‘Apparently Skrillex said that Flim was his favourite track. I’m afraid that says it all really.’
lol
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
"everything happens for a reason" and batshit conspiracy theories eh.
― ledge, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 09:56 (ten years ago) link
It's leaked: https://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/sets/syro-ilx-precovers
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:17 (ten years ago) link
Might be sliiiightly less unconvincing without the "ILX precovers" in the URL?
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:43 (ten years ago) link
No it must be true. That cover art is completely accurate.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:43 (ten years ago) link
Creepiest cover yet!
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
the cover nearly made me spit out my coffee you assholes
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
He says the Caustic Window record that was auctioned was Grant's, too. Shame about Rephlex.
Is Grant OK? I knew about Rephlex shuttering, but I assumed it was out of boredom. While we haven't spoken in a few years, he was always an upstanding guy to me and I think about him often.
One of my favorite music memories is hearing a group of booty DJs play in Detroit with him and Soundmurderer. I was 18 so I was pretty starstruck. It ruled.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
didn't know myself about rephlex shutting down. 'all good things...' i guess..
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:17 (ten years ago) link
Well, read the interview, and Richard explains.
Oh, and I guess he did come "up" by train to London because he was coming from Cornwall. After a birthday party. He explained. Jeez, Richard, if you don't want stalkers, stop explaining every aspect of your life on the internet. Please.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
the chemtrails thing is a joke i hope
― 💻 👀 (am0n), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
remember this is a dude who doesn't really want to leave his room
― ugh (lukas), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
neither do i and i can tell the chemtrails thing isn't real (like the moon landing)
― 💻 👀 (am0n), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
drip
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:04 (ten years ago) link
I was inspired to make an infographic for my record which also came out this week.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3848975/nye2point014nasonex.jpg
― dan selzer, Thursday, 18 September 2014 03:56 (ten years ago) link
Amazing.
― Eggs and the marketing board behind them, Thursday, 18 September 2014 06:43 (ten years ago) link
Minipops is a real jam - didnt think I would dig it so fast
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 18 September 2014 08:54 (ten years ago) link
this should be arriving at my desk any moment now....
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Thursday, 18 September 2014 08:55 (ten years ago) link
I think I'm going to wait until mine arrives too, but the (nearly universally positive!) reviews so far have really tempted me. In the meantime I'm checking out drukqs again, which I never really gave a fair shot to begin with, and I'm absolutely floored by it. I understand the disappointment at the time but it's so very different than anything else IDM was doing in 2001, in retrospect the whole "RDJ lost it" narrative doesn't make much sense anymore to me.
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
I mean that breakdown in "St Michels Mount" is just O.o
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
sixth track of syro ✓
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Is track 11 some kind of tribute to Renegade - Terrorist from 1994 ?
― StanM, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
check the interview that Branwell posted
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
cool! thx
― StanM, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
answer is basically, maybe not that track specifically, but he was sure trying to figure out how early jungle producers accomplished what they did with a pretty limited sequencer. and admits he still hasn't made a good jungle track.
which is gold considering all of the "aphex pisses on straightahead jungle!" that got thrown around for a while, maybe still does.
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 18 September 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
His parents are from Wales. They both worked in a psychiatric hospital, where it was accepted to hand out lsd to patients.
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
didnt some previous interview say his father was an engineer?idk, not going to pore over all of the shit he has said, print the legend
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
Richard worked in the mines for a while too
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 18 September 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link
Yeah RDJ has said he hasn't made a good Drum n' Bass tune yet, but come on
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
not a proper d'n'b track no. whereas Digeridoo is proper storming techno imo.
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
what do you call the crazy half of drukqs then?
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
it's good but ... have you listened to much drum n bass?
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
not really..wondering what consistutes 'proper' drum and bass
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/aphex-twin/#the-next-level
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
re the interview, what's the correct chronological order of the tracks on ambient works 85-92?
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
i enjoyed that interview
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 19 September 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
dammit... I was hoping Syro would have been sent to me by now :-/
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Friday, 19 September 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Layout of the P Fork piece is pretty neat.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 September 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QO16m_YW0o
― 💻 👀 (am0n), Friday, 19 September 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
not sure what to make of this. it's not bad. but nothing is really grabbing me either.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
So far I'm into 1, 2 and 6 and yeah sorta bewildered by the rest. It's a really rich album and I expect some of these will open up. But I also think half the tracks don't need to exist in public maybe? I'm a stan for the man though, and will give this album a lot of chances. Someday we'll look back at this post and laugh.
― ugh (lukas), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
its up on spotify. 3 tracks in and im loving it so far.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
It starts kind of okay-ish and gets really good after the initial 3 songs (which are as usual impeccably produced but didn't really catch my attention, might need to relisten).
180DB is a jam, specially love the final breakbeat part, wish it was longer. The buildup to CIRCLONT6A is incredibly neurotic and brilliant, he sounds at the top of his game in here. FZ pseudotimestretch is a tease, which I hated because it sounds very promising, it seems like it swould have been one of the best songs in here instead of being used as an interlude. The other CIRCLON sounds like a BOC track remixed by Squarepusher. The title track sounds cheesy but there's some great transitions going in there. The next two tracks I could do without, they sound like 90's rave music.
The piano piece doesn't sound nearly as memorable as Jynweythek or Avril 14th and it sounds completely out of place in here but it's pretty, I guess.
― Moka, Friday, 19 September 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
btw you think papat4 is willfully referencing this macca song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9BZDpni56Y
should have titled this one xmas evet.
― Moka, Friday, 19 September 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
how old are some of these tracks. track 11 is very jungle-y.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 19 September 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
This bit from the pitchfork interview is reassuring:
But I don't think these Syro tracks are particularly innovative. Maybe in really subtle ways they are, for me, but there's nothing there that I need to explore more, so it's not going to put me off releasing anything. It just totally makes me want to not do anything else in that particular style.
It's an admission that these are just some old tracks and styles he had and wanted to release them before moving on to another kind of sound. Hoping this means we'll have another completely different album coming afterwards that doesn't take 13 years.
― Moka, Friday, 19 September 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
this is p funky
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 19 September 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
very good time to be getting into aphex twin for the first time. this record is great
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, September 19, 2014 5:40 PM (1 hour ago)
Not seeing it. Non-US customers only maybe?
― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
possibly. that would be weird tho
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Saturday, 20 September 2014 01:00 (ten years ago) link