Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

been listening to 28 organ epic a lot in the passed week or so, 2:07 and on is so emotional

every once in a while i'll rediscover an old tune from the sc dump that i've forgotten about and it's almost like listening for the first time, thanks again richard

i would love a proper album with stuff the likes of shroomdot and nqz chaos

  On 2/1/2016 at 11:19 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

i would love a proper album with stuff the likes of shroomdot and nqz chaos

omg me too.

i wonder what the tracklist was ( if there ever was one) for that ~2000 modular album.

yeah shroomdot is great :) didn't really listen to the other modular tracks yet, only 1 time each or so

If anyone is interested, here is almost all of organ 28 in a single MIDI file:

https://mega.nz/#!31FEzI4b!JatD8jyFfqtphWJPHB2J3lXTKafb2qZ3rtMCCLxnfoU

I went back through the Ableton project for my organ 28 cover, took all the bits I had transcribed, and placed them in a MIDI clip as closely as I could to how they're arranged in the original track. So the entire track is there, but there are some empty spots that still need transcribing. Section D1 was transcribed by someone on Reddit, I forget who...was posted in earlier in this thread. There are a few large empty sections that I haven't had the time or willpower to learn and transcribe, but much of it is there. The whole thing is 256 measures long.

And then I went full OCD and gave it my best lazy-undergrad-musical-analysis. Harmonically, I think it's undoubtedly one of RDJ's most intricate tracks. Not even considering the free-jazz-robot-voice section, it goes through at least THREE major key changes (Bb, to Ab, to E major, to B minor)...and the Bb major sections are often on the verge of modulating to G minor.

Cheers!

Notes:
The red colored text are the sections I did NOT transcribe in the MIDI. I just left empty space.
Yellow text I are only partially transcribed (some major instruments left out).
Also I didn't bother transcribing the acid bass in Section A or percussion throughout.
Measure numbers refer to the MIDI while time stamps refer to that corresponding spot in the original track.

[sECTION A (Bb major)]
m. 01 - 66 ~0:00

[bREAKDOWN]
m. 67-74 ~1:53

[bRIDGE 1 (Bb major)]
m. 75-86 ~2:05 (no percussion)

[sECTION B1 (Bb major)]
m. 87-126 ~2:31 (percussion re-enters at m. 95)
[sECTION B2 (Ab major)]
m. 127-158 ~3:36 (direct modulation to Ab)

[bRIDGE 2]
m. 159-166 ~4:31

[sECTION C]
m. 167-171 ~4:45: (pre robot-voice progression)
m. 172-191 ~4:53: (Nobukazu Takemura-esque blubbering robot voice)

[sECTION D1 (E major)]
m. 191-223 ~5:29
[sECTION D2 (B minor)]
m. 224-255 ~6:23

  On 2/2/2016 at 10:00 AM, Skeletron said:

[sECTION C]

m. 167-171 ~4:45: (pre robot-voice progression)

m. 172-191 ~4:53: (Nobukazu Takemura-esque blubbering robot voice)

 

In what tracks has Nobukazu done it? Would love to hear

  On 2/2/2016 at 10:00 AM, Skeletron said:

If anyone is interested, here is almost all of organ 28 in a single MIDI file:

 

https://mega.nz/#!31FEzI4b!JatD8jyFfqtphWJPHB2J3lXTKafb2qZ3rtMCCLxnfoU

 

Really nice job, you nailed it! I saw it was a little slow compared to the original track so I sped it up to the original BPM, do I have permission to host it on my MIDI repository? Full credit to you of course, just provide me a link to one of your accounts on the interwebs and I'll be on my way.

139BPM: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24438426/MIDI%20FILES/Soundcloud/28%20organ/organ28%5Bwatmm-skeletron%5D.mid

Cool, thanks! I've never exported a MIDI file from Ableton so I wasn't sure if the tempo was saved and whatnot. Sure feel free to put it in your repository. Do whatever you want with it! http://soundcloud.com/traxus12

Chris: I was thinking Lost Treasure from Recursion EP and Lost Treasure (4th Version) from 10th. Actually, this is more text-to-speech spoken word, while in organ 28 it's more like a synth patch imitating a human vowel shape. Not as similar as I remembered. :)

i just finished a first version of the 1st part until the break, not sure if i'm gonna leave it like that tho.

i don't think i can play it at the original speed on piano either, but we'll see.

i uploaded it on soundcloud but reaper ofc doesn't emphasize the different voices in the right way, so it doesn't sound that great.

https://soundcloud.com/martins-piano/28-organ-piano-cover-1st-part

EDIT: how do you properly embedd those soundcloud links?? :p

organfirsttry - Partitur.pdfFetching info...

Nice job man!! Sounds good.

  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

 

this is exactly what i meant, thanks. the docsheet is great but also very annoying with all the sideways scrolling (prolly why i missed the footnotes in the first palce).

Plum profile picture is back! IMMINENT

https://soundcloud.com/user18081971
profile is back

  On 2/3/2016 at 11:05 AM, clarktrent said:

Plum profile picture is back! IMMINENT

all I see there is white profile pic..

  On 2/3/2016 at 3:04 PM, anthing said:

all I see there is white profile pic..

Me too. Presumably it just briefly changed.

  On 2/3/2016 at 3:05 PM, CroydonCaptainJack said:

 

  On 2/3/2016 at 3:04 PM, anthing said:

all I see there is white profile pic..

Me too. Presumably it just briefly changed.

 

Must be toying around :D

All the tracks are also there but disabled/private (or at least it shows 272 tracks if you enter his profile, then go somewhere else and go back (with back button))

maybe he's sour about mikep surpassing his upload count. Gotta catch up. Upload a couple unreleased albums from late 90s.

MikeP is certainly upping the anti

LADS, for a second he had up every single .MP3 on his computer aswell as all of his DATs. Shame you lot missed it, Ziggomatic18, Windowlicker (Syro Mix) and Computer Controlled Drukqs outtakes were the highlight of this bunch!

when i get those 3480 tracks, i can finally leave this subforum

  On 2/4/2016 at 10:28 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

when i get those 3480 tracks, i can finally leave this subforum

When i get those 3480 tracks, i can finally leave the outside world.

Or just soundtrack my moves through it with a 4000-odd aphex song playlist on shuffle, until I shuffle off this mortal 08 coil. Awooga! As the dear old word thief John 'Fash The Bash' Fashanu used to state.

And we'll never have to see you puking again ;)

when i finally get those 3480 tracks i'll listen to 5 of them for the next 70 years and then die full of regret.