phudoshin Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) its my go-to for a bit of yoga also opening Mexico with "Tassels" was fucking genius Edited March 8 by phudoshin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danshoebridge Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 8 hours ago, Mattthegoone said: I have 2 copies of this on vinyl, still listen to it on CD or on my phone, the 1977 (label) vinyl repress from a few years back without stone in focus is dubious, its so crackly, I barely played my copy and it sounds like it was used as a frisbee, thought I had lost my warp copy and found it, sounds much better, the crackling on the sire 1977 version actually sounds OK to my ears but if you didn't want it you can't ignore it, not sure what contraption they pressed it on My 1977 press sounds pretty good. Mastered from the CD and all that but crackle free. In a bonehead move I still regret a quarter of a century later I returned the brown vinyl to the record store because it was such poor quality. It's worth a few quid these days. Had the 2 x cassette as well but lost it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak of the week Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 lush percussion ambient 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 12 hours ago, Mattthegoone said: I have 2 copies of this on vinyl, still listen to it on CD or on my phone, the 1977 (label) vinyl repress from a few years back without stone in focus is dubious, its so crackly, I barely played my copy and it sounds like it was used as a frisbee, thought I had lost my warp copy and found it, sounds much better, the crackling on the sire 1977 version actually sounds OK to my ears but if you didn't want it you can't ignore it, not sure what contraption they pressed it on This one became my definitive version when it was out there. All the tracks (and more) in tippedytoppedy dark and dank quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 i used to spin the 2 CD set when i was ~17 or so and reading Lovecraft for the first time. it was a good companion piece in many ways, the two are permanently tied in my mind now….reading any Lovecraft or similar stuff with talk of alien piping in distances of dream or ancient Earth, i always hear the weirder pieces of SAW II. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 1 hour ago, mcbpete said: This one became my definitive version when it was out there. All the tracks (and more) in tippedytoppedy dark and dank quality Dang! After following your link I realized that Richard writes track descriptions for some of the songs on his website. Pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 I bought the cd version too and it was a long time later that I heard stone in focus. Such a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattthegoone Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 6 hours ago, danshoebridge said: My 1977 press sounds pretty good. Mastered from the CD and all that but crackle free. In a bonehead move I still regret a quarter of a century later I returned the brown vinyl to the record store because it was such poor quality. It's worth a few quid these days. Had the 2 x cassette as well but lost it. That a surprise to me, mine is awful but there's barely a mark on the records, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattthegoone Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Still has the opened shrink wrap on the sleeve, genuinely can't remember if it was the 2012 or 2017 version because my memory is so bad but I think it was 2017 when it was a brand new repress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exitonly Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 i listen to my 1977 copy all the time, sounds fine to me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Ostanek Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 On 3/7/2024 at 2:42 PM, zazen said: For anyone thats never read about the lucid dreaming angle: From David Toop interview, 1994 https://lannerchronicle.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/aphex-twin-the-face-magazine-1994/ any guesses as to which songs relate to richard dreamshagging which celebrity? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empirix Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 reissue anytime soon? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exitonly Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 still waiting for this to be real. i want this reissue so bad. i’ve been lurking on discogs about an og issue for years but hesitated to go for it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 I tried to suppress any kind of hype I could feel regarding a potential repress but I'm disappointed regardless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 (edited) I could be tempted to sell my original Warp copy. After all it's only sitting on my shelf not doing particularly much. Maybe it should find a new home. One of the reasons I don't sell, is because I feel I have some sort of Aphexian relic in my house. And I like that feeling. Even though I'm not really an ultra materialistic sort of person. I guess in this day and age of streaming music it feels nice to have a Aphex Twin object that is real. Edited March 17 by beerwolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Warp just posted a montage of SAW 2 artwork on their Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8Ri48oob88/?igsh=MTd5dTBhZmlzanZ3NQ== Maybe the repress is coming after all ? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xox Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Where’s my vinyl reissue?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 On 3/7/2024 at 7:42 PM, zazen said: For anyone thats never read about the lucid dreaming angle: From David Toop interview, 1994 https://lannerchronicle.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/aphex-twin-the-face-magazine-1994/ i've never read one! lots of fascinating detail here about his technique. makes me think about "5 just fall asleep" (from soundcloud dump) which seems not only a SAW2 sessions outtake, but almost certainly one of the earliest experiments with sleeping/waking up in the studio also i'm really hoping this SAW2 reissue is going to happen. as has been said before, the standard black vinyl editions had better artwork, much better sound quality and was actually *harder* to find than the brown vinyl edition. a reissue would be legendary, way overdue and could even start a new wave of SAW2/aphex fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 5 hours ago, Dragon said: i've never read one! lots of fascinating detail here about his technique. makes me think about "5 just fall asleep" (from soundcloud dump) which seems not only a SAW2 sessions outtake, but almost certainly one of the earliest experiments with sleeping/waking up in the studio Your post made me think that a reissue with additional bonus material released during the SoundCloud dump and remastered using Cr7e or whatevs would be great (looking at you, red calx) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cern Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Didn't RDJ said he have made New versions of all the SAW tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X4creek Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Aphex's Version) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voicemail Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 54 minutes ago, cern said: Didn't RDJ said he have made New versions of all the SAW tracks? I might not be remembering correctly... but I thought he said he re-did all the Melodies from Mars tracks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DucksOpinion Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Small detail I know, but it it not odd to write v2 instead of Vol. 2? The album is definitely called Vol. 2 whereas the 'v' on it's own would usually be an abbreviation for 'version'. So, maybe this is SAW VERSION 2. Fingers crossed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Key Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 14 hours ago, cern said: Didn't RDJ said he have made New versions of all the SAW tracks? I can't find the quote now but I think he was on about SAW85-92. Tbh we've heard some of them already, he played the new breakbeat riddled Xtal on recent tours and Tha (World Scam Mix) was up on soundcloud. He did Heliospan (Acid Edit) back in the 90s, thats probably had another remake by now. I can't see him re-doing SAWII cause he seems to have lost interest in ambient, and the minimalist, timeless quality of the tracks don't really lend themselves to having all these updated techniques pasted on top of them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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