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distortion in Aphex Twin song, AAC

Here's a clip of the Aphex Twin song "Ageispolis", from AAC converted to WAV converted to FLAC.

Is this distortion deliberate?
Or is it AAC distortion?
Or a mistake by the recording engineer?
It sounds the same on my PC and burned as a WAV on my big system.

If it's the recording engineer's fault, it sounds terrible. 

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distortion in Aphex Twin song, AAC

Reply #1
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Here's a clip of the Aphex Twin song "Ageispolis", from AAC converted to WAV converted to FLAC.

Is this distortion deliberate?
Or is it AAC distortion?
Or a mistake by the recording engineer?
It sounds the same on my PC and burned as a WAV on my big system.

If it's the recording engineer's fault, it sounds terrible. 

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Are you a big aphex twin fan?

distortion in Aphex Twin song, AAC

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Here's a clip of the Aphex Twin song "Ageispolis", from AAC converted to WAV converted to FLAC.

Is this distortion deliberate?
Or is it AAC distortion?
Or a mistake by the recording engineer?
It sounds the same on my PC and burned as a WAV on my big system.

If it's the recording engineer's fault, it sounds terrible. 

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Too funny 

distortion in Aphex Twin song, AAC

Reply #3
Ageispolis lossless rip section 1m20secs - 1m25secs.

Cheers,

Tim
I can stay for hours listening to all the sounds... (Samuel Beckett, Rough for Theatre I)

distortion in Aphex Twin song, AAC

Reply #4
Hey thanks Tim!

Wow, it sound the same, terrible distortion when the bass note hits.

Shame on the recording engineer!  If it was done on purpose, it's tasteless, like say, Michaelangelo adding a bloody stab wound on David.

distortion in Aphex Twin song, AAC

Reply #5
Aphex Twin (Richard James) produces everything himself. I think this distortion was intentional.

distortion in Aphex Twin song, AAC

Reply #6
One of the stories I heard about that album (Selected Ambient Works 85-92) was that RDJ's cat actually tried to eat some of the tapes. So yeah, given that, I'm amazed it sounds that good.

distortion in Aphex Twin song, AAC

Reply #7
a lot of songs on that cd sound distorted. gives it a nice home-brewed vibe. i like it almost as much as i like stab wounds

 

distortion in Aphex Twin song, AAC

Reply #8
Isn't all music merely a distorted deviation from the natural, entropic state of white noise?
In days of yore, audiences unfamiliar howled protest at sounds created by Vivaldi and, much later, Stravinsky and Bartok. Don't forget guitar smashing by The Who and what Jimi Hendrix did to distort guitar output.
I also recall hot debate    here about accurately encoding the static at the start of Autechre's "Second Bad Vilbel." If somebody finds new ways of creating distortion, be sure to send them to Richard James and Sean Booth!
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I use "Bike Pump Meets Bucket" in my test comparisons of encoders and have noticed that the most recent Japanese Ogg builds do not inflate bit rate as much as the official Xiph. Another case I know of when too much effort is devoted to encoding undesired noise is in one CD of Mo' Horizons which obviously was copied from some very gritty vinyl.