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ZoeB

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  1. You know what, I suspect it's just the reflection (aliasing, folding) you get from not having a reconstruction filter. It's probably just sampled at about 20-22 kHz, for a Nyquist frequency of about 10-11 kHz. (Which is curious, as the closest the FZ-1 gets is 18 kHz.) (And it still tickles me that it's been mastered to 48 kHz when it would literally sound identical at 32 kHz. At least the DAT player was filtered this time!)
  2. Yeah, though I wouldn't even say he was ahead of other musicians, so much as he was (and still is, to a certain extent) so idiosyncratic that if he didn't make this music, no-one else would either, ever. Which is a good philosophy to have, largely doing your own thing. I wouldn't go so far as to say that any of his tracks have what you might call proper names, though... I guess that's the nature of abstract, instrumental music.
  3. Totally! I could live without some of the older tracks on that album too. I much prefer a lot of the new old stock tracks. This album has grown on me to a big extent, from one of my least favourites of his to one of my favourites. The new tracks make it my firm favourite album of his now, I think. I can't imagine why they didn't originally bump off some of the older tracks for some of the previously-unreleased ones, it would have been much stronger for it. The two Ventolin releases, taken as a mini album in their own right, are really neat too. Difficult in places, but so out there that there's nothing else like them. And the On pair, for that matter. That whole era.
  4. Yeah, I believe it's new: https://musicbrainz.org/recording/29da6bd2-ff9f-47b2-a475-79f92855c333 Contrast with e.g. Bank Lullaby: https://musicbrainz.org/recording/210689c6-c80a-4bde-ae94-4437731e4abe
  5. Theoretically, there should be less potential project management issues when the project in question is being undertaken by a single person, who claimed seven years ago to already have completed it... Though I have no idea what goes on in his world. I was as surprised as anyone when he actually released all those old tracks on SoundCloud and some turned out to be amongst his best work. So maybe he's telling the truth after all. Who knows?
  6. Yeah, it's a fun little album. I hope it gets an official release one day.
  7. Or you could just listen to the high quality new digital downloads...
  8. Speak for yourself. You just need a partner who's also a musician. Couples who play together stay together!
  9. Yeah, I ignored both Ventolin EPs for the longest time, not particularly liking the title track. But the others are much better! And now I'm at the point where I like even the Ventolin track too. I'm in too deep...
  10. From https://aphextwin.warp.net/release/68148-aphex-twin-selected-ambient-works-volume-ii: Blue Calx: track 19 [side 5, track 2, omitted from CDs] ("Stone in Focus"): #22 ("Spots"): #23 ("Tassels"):
  11. I gave up on my personal copy and just went with the one at the Internet Archive, then amended the MusicBrainz entry to match it. I was going to finally sit down and listen to it all, but then the new shop happened... At any rate, that looks like the definitive version.
  12. This? Seems like bitcrushing to me. That's the one! Hmm, low sample rate, no reconstruction filter, leading to aliasing/folding? Yeah, that sounds likely. So probably something cheap and digital. (Or S+H, BBD, etc.) The symmetry on the other axis too suggests it could even be a pingpong loop on a sampler.
  13. Anyone wonder what that swirl is on No Cares? Frequency wise, it's symmetrical, which intrigues me.
  14. It has one, inasmuch as it's on a CD compilation.
  15. Just send him/warp a message/ Good idea, thanks! I've now sent one. I (re-)bought a bunch of Aphex Twin albums a few months ago on the main Bleep store, so I'm hoping the new tracks will be copied to the main store, or the purchases on the main store will be copied across to the Aphex Twin one. I can't imagine I'm the only person hoping that, either! Well, I got a reply. That's a "no". Shame.
  16. Just send him/warp a message/ Good idea, thanks! I've now sent one. I (re-)bought a bunch of Aphex Twin albums a few months ago on the main Bleep store, so I'm hoping the new tracks will be copied to the main store, or the purchases on the main store will be copied across to the Aphex Twin one. I can't imagine I'm the only person hoping that, either!
  17. Ooh, do we get the bonus tracks? That'd be nice. But e.g. https://bleep.com/release/20409-polygon-window-surfing-on-sine-waves isn't listing Clissold like https://aphextwin.warp.net is... Maybe it's teething issues?
  18. I guess I shouldn't have bought a bunch of these on Bleep a few weeks ago, given the new bonus tracks...
  19. I'm up for any album recommendations, thanks! Out of those, I know the Apollo sublabel of R&S, whose File Under Ambient compilation switched me on to David Morley, who I'm digging these days. DiN's another good label. But yeah, I'd love to know of more. I'll check those others out, thanks!
  20. I love these albums the most, I think: Air A Day In the Park Dreamfish The Fires of Ork From Within The MS-Series Outland Phonehead Psychonavigation The Putney Re:sonate Sferics Shades of Orion Silence 5 Waiting for Snow Xangadix Xangadix 2 Zenith Though some of them could be whittled down to an even better compilation... I really think the kind of ambient techno you get in some Fax releases, and Warp's Artificial Intelligence series should have been more of a thing... Or maybe it is and I just don't know where to look...
  21. Alas, my setup and workflow encourage using only plugs for effects (aside from spring reverb recorded during production itself, sometimes inside a patch rather than at the end). I think most people would be hard pushed to tell what anyone's using anyway, let alone care. So I barely used my QuadraVerb, U-220 or DrumStation, so Nina insisted I get rid of them, which admittedly was a sensible move. I also sold a bunch of modules I wasn't using, including a Metasonix one. I'm more than happy with my current rig though. Which is now this (plus 808 style maracas I haven't installed yet, because I've been too busy writing):
  22. Well, a couple years ago I would've agreed.Now I think a studio (or any space) should be optimized towards letting you do whatever it is you wanna do. Otherwise it's not 'a studio' so much as 'an obstacle course between you and your goals'. I'd definitely recommend reducing friction and having everything at your fingertips. I got rid for the QuadraVerb and just use plugs for post/effects. I have a one-in-one-out basis for new modules, so they're all within arm's reach. If you can use them via muscle memory, so much the better. As far as organising cables goes, because Nina was kind enough to make a handy holder for mine, it makes it far quicker for me to find and grab one I need in the moment. Spend a bit of time when you're not making music anyway, to save time when you are, so you don't get dragged out of the zone by the minutiae of e.g. finding a cable.
  23. Some do, some don't. Even some computers don't. I never had to shut down a C64, or DOS, but always shut down UNIXes properly. It depends on the firmware and OS, when it saves files, if it can multitask (so is likely to be doing lots of things in the background besides what the user's seeing), etc. I know our step sequencer's fine to turn off at any time, and I vaguely remember using a sampler which was too. Basically, yeah, if it has a shutdown process, use it.
  24. I did that thing again where I don't use a module for ages, consider selling it, decide to give it a go just to make sure first, and end up using it all the time. After ignoring the A-124 for far too long, it's been the only filter in my last two tracks, if memory serves. So there's a tip for you. Wasp!
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