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Ozric Tentacles almost full discography (23 albums) FLAC
Type:
Audio > FLAC
Files:
23
Size:
8.96 GB

Tag(s):
prog ozric Tentacles discography space rock instrumental psychedelic rock

Uploaded:
Nov 15, 2013
By:
sidmal



sourced fromIn high quality MPEG-4 format and converted into FLAC. hopefully the quality is good 
albums categorized by name from a-z.
enjoy.

note: this is a DIY, I didn't put to much effort into it since I'm a lazy sod.

4om wiki:

Ozric Tentacles (also known as The Ozrics) are an instrumental rock band from Somerset, England, whose music can loosely be described as psychedelic or space rock. Formed in 1983, the band has released 28 albums as of 2011, and became a cottage industry selling over a million albums worldwide despite never having major label backing.[1] Throughout many line-up changes over the years, guitarist Ed Wynne has remained the only original member of the band

The original lineup met in Wimbleson where they lived and in fully formed 1983 at the Stonehenge Free Festival and its name arose from discussions of hypothetical cereal brands (Malcolm Segments, Desmond Whisps, and Gordon Lumps are among the names that were considered). In the 1980s the band built a fanbase on the festival circuit, becoming particularly associated with the Glastonbury Festival, and made a series of cassette releases, sold at gigs and via a fan club.

Its first label release was Pungent Effulgent in 1989, which was also re-released in the early 2000s, packaged with Strangeitude (1991). This was followed by Erpland (1990), an album dedicated to the Pongmaster, a character which appears on many of the band's album artworks. 1991 saw the Strangeitude LP. By 1993 the band had grossed over three million dollars, and its Jurassic Shift album reached the Top 20 of the UK Albums Chart.[2]


 


The band have gone through myriad line-up changes, with Ed Wynne (guitar, keyboards) being the only constant presence since the beginning. Many members left to pursue more electronic music spin-off acts, such as Eat Static, Transglobal Underground, Nodens Ictus, Dubblehead and Moksha. Nick Van Gelder (aka Tig), drummer for Jamiroquai during the Emergency on Planet Earth era was once part of the Ozric Tentacles line up, contributing drums and songwriting on the original cassettes Tantric Obstacles and Erpsongs. Paul Hankin went on to be a session percussionist, playing at Princess Trust and Amnesty Giggs and Touring with many top Bands. Nevertheless, the band maintained its identity and continued with this prolific rate of albums throughout the 1990s, and into the new millennium. It also continued to tour extensively, releasing a live DVD in 2002 entitled "Live at the Pongmaster's Ball".

The band are famous for their live performances, fronted for years by "Jumping" Jon Egan (a.k.a John Egan), who used to dance around the stage in a trance-like manner while playing a variety of flutes. Ozric Tentacles has long taken an audio-visual approach to live performance, with an integrated lighting and projections crew. The band has seen many rhythm section changes over the years. As of May 2012, the lineup featured Ed Wynne (guitar, synths), Ed's wife Brandi Wynne (bass, keyboards), Ed's son Silas Wynne (synths, keyboards) and Oliver Seagle (drums, percussion). (Vinny Shillito toured the UK as a bassist in 1990 as stand-in bass player, when Roly Wynne was ill and remained friends with the band after forming his own band Grooveweird with his brother Dominic.) Paul Hankin (Conga Paul), is back with the band and recording, after an 18 year gap.

In 2011, Ozric Tentacles released their latest studio album, Paper Monkeys, and toured the record in America in March 2012, moving into a six-week-long, laid back but extensive European tour in April-May 2012.

In June 2012 their home in Colorado was destroyed by wild fires, that had ravaged the area for over a week. The band was on tour at the time. Archived material was destroyed as was their studio and some instruments. After the fire, the band reached out to fans to help rebuild the archive.

Ozric music is a highly psychedelic mixture of thumping basslines, sound effects and keyboard and guitar work, with a sound influenced by Steve Hillage and Gong. Many of the Ozrics' songs are in unusual time signatures and/or unusual Eastern-influenced modes. Furthermore, the band often features complex arrangements, which change time signature, key signature and tempo frequently in the course of a track, a well-known element present in progressive rock. There are also moments of straightforward funk-influenced grooves and strong influences from jazz fusion, dub/reggae and ambient music styles.

These features are mixed with electronic elements, including densely layered psytrance- and techno-influenced arpeggiated synthesizers, pads, synth basslines, effects and programmed drumbeats. There is also a strong influence from dub and ambient music, with many quiet relaxed tracks, that balance the frenetic, intense material.

The Ozrics also use a wide range of instruments in their performances. Electric and acoustic guitars, flutes, recorders, xylophones and even sounds of digitally tweaked human voices appear throughout.

Comments

sorry for the erratic download speed my upload capacity is 200-250kbps please be patient.
No cue sheets to split the files into tracks!?
Yeah, there's something wrong here. It's either
1 track = 1 FLAC file
or
all tracks = 1 big FLAC file with a CUE file so we can listen to the various tracks individually.
each FLAC file is an album, as I've mentioned b4 Ich Bin a lazy sod so I haven't put too much effort into this torrent
If you search here on Ozric Tentacles, you will find four FLAC packs that have most of these ripped to APE tracks (easily converted to FLAC) with art. They are available. I haven't yet figured out which I will still need to download from here, but I will and then only download those.

I will then try Slice Audio File Splitter to see if they can be split.

Depending on what you used to rip, it is no extra effort to rip to tracks, or to rip and have a cue file also created at the same time.
Tnx 4 the advice WasAtWoodstock , next time I'm gonna put a little more effort into my torrents
I use poikosoft.com to rip. It rips to tracks and finds the track names online. You can also have it search for art online to embed. I have the pro version. The free one may be the same.

Many people prefer to rip with EAC. That rips to one FLAC file with a cue file.

Some use WinAmp to rip. Ripping may not be included the free version. Others use dBpoweramp. It is free for only 30 days.

And there are more.

But all of them will either rip to tracks or produce a cue file. All with one button click.
I used xilisoft
Looking up xilisoft I find it to be a DVD ripper. What you want is a music ripper for CDs. They will all read one of the track databases and label the tracks for you. Or in the case of EAC label the cue file.

There are six other Ozric FLAC torrents here on TPB. That leaves just six albums here that are not in those torrents. I downloaded just these six:

Ozric Tentacles - Afterswish [Full Album].flac
Ozric Tentacles - Erpsongs [Full Album].flac
Ozric Tentacles - Live Ethereal Cereal [Full Album].flac
Ozric Tentacles - Paper Monkeys [Full Album].flac
Ozric Tentacles - Pungent Effulgent [Full Album].flac
Ozric Tentacles - Sliding Gliding Worlds [Full Album].flac

My attempt to use Slice Audio File Splitter to split Afterswish did not work. Maybe someone can post on how to find/create cue files for these six to make the files useful?

Or maybe sidmal can rerip these six and create a new torrent?

For the other 17, plus a few others not here, download the other torrents here:
http://thepiratebay.sx/search/Ozric%20Tentacles/0/3/104
xilisoft audio converter pro has cd ripping capabilities I will try to make a compilation out of ur suggestions.
you must note that I ripped from mp4
I suggest using one of the numerous free CD rippers that rips directly to FLAC. And you most certainly want to use one that will label the tracks automatically for you. They read from the several track databases, e.g. MusicBrainz, Freedb.

You have a 30-free free trial here (or a freeware version):
http://www.poikosoft.com/
Also when you rip to FLAC you should rip at Level 8, or some software calls it Best. With today's PCs it only takes a few seconds longer, and it makes the files smaller. The various levels exist from the days when PCs were much slower.
tnx 4 the advice, and don't forget to seed every1 I only have 200-250kbps upload capacity and releasing many torrents
I see you up a variety of media. I got your PS-2013. Thanks. I've started skimming it. I used to read it when I was growing up.

If you are going to get into FLAC, you will eventually want to tweak the meta tags that the ripper inserted. The best meta tagger for FLAC is Tag&Rename at http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

Then people that like lossless prefer to not lose the art.

Are you a reformable lazy sod?