Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

New art on ep string

https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/ep-string

and s-tral

https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/3-s-tral

  On 7/6/2015 at 9:08 PM, Bubba69 said:

Kind of surprises me that analord was recorded onto minidisc

very strange if it was, since minidsic has ATRAC compression similar to early attempts at encoding 'high quality' mp3s

  On 7/6/2015 at 12:53 PM, Time Tourist said:

 

  On 7/6/2015 at 12:31 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

bam!! inthesky up for download, we have all the tracks in full glory!!

 

Wohooooo, thanks a lot...

 

 

  On 7/6/2015 at 12:24 PM, The Wumbo Man said:

 

Zoë Blade says at 1:37:

@user18081971: Are there any plans to release MFM? You wrote a lot of fun, catchy tunes in those sessions that I still love to bits.

 

user18081971 says at 1:37:

@zoeblade: ah thnx zoe, yeah it is planned, gotta get it together very soon, like in a week as warp say if i dont give it to them by then finished it wont be out till next year as pressing plants are so busy

 

 

This is just great news... Warp needs to go at Warp speed or just hire a new pressing plant just for the rdj releases

 

With the resurgence in vinyl, the few remaining pressing plants worldwide are struggling to keep up with demand - after they all downsized, and the equipment fell into disrepair, they thought vinyl would fade away...

if you do all the steps through different companies (jackets, mastering, plating, pressing) there isn't much of a wait at all (im in the US not in europe so this could account for the difference) if you find the right pressing plant. Maybe the one they use is just experiencing backups right now.

  On 7/6/2015 at 10:27 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 7/6/2015 at 9:08 PM, Bubba69 said:

Kind of surprises me that analord was recorded onto minidisc

very strange if it was, since minidsic has ATRAC compression similar to early attempts at encoding 'high quality' mp3s

 

that's right, although I think it can do PCM w/ some recorders.

it would almost have to be, i mean Analord in general sounds CD quality to me id be surprised if it was recorded in a lossy format, but its possible. I know ATRAC also varies, sometimes its the equivalent of 192kbps, sometimes 256kpbs

just found this in a PCMag article about the death of minidisc

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Hi-MD MiniDisc format introduced in 2004 allowed for lossless

the date lines up for Analord somewhat, but have no idea how popular this format was or if thats what richard was talking about

I will cry the day MFM comes out on vinyl

Atrac sounded great, better than mp3 compression, Sony had invested a lot into it but decided to abandon it because they couldn't drag enough napster fiends from their fix.

Also what the hell is fogbeak? this ain't in any of the tracks on my computer, and i sat here for about 10 hours yesterday organising the ultimate set of playlists, which i'll post soon (in an hour), mainly using James' playlists.

  On 7/6/2015 at 11:39 PM, ieafs said:

they weren't super obscure, i had one around that time. digital field recorders weren't as common/cheap and it was a way to have portable player AND a hi-q recording device in one.

talking about Hi-MD? i've never seen one and now that i know they exist i'm curious about getting one. As much as its convient to have SD recording ability these days, there's something nice about just being able to save a bunch of minidiscs and know you're probably not going to accidentally erase them ( i think aphex mentioned this dilemma in the syrobonkers interview about having a phobia of accidentally deleting your own recordings, which ive done multiple times to my horror. )

  On 7/6/2015 at 11:57 PM, Schlitze said:

Atrac sounded great, better than mp3 compression,

it depends on what iteration of it, the minidisc players I used to own were on par with a 256kbps variable bitrate, but in the sense that it sounded different from mp3 compression i would agree it generally sounds better.

Here's all of the art individually so you can take what you need:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!eR8FlDwQ!fhBxF03MoPD3URjMeEGmCw

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  On 7/7/2015 at 9:51 PM, jectA said:

 

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Sorry! We can't find that user.

 

No worries, like last few times, it's just soundcloud in general messing up again :)

14 cornish spreek5b [st. Nectan’s Glen Waterfalls mix] is sublime

I've seen so much praise for Pretend Analog Extmix 2b, but I'm gonna say it'd have to go into my 'Can't Get Into' selection.
What am I missing? Am I alone?

  On 7/8/2015 at 5:44 PM, Brionic said:

I've seen so much praise for Pretend Analog Extmix 2b, but I'm gonna say it'd have to go into my 'Can't Get Into' selection.

What am I missing? Am I alone?

[youtubehd]M5QGkOGZubQ[/youtubehd]

  On 7/8/2015 at 5:44 PM, Brionic said:

What am I missing?

a chromosone

lol

  On 7/8/2015 at 5:44 PM, Brionic said:

I've seen so much praise for Pretend Analog Extmix 2b, but I'm gonna say it'd have to go into my 'Can't Get Into' selection.

What am I missing? Am I alone?

I tend to play the tracks in my 2 hour /day commute to work in a cd in the car. So i never know the names of what i'm becoming familiar with sonically.

I guess this track is very "Aphexy"-lite hence its popularity - electro bass, burbling acid lines, subtle vocally synths. Its poppy and "manageable".

But it too is prob going in my "can't get into" list along with the other two tops ones, Organ 28 and 14 Cornish Spreek5b [st. Nectan S Glen Waterfalls Mix]

They all just seem a bit meh RELATIVELY speaking.

"Dance and Play" still not getting enough love btw!

Pretend Analog definitely top ten for me.

Each to their own though.

  On 7/8/2015 at 6:04 PM, phudoshin said:

 

  On 7/8/2015 at 5:44 PM, Brionic said:

I've seen so much praise for Pretend Analog Extmix 2b, but I'm gonna say it'd have to go into my 'Can't Get Into' selection.

What am I missing? Am I alone?

I tend to play the tracks in my 2 hour /day commute to work in a cd in the car. So i never know the names of what i'm becoming familiar with sonically.

 

I guess this track is very "Aphexy"-lite hence its popularity - electro bass, burbling acid lines, subtle vocally synths. Its poppy and "manageable".

 

But it too is prob going in my "can't get into" list along with the other two tops ones, Organ 28 and 14 Cornish Spreek5b [st. Nectan S Glen Waterfalls Mix]

 

They all just seem a bit meh RELATIVELY speaking.

 

"Dance and Play" still not getting enough love btw!

 

This is what I was thinking alright. I'm more in the 7z camp than this one.

Incidentally, the new Soundcloud page sucks (unsurprisingly).

New artwork on a couple of tracks

Alias Trak

World Waver

Strange artwork indeed.

Gets a LOL from me.

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And I think Alias Trak had a slight re-name? I had it as Alis Trak before...

Loved tracks are as follows...

i wonder if eventually there will be individual artwork for each track