Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

1 - Ibiza Spliff

2 - (Water)

3 - Organ Epic

4 - Cottage 3e

5 - 19 ssnb

  On 5/18/2015 at 8:21 PM, manmower said:

 

  On 5/18/2015 at 7:38 PM, Bread said:

so do we all just chime in with our top 5 in this thread and they will be counted?

 

I only put up a quick top 5 because other posters were discussing how difficult it would be, but it appears to have started a chain reaction that'll probably end up wiping out civilization before the maniton can finish his work on the poll. Sorry about that guys. WTF does maniton even mean anyway?

 

It is too difficult to reduce to a top 5 right now but I'd have a top 10 of:

4 ACH

5 Acid Misc

14 Make A Baby

35 Japan //(I don't own the Soft Ballet cd)//

4 Red Calx (slo)

7 lsb (slo)

15 Sekonda

24 Tsim 2

3 Slothscrape

36 natalie, jane, me, hawke (imperial ring)

  On 5/18/2015 at 8:38 PM, triachus said:

 

  On 5/18/2015 at 8:21 PM, manmower said:

 

  On 5/18/2015 at 7:38 PM, Bread said:

so do we all just chime in with our top 5 in this thread and they will be counted?

I only put up a quick top 5 because other posters were discussing how difficult it would be, but it appears to have started a chain reaction that'll probably end up wiping out civilization before the maniton can finish his work on the poll. Sorry about that guys. WTF does maniton even mean anyway?

 

the most appaling thing is that almost nobody seemed to have voted for Dulcimer Dub or Tsim 2

 

man selecting just 5 is too hard, going to await a proper voting thing

 

I completely agree on Tsim 2. That one is a fixed for me!

You guys are crazy... lol FIVE ONLY?

I could be wrong, but I don't think Cheetah3 would be in the final selection for release. Big picture here is, the majority of the final market is not from WATMM, and so the release will have to have some album-like cohesiveness, which I think iis totally possible from the soundcloud tracks. Imagine this in a record store, and how it will be judged as an album

He has put cheetah3 in his own likes section so that may be a factor.

I still think that having a maximum number of votes will impair the process.

The more people who vote, the better the data. Therefore the threshold of participation needs to be as low as possible. The less deliberation for the voter, the better. If I'll have to pick X amount out of the 200+, I'll never be able to land my decision. Also take into account that some people will only listen to ten or twenty tracks, and they may have a favourite or two. Forcing them to pick five top tracks will only skew the data.

Anyway, RDJ said himself that the votes will only be a starting point, so this is only for guidance anyway.

this voting thing really made this thread unreadable. Isn't there another thread specifically for this?

Good point.

Can't believe he even suggested putting the people's names that voted on the album art. So cool to even suggest.

9 Summer2 is so good. Another one of my favorites. Richard is unbeatable.

I have nearly 80 traxx that I really like, choosing only 5 seems like an impossible task!

part of me doesn't fully understand why this would need to be narrowed down in any way. Look no further than the label Vinyl On Demand who specializes in massively inflated vinyl box sets. Surely Warp is capable of something comprehensive like this? Why is everybody saying 'mastering 200 tracks is an impossible task' its not at all, mastering engineers work fairly quickly they just like being paid a lot (and that would cost a lot of money but money that can easily be made back in profit). I am opposed to the idea of making a 'best of' thing here, i think the only way to do this justice would be a fully comprehensive and continuing vinyl series with an indefinite end. It could even be a subscription services you buy into from the beginning to offset all these costs. If Warp doesn't have the willpower or time to focus on a project of this magnitude, they should pass it onto someone who does (like vinyl on demand)

  On 5/18/2015 at 11:49 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

part of me doesn't fully understand why this would need to be narrowed down in any way. Look no further than the label Vinyl On Demand who specializes in massively inflated vinyl box sets. Surely Warp is capable of something comprehensive like this? Why is everybody saying 'mastering 200 tracks is an impossible task' its not at all, mastering engineers work fairly quickly they just like being paid a lot (and that would cost a lot of money but money that can easily be made back in profit). I am opposed to the idea of making a 'best of' thing here, i think the only way to do this justice would be a fully comprehensive and continuing vinyl series with an indefinite end. It could even be a subscription services you buy into from the beginning to offset all these costs. If Warp doesn't have the willpower or time to focus on a project of this magnitude, they should pass it onto someone who does (like vinyl on demand)

How about the other part of you?

5 tracks isn't enough

I can't even begin to think of a top 5, not even a top 10. Maybe 20

There are too many tracks I consider gems that are never spoken about here, Notting Hill Bus (sp?) for instance that someone else mentioned. 7 cutting also, nobody has mentioned that. So hard

The WATMM community's gonna be throwing bows come crunch time.

  On 5/19/2015 at 12:06 AM, Zeffolia said:

5 tracks isn't enough

 

I can't even begin to think of a top 5, not even a top 10. Maybe 20

 

There are too many tracks I consider gems that are never spoken about here, Notting Hill Bus (sp?) for instance that someone else mentioned. 7 cutting also, nobody has mentioned that. So hard

i think the idea is not that everyone gets the songs they want, but rather to get a list of those that people with different tastes feel the most strongly about.

one of the interesting things about this sc dump for me is how people are drawn to different songs. its unlikely that any one person will get their top 15 in the final selection of 20 or whatever, so by everyone only chosing 5, the final batch will maybe bring things to peoples attention, because they will be the absolute best according to all tastes.

the other part of me says this project should be produced/sold outside of Aphex's contractual obligation (whatever they might be) with Warp and the project should be split up among several different smaller labels that specialize in good vinyl pressings (of every single track he put up on soundcloud)

edit: Aphex can get around his contractual obligations, as he probably already did by posting them on soundcloud with nothing saying 'this is by aphex twin'. He could if he wanted to tomorrow send off batches of playlists to all different indie labels with a note saying 'have at it cunts' and people would lose their shit.

  On 5/18/2015 at 8:38 PM, triachus said:

 

the most appaling thing is that almost nobody seemed to have voted for Dulcimer Dub or Tsim 2

 

man selecting just 5 is too hard, going to await a proper voting thing

 

Big love for those tracks.

If we ARE restricted to 5 votes, part of me thinks I should just be vouching for the under-appreciated stuff. I mean, stuff like Organ and Sekonda are pretty much gonna end up on this release no matter what. Fans of those need not worry. But what about 70`s Tune, Bradley Echoes, Hilo, nocares, Slo Bird Whistle, etc? I seriously dig all of those, but in reality they haven't got a fucking chance.

  On 5/19/2015 at 1:42 AM, valleyinaire said:

 

  On 5/18/2015 at 8:38 PM, triachus said:

 

the most appaling thing is that almost nobody seemed to have voted for Dulcimer Dub or Tsim 2

 

man selecting just 5 is too hard, going to await a proper voting thing

 

 

Big love for those tracks.

 

If we ARE restricted to 5 votes, part of me thinks I should just be vouching for the under-appreciated stuff. I mean, stuff like Organ and Sekonda are pretty much gonna end up on this release no matter what. Fans of those need not worry. But what about 70`s Tune, Bradley Echoes, Hilo, nocares, Slo Bird Whistle, etc? I seriously dig all of those, but in reality they haven't got a fucking chance.

 

I damn sure hope Slo Bird Whistle has a shot at claiming a spot. Tsim and no cares as well, but Slo Bird Whistle especially. Judging by the reception around here though Shit Smothered would probably topple it in a poll.

Can someone summarize what has happened in the past week? I'm not following this voting thing.

  On 5/18/2015 at 8:38 PM, triachus said:

 

  On 5/18/2015 at 8:21 PM, manmower said:

 

  On 5/18/2015 at 7:38 PM, Bread said:

so do we all just chime in with our top 5 in this thread and they will be counted?

I only put up a quick top 5 because other posters were discussing how difficult it would be, but it appears to have started a chain reaction that'll probably end up wiping out civilization before the maniton can finish his work on the poll. Sorry about that guys. WTF does maniton even mean anyway?

 

the most appaling thing is that almost nobody seemed to have voted for Dulcimer Dub or Tsim 2

 

man selecting just 5 is too hard, going to await a proper voting thing

 

loooove dulcimer dub (or anything from the dump with that ICBYD era drum production/sound scape going on. dulcimer dub is verrrrry nice in that regard.

managed to narrow down a playlist of favourite tracks down to 18 tracks and realised i havent exactly chosen anything pre-1994.

interested to see how the results of the voting turns out, with everyone voting their key favourite tracks only. interesting stuff..

  On 5/18/2015 at 11:49 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

part of me doesn't fully understand why this would need to be narrowed down in any way. Look no further than the label Vinyl On Demand who specializes in massively inflated vinyl box sets. Surely Warp is capable of something comprehensive like this? Why is everybody saying 'mastering 200 tracks is an impossible task' its not at all, mastering engineers work fairly quickly they just like being paid a lot (and that would cost a lot of money but money that can easily be made back in profit).

while i agree it would be rad to have them all mastered, the stumbling block is that rdj has to/wants to source the tracks from original dats/cassettes. so he would have to dig them all up and spend days re-digitizing them all, or ship them all off to a mastering engineer and risk losing them all in the mail etc. both prob unlikely.

how about we make a poll for the worst tracks on the sounddump, and let the chosen remix god scratch the shit out of em

would be a lot more simple cause most of the sounddump tracks are already awesome and don't need a rework

Has anyone else tried MyCloudPlayer.com? I was trying to find an alternative to using the Soundcloud site and this is pretty good.


You can also make playlists and share them. I sorted them into likes and just made a quick playlist of the top 10 likes as an example. Could be good for sharing some playlists easily here.

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