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Produced during 03/04, fantastic long player 'Individualism' by Hills West has finally been given a much deserved home here at Retronym. Laced with hypnotic melodies, this music is perfect for evoking those distant memories whilst walking through the park awash with autumnal colours.

Available for free download in high quality mp3 format, and for the first time in glorious flac, this really is a record your ears should not miss out on.

http://www.retronym.co.uk/individualism.html


I know some of you have already heard the delights of this album and will enjoy its proper release with high quality rips straight from the masters and downloadable artwork. For those that haven't, I'm very happy to give this record a home and I'm sure you'll be glad to add to your Hills West collection :D
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Nice! Very nice! Thanks v.much :D
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Nice,i'll be sure to check it out,like the artwork!!

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Anyone else having problems unzipping the MP3s? Not tried the FLACs...
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Mexicola wrote:Anyone else having problems unzipping the MP3s? Not tried the FLACs...

I dled the lossless twice because there was an error unpacking the first time. Second time was good.
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ah! cant go wrong with hills west - thank you!

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grabbing now, full report with diagrams and random numbers soon

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I downloaded both to check and both extracted fine, maybe there were server problems or something causing the files to corrupt? If there's any more problems let me know and I'll sort it out.
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Downloaded the flacs too but have the same problem - not unzipping? Never had a problem before? Odd? Oh well...
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Mexicola wrote:Downloaded the flacs too but have the same problem - not unzipping? Never had a problem before? Odd? Oh well...


Very strange! I tried them on my laptop also and they extracted fine. As a temporary measure, the individual mp3 track links are the same quality as the mp3 zip if you want to grab them instead.
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Cheers man! That should do it. :D
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Mexicola wrote:Cheers man! That should do it. :D


At a curiosity what operating system are you running? I'm wondering whether it might be because of the long(ish) character length in the folder within the zip.
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got the FLAC second time around, first time it went for about 2 minutes then got a corruption error

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Mexicola wrote:Cheers man! That should do it. :D


At a curiosity what operating system are you running? I'm wondering whether it might be because of the long(ish) character length in the folder within the zip.


XP.
I do occasionally have problems with long file names. Is that an XP thing then?
Anyway - the individual MP3s seem to have worked just fine, so thanks very much :D
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overall, i like ... little too BoCcy in places but a pleasant tickle of the eardrums no less ... good fuzz and warmth

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Thanks for the feedback! Links have been updated and, fingers crossed, shoud be ok now.
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Nice work. Loved 'Brandy And Poplars' from the moment I first heard it a couple of years ago.

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IanRedpoint wrote:Nice work. Loved 'Brandy And Poplars' from the moment I first heard it a couple of years ago.


Yeah I love that track too, reminds me a little of early Future Sound of London and Beaumont Hannant.
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hey thanks for putting up this album!!! and thanks for the comments...

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Bumping this thread. Finally got round to listening and pleased to say it doesn't disappoint. Lovely stuff and chock full of ideas. Well worth grabbing :D
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