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Culture Ships [Full Album]
Hi Peeps, I have just finished creating a new album over at my Bandcamp page called Culture Ships. It contains six tracks weighing in at just over an hour. The "sound art," if you like (definitely not "music") contained on this album represent an excursion into the slightly darker side of ambient, compared to my previous release Oceanids. Much time was spent experimenting with Absynth 5 and a bunch of effects. I'm not expecting much uptake of this release, to be honest, and, let's face it, I have already inflicted this stuff on your delicate ears over the last year or so. But I thought I'd SPAM the songs forum, you know, "just in case" anyone may be interested  cheers, andy https://synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/culture-ships
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/18 15:13:52
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Good for you mate.
I will check it out later.
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/18 17:37:01
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Good luck with Andy, it's a huge amount of work to produce a whole album on your own. The title - is it an Iain M Banks reference?
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/18 21:24:04
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Great!
Keep at it. Your work is very good.
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 05:57:09
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Andy,
I wish you all the best on the new album. I listened to the 1st track and I was quite impressed.
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 06:37:28
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 07:58:53
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daryl1968
Good for you mate.
I will check it out later.
Thank you very much Daryl  jamesg1213
Good luck with Andy, it's a huge amount of work to produce a whole album on your own. The title - is it an Iain M Banks reference?
Thanks, James, yes, the late and great Sci-Fi writer Iain M Banks Culture series is used as an "inspiration" for the track title names at least Steve_Karl
Great!
Keep at it. Your work is very good.
Thank you very much Steve bjornpdx
Andy,
I wish you all the best on the new album. I listened to the 1st track and I was quite impressed.
Thank you very much Bjorn eph221
best of luck!
Thanks David Cheers everyone!
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 10:04:49
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I have a question - how much should I pay?
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 10:26:56
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daryl1968
I have a question - how much should I pay?
Hi Daryl, Hmmm... Not sure... I pitched my other album, Oceanids at £6.00 only to find that Bandcamp whack VAT on it too, which wasn't clear at the start. I had asked before hand over at the ambient online forum about how much I should "charge" and $1.00 per track was the consensus. So I think I went in at slightly less than that. And I have asked other peeps the same question, when their stuff is "name your price." If I like something enough, and I feel like I want to support an artist, then I will pay something around a fiver or even more, depending on the length (time) of the album. To be honest, it isn't about the money. I always put my stuff up on SoundCloud for free download anyway, at first release, and in the last 12 months or so I have been uploading 24bit, 44.1kHz WAV files. Putting stuff onto Bandcamp was something I have been meaning to do for some time mainly because SoundCloud always seems to be in the news lately, about money problems, and I am hoping that Bandcamp would become a more permanent home in the future. So, short answer is, you can, if you wish, enter £0 in the box and the download will be yours for free. What I am not sure about is whether you are listed as a "supporter," and whether that is important to you. So you may wish to enter a couple of quid, which would at least add it to your Bandcamp "collection." Sorry for the long reply! cheers andy
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 11:00:47
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☄ Helpfulby synkrotron 2017/10/19 11:03:50
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daryl1968
I have a question - how much should I pay?
Hi Daryl,
Hmmm... Not sure... I pitched my other album, Oceanids at £6.00 only to find that Bandcamp whack VAT on it too, which wasn't clear at the start. I had asked before hand over at the ambient online forum about how much I should "charge" and $1.00 per track was the consensus. So I think I went in at slightly less than that.
And I have asked other peeps the same question, when their stuff is "name your price." If I like something enough, and I feel like I want to support an artist, then I will pay something around a fiver or even more, depending on the length (time) of the album.
To be honest, it isn't about the money. I always put my stuff up on SoundCloud for free download anyway, at first release, and in the last 12 months or so I have been uploading 24bit, 44.1kHz WAV files. Putting stuff onto Bandcamp was something I have been meaning to do for some time mainly because SoundCloud always seems to be in the news lately, about money problems, and I am hoping that Bandcamp would become a more permanent home in the future.
So, short answer is, you can, if you wish, enter £0 in the box and the download will be yours for free. What I am not sure about is whether you are listed as a "supporter," and whether that is important to you. So you may wish to enter a couple of quid, which would at least add it to your Bandcamp "collection."
Sorry for the long reply!
cheers
andy
Brilliant - thanks mate. Trying to tread a fine line between hurting feelings or grand gesture is a tricky one :) Why don't you sell the songs by weight....should get more for 24 bit :)
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 11:07:27
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daryl1968
Trying to tread a fine line between hurting feelings or grand gesture is a tricky one :)
Absolutely... Know what you mean Just got the Cha-ching! email from BC, so many, many thanks for that
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 11:21:23
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synkrotron
daryl1968
Trying to tread a fine line between hurting feelings or grand gesture is a tricky one :)
Absolutely... Know what you mean
Just got the Cha-ching! email from BC, so many, many thanks for that
You're very welcome. By the way, my next album is only available in a limited edition gatefold vinyl priced at $82.22. I hope that's ok......
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 12:03:14
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daryl1968
priced at $82.22
Is that Welsh Dollars  I'll keep a look out for the impending release
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 12:43:21
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☄ Helpfulby daryl1968 2017/10/19 13:16:03
Congrats Andy on Culture Ships!! I tried to check this out at work, but SC & BC are both blocked sites here  . Will do so from home....have to go now.....(need to look for a second (maybe third) job to get Daryl's album.)
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/19 19:08:13
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daryl1968
Dragoons mate
Noted Mesh
Congrats Andy on Culture Ships!!
I tried to check this out at work, but SC & BC are both blocked sites here .
Will do so from home....have to go now.....(need to look for a second (maybe third) job to get Daryl's album.)
Thanks Mesh! No pressure though... You may have heard some of this stuff already cheers andy
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/22 16:39:03
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I listened to "GOU Falling Outside The Normal Formal Constraints" - it is impressive. To me, it sounds like a movie soundtrack to a Sci-Fi movie. Sounds like it was a lot of work. Did you use Rapture in this?
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/23 09:46:35
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I listened to "GOU Falling Outside The Normal Formal Constraints" - it is impressive. To me, it sounds like a movie soundtrack to a Sci-Fi movie. Sounds like it was a lot of work. Did you use Rapture in this?
Hi Doug Thanks for taking time to listen to one of the Culture Ships tracks, I really appreciate it, especially as it isn't really music as such. The track you listened to uses five instances of Absynth 5, one ARP 2600 V3, one Modular V3, one Korg Polysix and one Hive. Cheers, and thanks again, andy
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/25 22:13:35
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Congrats, Andy! Having listened to your pieces along the way, it's good to see you putting together a cohesive collection like this.
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Re: Culture Ships [Full Album]
2017/10/28 07:31:27
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Congrats, Andy!
Thanks Steve, yeah, been a long time coming! cheers andy
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