Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

Listening to a lot of this today. Man 19 ssnb is just beautiful. Real gem of a track - crazy to think he had just been sitting on it all these years.

Does someone have a google doc with the playlists Richard did?

  On 1/30/2016 at 9:03 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Does someone have a google doc with the playlists Richard did?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11ouNaaVrNp60Ib34Kp0TO1n1XSc7-9DvfiZ9ZiTiD2c/htmlview?sle=true

the saw 1.5 one is beautiful.

One year allready. It has been such a trip. The first few weeks i've been in AFX limbo, doing nothing else but listening to new AX tunes, killing my F5 button in the progress.

I'd been lurking this forum for years, but from january 2015 I was a guest every single day, enjoying the emotional rollercoaster together with so many others fans.

Fanx AFX for the killer tunes! Fanx WATMM users for all the fun.

the xmas / bradleys echoes connection got me thinking - is there, like, a list of similarities like this (sc tracks being connected to his released works) floating around? or is it jus that one thing (aside from the demos, that is)

  On 1/29/2016 at 10:38 PM, NI64 said:

Listening to a lot of this today. Man 19 ssnb is just beautiful. Real gem of a track - crazy to think he had just been sitting on it all these years.

I couldn't agree more!

  On 1/31/2016 at 12:51 AM, kinski said:

the xmas / bradleys echoes connection got me thinking - is there, like, a list of similarities like this (sc tracks being connected to his released works) floating around? or is it jus that one thing (aside from the demos, that is)

Dunno if I'm getting your question right here but that docsheet (see jejunum's post) has quite nice side notes section where are plenty of notes about those similarities. Here are few from the top of my mind, alas quite obvious and somewhat subtle ones

afx origTheme and Spectrum -> UT1-Dot

P-string -> Quoth(s)

Original Chaos Riff-> Cuckoo

beginning of Mooow -> Phloam (ok, this is quite IMO)

bob Morgan'n Robocop samples -> Green calx

  On 1/31/2016 at 1:50 PM, Grumpy Old Daddy said:

 

  On 1/31/2016 at 12:51 AM, kinski said:

the xmas / bradleys echoes connection got me thinking - is there, like, a list of similarities like this (sc tracks being connected to his released works) floating around? or is it jus that one thing (aside from the demos, that is)

Dunno if I'm getting your question right here but that docsheet (see jejunum's post) has quite nice side notes section where are plenty of notes about those similarities. Here are few from the top of my mind, alas quite obvious and somewhat subtle ones

 

afx origTheme and Spectrum -> UT1-Dot

P-string -> Quoth(s)

Original Chaos Riff-> Cuckoo

beginning of Mooow -> Phloam (ok, this is quite IMO)

bob Morgan'n Robocop samples -> Green calx

 

Does anyone else hear a pretty heavy similarity between the main synthline at 5:25 in Cheetah 3 and the synth in the background at around 4:12 to 4:21 of umil-25? Sounds rather the same to me.

  On 1/31/2016 at 1:23 PM, Aural Unrest said:

 

  On 1/29/2016 at 10:38 PM, NI64 said:

Listening to a lot of this today. Man 19 ssnb is just beautiful. Real gem of a track - crazy to think he had just been sitting on it all these years.

I couldn't agree more!

 

I still like the beat-ful version (SSBA) better, the little bell percussion really ties the room together... but either way they are very high up on my Top 100 list. That main lead synth is so lonely and stoic, like the last of a species searching for a mate.

Pretty sure I've got to go through this whole delicious dump again, from beginning to end. I thought I had whittled the whole thing down to the barest most perfect bones. The purest concentrated AFX tincture. Then I realise I'm missing tracks like Rough Beat Tune, Gerald Remix and Ssnb (wtf).

Silly, foolish Beerwolf.

  On 1/31/2016 at 1:23 PM, Aural Unrest said:

 

  On 1/29/2016 at 10:38 PM, NI64 said:

Listening to a lot of this today. Man 19 ssnb is just beautiful. Real gem of a track - crazy to think he had just been sitting on it all these years.

I couldn't agree more!

 

Was just listening '19 ssnb' also. It's kinda simple but just beautiful. I really like how Richard can arrange (from time to time) so many layers in one track which just goes hand in hand..

To go back to my 'alternate ICBYD' idea, I always viewed 19 ssnb (or ssba) as an alternate of Mookid. That lonely "waaaaoooowwww" synth is in both of em.

  On 1/31/2016 at 7:25 PM, beerwolf said:

I've got to go through this whole delicious dump again, from beginning to end.

I'm the silly foolish one. medievil rave mk2 and tigercubdelay weren't in my playlist, and it took 3 runs through the whole dump to realize. I think I'm just going to drag the whole thing into my player, nix the few I get absolutely nothing from at all, and save that.

i was spending ages on making playlists but ultimately kept missing stuff and wanting to add more and more. then i'd try and sort them into pleasing listens but it would normally get boring cos it would just be me listening to big chunks of similar styled tracks.

i'm sure its possible to still making good playlists out of the sound dump, but man... it seems like a lot of work... and in the end i'm getting most enjoyment out of just casually listening + shuffling and stumbling onto nice moments and sick transitions that i would never have thought of (ie. putting 2 contrasting songs 1 after another after another and it being interesting).

Page 606

page 666 will reveal everything

  On 2/1/2016 at 3:47 PM, ianandi said:

page 666 will reveal everything

can we get there now that the dump is over, will take several weeks if not months.

page 606

as promised

606 entry

so today i was in the mood to start another piano transcription and decided to give 28 organ a shot....

im only through the first 50 seconds of this track and im completely in love again. the best thing about making those covers is that i have to listen to each bar dozens and dozens of times, which - obviously - makes me recognize so many details i haven't seen before. it's hard for me to put in words, especially since i lack the professional vocabulary, but the way he carves out all the different directions and aspects of that first melody with slight changes every time he repeats this motive already completely blew my mind.

I don't want to go into too much detail, but here's a small example: the synth in the background that comes in at 00:37 seconds changes the whole harmonic context of the melody ( i hope thats understandable :P). By the way, this is something RDJ does quite often: use the same melody and bring it into a different harmonic context by subtle changes in the background every time. The drums also have a different function with every repetition as well. I feel the same way about MSM/SMM, until the middle part you can't really decide in which key the melody is performed because the background constantly changes. sometimes its b flat, sometimes a, sometimes major, sometimes minor. I hope I'm not having a brainfart about this and that some of you guys hear the same :D

  On 2/1/2016 at 6:17 PM, Scarb0 said:

so today i was in the mood to start another piano transcription and decided to give 28 organ a shot....

 

im only through the first 50 seconds of this track and im completely in love again. the best thing about making those covers is that i have to listen to each bar dozens and dozens of times, which - obviously - makes me recognize so many details i haven't seen before. it's hard for me to put in words, especially since i lack the professional vocabulary, but the way he carves out all the different directions and aspects of that first melody with slight changes every time he repeats this motive already completely blew my mind.

I don't want to go into too much detail, but here's a small example: the synth in the background that comes in at 00:37 seconds changes the whole harmonic context of the melody ( i hope thats understandable :P). By the way, this is something RDJ does quite often: use the same melody and bring it into a different harmonic context by subtle changes in the background every time. The drums also have a different function with every repetition as well. I feel the same way about MSM/SMM, until the middle part you can't really decide in which key the melody is performed because the background constantly changes. sometimes its b flat, sometimes a, sometimes major, sometimes minor. I hope I'm not having a brainfart about this and that some of you guys hear the same :D

Wait till you get to 1:26 - 1:40, absolutely stunning interweaving melodies, the track is full of them. I tried to work that bit out last week but failed miserably, hope you can do it and share it with the rest of us. If anyone still hasn't got Zolt's (Reddit MIDI guy) go at the song, he's put some sections down perfectly, you can find it here: http://www.midm-database.co.uk/sc.html, but I am sure that Scarb0s attempt will blow it out of the water, you sure did an amazing job with Ziggomatic. On that matter, can I request a cheeky Cock/Ver10? Around 1:20 on that track it's just beauty without words. :)

haha, thx... i can share what i have tomorrow. I can do the melodic part of cock/ver, sure :) I love that part as well. it's also a lot easier to just figure out the melodies without having to make it playable on piano, so it should not be that big of a deal. gonna give it a try as soon as im procrastinating again, so probably pretty soon.

  On 2/1/2016 at 8:35 PM, Scarb0 said:

haha, thx... i can share what i have tomorrow. I can do the melodic part of cock/ver, sure :) I love that part as well. it's also a lot easier to just figure out the melodies without having to make it playable on piano, so it should not be that big of a deal. gonna give it a try as soon as im procrastinating again, so probably pretty soon.

Can't wait that long, sorry! xD

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24438426/MIDI%20FILES/Drukqs/cockver10.mid

Think that's all right, I went a bit overboard with doubling up octaves for added effect, but it's pretty much the best 8 bars squashed into 4, take of it what you will. If you want to make it longer, or work out more of the instruments that I'm sure are there, that would be awesome. Still am left speechless by this utterly simple beauty and emotion before me, would take me days to think of something that is a hundredth as effective, and never as simply brilliant. Rich, more so Drukqs, is one of a kind.