Anticipating SYRO the new (2014) album by Aphex Twin

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

thx for link; i would LOVE a rip link

Yeah, seriously. Even if I was successfully able to rip and assemble these tracks piecemeal, I worry they'd get lost in my virtual pile of other loose tracks floating around my hard drive.

snare robot seems kinda dumb, or rather a lot of work for what you presumably get out of it. i mean, they say this:

24.04.2014: Tests by Kristof Lauwers. Snar2 not only outperforms our first Snar version, but also easily human players. Not only with respect to speed and polyphony, but even in dynamic range.

but there are so many sounds that you can't get out of that design, like hitting different parts of the head, buzzes, rimclicks, etc.

from what i understand the sticks themselves on the robot are solely for rim stuff, the actual snare hits are achieved with that array of beaters

http://rogernichols.com/wendel

45 tracks now. The latest one (5 minutes or so old) is already on over 100 plays

And another.

Wonder when it will stop?

I've got 47. Man. I get totally geeked out about artists who threw away songs that are better than most people's careers. The Who Sell Out bonus tracks. Joy Division's Still. etc

from what i understand the sticks themselves on the robot are solely for rim stuff, the actual snare hits are achieved with that array of beaters

ah, under the head? that makes more sense.

14 07 B is very nice

somebody needs to put this on Leonardo

^
but given how quick it's coming out, hard to tell when to compile

https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/11-donkey-rhubarb-remix

Lovely take on that original that absolutely could have been on that EP

i'd love to dl some of these but am always so damn late to these soundcloud parties of his

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

Go nuts.

this new EP is just sooooooo good though

59 songs.

jesus

1 nocares might be my favorite so far, straight up SAW2 prototype/outtake

The 59 tracks so far (253MB zip file):

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19067502/AFX%20Demos.zip

I'd love a download link to these tunes. Don't have time/access to stream.

ah thank you!