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What does Ltd edition get you? A different sleeve?
bonus track
The bonus track is also available on the regular vinyl edition.
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If someone could confirm limiteds are gone so I can stop pressing refresh that would be lush.
They are not gone.
I had one in my basket and it was still present when the Aphex Twin bleepstore briefly reconnected.
I doubt many people have been able to get beyond adding it to their basket at this point.
It also appears as if it will be distributed elsewhere outside of Bleep (i.e. Norman Records).
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this is kind of what nineFLY sounds like to me, except with way more liquid movement and things moving inside the honey more:
I feel this way about nineFly as well [it is my favourite piece from Session 3].
The synesthesia that it provokes within me is a warm, dense space with no ambient light at all, filled with a mass of molten glass/metal amalgam that is both becoming more liquid and more solid as it forms and deforms, flowing with the rhythm.
There is also a very refractive quality to it; a gravitational lensing of sorts - bright white and red/orange/amber light being bent into very sharp points via the morphing material, and diffuse forms as well, but never becoming completely nebulous. It smells and tastes very glassy and metallic as well, and a bit sugary.
Overall it is very pleasing - as have all the other tracks been. There are textures here that I have never heard anywhere else before, and combinations of textures that feel very uncanny and yet physically very alien and implausible.
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I just need to know how long I can leave this before putting my order in. I could really do with waiting until next payday which is 3 weeks away.
I am waiting until the end of the month myself.
I don’t want to assume that this is definitely the process that Warp are going forward with, but for a project of this scale (12 LPs as one box-set or four separate 3xLP sets) it would be a wise decision to take pre-orders first in order to better determine how many copies should be pressed, and then go forward with the pressing of the records/CDs and the manufacturing of the sleeves/packaging.
I wouldn’t build up too much FOMO, as I am sure that all who want it will be able to secure a copy.
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* Tap Water
* Purdy's Chocolate
Delicious. Dinner is served.
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Lint Yeastwood
Bandaid Quest
Bearpusher
Bic-Pen Lumber-Snatch -
ooh yeah, spot on!Can anyone identify the rattly percussion sound that starts going off at 2:00 and 3:05 in 2x202? Sounds very familiar but I can't place it. Some old bit of gear. I think I think I remember it from an old Emu sound library disc labeled Electro Percussion that had samples of the 808, Dr rhythm, juno drums, ppg, and some other stuff.
Simmons Clap Trap
This clap caught my attention too. I was thinking it sounds like Elektron Analog Rytm clap? With lfo filter sweep or something. Also some kinda rimshot flam/fill at 1;58 lurking low in the 2x202 mix?
Elektron AR Clap demo at 12:25.
All percussion throughout the release sounds like TR9090 (909 clone) - very nice Cirklon sequencing techniques used to make it more alien (extreme flam and so on).
Don't think it's RYTM as within the credits it is mentioned that the version of his studio used to create these pieces was pre-Syro, and RYTM is a much more recent bit of kit.
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If he got his filthy fingers on this rom I might expect some nice formant sounding vocals on the EP...
Would be dope.
What the unit sounds like:
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Noice! Anyone remember AFX's sc comments about him being into badly written 1980's synth manuals? Seems like this is the result.
The flyer contains a few similarities to the written contents of the actual Cheetah MS6 Operator's Manual.
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Fade in to a macro of an active clothing dryer vent outdoors. Lint at the lip of the vent is violently fluttering in the warm breeze generated from within the dryer.
An arduously slow zoom-out reveals an approaching feral cat. For one reason or another the cat decides it is a good idea to lick the swiftly fluttering chunk of lint and a large portion of it gets stuck on the cat’s tongue.
The rest of the film consists of the cat tediously attempting to remove the lint from its tongue. It is not revealed whether the cat succeeds in this or not.
At some points the lint ends up on the cat’s back. It tries to get rid of it but the lint once again finds itself on the cat’s tongue and it continues to lick with a slight increase in the bluster and chaos of its licking pace. This segment occurs with tense sound effects and music which starts with great immediacy and stops just as suddenly and awkwardly as it began.
The films ends in an instant after nine aggravating hours with no fades or credits.
It is entitled “Nine Hours, Nine Lives”.
The cat is actually two costumed actors and the dryer vent is the size of a garage door. The head is played - and the tongue puppeteered, with an astringent attitude of haste - by Meryl Streep, and the hind quarters is Danny DeVito, wearing cheap fur coat and a tail with a small bell on the tip. He’s also eating a sandwich during the whole nine hours. The sandwich happens to be cut into nine, roughly cubic, slices. He takes small bites with his little finger extended. The sandwich is cucumber.
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Were I limited to five:
Pretend Analog Extmix 2b
midievil rave Mk2 [pre plague mix]
5 Scorrier
34 ibiza spliff
Cheetah3 Teac
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Especially of note, for me, is that there is a lot of emotional content in here that feels very warm and dream / lucid-dream like. Perhaps it is just that I've taken Valerian and am half awake but it is notably deep emotionally. It has been some time since I have been this directly shaken by music.
For a synaesthete it is a lot of information, almost an overload, at first listen so I will need more time to absorb every detail and feeling, but the mind/dream/etc-scapes that it generates within me are immediately vivid and feel like they have one foot inside this world's door, and the rest very much outside.
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10/10
Beyond
Every single moment is gorgeous.
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ouch
Not seeing that here.
Hey, what did all this mean btw? (There were a few others.)
I don't mean, "Is RDJ's face in there somewhere?", I just mean: Can a person w/ knowledge explain what this means to a non-musician? I noticed some ppl described minipops as "loud," and someone posted about why the person who did the mastering may have chosen to do it that way... hopefully this doesn't make it a stupid question. Can someone explain something beyond "it means the song sounds loud"?
Some audiophiles here have this idea that the song is mastered badly because of the clipping, that there are some transients cut off at unity - in layman's terms, music levels are backwards, we talk about negative decibels and the loudest a song can be is 0db. Anything going above that is cut off and disintegrated, so that's what you see in the bottom and top of the pic, parts of the waveform aren't there. Limiters and compressors push the sound up towards that limit, and this is almost a necessity to have a competitive volume level in this day and age, but if it is excessive, you hear audible distortion, and that is a negative. I look at a lot of these and the truth is that this is nothing in 2014, track sounds fine. The picture is zoomed out from the waveform quite a lot so it can be rather misleading.
My (worthless) opinion is that the song is mixed and mastered well but not fantastic, aside from the shakers it's well balanced, lots going on on the lower registers without it being muddy and a pleasing sound overall - the song is loud and there is a little audible clipping, but there's less harsh treble than most electronic music these days. A good ear can hear that analog summing gear hard at work. But I listen to a lot of EDM and bass music that's ridiculously loud, so I don't judge it by the same standards as someone who might be used to quieter music.
Agreed. The other important factor is that RDJ probably would not have approved something he didn't like or didn't feel was appropriate for his music. The artists' preference for mastering comes first, not the fans'.
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ouch
Not seeing that here.
Hey, what did all this mean btw? (There were a few others.)
I don't mean, "Is RDJ's face in there somewhere?", I just mean: Can a person w/ knowledge explain what this means to a non-musician? I noticed some ppl described minipops as "loud," and someone posted about why the person who did the mastering may have chosen to do it that way... hopefully this doesn't make it a stupid question. Can someone explain something beyond "it means the song sounds loud"?
The waveform, when zoomed in, displays clipping in louder elements of the music (kicks, bass, and so on), which indicates heavier compression and/or limiting on the master.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
Though with minipops the result is still audibly very nice despite the clipping. The engineer did a great job.
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One of your Roland TR606s should be a Roland TR666 which is this: http://www.confusedmachines.com/
Right you are!
I would edit the transcribed list but I have no way to go back and edit :/
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Transcribed the list:
A Designs Reddi
A Designs Pacifica
ADT Toolkit x4
Akai S950HXC
AKG BX25
AKG Contact Mics
Alice Mixer
Allen Heath Mix Wizard
Allen Organ Spring Reverb
AMS RM10
API 3124+
API 550A
API 550 orig
API 550B
API 560
API 8200A
ARP 2500
Atari 1040 + Midi Expansion + HXC
Avedis E27
Bode Vocoder
Boss BX16
Boss BX8
Boss GE7
Buzz Audio Arc1.1
Calrec Minimixer
Calrec RQP3200
Casio FZ10 + F220M + HXC
Chandler Delay Black
Chandler Delay Cream
Chandler Zoner Limiter
Cirklon Sequencer
Court Acoustics Graphic
Crumar Bit01 White
Cwejman RES4 x3
Cwejman VCO6
Disklavier MKIV Pro Custom
DPA 4052
Drawmer Stereo Gate
Dytronics FS1
Elysia Mpressor
EML 101. Modded
EMS 2000 Vocoder
EMT 140 Plate/Stereo/Tube
EMT 240 Gold Foil
EMT 252 FX
EMT 258 x4 Filters
Ensoniq ASR10
Eventide DSP4000
Eventide H3000 DSE
Eventide H949 x4
Focusrite ISA110 Orig x8
Focusrite ISA430
Fulltone Tape Echo
Harrison 32EQ GR500
HAT Mechanical Drums
Helios x2
Intellijel Rubicon
JH Arp Quadra Phaser
JH Storm Tide Flanger x2
JH Tau Phaser
Jomox Sunsyn V1 x2
Kawai K5000R
Klark Teknik DN780
Korg DS8
Korg Minipops7 Midi, sepouts
Korg PS3200
Korg PS3300 x3
Lexicon 480L
Lexicon PCM70
LPG
Lynx Aurora 16
Make Noise DPO
Marion PROSynth x2
Meinl Water UDU
Micmix Dynaflanger
Micmix Masteroom 2
Midas Venice Desk
Midimoogs x2
Modular Systems/Eurorack
Moog Memory Lintronics
MTI Ensemble
Mum&Dad Vocals
Musicmaid Claptrap x4
Nagra IV-S
Neotek Elite 64 Channel Custom
Neumann U473 x2
Oberheim OBX, racked
Oberheim Modular SEMs, racked
Orla DSE24
Pearl SC40
Pearl Syncussion, racked/midi/mod x4
Plugins, various
Pultec EQP-1A3
Quad Eight 248 x2
Quantec Room Simulator
Retro Instruments Powerstrip
Rhodes Chroma
RME Fireface800
RMI Harmonic Synth
Roland 101e, modded
Roland CE1
Roland D550
Roland MKS50
Roland MKS70
Roland R8/R8M
Roland TR606, modded
Roland TR606
Sci Prophet VS
Sci Prophet5, racked/keyboard
Sennheiser VSM201
Sergio Modular 9-panel
Shure Auxpander
Siemens V78 x2
Simmons SDS3
SM Pro PEQ505
Songbird Trichorus x2
Sound Devices 722
Soundcraft Ghost
Soundworkshop 262
SPL TD4
SSL 4000 Channel Strips x5
SSL X desk
Studio Electronics Code8 Full
Synthoma Elkorus
Synton Syntovox 221 x2
Tantek Flanger/Delay
TC1210
Tongue Drums
TR727
TR9090
Valley People Gain Brains
Valley People Kepex x10
Wildlife
Yamaha CS80
Yamaha D5000
Yamaha DX100, modded
Yamaha DX11
Yamaha EX42
Yamaha FS1R
Yamaha RX11
Yamaha TX16W x2
Zither AFX-scale
Bank Thin Room
Basement
Bedroom
Big Room
C-Shape
Lodge
Mod Room
Google doc for the dots maybe?
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Confirmation that "aisatsana" is the Barbican piano track:
Wondering Sound track-by-track [Source]:
12. “aisatsana [102]“
The album’s finale is the pretty solo piano piece James debuted at London’s Barbican in October 2012. (The event that became notable after James swung a grand piano from the roof of the theatre like a giant pendulum.) The song is a soothing piece reminiscent of the minimal compositions of Erik Satie; it rolls out softly over distant bird song. A point of trivia: “Aisatsana” is also the name of his wife spelled backwards.
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The description of "180dB_" in both FACT and The Quietus track-by-track reviews makes me think it might be the Snowbombing track. It is around the right BPM too.
@6.57 here for those who aren't familiar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzLEMYXPkcE
FACT:
05 ’180db_’
Bit of a swagger here: this one’s got the confidence to roll with nothing more than the main riff, which is fuzzy and buzzy, and four-to-the-floor kick drum for large sections. It’s the first blatant dancefloor track of the record – bit of a shame it’s ironically the shortest one too, as it feels like it could quite happily just jam on for an age, especially after the straight beat turns into a break not a million miles from the Baby Ford ‘Helston Flora Remix’.
The Quietus:
The bpms creep up again for '180db_', which starts out as clattering techno with warped hoover noises, before a breakbeat is dropped and it turns into a slab of gnarly, crusty techno that sounds like something from a Spiral Tribe DJ set from a 90s free party rave-up.
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source field mix... nah, def not live. Considering he named another tune after Thanaton III, I think he means to reference this Source Field:
Just be cool :) You all know it's gonna be a dope LP.
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This one is probably difficult so just whatever comes to the fore of your minds at first: What are some of your favourite pieces of euphoria inducing music (considering that different things are euphoric for different heads)?
isoprophlex - afx
mountain goat - amorphous androgynous
polynomial-c - afx
circles vicious mix - john & julie
temple - jon hopkins
jungle - jungle wonz
allowance - isolee
work harder/work softer - perc
no.3 - VA chain reaction
X2 - electric soul
indicatif roissy - parmegiani
from the hame hill - brian eno
untrue - burial
i could go on and on, mbe
all diff contexts but pretty much euphoric to me
This one is probably difficult so just whatever comes to the fore of your minds at first: What are some of your favourite pieces of euphoria inducing music (considering that different things are euphoric for different heads)?
'now this is fun' by depeche mode always gets me in a really up state, but it's not really euphoric in the way most people mean (i.e. 'too many fizzy synths')
Thank you :) [Also for this inspiring thread. I have learned a lot!]
Autechre. NTS Residency. (_O_)
in Autechre
Posted · Edited by Hexahedral
Yes - I got dinged ~$56 CAD via Aramex (the broker handling the Ochre/DPD shipment upon its entry into Canada).
So to anyone in Canada (and USA as well), heads up that it is likely there will be some hefty brokerage and duty to pay unfortunately if you chose the Ochre (and in the case of Aramex; you pay your duty in advance, online, via Credit Card only) method rather than FedEx (though I'm assuming FedEx is equally as hefty a fee).