Aphex Twin

[Jinsai]

apologies for the stupid question, but is there any way to download these without ripping at 128kbps? any means i've found to download via soundcloud only pull the stream at that bitrate, which is no good for this treasure trove of sounds!

Was just looking into that... and I think unfortunately the answer is no. The stream is transcoded to 128kbps... so no matter what quality the files were when he uploaded them, we only have access to the transcoded-to-stream quality.

[frankie teardrop]

i'm surprised they aren't available for download as well. soundcloud *does* allow for download of higher bitrate and even wavs, but it's a setting the user has to select. maybe once he's done uploading? a boy can dream.

[ambergris]

If those are the 10 albums of material he was sitting on, then I guess we can expect about 130 or 140 songs.

[Jinsai]

i'm surprised they aren't available for download as well. soundcloud *does* allow for download of higher bitrate and even wavs, but it's a setting the user has to select. maybe once he's done uploading? a boy can dream.

That's up to the uploader I think... maybe if someone hacks the account? I am absolutely not suggesting that anyone do this... I'm still way too grateful.

[Maximilian]

Uh oh, he's at it again.

Another Aphex-tinged day is in store for us.

[r_k_f]

sorry if a repost, just recently stumbled upon this guy... amazing.

[Deadpool]

Well, if you needed absolute confirmation that the uploads have been legit - here ya go! https://twitter.com/AphexTwin/status/560863174040096769

I was gonna say something like 'maybe this official acknowledgement means this will be the end of all this unreleased material for a while' but that probably won't be the case.

[Exocet]

The new Aphex EP has a sort of fragmented jazz atmosphere throughout. The track PianoUn10ithappened ..is so beautiful.

[Lerxto]

James' comment on soundcloud:
none of these uploads have been mastered by the way so you might need to tweak the eq a bit, like this one needs a bit more low added etc. Might re-do the most popular ones but rather be makin new stuff

[botley]

Yeah I'd love to see a bunch of these mastered and released in lossless.

[thevoid99]

I heard the new EP an hour ago and man... it's fucking good. I want more!

[SIR.LONDONCLEANLILY]

^----What an asshole. Awww man, he only released 120 songs this month. Bummer dude! haha

[SIR.LONDONCLEANLILY]

Has anything come up about the identity or Somadril?

[Magtig]

If anyone runs across a well organized torrent or upload of the entire 111 (or was it 112) song collection with organized tags and whatnot please post it. I'll do the same. I have everything downloaded, but it's gonna take some work to get everything looking nice.

edit: There's this: http://104.236.16.63/
It includes the tape cover jpgs that came out of the woodwork and the deleted tracks, but I don't know how organized the tags and titles are. Also, how the hell do you download the whole thing at once?

[imail724]

If anyone runs across a well organized torrent or upload of the entire 111 (or was it 112) song collection with organized tags and whatnot please post it. I'll do the same. I have everything downloaded, but it's gonna take some work to get everything looking nice.

edit: There's this: http://104.236.16.63/
It includes the tape cover jpgs that came out of the woodwork and the deleted tracks, but I don't know how organized the tags and titles are. Also, how the hell do you download the whole thing at once?

https://mega.co.nz/#!3cNjkAaC!ujXngj...tP-sF5c10o7D08

Edit: and I found this cover art which I think is really nice and professional looking:

[xmd 5a]

I was expecting there to be a least a little bit of filler in the set, but every track I've heard so far is great. Who else but RDJ could keep so much killer material up his sleeves for decades?

[Magtig]

I was expecting there to be a least a little bit of filler in the set, but every track I've heard so far is great. Who else but RDJ could keep so much killer material up his sleeves for decades?

It's truly music history in the making. He literally just gave us (roughly) 10 albums in one shot and we didn't even pass the year 2000. As greedy as it sounds I'm still praying to god, allah, buddha, satan, science and zeus for Druqks era tracks. It's my favorite AT album.

[imail724]

It's truly music history in the making. He literally just gave us (roughly) 10 albums in one shot and we didn't even pass the year 2000. As greedy as it sounds I'm still praying to god, allah, buddha, satan, science and zeus for Druqks era tracks. It's my favorite AT album.

How do you know these tracks are all pre-druqks?

[Leviathant]

How do you know these tracks are all pre-druqks?

Have you listened to the Aphex Twin catalog?

If you have as extensively as some of us have, it's not really a question. His style evolves over time, and while certain tracks on the Soundcloud account sound like they're from RDJ or are related to ICBYD or SAW1, there's nothing that sounds like what's on Druqks. If you haven't listened that closely to that much of his material, you're going to have to take our words for it.

[Magtig]

What Levi said, plus he put dates on quite a few of them.

[Jinsai]

Have you listened to the Aphex Twin catalog?

If you have as extensively as some of us have, it's not really a question. His style evolves over time, and while certain tracks on the Soundcloud account sound like they're from RDJ or are related to ICBYD or SAW1, there's nothing that sounds like what's on Druqks. If you haven't listened that closely to that much of his material, you're going to have to take our words for it.

The thing is... if 7 Cutting is an outtake from the RDJAlbum era... how did that not make it on the album?!

[ambergris]

Those more recent tracks with "ab6" in the title were for a possible Analogue Bubblebath 6, I guess? Which might have been released around 1996/97?

[Maximilian]

On his soundcloud page he wrote "***hello humans, hopefully im gunna start making all these tracks downloadable from 6pm next saturday 7th Feb, [if i can find some internets]"

[Magtig]

On his soundcloud page he wrote "***hello humans, hopefully im gunna start making all these tracks downloadable from 6pm next saturday 7th Feb, [if i can find some internets]"

YESSSSSS!!!!

Also, remember that MIDI controlled orchestra thing he did a while back? https://soundcloud.com/richarddjames...b-orc-1953-rev

[SIR.LONDONCLEANLILY]

New track, https://soundcloud.com/user487363530...ic-competition

[Camille]

I'm (sort of) new to Aphex Twin. I remember buying selected ambient works vol.1 when it was first released and enjoying it (still have that cd) but never bothered with any of his stuff since then.
I downloaded all these s/cloud tracks to hear what all the fuss was and I've been loving them.
Where should I go next, any recommendations?

[Magtig]

I'm (sort of) new to Aphex Twin. I remember buying selected ambient works vol.1 when it was first released and enjoying it (still have that cd) but never bothered with any of his stuff since then.
I downloaded all these s/cloud tracks to hear what all the fuss was and I've been loving them.
Where should I go next, any recommendations?

Druqks, Selected Ambient Works II, Richard D James (album), I Care Because You Do, Syro. They're all fucking great. After that fill in the gaps with the eps like Come to Daddy and Windowlicker.

[Leviathant]

New track, https://soundcloud.com/user487363530...ic-competition

Ha! I vaguely recall reading about this track, years ago. If I recall correctly (and you should Google it because I probably don't), Luke Vibert had a remix competition done in cooperation with Future Music magazine. The usual hundreds or thousands of submissions came in, and this track was submitted either anonymously, or under an alias, totally took home the top prize. It was only later that it came out that the remix was by none other than RDJ. Twat, haha.

Edit: Ooh. They all have download buttons next to them. YUSSS

[Fixer808]

Druqks, Selected Ambient Works II, Richard D James (album), I Care Because You Do, Syro. They're all fucking great. After that fill in the gaps with the eps like Come to Daddy and Windowlicker.

"On EP" was the first Aphex record I got. Great stuff.

[DF118]

It's a shame that most of these tracks are crap.