Organizing the Soundcloud material

i've been listening to the whole lot alphabetically and it seems to flow nicely, would like to organize by year but I don't think all the tracks have been tagged with a year?

Edited January 30, 2015 by m.leafeater.dl

There are an awful lot of tracks which don't fit any album style/likeness. or even each other. that's probably partly why they've been sitting in the vaults.

 

Plus even the albums have extreme variations on them, e.g. Classics has Analogue Bubblebath 1 on it, SOSW has a full beatless ambient tack.

 

I think its probably an idea to do like multiple album sized compilations titled 'Unreleased Trax 9X-9X', and then make tracklists that flow out of that stuff.

Edited January 30, 2015 by The CIA

maybe this information will be useful for some ocr people

everything here is written by wonderful ZoeB!

 

I'm probably wrong, but this is my best guess at the tape split points, more or less. The times shown are the amount of time that passed between track uploads. Deleted tracks are excluded.

Old Tape 1 (42 mins)

  On 1/29/2015 at 10:05 PM, ZoeB said:

I'm probably wrong, but this is my best guess at the tape split points, more or less. The times shown are the amount of time that passed between track uploads. Deleted tracks are excluded.

 

Old Tape 1 (42 mins)

8 Utopia 0:00:00

Original Chaos Riff 0:09:01

22 Pearls 0:01:37

Quad Rave TEAC 0:11:14

Suzanne 0:03:41

Bimbongo 8:15:23

20 Pink Floyd 1:04:24

Parking Lot 0:05:04

 

Old Tape 2 (59 mins)

1 Chink 101 12:25:30

24 Squalitude Acid 8:28:34

SomewhereOTTGTBAG 0:06:42

ThnxU4letinMeStyWitU 0:02:34

X - Rays 0:07:25

Symbonsad 0:05:36

SallyVingoe 0:30:07

Red Alert 0:12:24

16 Fresher + Cleaner 0:05:44

Afx origTheme 0:02:49

GPO Beat 0:02:40

Pump The Shit 1:51:06

Plinkyplonk 0:04:12

 

Old Tape 3 (28 mins)

Sams Car 3:34:48

9 Square Dance 0:13:28

10 Bcr78 0:11:41

40 Lannerlush Full 0:30:25

39 Fnkmg 0:07:35

Renalgade Sonar 0:01:12

 

Old Tape 4 (47 mins)

17 Kids Beach 8:31:07

Martins Car LPF 0:54:58

1 Human Rotation 0:06:02

6 Plinky Plonk[orig] 0:05:00

8 Knife Fork Freq 0:09:06

mooow [Dixons Theft mix] 0:19:13

Mental Telepathy 0:06:20

Dance2thebeat 0:59:19

34.5 P.e 0:42:55

 

Old Tape 5 (50 mins)

glockenspiel TEAC 2:21:30

Archponf 0:02:14

Catsquidge2 0:04:30

CooltempoDemo 0:06:57

19 Ssnb 0:49:53

2 Xame Filtered 0:22:12

13 Short Mental Afx 0:04:23

4 ACH 0:01:22

14 07 B 1:49:15

17 Alis Trak[brain floss mix] 0:23:07

20 Vtnm 0:03:45

21 Vtnm2 0:08:22

 

Old Tape 6 (55 mins)

7 Clapstab Ab6 2:17:18

8 World Waver Ab6 0:00:09

11 Donkey Rhubarb Remix 0:19:13

18 With My Family 0:47:55

1 nocares 0:05:10

7 ∂ƒ∆ [rough mix] 0:18:08

2 ∂ƒx 126b 0:30:08

3 gerald Remix 0:07:56

12 Rough Beat Tune 0:04:13

13 High Hats Tune Tamclap Orig 0:58:12

16 Bpjdrop Forge [pump up the jam mix] 0:30:38

 

Old Tape 7 (25 mins)

71 1st bank Trac 11:42:44

11 Early Morning Clissold 0:14:24

12 Space Beat 0:05:43

13 barbarella on microdots 0:11:13

21 Hapshifter1 0:06:09

 

Old Tape 8 (54 mins)

1 P - String 0:57:17

11 Slo Bird Whistle[peel Sesh] 0:15:19

15 Bradley Jam Pump 0:05:45

1 70`s Tune 0:02:09

2tone[camborne college mix] 0:15:38

ep string 0:05:55

Bellbrk 0:03:40

Dance And Play 0:06:48

DroneBReak 0:05:32

Fork Rave 0:01:03

 

Old Tape 9 (34 mins)

How Much I Wanted You 0:38:55

Lanner B4 Ardkore 0:01:24

Nova Robotiks 0:01:29

2 Pcp 2 [unreleased Version] 0:14:14

23 moodular3[live gig] 0:12:16

14 Moodular Acid[pissflaps mix] 0:02:43

9 leeds orbit[live] 0:00:42

10 Shit Smothered 0:22:09

5 Acid Misc 0:04:39

 

Old Tape 10 (41 mins)

8 Lush Ambulance 2 0:21:34

(vocoder disco) 0:03:56

4 Ny Groove 0:12:46

6 Fly Beats 0:03:42

12 Phuqed Up 0:07:22

15 Twister 0:01:48

11 Phlangebeat 0:02:03

25 funnel 0:02:45

14 Make A Baby 0:22:19

26 5 [demo] 0:08:28

8 Metal Beat 1:01:01

24 Afx 71 1 0:00:58

7 Cutting 0:51:11

 

Old Tape 11 (41 mins)

5 sline 4:05:08

4 Red Calx 0:51:12

35 Japan 0:22:12

28 organ 0:08:01

37 [bicycle Wheel] 0:08:17

 

Old Tape 12 (40 mins)

21 Forgotten T 9:22:05

6 Step Up To Cornwall 0:25:03

3 hollow alias ab6 0:19:03

4 how to science ab6 0:08:58

5 How To Science 2 Ab6 0:07:45

2 Dual Acid Ab6 0:07:14

4 Red Calx[slo] 0:12:34

7 lsb [slo] 0:03:10

19 [slo]w early morning clissold sunrise 0:09:42

yeah this is genius - looking at the gaps between uploads and inferring that RDJ was digitising old tapes

So we're definitely keeping numbers at the start of the track titles then?

Yeah I don't really think upload order is anything to go by. For the non obvious ones you'll just have to decide which style of Richard's it fits best and make a 'SAW2 out-takes' album or something.

There are huge crossovers between SAW85-92, Analogue Bubblebath, Classics and even Polygon Window and Caustic Window so it's difficult to separate these specifically, an 'early years' compilation would suit these well - or possibly a ravey-hardcore one and an ambienty one.

The ICBYD era pieces are much more clearly marked so I'll probably be separating those into an individual folder. The number of later pieces is small so a HAB/RDJ combination would probably work.

  On 1/31/2015 at 12:04 AM, ieafs said:

while it's admirably creepy, it doesn't really work as a concept as there vast changes in years/styles on the what you're seeing as individual tapes and things like there being three tracks 7s on "old tape #6"

 

 

Personally, I'm of the opposite opinion, I think zoe's old tapes order makes for the most logical concept for categorization... it's a direct and tangible link to the soundcloud 'event' itself.

Edited January 31, 2015 by escmode

I think that I'll end up organizing it with the Old Tapes method as suggested, then make playlists as a I see fit. I didn't care for all the tracks, and so organizing a couple playlists with my favorites seems like the best idea to me.

Love the obsession over this but for the time being, I simply have them all in a folder that's automatically alphabetized. Didn't remove track numbers. I'm finding the most joy in just getting lost in the shifting moods of Planet AFX.

Edited January 31, 2015 by frankbooth

shuffle

Personally I kept everything in the same folder, tagged them with Artist "Aphex Twin" From the album "user48736353001" and assigned my favorite cover from the artwork thread.

  On 1/31/2015 at 5:10 AM, Allize said:

Personally I kept everything in the same folder, tagged them with Artist "Aphex Twin" From the album "user48736353001" and assigned my favorite cover from the artwork thread.

Same here

https://mega.co.nz/#!vVBDlB4b!9Yy6YaAXWZIsAX4rvwKkARVAN-mlIIGjebxS_jRlEMo

there you go

^nice 1, thx allize ! & mega thx afx ! & xf ! & watmm ! dwnldng nw, havznt az yet herd anytrax so excite such music ᗡ:

I really don't think there's any point trying to organize the tracks like this.

 

Reason - there will be a more official release of these tracks. Probably only digital as there's so many. Some will be mastered, some not, but all will be downloadable in FLAC/320mp3 or whatever. He will group the tracks as he intended for them to be heard

 

Just gotta wait a bit

  On 1/31/2015 at 1:32 AM, auxien said:

I think that I'll end up organizing it with the Old Tapes method as suggested, then make playlists as a I see fit. I didn't care for all the tracks, and so organizing a couple playlists with my favorites seems like the best idea to me.

Yep. This is very good, although I'd love to figure the artist names.

 

I currently have a SAW playlist.

I think I'll do a HAB/RDJ one shortly.

 

Maybe a JOYREX list for the harsher CW style tracks and UNHEARD CLASSICS for the old, old stuff.

Might need to split that one a bit further.

 

 

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I plan to enjoy the chaos. All filed as RDJ, title 'user48736353001', best played in whichever order you prefer. In my case, on shuffle whilst trying to entertain a three month old Aphex initiate.

 

It seems to me his whole career has been a stream of conscious thing, with bits and pieces pulled togeter and released in a fairly fragmentary way, and that idea fits this stuff. Trying to unpick it all could drive a man to drink.

Edited January 31, 2015 by Ohm

  On 1/31/2015 at 5:10 AM, Allize said:

Personally I kept everything in the same folder, tagged them with Artist "Aphex Twin" From the album "user48736353001" and assigned my favorite cover from the artwork thread.

Yeah, I think this seems to be the best option. Maybe I'll organise groups of tracks into discs to make it look a little neater in my iTunes library.

 

Also, is everyone keeping or ditching the track numbers?

Mmm. Drink.

 

 

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  On 1/31/2015 at 8:33 AM, Chris Toffer said:

I really don't think there's any point trying to organize the tracks like this.

 

Reason - there will be a more official release of these tracks. Probably only digital as there's so many. Some will be mastered, some not, but all will be downloadable in FLAC/320mp3 or whatever. He will group the tracks as he intended for them to be heard

 

Just gotta wait a bit

I think he might do that for some of them, but not all of them. Because its too many - that was his problem in the first place - too many tracks to organise - thats why he just posted them en-masse.

  On 1/31/2015 at 6:14 AM, Allize said:

https://mega.co.nz/#!vVBDlB4b!9Yy6YaAXWZIsAX4rvwKkARVAN-mlIIGjebxS_jRlEMo

 

there you go

 

thanks mate, this is awesome, is girl/boy included or giving that one a miss?

  On 1/31/2015 at 10:04 AM, valleyinaire said:

 

  On 1/31/2015 at 5:10 AM, Allize said:

Personally I kept everything in the same folder, tagged them with Artist "Aphex Twin" From the album "user48736353001" and assigned my favorite cover from the artwork thread.

Yeah, I think this seems to be the best option. Maybe I'll organise groups of tracks into discs to make it look a little neater in my iTunes library.

 

Also, is everyone keeping or ditching the track numbers?

I'm choosing to remove the track numbers personally. I don't want people to keep adding on the track numbers when mentioning the tracks in the future, seems quite pointless.

Surely the track numbers at the start mean some of these were originally grouped into possible releases? We have pretty much all of AB6 it appears.

 

But yeah am just going for one big playlist in alphabetical with track numbers (mainly cause I cant be arsed to take them out!) It flows pretty well like that anyway and can just dip in an out to my heart’s content! Might make playlists of favs and stuff at some point but for now just enjoying the Aphex madness!

Edited January 31, 2015 by kirm

there is no way I'll keep that big foler as is - it's very uncomfortable to search thru all playlist on phone, it's gigantic

 

probably will make "favorite tracks" folder, separate folder for HAB/RDJ era, Acid stuff, Ambient stuff, make AB6 folder, "already released" folder, the rest brobably will go to "early ephix" folder (88-93), but i havent started organizig yet, everything can change depending on how many tracks are there from every era.