Anticipating SYRO the new (2014) album by Aphex Twin

also can i vote for this in the 2015 albums poll?

― diamonddave85​ (diamonddave85), Friday, January 30, 2015 11:15 AM

My guess is yes, considering Gigi Masin placed in the 2014 albums poll

You should parcel out a set of songs or two over the next several polls.

New message on the account page:

"***hello humans, hopefully im gunna start making all these tracks downloadable from 6pm next saturday 7th Feb, [if i can find some internets]"

Also, he's added one more song:

https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/luke-viberts-remix-future-music-competition

Plus he's organized them into a set so if you want a formal 'track order'

https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/sets/all

this too: https://soundcloud.com/richarddjames/rhubarb-orc-1953-rev

are those 128 kbps rips all you can get from soundcloud?

i think now that downloading is enabled they're all 320

oooh boy, is there then a link to a rar of all this?

Not yet, let's put it that way.

plz.
but thx to groovypanda

Watmm, guys

(most of) this stuff is so good -- 35 Japan gets my imaginary poll vote so far

How do you download everything from soundcloud, or do you have to go track by track?

so 111 trax, right? not like i was really doing anything this winter.

JIC

^ & frogs, if yr still looking

are those the 320 versions?

no. fair point. for that you gotta do your own harvesting :(

i.e. misunderstood the question, sry all

Um...everyone?

https://user48736353001.bandcamp.com/

the streets are hot tonight

to think, there was a time when I thought "no way does this dude have anywhere near the amount of unreleased tracks he says he does"

hmm this bandcamp stuff sounds fake

Oh I'm fully expecting it to be fake.

yeah just picking and choosing some of it sounds real Aphexy, some really not, but really I think the fact that it's tagged "braindance" tells me this is a fake

I'm already seeing plenty of arguments either way. I don't care myself, it's either a hilarious joke or him fucking with us again and either way I'm entertained. I even paid for those two releases for the hell of it.

lots of fakes have been coming out, it's annoying

From WATMM, 1.2 GB (110 tracks d/l from Soundcloud - i.e. 320 versions - plus rips of the two that were only up briefly):

https://mega.co.nz/#!oQYhiZLR!0JgeqyNmIi2kCJDCTuO3-6Dt3tnKFk1r9K2TO1kb4Yo

so much of this stuff is so friggin good

Debating whether or not I can justify being a little annoyed that after spending forever tagging and numbering and arranging all those tracks, the 320 versions appears and I have to do it again. Leaning ... not justified.

The guy on WATMM who uploaded the link in groovypanda's post says they're tagged:

manmower, on 01 Feb 2015 - 06:46 AM, said:

Finished organizing my files, and I've uploaded them in case anyone wants them, free account though so I don't know how much bandwidth/how many downloads I'm allowed:

https://mega.co.nz/#...Fk1r9K2TO1kb4Yo

112 tracks (110 downloaded from Soundcloud + the 128 kbps streaming versions of the 2 that were only briefly available).

I've left the filenames unchanged, but tags are as follows.
Artist: AFX (it's the hashtag he added to nearly every track and I thought it unnecessary to make exceptions for the couple of aphex/pbod/... ones).
Album: user48736353001
Track number: Order they were uploaded
Title: As on Soundcloud (so sometimes different from the file name)

I also added his comments and embedded the artwork for each track.

(or girl)

So this has been a fascinating exercise in what really makes an Aphex Twin album. I guess it's possible/probable that each officially released collection really has been just that: a selection of tracks he simply decided to collect together at that given moment before moving on to the next thing. Like, I suppose it's possible SAWII is exactly what it says, and could have easily been twice as long (or totally different) on a different day.

There are very few ( maybe two ) negligible tracks in all this. The rest are terrific. Release of the year so far for me and it may be hard to beat.

I'd like to see someone try to break these up into 'album-sized' chunks based on the era - seems to be a lot of 88-91 stuff on here

only been able to listen to like 10 or so of these so far but they're really good, especially for stuff that's just one in a hundred archive tracks. so far I've enjoyed them more than I have the stuff on the lost Caustic Window LP. listening to "22 Pearls" now, it's more beat-heavy than most of the stuff on SAW 85-92, but absolutely gorgeous, wow

the order he uploaded them in is loosely chronological, SAW 85-92ish stuff in the beginning, ICBYD stuff in the middle, drill n bass later on

the "girl boy" dark version is kind of hilarious

35 japan = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paGDcjsoTLQ ???

(oh, nevermind I guess - apparently, he's done that before. Give a band one of his own tracks and tell them it's a remix)

hah yeah, "space beat" is a prev released remix as well

dowloaded all this stuff last night & supplemented w/ "5 girl boy dark version" & "4 red calx" @ 128 kbps. looking for confirmation: the following are <320 too, right?

"10 shit smothered" - 174 vbr
"(vocoderdisco)" - 160
"6 step up to cornwall" thru "2 dual acid ab6" (5 trax) - 256
"vibert remix 5 edit max c" - 192

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4qMKxCnCH4&feature=share

contenderizer: correct

About half way through a proper listen at last. Really lovely mix of things.

whoa, i wonder if the playlist sequence at https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/sets/all is more or less chronological compared to the upload order

4 bit is banging as fuck. the bass timbres, contours, shapes (etc.) on Syro are in a league of their own.. is there anybody else out there using FM synthesis to such stimulating effect?

I was thinking much the same thing today about that track. It's a remarkable bit of work and no, I don't think there's anyone to touch him.

He's restarted.

https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/tracks

omg stop, seriously

like this is complete oversaturation; I don't know how to even make sense of all of this. How many total tracks had he even released prior to this? Like 150?