Anticipating SYRO the new (2014) album by Aphex Twin

i doubt it, but that's a fun track either way!

it sounds like a drukqs outtake.. well-detailed and effortless-sounding, of a similar palette and feeling/flow

Guessing this will be an EP of 5 songs similar to Syro/Drukqs and a mess of doodles with perhaps a couple acoustic bits.

it would be so interesting to see a poll of what everyone thinks the ratio of "farty" to "normal" will be, maybe with more discussion of "types" of "aphex" "songs"!!!!!

sounds like he's taking control of the drum machine

http://www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/snar2.html

http://www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/snar2/IMG_8361_15.JPG

hopefully he will write some tunes for compressorhead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBSkq-_St8

and of course, frighteningly similar:

squarepusher + z-machines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkUq4sO4LQM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7MluikyEQF4#t=426

pat metheny's orchestrion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=evHVh4bqaOQ#t=135

z machines are corporate sponsored to a sickening degree but if you have ever watched more than 45 seconds of a vocaloid j-pop youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBIBf86DYLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlzDt4-6eo0

http://water.usgs.gov/frameworkfiles/images/icons/water/water-faucet.jpg

i like 2 downlode

mostly farty

hello dere

https://soundcloud.com/richarddjames/diskhat-all-prepared1mixed-snr2mix

Oylcs says at 3:51:

stop with all the these post African repetitions, look for changing tempos and changing rhythms, do not allow any repeat any rythm if it were not varied to some extent and did not have a direction in its sequence of variations

embedded artwerk in that ^ mp3 http://i.imgur.com/hanMbh9.jpg

I like that track quite a bit

yeah it's really good!

except for the post-african rhythms of course

Oylcs says at 3:51:

stop with all the these post African repetitions, look for changing tempos and changing rhythms, do not allow any repeat any rythm if it were not varied to some extent and did not have a direction in its sequence of variations

I think this is quoting Stockhausen's critique of Aphex Twin?

lol at rdj's tank

this is v nice

http://www.factmag.com/2015/01/26/early-aphex-twin-demos-appear-on-soundcloud/

https://soundcloud.com/user487363530/original-chaos-riff

very interesting...

Holy crap. In a recent interview he talked about the success of the Caustic Window album and how he's got loads more on DATs and unreleased material of similar quality from that era and how he started cataloging them for a possible box set and then got bored and stopped.

I bet he probably got either one of his kids or someone at Warp to set this up and spit out these tracks over time, if it's indeed him. He and Rephlex vehemently denied The Tuss being him, so it's not unlike him to play the denial game in the past.

Whoa. More and more stuff keeps getting added.

this is insane

early favorite https://soundcloud.com/user487363530/10-bcr78

And way down there, nestled amongst the hard acid weirdies this gorgeous classic with all the hallmarks. Could be a SAW 85-92 outtake. https://soundcloud.com/user487363530/1-chink-101

whoa... that spacing...

Amazing

And the hits keep coming...

not many comments on the EP - how is it?

Not in the singles chart for a kickoff.

Old or new, lost or found, him or no, I really wish these do get compiled and formally released, since parceling them out online in this manner makes it even harder than usual to keep track of his stuff.

yup. i don't really have time to go through all this stuff. they'll prob get taken down in a week as well.

from the watmm thread, allegedly from an interview:

"I recently tried to craft an oldschool compilation.
I literally have hundreds of tracks from around Selected Ambient Works 85-92. But after three hours I already gave up. I tried it a few more times, but I just
cant get trough that pile of music. After three hours I dont even know why I'm doing this, it feels so pointless"

Was this for your own pleasure or for a commercial release?

"For an release. I'm thinking of releasing a boxset. But it feels a bit like you died, isn't it? That's what I told Warp. They said: you should put a gravestone
on it! But I have already done that.[on the cover of the Girl/Boy single you can find a graveston of his stillborn brother who would have been named Richard James].
I'm not sure what to do with it. Rephlex stopped, so that's not really and option. I still have some other ideas though, maybe I'll release some stuff anonimously.
That's always fun, to see what happens. I think I'll go that way."

that being said i would still buy the shit out of a boxset

new ep's dope.. also very well recorded/mastered, it boasts a large dynamic range that Syro lacks. it sounds massive on the stereo, though the sound palette is limited, and a few tracks are straight-up sketches.

Was this for your own pleasure or for a commercial release?

"For an release. I'm thinking of releasing a boxset. But it feels a bit like you died, isn't it? That's what I told Warp. They said: you should put a gravestone
on it! But I have already done that.[on the cover of the Girl/Boy single you can find a graveston of his stillborn brother who would have been named Richard James].
I'm not sure what to do with it. Rephlex stopped, so that's not really and option. I still have some other ideas though, maybe I'll release some stuff anonimously.
That's always fun, to see what happens. I think I'll go that way."

― diamonddave85​ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

At this stage I'm really not interested in a bunch of 20 year old tracks he's got knocking about. I'm not much interested in half-baked experiments or footwork tracks by his children or any of that. I just want a decent record.

listen to these

for some reason it's weird to imagine rdj fussing over mic placement for a kick drum, wonder if he got help for that

username changed: https://soundcloud.com/user4873635301

Pretty incredible how high quality these tunes are.

It hurts me in my heart to say this, but I feel like I prefer the 12 best of these tracks to SYRO in its entirety.

(And I don't even dislike SYRO!)

fuck he changed the username again. I've got 41 tracks downloaded from soundcloud between the two usernames he's used so far.

I'm facebook friends with Manny from Citinite/Optigram and when these soundcloud posts started showing up, he posted some cassette J-cards Richard made for him in 1990 with a lot of the same track names.

new one is user48736353001

just follow him and then you can look at your stream and see what he's posting under

Seriously, though, these two dozen or whatever tracks - is there a way to conveniently download them? I assume eventually someone will grab them and share them.

having a hard time keeping up here... anybody help?

https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001

I've ripped 36 tracks so far. Be happy to share them here if mods think that's ok.

It's pretty easy to use something like Anything To MP3 to d/l the audio.

http://www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/HAT.html
http://www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/snar2.html