Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

I'm still backing the "curated by..." idea...

...all on my own.

He could be uploading new tracks for the rest of the year. Voting on your favourite within every batch of X number of times isn't that bad an idea. If/when he declares he's done you've already whittled it down and can then vote for best of the best to get the suitable number for an lp/2xlp/3xlp...

Yeah, it would be handy if he picked himself but he's being pretty good by suggesting the fans pick. Maybe he could add his own choice cuts on a bonus disc after the voting?

Could just make a page that organises the Soundcloud track widgets by most amount of likes on Soundcloud, would probably be the easiest thing to do

  On 5/15/2015 at 9:53 PM, Timothy Forward said:

Could just make a page that organises the Soundcloud track widgets by most amount of likes on Soundcloud, would probably be the easiest thing to do

I don't think that would be a good idea. See Fact magazine for example, they posted the club of hearts track which I'm not that fond of and it got ton of views on that night. I'd go for an internet-wide announcement the day the dump is over and let everyone choose their 30 favorites or so.

Maybe Warp would want to host it if they are going to be pressing it up for release?

  On 5/15/2015 at 10:11 PM, chronical said:

 

  On 5/15/2015 at 9:53 PM, Timothy Forward said:

Could just make a page that organises the Soundcloud track widgets by most amount of likes on Soundcloud, would probably be the easiest thing to do

I don't think that would be a good idea. See Fact magazine for example, they posted the club of hearts track which I'm not that fond of and it got ton of views on that night. I'd go for an internet-wide announcement the day the dump is over and let everyone choose their 30 favorites or so.

 

More plays =/= more likes. People need to be logged in to Soundcloud in order to like a track and if they've done both of those things they'll almost certainly follow the user18081971 account and listen/like at least a few more tracks in the process. Skewed play counts because certain tracks get shared about the internet aren't going to affect this.

Also this isn't necessarily going to result in anything being set in stone either? All it is is a gauge to see which tracks are generally more popular. Then he can decide if, when and how he's going to polish up however many of these tracks he decides to and how he's going to release them. There doesn't need to be a big internet-wide announcement, there doesn't need to be a really elaborate poll with bracketology for date of track upload and weighted votes and a limited number of votes per person. That's insane.

i traded my pc laptop for an older G5 dual core. its a great computer. only thing it wont do is load soundcloud

just listening to ***AFX selekta***, good choices on there, works well together too.

I came in here for a mental break from a complicated day and now every post is like a technical document :)

I don't want to hear "random users choose their favourite AFX track". I want to hear what he thinks would make a compelling release/series of releases.

Failing that, something curated by Mike P. (too busy running a great label), Sean and Rob (too busy decoding alien signals into human music), Tom J. (too busy designing new masks), or Luke V. (too busy being a boss).

But really, really, really what I want is for the stream of great music to keep flowing!

  On 5/16/2015 at 12:36 AM, chenGOD said:

I don't want to hear "random users choose their favourite AFX track". I want to hear what he thinks would make a compelling release/series of releases.

Failing that, something curated by Mike P. (too busy running a great label), Sean and Rob (too busy decoding alien signals into human music), Tom J. (too busy designing new masks), or Luke V. (too busy being a boss).

 

But really, really, really what I want is for the stream of great music to keep flowing!

SAW 1.5 is a good example of this. I think it'd make a great bonus disc for a re-release of SAW 1.

Have a third disc be those alternates Richard was talking about + live heliosphan.

we could do something like this:

  On 5/16/2015 at 12:36 AM, chenGOD said:

I don't want to hear "random users choose their favourite AFX track". I want to hear what he thinks would make a compelling release/series of releases.

Failing that, something curated by Mike P. (too busy running a great label), Sean and Rob (too busy decoding alien signals into human music), Tom J. (too busy designing new masks), or Luke V. (too busy being a boss).

 

But really, really, really what I want is for the stream of great music to keep flowing!

But then who would curate Mike P's Soundcloud? :)

But yes, as long as the spice keeps flowing anything else is gravy

  On 5/16/2015 at 12:21 AM, nyr22 said:

I came in here for a mental break from a complicated day and now every post is like a technical document :)

Read the rules. Peer-reviewed posting up in here from now on, only deemed acceptable if performed at standard temperature and pressure (273.15 Kelvin, and 1 atm pressure). Get your format and citations right, and don't start talking about music or equipment unless you're prepared to attach the appropriate wiring schematic(s), bro.

  On 5/16/2015 at 12:44 AM, Hail Sagan said:

 

  On 5/16/2015 at 12:21 AM, nyr22 said:

I came in here for a mental break from a complicated day and now every post is like a technical document :)

 

 

Read the rules. Peer-reviewed posting up in here from now on, only deemed acceptable if performed at standard temperature and pressure (273.15 Kelvin, and 1 atm pressure). Get your format and citations right, and don't start talking about music or equipment unless you're prepared to attach the appropriate wiring schematic(s), bro.

 

This was taken in my community last year, somebody was changing all the neighborhood watch signs

(there was also voltron, mario and the care bears)

I'm willing to bet that "somebody" = you.

  On 5/16/2015 at 2:37 AM, Hail Sagan said:

I'm willing to bet that "somebody" = you.

Wish I could take credit but I took only pictures and left only footprints

Wow. You guys are thinking really hard about this.

Wait and see, no?

Just print off a list of the tracks, blindfold Richard, and have him throw a dart at the list to decide which track will be mastered.

https://soundcloud.com/mikep/pc5

Richard called this one a "top" track. Kinda funny that the solid color here is eerily similar to one we're all familiar with, especially considering that Mike P has artwork for every other track.

#justsayin' #speculatin'

It just gets better and better, doesn't it? Agree with those saying let the good stuff keep coming for now, vote when it stops (shudder)

On a side note, anyone got a zip for 206-227? Wishing he'd make the latest batches downloadable in 320, some amazing ones in there

I would prefer if richard chose the top tracks not some vote of random people on the internet (including trolls)

Like someone else said, richard seems to have tastes in line with us

floating oo please, cornish spreek5b please,

the thing is just about any track would be great to have mastered, couldn't he just ship off the whole lot to someone to do it for him and release a box set?

Anyway I'm happy he's talking about releasing some of these properly, in addition to multiple future releases!

Thanks again RDJ