that good, that's completely arbitrary and needn't be the case. The nice thing about non-tangible artwork is that it needn't be confined to any constraints such as how many colours of ink you can afford (even the lowest budget album can have full colour artwork, as opposed to, say, SAW 85-92), having to squeeze it into a certain physical size (be it 12cm or 12"), or even needing to contain useful information (in an online store, the artist and album names are displayed next to the cover artwork, so it's more practical to create lovely Pink Floyd style wordless art, just an unspoilt image). You could make artwork the equivalent of more than 300DPI at twelve square inches if you'd like to, and you won't see those pesky dots when you get up close. You could include a PDF of a whole novel for the inlay card if you'd like. Most artists don't do this, but there's nothing stopping them.

  On 12/15/2011 at 11:42 AM, ganus said:

Plus, you can play vinyl without digital technology or even electricity, so if you get an album released on vinyl, your music could live on for a very, very long time if you get lucky. CDs and digital files probably won't last 20 years, let alone 100 or more.

If we lose the ability to generate electricity, we'll have much bigger issues than listening to music! It takes surprisingly little time on a dynamo or with solar cells to charge up a tiny music player. I'm actually more comfortable with a few hundred people having my music on their computers and mobile phones than on record. Records melt, warp and scratch; tapes and hard drives get demagnitised. But a digital file can be perfectly copied before the physical medium in which it resides eventually, inevitably breaks. So knowing that several hundred people have the exact same copy of several of my albums that I do seems like a pretty good redundant offsite backup, if you'd like to look at it that way. Had I only released my work on vinyl, and somehow lost the masters, I wouldn't fancy the chances of getting a pristine quality version back in fifty years' time.

Of course, I can't guarantee that my dog won't release an album or two on an obsolete format, because he's more into the character and charm of antiquated technology, colouring the sound with its own quirky imperfections, but then, my dog's more of a hipster than I am...

  On 12/15/2011 at 11:42 AM, ganus said:

(sorry for derailing)

I think the web has enough space to spare. :) It's always good to articulate things.

i will always prefer a good record sleeve to a jpg or even a pdf of a novel

anyway....

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  On 12/15/2011 at 12:16 PM, ZoeB said:

  On 12/15/2011 at 11:41 AM, PhonicBoyOnDope said:

a little off topic but about SAWII, along with the tracks you mentioned I'd say 'Quino-Phec' from SOSW, 'On (28 Mix)' from On The Remixes and maybe even a few others were done in a similar vein to SAWII

 

Yeah, that's my SAW II playlist, basically. The original album (including [stone in Focus]), then On (28 Mix), [untitled] (track 11 from AB3), Zeros and Ones, and Quino-Phec. I'd be up for any other suggestions of what to add to it! And for SAW 85-92, I've added Analogue Bubblebath, CAT 00897-AA1, Cordialatron, On the Romance Tip, Cuckoo and [untitled] (track 4 from AB4). Now they're even longer long plays to listen to while I work. :D ...except now I'm making music for a living again, which is great, but I can't listen to music at the same time, so no Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack for me yet either...

 

Recommendations?

SAW II: all previous mentioned, also maybe 'Sand Love - Polygon Window remix' off Twist and Turn, 'My Teapot' off Artificial Intelligence II comp, 'Phlid' off Secret Tracks 2 comp, Saint Etienne mixes, Seefeel mixes. Perhaps 'Saw2 CD1 Trk2' [Original Mix] off 26 Mixes for Cash

SAW 85-95: all previous mentioned, also he played 'On' in early '92, 'Wax the nip' which was created in '90 according to the backside of ICBYD album, and 'Cat 002' and definitelyt 'N.Iasp' off The Philosophy of Sound and Machine comp. 'N.Iasp' is an outtake almost certainly

yea I've been meaning to check out that soundtrack, just found out about it last week

Some nice recommendations, thank you! ^.^

But you didnt answer am i loosing something really huge i mean is it that diferent from a flac/320kbp ?

So many outstanding tracks. Analords never get old.