The richard d james

First time using this app, a bit tedious but I think it turned out well!

Stumbled upon a what seems to be abandoned AFX website from 2002. Super cool stuff on there!!! I wanted to check this out but since the websites like super old there's nothing. I'm wondering if by some lord given miracle these could be saved.

So, there was talk around the time of Cheetahs release about how multiple people with the technical know-how had a theory that the Cassette that was released alongside the EP may have a hidden computer program on it.

I can't find the blog post that I initially read, as it seems to be taken down but it basically said that loading the cassette as if it were a program into a ZX Spectrum emulator, it seemed like there was some kind of decodeable data on it at some portion, such as some headers, but it wasn't easily done and the author theorized that there was probably more to it that they were missing/weren't doing correctly. I'm curious if anybody knows anything more about that in the almost 10 years since the release. The Cheetah "Sweet Talker" speech synthesizer the cover is modeled after was a hardware addon for the ZX Spectrum, and there are many, MANY references to the hardware in other tracks of his (the title for inkey$, peek off of the RDJ album and Carn Marth sample the sound of booting a program off a tape, Spectrum 48k beats, just as some examples off the top of my head). He even claims in an interview with PlayStation magazine in 1999 that he wrote a game for it himself, but who knows how true that is.

My main question is, does a program/game exist on the tape at all? Maybe the mass dubbing process caused any data, if it existed at all, to become unreadable in some fashion, a la how some Teletext data being read off of old VHS tapes in the space Closed Captioning would later exist in can become scrambled, due to the signal weakening as the recording is made? Or, maybe the data on it is meant for the sweet Talker module itself? I don't really know a ton about how loading stuff onto a Spectrum even works, that's a ways before my time, so I wouldn't even know where to begin in investigating myself. Just something I heard rumours of that I'd love to get a definitive answer to. Sorry for the long post as well lol

So yesterday, I went to the Crossroads Music Show in Indianapolis and after about 2 hours of looking, I found a few records that made the 2 hour drive worth it. The even better bit is that all 3 were 50% off because the guy told me he likes making new customers and he didn’t think many people would be interested in these Aphex records. Of course, I asked if he had any more.

The only other thing he had was a copy of the Selected Ambient Works Vol. II reissue, and since I already own that, this was it.

He did have a sealed copy of "Dead Cities" by The Future Sound of London that I almost bought, but $100 for that seemed a bit steep.

I am sure this has been asked here before but is there anywhere I can find a fully inclusive list of all of Richard’s releases in order? I’m certain I’ve heard 90% of it but I’m a completionist and like committing myself to these types of “challenges.”

Rushup Edge and Deeeejay selek I bought it for very good prices

25 bucks for the tuss cant remember deejay one

things missing: 3 gerald remix / 24 tsim 2 (prob a tier i really like both songs)

joyrex j4 (b tier)

drukqs 2 track promo ( a tier, i liked the two songs, the untitled track was mildy grating to my ears tho)

analogue bubblebath 3 (b tier)

Vik Muniz, "View From the 4th", São Paulo

where could i find music that i can actually use for a game like this? ={

Got my new drukqs CD, hopefully it will soothe me as much as the other CDs. This is my second double cd in my collection and my first double cd in my aphex twin collection... I set in next to all my other aphex CDs, really happy about it. I never listened to drukqs front to back but I've heard the all famous Avril 14th, QkThr and cocklover. So yeah, I'm excited. Not sure if it's a bootleg or not, but looks good to me, I'll add it to my dincogs later.

Shared the front back and art of the CD as well as a photo of my aphex CDs family

C'était des mêmes avec Richard qui tient des gâteaux en fait c'était un jeu de mot sur blue calx (blue cake) enfin c'était assez facilement compréhensible pour quelqu'un qui écoute du aphex twin mais je ne sais pas pourquoi ça a été retiré.

1. Halibut Acid
2. I'm Self Employed
3. Pitcard

What are your top 3?

All I did was get a body. Get a piece of cardboard, printed out the faces uncovered the faces with clear tape and glue them in.

Ppl call me Larp Larp but they don’t know any song other than xtal.

I be happy with them tho but sometimes they bite me🥀

Sorry for the ominous post yesterday. Crazy how fuck loads of psychedelics makes everything seem normal for a change. Things will get better. My friends painted my tattoo :)

Just like with "Cock" yesterday, I compared the album version and the two-track promo version. Results are pretty much identical. The tracks have no arrangement differences, and are generally identical in composition.

The Argonaut Mix is louder and more aggressive, but to my ear this sounds more like a mastering difference than a mix difference.

There is one moment for a few seconds around 4:21 where it sounds like there's a second layer of percussion stripped away on the album mix. Blink and you'll miss it. (It's not particularly unique percussion in the context of the track, just it plays through more of the song.) There might also be some panning discrepancies for the echo-ey samples.

All-in-all, I now look at these two Drukqs promo tracks like the omc (ma2) versions of the Blackbox Life Recorder tracks or the Cr7e versions on the Digeridoo re-release. Same recording, different attack on the sound system. Hearing them back-to-back, it just sounds like I heard the same song twice.

Methodology: My primary method is lining the two tracks up in my DAW, then panning both stereo channels left for the first file, and both right for the other file. Then I play them simultaneously. If anything pops out of the stereo field, I make a note of the timestamp, go back and A/B the section.