Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

  On 2/2/2015 at 4:59 PM, 4d0lf said:

 

  On 2/2/2015 at 6:37 AM, Bambi said:

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mastering mp3's? my ears hurt..

 

  On 2/2/2015 at 5:13 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 2/2/2015 at 6:37 AM, Bambi said:

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wow thanks a lot mike

 

I just realised I'm stupid

Thanks Bambi for the remasters :) Those highs on Utopia are definitely more tolerable.

Thanks Bambi! Good work.

Probably blaspheming, but would it be a bitch and 1/2 remaster out the tape fuzz and general noise out of Syro? Not that I'm trying to task anyone to do that, just curious.

thats like asking to remove the piss from Piss Christ.

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Piss_Christ_by_Serrano_Andres_%281987%29.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ&h=272&w=185&tbnid=ImbZvPksDlwNqM:&zoom=1&tbnh=160&tbnw=108&usg=__7MDjxoeDOGgLK5ZNHx73s92330A=&docid=UoSDPry8EtB-1M&itg=1

Sorry been off the net a bit. Where's the link to get all of them in one zip?

  On 2/2/2015 at 5:52 PM, Vaaler9 said:

Probably blaspheming, but would it be a bitch and 1/2 remaster out the tape fuzz and general noise out of Syro? Not that I'm trying to task anyone to do that, just curious.

  On 2/2/2015 at 5:52 PM, Vaaler9 said:

Probably blaspheming, but would it be a bitch and 1/2 remaster out the tape fuzz and general noise out of Syro? Not that I'm trying to task anyone to do that, just curious.

0_0

and there i was, thinking that syro sounds too polished and clean, wanting people to remaster the shit out of it, so it would became more like 90s raw and dirty, with loads of hiss and tape...tastes, huh?

with the metric shitton of analogue gear used on syro it's a wonder really how richard got the noise level as low as it is

I love the noise/hiss in Syro, especially on tracks like 4 bit...

edit: blasphemy confirmed lol

  On 2/2/2015 at 6:37 AM, Bambi said:

Here are a couple of files I remastered for you all. A louder sounding version of bellbrk with the loud subs made a bit more managable, and utopia with the low mids softened and those hi-freq fm sounds less harsh.

 

bellbrk (limited/compressed): https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5oeo6phip6mwt8/bellbrk%20%28limited%29.mp3?dl=0

utopia (EQ): https://www.dropbox.com/s/25tniohmlvcb4t0/8%20utopia%20%28EQ%29.mp3?dl=0

Wow, many thanks Every time I wake up and refresh WATMM, it just keeps getting better!

18 With My Family

the sound of that synth and the melody

lmao about the guy sitting on this for 20+ years

  On 2/2/2015 at 6:15 PM, jhonny said:

Sorry been off the net a bit. Where's the link to get all of them in one zip?

Zip file now available from archive.org

  On 2/2/2015 at 7:31 PM, Xtal WAVsurfer said:

 

  On 2/2/2015 at 6:15 PM, jhonny said:

Sorry been off the net a bit. Where's the link to get all of them in one zip?

 

Zip file now available from archive.org

 

  On 2/2/2015 at 6:34 PM, StephenG said:

I love the noise/hiss in Syro, especially on tracks like 4 bit...

 

 

edit: blasphemy confirmed lol

Haha yeah, I regretted hitting post pretty much 5 seconds later. Follow up question: Would someone mind recreating Syro on Logic using the massive softsynth and sample libraries? I think I would prefer it. so clean!

  On 2/2/2015 at 7:36 PM, jhonny said:

 

  On 2/2/2015 at 7:31 PM, Xtal WAVsurfer said:

 

  On 2/2/2015 at 6:15 PM, jhonny said:

Sorry been off the net a bit. Where's the link to get all of them in one zip?

 

Zip file now available from archive.org

 

 

Also via this torrent you salty dog.

^ Wow that gif is hot.

  On 2/2/2015 at 4:07 PM, Herr Jan said:

He also said there will be a release of an elaborate box set with all sorts of archive material (not only Aphex) for the 20th anniversary.

 

That last bit is already way overdue

Was this not the warp20 boxset?

wow. traffic has slowed down a bit here, eh. thread needs a bump, no?

Shhh.. we're all listening to the afx!1!

  On 2/2/2015 at 9:15 PM, rst said:

wow. traffic has slowed down a bit here, eh. thread needs a bump, no?

  On 2/2/2015 at 1:46 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

totally forgot 2 download the rhubarb track on the aphex twin soundcloud, i wonder why he didn't put that one on the user48736353001 page?

haaaargh so much music 2 listen 2

Maybe because it's got an obvious filiation with SAWII, which I suppose Warp / Chrysalis owns and is branded Aphex Twin, thus aphextwin soundcloud account.

Unless there was some deal between Richard and Warp, my guess is that the rights of all the new old tracks belong to Richard and he is free to do what he pleases with them, as long as he doesn't associate them with the Aphex Twin moniker without Warp's approval.

I wonder though if Chrysalis is involved in managing the rights of these compositions.

What was that databse website with all the Richard David James publishing rights information? Wonder if there's been a batch of new compositions added recently.

Cannot stop playing ACH. Absolutely relentless.

  On 2/2/2015 at 10:09 PM, tunnocks said:

Cannot stop playing ACH. Absolutely relentless.

So is it me or do some of these sound like "missing links" between styles of his? For example, the Donkey Rhubarb remix sounds like a cross between the Donkey Rhubarb EP and Melodies From Mars, especially Fingerbib given that "aphex worm" patch (the one with all the portamento). Even 70s Tune is pretty close to Fingerbib's melody. I'd love to know just how many of these happy, catchy tunes he's made and why he didn't release them back in the day. It's not like they're outtakes, they seem like parts of a pretty cohesive album in its own right that could have been released just before the Richard D. James album.

Then there's the early versions of released tracks. Isn't Metal Beat an early version of Come to Daddy (Mummy Mix)? Similarly, it sounds like Girl/Boy Dark Version got tuned and merged with bits of Cutting to form the final album version of Girl/Boy Song. (Which makes sense, didn't he mention in an interview how he'd work out the rhythm of a track, drawing in where the notes went horizontally and only roughly getting the pitch right, before he'd work out what the pitches were supposed to be?)

Should be an interesting lot to explore quite aside from how lovely some of these tracks are, especially the likely SAW 85-92 (Sam's Car) and Polygon Window (No Cares, With My Family) outtakes. Those are really a lot better than some of the tracks that made it to the albums. And I've only listened to a fraction of these so far...