Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

  On 5/12/2015 at 10:02 PM, Vaaler9 said:

Another stunningly accurate article:

 

http://www.avclub.com/article/aphex-twin-released-ton-music-online-free-219256

Yeah, that's a shame, I really like the AV Club, but they're best at satirizing news and pop culture. The only writer that understands electronic music is Sean O'Neal. I commented a few times on that article yesterday because of the inaccuracies in the article, and people making constant "bleep bloop" jokes.

  On 5/12/2015 at 11:02 PM, Porbulation Gold said:

 

  On 5/12/2015 at 8:52 PM, Kilgore Trout said:

i heard rich has been making some lush tunes with his old medibot.

 

 

 

found on Chris Cunningham's youtube channel

 

I love old-school production before computers when they were forced to use magic

  On 5/12/2015 at 11:53 PM, Hail Sagan said:

Thanks James,

 

Haha. Nice.

did richard actually post that megaupload link in the avclub article?

i assume not but can't look at the link atm

  On 5/13/2015 at 1:05 AM, Zeffolia said:

did richard actually post that megaupload link in the avclub article?

 

i assume not but can't look at the link atm

no

I'm pretty sure that Cheetah3 Teac is a syro outtake. Way too many sounds that are similar to those on the album, both synth and percussion wise.

What do you guys think?

sounds out of patterns to be posting syro outtakes for richard at this point and it doesn't sound as crisp to my ears, but yeah, those sequencings are certainly similar to the other syro outtakes from the syrobonkers material.

While we're at it, this is my favorite Look Around You bit, so ridiculous:

[youtubehd]uq04SazQlEk[/youtubehd]

Also, MED-I-BOT!

  On 5/13/2015 at 2:14 AM, NI64 said:

While we're at it, this is my favorite Look Around You bit, so ridiculous:

 

[youtubehd]uq04SazQlEk[/youtubehd]

 

 

Also, MED-I-BOT!

My fave too. Missing the Sulphagne part tho.

ive replaced all the keys on my keyboard with f5 and am typing furiously.

How did you write that post then?

BWABWABWABWABOOM

  On 5/11/2015 at 8:21 PM, goDel said:

LOL@sini

 

Is it me, or wasn't RDJ's sarcasm-meter up to speed at that point in time?

 

Please tell me he used the tricksy double psychology option to sarcastically pretend to not understand what was going on.

That made my day

thinking about Sini talking to afx who didn't quite understand while the old wattmmembers where all like "wtf not YOU sini!!! plz go away" :D:D

  On 5/12/2015 at 1:03 PM, Timothy Forward said:

Reasonably sure almost all the tracks so far have been pre HAB with the exception of 'cutting' and 'make a baby' being maybe proto RDJ and actual HAB outtakes respectively. So up until now that would mean we haven't had anything later than '96, which I think feels right. I can see CHEETAHT7 Teac as being from that period too, but Cheetah3 Teac has really thrown me. It's either a straight Syro outtake (which would be pretty mental), or it's a tune he made back in the actual 90s with gear he used to make Syro in the style of Syro 15-20 years before he made Syro. Which is even more mental by at least x10000.

Maybe (just maybe) he made tunes like all these on a hourly base and then when it was time to release them he beefed them up?

I thought most of the people here would know how it is to have some tunes you made, and then you can spend time "bettering" them up for release...

you can hear it in the soundcloudz, how there's potential windowlickers, flims, everydays, bucephaluses, even analords kind of tracks...

it's just a matter of when he can arsed to produce/finish/polish/complete a track for release IMO

"custom break acid" is obviously analord like in the synths
analords where realeased late 2004-early 2005 if I remember right; how long was he making these type of tracks?
you can check live/dj sets to know they were already old tracks when they were released...
it always was this way with afex, he always releases tracks he made a few years earlier
with syro he just went a step further (backward?) releasing tunes he made 6 years ago...
IMO

most lovely tune is the last one on CCAI for me
I really enjoy the SC dump, but CCAI is where it's at for me :)

  On 5/13/2015 at 2:23 AM, Alcofribas said:

ive replaced all the keys on my keyboard with f5 and am typing furiously.

lol

  On 5/12/2015 at 5:29 PM, Herr Jan said:

I do have my doubts about tigercubdelay.

 

Fuck yes cheetah tracks

Goddamn great

They make me want to say that rich is so good at creating combinations of textures and timbres that even randomly playing the notes and samples of that sound palette or whatever would sound great

The synths just sound so fucking tasty

  On 5/12/2015 at 11:02 PM, Porbulation Gold said:

 

  On 5/12/2015 at 8:52 PM, Kilgore Trout said:

i heard rich has been making some lush tunes with his old medibot.

 

 

 

found on Chris Cunningham's youtube channel

 

that wink at the the end. what a little devil that med-i-bot.

i only rewatch the first season of look around you. much funnier for me.

enough of this nonsense though, back to the topic. whens rich going to post the song where he samples "im a little teapot" that he made with his first sampler?

  On 5/13/2015 at 6:18 AM, PhonicBoyOnDope said:

 

  On 5/12/2015 at 5:29 PM, Herr Jan said:

I do have my doubts about tigercubdelay.

 

tigercubdelay was played a couple times live. was played at ATP in early 2002, no idea how old it actually is tho, not long after he was playing analord tracks live, and tuss tracks a few years after that all before anything was released

 

Tigercubdelay might have been part of the battle he had with Autechre around Drane/Bucephalus?

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yeah we did the track drane, which had that exponential speeding-up delay thing happening, and then rich did that bouncing ball track, and we answered it with drane2 which was the same delay trick but feeding percussion into it instead, as a kind of tease

 

he said he made a bouncing ball revenge track to it once but i guess he didn't release it, prob cos we all got better things to do than get into a tricks war

Is the top reddit 2gb DL file fredd E psoted at the top ok? can anyone confirm that it's all good for me?

My internet is cripplingly slow and want to make sure it's all good before I get into the hell that is downloading big files on my puter.

Cheers

According to one of the latest comments, SAW 3 is "half written". Whether that means he's still working on it, or it's been left behind...doesn't matter! We'll probably hear it eventually thanks to Rich's generosity. Mental, it's like after year of drip feeding we've been given the keys to a giant fridge of goodies.

Is it too soon to say "This Soundcloud stuff, and Richards kindness, has changed my life"? I'm just feeling one of those "Feck, this is the best thing ever to happen, and it's still happening!" moments. Feels a bit silly when you see it written out, but them's the feels.

• jeremyrivers says at 0:02:

  This is gorgeous. Have you ever entertained the thought of a SAW111 for warp? Has got to be one of the most anticipated albums in electronic music history!

• Posted 16 mins ago16 minsuser18081971 says at 0:02:

  @user8363344-1: its half written

SAW3 will be the Half Life 3 score. Both sides are waiting for the other to finish their bit.

I've always imagined SAW III to have a black album cover for reasons unknown.

  On 5/13/2015 at 12:10 PM, leterel said:

SAW3 will be the Half Life 3 score. Both sides are waiting for the other to finish their bit.

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