Anticipating SYRO the new (2014) album by Aphex Twin

/O.S.T. opened for them in 2001, not '98!

as an SF local I am probably hopelessly biased towards a lot of this music, it was what was playing. even then it wasn't for everyone! just the same, it was all fantastic.

navy warship is a ridiculous and singular record that has next to nothing to do with autechre

listening now somehow it is on streaming services and shit is all hand sequenced unquantized aggro sloppy carnival music, seemingly owing more to free jazz and noise and probably mr bungle or whatever than any form of programmed dance music basically it is the exact opposite of the pristine beat and filter science x lush fluttering melodies formula that would come to define idm and make it suck in the 21st century

so i downloaded RIOU's 'to-to' EP which unlike most of that stuff is new to me and it's excellent

there are probably two sometimes contrary sometimes related purposes here, the ecological view of how all sorts of disparate people were learning to deploy the same technology and similar musical material during the same era, and the more distant observer sifting through that ecosystem

i still have a lot of love for mego of that time such as the fennesz rehberg o'rourke live recordings, and for anything vladislav delay was doing, lee gamble was quoted in an interview saying that seeing hecker live in 1999 was important for him which makes a lot of sense

in terms of the more 'broken' and cluttered maximal 'idm' sound that predominated in the english speaking world, i will still happily play hrvatski's irrevocably overdriven break freakout megamix but afx and autechre seem to have inhabited a more rarified level that nobody else got close to

ummm maybe

>hrvatski's irrevocably overdriven break freakout megamix

That was a great concert. The bartender at RX gallery was a local noise musician named Gustavo with a real mean streak who worked a day shift in a metal shop and came in to work the bar with a headache. The house PA was over behind the bar and he kept turning the master level down throughout the night, even though the bar was packed filled with people who kept yelling 'turn it up' because it really was far too quiet. Keith kept trying, but by the time he was redlining the hapless promoter walked over to intervene in it being turned down again and there was nearly a fistfight. Anyway, the DAT was completely sawed off but in the best possible way and I'm not surprised it came out.

as an SF local I am probably hopelessly biased towards a lot of this music

be honest, these are your bff's and drinking buddies! If I can be honest about that when I post about Weasel Walter, you can do the same when posting about Bevin, Kevin B., Sutekh, Josh "I'm not really anti-semitic, I just hate Israel" Clayton, etc.

Me, I only listen to Cornish artists who make Cornish music for Cornish people!

mazel tov!

Meur ras...

Early 00's North Herts 'tronica mega shout outs to Dot.Hardcore, Sully, Freudstein, Teflon Child...

>be honest, these are your bff's and drinking buddies

Ha yes ok lets be honest sarah, I am big upping California pals on an aphex thread on a message board from my desk job, using the same user name for years. See you tonight at the zeek sheck show maybe.

That was a great concert. The bartender at RX gallery was a local noise musician named Gustavo with a real mean streak who worked a day shift in a metal shop and came in to work the bar with a headache. The house PA was over behind the bar and he kept turning the master level down throughout the night, even though the bar was packed filled with people who kept yelling 'turn it up' because it really was far too quiet. Keith kept trying, but by the time he was redlining the hapless promoter walked over to intervene in it being turned down again and there was nearly a fistfight. Anyway, the DAT was completely sawed off but in the best possible way and I'm not surprised it came out.

― Milton Parker, Friday, 17 October 2014 05:52 (14 hours ago)

i enjoyed this post greatly
back in the day i used to appreciate its full spectrum redlining for making the most noise possible from laptop speakers
see also: the arte povera minor great that is 'hello dirty' by massimo (mego, 2002) an album which surely deserves its own thread at some point

xp - I will be there, because I am letting some bffs and drinking buddies borrow some of my drum kit!

Wait was RX gallery the place that was partially an actual metal shop? Saw a great breakcore show there years ago. Bookshelves filled with books in the performance space, twamps of weed for sale at the bar, good times.

nah nevermind the place i'm thinking of is south of market, near caesar chavez blvd

RX was in the tenderloin. You might be thinking of Cellspace or maybe flowershop?

Flowershop was it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-QV4n-z-9k

you made it a hot line / i made it a hot song

great move d track

https://soundcloud.com/richarddjames

dnw

Oh, I thought this revive was for this:

http://noyzelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/syrobonkers-part1.html

(he is lying about everything, including lying about when he's lying.)

that was my orig name b4 aphex

pbod, phonic boy on dope :)))

lol

The 911 truther BS he spouts is depressing as all fuck. But I guess, like, here is a guy who is totally disconnected from any reality except that which filters in through his weird hacker-friends filter, and it's just... Of all the conclusions you could have drawn about the state of the world, and the problems in it, and this is the one you go for. But I guess that's what happens when you take that much acid for that long, like, all of the paranoia in your head circles back on itself, and in the course of being so sceptical that you believe nothing, you end up believing anything.

Was that what he was saying? I thought he was decrying those people that thought it was an inside job etc. I hoped he was, anyway..

this interview is AMAZING

Recently when some journo's were saying 'so you actually believe 9/11 was an inside job' , attempting to paint picture of me bein a crackpot , {yawn} I was totally shocked, they were intelligent people but still they didnt get it, just popularist, pandering to what they think will be popular, instead of thinking for themselves and expressing their own opinions.
Im really, really sorry to all folks who might be reading this but if you believe the ridiculous story that is being pedaled about 9/11 from the mainstream media then you are absolutely gullible, some very clever people are also very naive and very gullible, they are not nasty people but very trusting and theyre good nature is being taken advantage of. Not believing the mainstream media is very hard for some folk who have put their trust and faith in the state and press, breaking that faith will not be an easy process for many.
Some people just see through bullshit very effortlessly and can easily tell when people are lying, others it seems can't , that in itself is an area im interested in.
When I first watched footage of 9/11, I was around this geezers house in London , he is a real geezer n all , I was buying old jungle records , he had this massive widescreen tv in his flat which was too big for the room, classic and as soon as we watched the twin towers being struck ,he said really matter of factly , they just did it to themselves and I was like thank fuk for that, people are not THAT gullible.

It really seems like he's agreeing here with people who state that, contrary to the 'mainstream media' that 'the US did it to themselves'.

Is there another reading I could be getting out of this? It doesn't even seem like a 'The US did it to themselves (with 60 years of shitty post-WW2 foreign policy)" it seems like he's a sodding truther. If there's an another explanation of this, please tell me how to read it because I'd like not to believe it. But a guy who a few bits earlier was quoting They Live like it's a documentary not sci-fi doesn't have me hopeful. :-/

The receipt for his dx100 signed by his Mum! <3

Yeah, how you said it with that "60 years" bit was how I read it, but yeah, sigh, chalk another one..

i like how the interview person keeps being all like "｢nervously｣ uh yeah david icke, interesting guy. but anyway how about that casio fz10? awesome bit of kit"

Sad you didn't add your $0.02 cents tbh :(

just been reading more about how microwaves can be used to control peoples minds and give people cancer etc , stealth weapons..have you noticed how high profile people who are anti establishment quite often die of cancer related illness's?
bill hicks
robert anton wilson
terrance mckenna etc etc

It's weird how my experience of conspiracy-thinkers tend to be such a weird mirror of what he's accusing people who don't agree with him of. Like he's clearly very intelligent, and has the kind of intelligence capable of making connections and intellectual syntheses and conceptual leaps, but lacks any kind of structural framework for distinguishing 'possible' from 'probable'.

i would take this all with a rock of salt honestly

I mean yeah "I don't have any children, we made that up, what a laugh" followed a few paragraphs later by proud father talking about his kids' musical compositions is about the level of it.

his "kids'" songs are LOOOOOOOL

I actually do have kids, one is quite musical and is producing things that would make you go "that's quite good, that is"

If he's really inventing the whole kids/music thing, that's quite sad really. Not sad as in pathetic, sad as in sad.

He did not actually invent 'having kids'. He has kids, he has two sons. He is lying about not having kids. However, he also lied and introduced his current (Russian) girlfriend as his wife. His ex-wife, (Chanelle James, unsure of the spelling?) the mother of his kids, is not Russian. But she definitely exists, she is a real person, even if the Russian girlfriend was impersonating her.

CHRIST WHY DO I KNOW THESE THINGS WHY DO I CARE ABOUT THESE THINGS. THERE IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME FOR STORING THESE FACTS IN MY BRANE.

Gonna come home tonight and realise my copy of Syro was just a notional concept and not a real album at all.

.. which is why I did not believe he invented his kids.

(honest)

There is no SYRO. He lied about the whole thing, these are just a bunch of demos he found when Rephlex was disbanded that he stuck his name on and put out, haha we all fell for it, what a kidder you are, Richard D.

he doesn't even exist. it's all a marketing trick dreamt up by some ravers on a come down in the late eighties. his entire life and career trajectory was worked out over the course of a couple of hours

I woke up and this thread was gone. Couldn't find it in search, couldn't even find a reference to Syro, period. But when my head the pillow last night it was at the top of my bookmarks.

I dreamt that I was eating a giant s950tx16wasr10, and when I woke up my Syro was gone!

This guy is doing my head in:

http://noyzelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/syrobonkers-part2.html

rich: in my old bank, it was on the first floor, sometimes buses would stop outside my house and i would be staring at people through the window really close, my mate ian said he saw me once in the studio from the bus!

This is going to sound crazy, but do you know how many times I've been on a 133 at that specific bus stop, way before I knew he lived there, and just had the creepy feeling that I was being watched, especially late at night?

i miss the basement in my old bank, amazing reinforced concrete walk in vaults, hugely reverberant, recorded many things in there, it was also haunted, vault opened itself once and the taps were left on maximum had to use a monkey wrench to turn them off, had to try hard for it not to creep me out.
how mental is that, nobody could have got in....so weird..
, it was a very creepy place, now there is a 22 storey block of flats there, on top of it, i bet they had a hard time getting those vaults out, reinforced concrete 5ft thick..

I've actually got photos of this happening. The Thameslink always used to stop and wait, right by the building site. So if you stood up and went in the front carriage, you could look right down into the building site. It took them ages to dig out the vault, it was just open to the air and you could look down into it, and it felt so fucking weird knowing that that had been his recording studio.

first floor basement?

One floor up from the very Basement.

Apologies for not being clearer: I spliced together two bits of the interview where he was explaining the locations detailed in the liner notes of the album. He recorded some tracks in the 'thin room' on the first floor of The Bank, and some in the vault or basement. I thought it was fairly obviously that a large building like a bank could have more than one floor, or that he could have more than one place where he recorded.