Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

http://media.warp.net/images/Aphex_Twin_Syro_WARPCD247-Packshot-with-sticker_480.jpg

Triple, whoa

1. that press release is amazing.
2. there are only 200 copies of the limited edition box set thing (https://bleep.com/syro-limited-edition), and it's $400 if you win the lottery and have the chance to purchase it.

video director Crease Cunningham

track lengths: (https://bleep.com/release/53848)

1 minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix] 4:47 Aphex Twin
2 XMAS_EVET10 [120][thanaton3 mix] 10:31 Aphex Twin
3 produk 29 [101] 5:03 Aphex Twin
4 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] 4:28 Aphex Twin
5 180db_ [130] 3:11 Aphex Twin
6 CIRCLONT6A [141.98][syrobonkus mix] 6:00 Aphex Twin
7 fz pseudotimestretch+e+3 [138.85] 0:58 Aphex Twin
8 CIRCLONT14 [152.97][shrymoming mix] 7:21 Aphex Twin
9 syro u473t8+e [141.98][piezoluminescence mix] 6:32 Aphex Twin
10 PAPAT4 [155][pineal mix] 4:18 Aphex Twin
11 s950tx16wasr10 [163.97][earth portal mix] 6:01 Aphex Twin
12 aisatsana [102] 5:21 Aphex Twin

around 65 minutes in length, looks like

i have a theory about the prices listed on the album cover but i'm going to have to do 5 minutes worth of adding and dividing via excel before i can offer any cold hard proof

nm

;_;

where's the cost of the blimp??

He already had that, it's his normal means of transportation since the tank got towed.

strictly speaking it's a moored balloon, not a blimp

just want to keep this discourse factual

someone needs to poll the press release, it's gotten me laughing really quite hard

claiming this btw

"influential electronic fartist" is the best 3-word description of RDJ I've heard

it's a sin to appropriate such highprofile content actually

they could sell way more than 200 super special box sets

c'mon richard

"Due to the labour-intensive hand-crafted print process, this edition is strictly limited to 200 copies."

Each limited box set includes a sealed jar that contains air particulates from the smelting of 1/200th of the world's last remaining ores in a giant, limited edition bonfire created just for your box set.

Nyns eus Cornwallo yn England, Dogluthior. :-P

holding out real glee until i can hear just a snippet

they could sell way more than 200 super special box sets

at $400?

def

If there are only 200, they could have charged way more then $400. But I guess $80,000 up front goes a long way to paying the alimony, huh.

Expect at least 50 of those boxes on ebay in the weeks after having been sent out, fetching double or even triple the cost price.

That press release..

Way back when, I wrote a Jesus & Mary Chain article for Record Collector magazine.'While editing/revising the final version (which unbeknownst to me was a waste of time as the mag had already readied a previous draft for publication with some mistakes left in and a bunch of new ones added but never mind time to close the bracket) I ran it through a thesaurus, and went through replacing random words (e.g. "The Jesus plus Mary Manacle" by Frank Cement)

Anyway, the point being: it reads a lot like that press release.

Reads like it was run through translation twice. Plus some jokes.

several angry professionals bandying it about online; i think they missed the joke

Xpost yeah, more than likely.

NA has got the ball rolling on this, BTW:

ILX pre-covers Aphex Twin "SYRO"

I'm pretty sure he passed the real press release into chinese or something in Google translator and back into English and decided it was more awesome that way.

uhh it's pretty obviously composed tbh

maybe translate helped

regret these posts immensely

yeah the google translate thing was my first impression but a lot of this is clearly meant to be funny

I think Dan got it right. He translated it back and forth and then added some jokes.

In June 2014, Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit stated "Cliffs" off of Selected Ambient Works II is the song he would listen to for the rest of his life - if he had to pick one.[61]

nice cardiacs ref in that press release

this is a little strange, having spent however many hours playing the analord eps and the 90s shit over the last years, since i have scarcely thought about the author of all of that sublime music, so it's almost like being reaquainted with him and his mischievous yokel humour via the usual pr breadcrumb trail

he resembles a slightly more rustic andré villas-boas these days

http://www.mtv.com/crop-images/2013/08/15/aphex_twin.jpg

That's a very old picture. He shaved his head in 2008, maybe 2007? He is back to looking more like himself again recently:

http://38.media.tumblr.com/07e5bcde99548244157bdd20e97ce2de/tumblr_nar38xhJJV1rjw8sqo1_400.jpg

I listened to the Caustic Window LP for the first time yesterday and kind of instantly loved it, it was so familiar, so comfortingly weird, which obviously wouldn't have been the effect had it actually been released at the time. 'Squidge In The Fridge' is glorious.

not so into that one, Jazzphase is the one from that record that i play

Aphex Twin is really nice in interviews. Apparently.

http://www.thefader.com/2014/08/25/aphex-twin-syro-interview-excerpts?&_suid=140897978232205487933855038136

spotted on my commute this am

http://photos-h.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xaf1/10607925_944036628956879_1511072352_n.jpg

I'm not sure I can deal with a world where Aphex Twin does promotional press and even Pitchfork interviews like a normal artist with a record out, instead of disinformation and counter-claims and fake stuff leaked over the web...

http://pitchfork.com/news/56459-aphex-twin-speaks-on-his-new-album-being-sampled-by-kanye-more/

re: Caustic Window

I've got thousands more like that at home. I should release all that stuff as well.

I don't think Mr Twin realises that the sheer obscurity/inaccessibility of the stuff was a huge part of why that kickstarter blew up so big. :-/

he is just too much

"features unintelligible voices" <3

Maybe I should just ban myself from posting to this thread or even reading his interviews until the record is out because I am so used to viewing Richard D James as a puzzle to be solved or an arcane mystery to be pieced together that I just can't handle seeing him as a product to be marketed.

aphex and marketing, imagine

wish he'd do a SAW III instead of all this noisy stuff.