Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

Skeletron: Super nice cover!

if his account gets downgraded, then someone gets him pro unlimited after it lapsed, will soundcloud have deleted most of the songs?

  On 1/25/2016 at 4:07 PM, slate said:

1 year anniversary today! Amazing, does not feel like a year

Blimey, not at all - Would've said 6 months tops .... Don't think I've heard more than a dozen of the tracks either - certainly have a long way to go to hear them all !

  On 1/26/2016 at 6:04 PM, very honest said:

if his account gets downgraded, then someone gets him pro unlimited after it lapsed, will soundcloud have deleted most of the songs?

Nope, they just hide from availability (both public and user), if anything, he might delete his account proper because he wouldn't be able to access those tracks anymore until he got an upgrade.

looks like afx accepted xf's pro unlimited year gift jan 27th last year. looking at this page, it doesnt let me gift him a month, and i cant afford the whole year myself.

I'd go in on it.

I'd pay for it....if i knew he was going to use it.

  On 1/26/2016 at 10:10 PM, afxual healing said:

I'd pay for it....if i knew he was going to use it.

 

Yeah, your avatar would suggest that. can you change that please? It's a little ughhh

schlitze this whole place is a little uhgn

in fact by comparison id say that avatar is on the lighter side of things

i be cottaging tbh

I ain't rich enough to throw money at Soundcloud for possibly nothing. But if I knew he'd use it, I'd buy it myself.

 

Although...even not knowing why he stopped or if he's coming back, maybe all of us buying him the account would encourage him to continue.

check your inbox Richard ;)

  On 1/26/2016 at 11:50 PM, Jdub said:

check your inbox Richard ;)

u didn't!

  On 1/25/2016 at 8:03 PM, Skeletron said:

btw I sort of finished my cover of organ 28. happy anniversary.

 

 

richard was totally ripping off one of my old tracks (it's actually uncanny)

  On 1/27/2016 at 12:36 AM, FinePrimitiveSounds said:

 

  On 1/26/2016 at 11:50 PM, Jdub said:

check your inbox Richard ;)

u didn't!

 

 

I did :P Gotta keep the door open.

 

Anyone who wanted to throw in, pm me

  On 1/27/2016 at 1:04 AM, Jdub said:

 

  On 1/27/2016 at 12:36 AM, FinePrimitiveSounds said:

 

  On 1/26/2016 at 11:50 PM, Jdub said:

check your inbox Richard ;)

u didn't!

 

 

I did :P Gotta keep the door open.

 

Anyone who wanted to throw in, pm me

 

bruuuh, that is a nice gesture but very foolish, you should have asked him first, i mean who knows what he's planning to do, maybe he wants to start a new account or even leave soundwank forever

you do get your money back if he doesn't accept it right? right???

Yeah your are probably right, I guess ever since the link was taken off the forums that was a clue, but still even though it's not pocket change it isn't that much and I guess my reasoning is it's worth the chance.

i hope you get your $$ back if this doesn't work out, either way you are a hero to us man, took one for the team lol

yes great move dude !

I doubt having to pay for a SC account is the reason why he stopped uploading. Dude is loaded ffs. You guys are too thirsty

  On 1/27/2016 at 5:34 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

 

  On 1/27/2016 at 1:04 AM, Jdub said:

 

  On 1/27/2016 at 12:36 AM, FinePrimitiveSounds said:

 

  On 1/26/2016 at 11:50 PM, Jdub said:

check your inbox Richard ;)

u didn't!

 

 

I did :P Gotta keep the door open.

 

Anyone who wanted to throw in, pm me

 

bruuuh, that is a nice gesture but very foolish, you should have asked him first, i mean who knows what he's planning to do, maybe he wants to start a new account or even leave soundwank forever

you do get your money back if he doesn't accept it right? right???

 

Ahh leave him alone, Richard thrives on this kind of thing, the gesture alone will be enough to secure YEARS of new music, you know that.

The money wouldn't leave your credit card until the gift was accepted anyway yeah (and even if it did, it should be refunded if the gift wasn't used or accepted), at least that's what I surmised when I was looking in to sending phex the thing the other day, was waiting till the deadline lorl. If it goes through, that means richard has bitten, and perhaps we should send this chap jdub some help money.

  On 1/25/2016 at 11:10 AM, slate said:

Bradley's Echoes for me, there is something magical about those strings...

Probably mentioned thousands of times before but yeah, the XMAS_EVE bit in the track sure is interesting. Can’t remember how old Bradley's Echoes (or fLutterwave) is but the said bit surely took some time to eventually find its way to SYRO. Yup it’s fascinating to notice how Rich has developed some of his ideas and tried out some of those in different songs. Like the similarities between the drum fills in 34.5 P.E and RANDOM FX.

 

Now that the show is over, I could say that my favorite is still Rough Beat Tune like it has been from the point I heard it first time. Other honorable mentions go to afx[rough mix], afx origTheme, Martin’s Car LPF, Mooow, MTG powerpill, Octave Nob, Ibiza Spliff and fooooking rogphlange 1[braiNfLOSS 2] <- ooh how dirty. Yet the most special piece is Utopia - not necessarily the best track of the bunch but that’s the track that started it all.

 

I remember NI64 pointing out that Rough Beat Tune sounds like a twin to Acrid Avid Jam Shred and can’t do but agree on that; they flow perfectly together. Would’ve been sweet if it had ended on ICBYD. And while I’m on it, Sekonda would have been a perfect last track of the album. It’s like a love child of Icct Hedral and Next Heap With. Yet there are bunch of tracks which I can’t really pinpoint under a certain album or alias. It’s one of those great little things which make the soundcloud experiment so great; hearing a totally new and never heard side of Aphex.

 

I’d owe a huge apology to Rich ‘cause before I saw how cool he was with the fans, I thought he was kinda arrogant and cocky person who didn’t really appreciate the fanboys. Or at least that was the picture I got from the magazine interviews. On the other hand he seemed a mellow dude on the radio and tv interviews. Anyway it was nice to see that Rich actually do appreciate people who like his tunes. Now I don’t anymore have to feel like a total ass for investing some money to his music. It hasn’t really prevented me from enjoying Aphex but still….

 

Thanks again Rich!

 

(sorry for the mammoth post, maybe I should start a blog)

  On 1/27/2016 at 4:36 PM, Grumpy Old Daddy said:

 

  On 1/25/2016 at 11:10 AM, slate said:

Bradley's Echoes for me, there is something magical about those strings...

Probably mentioned thousands of times before but yeah, the XMAS_EVE bit in the track sure is interesting. Can’t remember how old Bradley's Echoes (or fLutterwave) is but the said bit surely took some time to eventually find its way to SYRO. Yup it’s fascinating to notice how Rich has developed some of his ideas and tried out some of those in different songs. Like the similarities between the drum fills in 34.5 P.E and RANDOM FX.

 

Now that the show is over, I could say that my favorite is still Rough Beat Tune like it has been from the point I heard it first time. Other honorable mentions go to afx[rough mix], afx origTheme, Martin’s Car LPF, Mooow, MTG powerpill, Octave Nob, Ibiza Spliff and fooooking rogphlange 1[braiNfLOSS 2] <- ooh how dirty. Yet the most special piece is Utopia - not necessarily the best track of the bunch but that’s the track that started it all.

 

I remember NI64 pointing out that Rough Beat Tune sounds like a twin to Acrid Avid Jam Shred and can’t do but agree on that; they flow perfectly together. Would’ve been sweet if it had ended on ICBYD. And while I’m on it, Sekonda would have been a perfect last track of the album. It’s like a love child of Icct Hedral and Next Heap With. Yet there are bunch of tracks which I can’t really pinpoint under a certain album or alias. It’s one of those great little things which make the soundcloud experiment so great; hearing a totally new and never heard side of Aphex.

 

I’d owe a huge apology to Rich ‘cause before I saw how cool he was with the fans, I thought he was kinda arrogant and cocky person who didn’t really appreciate the fanboys. Or at least that was the picture I got from the magazine interviews. On the other hand he seemed a mellow dude on the radio and tv interviews. Anyway it was nice to see that Rich actually do appreciate people who like his tunes. Now I don’t anymore have to feel like a total ass for investing some money to his music. It hasn’t really prevented me from enjoying Aphex but still….

 

Thanks again Rich!

 

(sorry for the mammoth post, maybe I should start a blog)

 

Nice post mate.

Yeah, Rough Beat Tune is magical. Gotta be my favorite as well. I've been toying around with the idea of making a sort of alternate version of ICBYD usinh the SC tracks. We certainly have a ton from that time period, and many of them seem almost like paralells to tracks from that album.