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    Richard D. James Album 25th Anniversary

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    2 hours ago, aencre said:

    It should be a sweet spot, but instead it just feels like a transitional phase

    I think it's titled perfectly because it kind of encapsulates a lot of his entire sound library and personality. It's like the precursor foundation forming for his most popular singles. And I'm guessing in 1996 there wasn't too much like it. What other albums would you buy at that time? I was 7 so I was still listening to Garth Brooks or something

    Ice Cold Brostep Bass Mix

    in Your Latest Creations

    Posted · Edited by rstark

    Ice Cold Soundcloud Link

    I'm looking for support/interest/enjoyment of a mix I spent a lot of time on the past couple months. I know this message board is probably partial to this style of music but I tried to make it as tasteful as possible. There's another mix up on my page the WATMM'ers would probably like more which has a more wide variety of tunes including a nice IDM bit towards the end (The Rated E For Algorhythm Mix). But today I'm promoting this dubstep in hopes people here will keep an open mind and find some interesting sounds! You know the drill, slap a like and follow on Soundcloud and I'll check out your page in return. I also have 170+ original tunes uploaded. Ty and bless up my twiddlers!

    Here's the full track list

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    00:00 Resonant Language - sys cal01
    00:27 Blank Banshee - Eco Zones
    00:27 Hullabalo0 - CRUSHED
    02:17 Ultrasloth - Dingo Bingo
    04:53 Kromuh - Squeakerbox
    05:54 VCTRE - Dethroned
    07:06 kLL sMTH - Shtuff
    08:38 Detox Unit - Crusty Ass Bootleg Promo Mix [Shortened Edit]
    08:45 AOL - Goodbye
    11:01 MISSIN - Pressure Point
    12:07 TOFAVirtual - Tryptamine
    13:57 DRRTYWULVZ - We'll See
    15:13 bd hbt x leet - The Big Festival Banger
    16:25 Freddy Todd - MaddFuncc
    17:46 EPROM & G-Jones - Daemon Veil
    20:50 Igorrr - Robert
    21:26 Tipper - Fleas and Itches
    22:58 Easyjack - Hybrid
    24:10 Mindex & kLL sMTH - Alexlthymia
    27:41 Klinical Waes - Framed
    29:06 Sixis - Empty Form
    33:00 tiedye ky - Maintaining It All
    35:09 MeSo & Trigem - SPLOOSH
    36:39 M.E. SWANK - Parched
    38:14 ST4RFOX - Orbits McTankworm (feat. 5am, Zimbu, Asteroids & Earthquakes)
    41:17 JKuch - Zest
    43:51 Document One - Bump The Sound
    46:25 Osmetic - Tech Rolla
    47:59 K.L.O - Kan Skit (feat. Kursa, Lone Drum & Osmetic)
    49:28 capshun & Quiet Bison - Acai Tower
    52:19 AleJo & E Lovasz - Cristopher Kalimboss
    53:51 MYTHM - Clash
    56:27 Shades - Iron Sharpens Iron
    58:32 Cnopes & mlotik - Shudbezzz

    Mixed by Ryan Stark
    March - August 2021
    Minimal Ableton Warping using EQ, Gain and Fade to Grey

     

    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by rstark

    I think there's some dissonance there as to what people actually get paid.. I'd say 40% of people in USA make 14$ an hour or less. Pretty sure they pay about 15-16$ an hour for a 12 hour shift entry tier amazon warehouse box stamping job. And fire for low numbers. 11$ for a fast food supervisor job. That's after you prove yourself to be responsible and get raised from 9$ an hour. and in that hour they are taking orders that cost past their wage consistently through the hour. You are literally mountain dew piss as you feed a greater part of society and get nothing in return. There's a reason the US postal service is currently under fire. And the "producers" outside the restaurant are buying beats online and calling them theirs. That's what I think is the most twisted things is the DJs who want to hide their track list. They play a GJones or Excision "bootleg" which is basically the original track with slight alterations, then saying they produced/remixed it. Then scream into the mic "THIS IS MY COLLAB TRACK WITH DJ ALTER VERSES!!!!" Unless it's an unreleased track by the person who produced it, as a DJ part of the gig is to be sharing music and creating a wave of culture. And without the live setting, the value of the moment hearing an unreleased track at a concert is lost. Spotify is probably locked at a certain bitrate just like SC. Money is all just a capitalist game, and when the game has the rules minimized and gouged at the same time the solution becomes to question the choices of the consumers and not the distributors. Look at Britney Spears case for instance. Supposedly she's legally locked in some kind of bad contract. At that point it becomes the iHeartRadio vibes, fake awards, manufactured personalities. At some point it has its place, but it's usually not the consumers fault if they cant afford a 30$ vinyl, or enough releases to keep up with the output from musicians. The scary thing for me is A.I. taking the wheel at producing music that's more profound than any human created. It's like being a cashier and then self check out rolls in. It's not quite the same experience, but in some ways it's a lot better. 

    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

    in General Banter

    Posted

    IMHO Spotify is pretty convenient. I hate the idea of artists getting the shaft on streaming royalties, and all the algorithms tend to make the industry even more of a manufactured business/corporate vibe in the releases. Like one of my fav derpsterp artists is Gjones, if you go to his artist radio or a radio from a playlist with his music, you're pretty much guaranteed to get Wakaan artists like LSDream, Champagne Drip, Liquid Stranger. Which I don't personally enjoy those artists, but skipping those tracks never stops the artist from showing up. Also kind of like what's already been mentioned, those lo-fi study playlists are pretty annoying. Or Vaporwave artists who release 15 albums with 20 tracks each and out of all 300 tracks there's maybe 3 compelling ones, which kind of saturates the market.

    But there's some appeal to it as well. I can't help but wish labels like Analogical Force had their music on Spotify. It's a lot more convenient to play music than BC or SC or YT, especially while driving. Bandcamp should really focus on ease of use features if they want to compete. Like for example, maybe people could make a playlist from their collection? Which also helps artists promote their music by having it grouped with artists. For example I remember in like 2008 I was discovering music from Chino Moreno from Deftones making playlists on some site that doesn't exist anymore. Here's a link to a forum thread I found where they have a list of the playlists he made - from him I discovered M83 (when it was cool to listen to them) and Abstrackt Keal Agram.

    Also there are some up-and-coming type beatmaker labels like Partica Music Group which is kind of similar to Wakaan, or Spicy Bois (a smaller group of dubstep producers that got pretty popular last year) - These labels or brands establish a community on Discord, SC and FB and then have a playlist of different tracks from their artists on Spotify. So there's like 40 tracks mostly all from different artists except for a couple extra from the fan favorites, and it gets updated weekly and rotates out different songs. So I can instantly discover 10 new artists while listening and make my own playlist so I don't forget them when they update the list. Also having everything readily available on Spotify makes accessing older music like Beatles or Black Sabbath's entire discography easy for the next generation. But I have a secret fear of those types of tracks having some kind of brain washing subliminal messages mixed in the normalized remaster. Kind of like the IDM artists do! Aphex Twin was on MTV after all - at the same time as Daft Punk. :rhubear2:

    And you don't have to worry as much about managing as many downloaded music files. Which for most people is a good thing, but for audiophiles, we like keeping a database of music on hand just in case the apocalypse comes and the internet is shut down, we can still listen. 

    But most of the time I'm broke and can't afford to be spending all the money it would cost to consume every song I listen to. I would have no problem buying a few digital only releases per month for like 7-10$ each, plus a shirt, but "the man" isn't exactly funding music listeners. I really do try to buy at least one album, especially physical, if it's an artist I want to support.

    Steinvord Speculation

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    ya'lls know how many unknown soundcloud accounts there are these days? probably 5-10 undiscovered aliases each for all the artists in the subforums. you think tom jenkinson is satisfied releasing the same sounds/instruments in his last 3 albums? heck no he has a ton of side projects (not that the albums are bad, just his potential ability is way too high to be focused on only SP). They probably aren't allowed to tell due to label restrictions, if everyone knew all their aliases their regular releases would lose value due to dilution. Even regular bedroom producers in my city that haven't made a name for themselves yet and don't know what IDM is have alt SC accounts.

    Steinvord evidence is clear, just listen to Maelstorm then My Fucking Sound .. Case closed

    I'm more curious about Bewwip, i'm not convinced that's not TJ

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    Aphex Twin - Collapse EP

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    Wonder if we’ll see that MT1 t29r2 remix by Jlin officially released anytime soon? I’m surprised nobody is bothering to speculate what that was all about, especially when it was initially credited as ”Jlin & ???” on that DJ’s (forget who) SoundCloud podcast mix show thing. Quite strange and funny that we had part of the track of MT1 floating around for over a year.

    im guessing jlin might have worked with rich to create new cuts for the live shows? or mixed hers in with it towards the end, miss tagged because he played a number of her tracks in live shows?

    Aphex Twin - Collapse EP

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted · Edited by rstark

    man yall giving me a headache. isn't this supposed to be a forum to appreciate experimental electronic music and yall gripin about subgenres footwork and trap and future bass like they aren't in the music you're here to discuss. now shaddup and talk about the new album 

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