Anticipating SYRO the new (2014) album by Aphex Twin

lol dont you have enough to be getting on with for now

if only he had just put up 400 tracks all at once without soundcloud's horrible UI

this is all so generous that he probably feels the need to introduce a little bit of inconvenience

*cough* firefox plugin

― brimstead, Tuesday, February 3, 2015 6:23 PM (5 minutes ago)

yeah, but i'm greedy/compulsive, want 320s

Considering his numerous statements involving the word "hundreds", I won't be surprised in the least if it continues on for a few more weeks. Stoked!

looking at his comments it feels a bit haphazard/unplanned? only adds to the joy imo

https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/comments

omg @ (watery big ez)

god damn

140 on Soundcloud now. All downloadable apart from most the recent two (14 Floating∞ and hilo) which I assume he'll enable at some point.

Actually hilo has d/l link. It's the latest three that don't have

He's also had a track blocked by the notorious Soundcloud police:

Our automatic content protection system has detected that your sound "FmsubBass" may contain the following copyright content: "Absence" by Riva Starr, owned by George V Records. As a result, its publication on your profile has been blocked.

no it doesn't!

the most immediately interesting tracks here are i would assume from 95ish and recall the discussion upthread about the software music explosion and the period immediately prior to it

Where is this in the run? I've listened to the first sixteen or so now (presumably SAW1 and Digeridoo-era) and it's all nice but with one or two glaring exceptions I've not heard much that was screaming to be released.

150

so, the two he took down, what were they? red calx? girl / boy dark?

the original 110 match exactly the 12 tapes in the google document that someone posted. but what are these others?

this document : http://pastebin.com/5f38ynfm

do we know where that doc came from? Was it RDJ or just some fan?

by a fan on watmm. not entirely sure how they worked out the tape splits, but it looks like they've decided that whenever RDJ takes a long break between uploading tracks, that's a new tape.

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/86519-organizing-the-soundcloud-material/?p=2282592

someone upthread said that a friend had actual physical tapes from aphex twin and that the names matched those. so perhaps they exist as physical tapes. (one of the ones i heard this morning sounded like the tape had been mangled somewhere along the way)

"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.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:54"

with one or two glaring exceptions I've not heard much that was screaming to be released.

At the same time, had any of this been released, I don't think we'd have complained.

Now I know how it must feel to be RDJ, looking at these hours and hours of tracks and thinking, huh, wtf do I do with all of this stuff? I'm not sure I even want to download the new things, having finally organized that last epic burst. I might just wait for the dust to settle first. Assuming it ever does.

Really nice live version of Heliosphan (with added acid) uploaded this morning.

interesting tidbit i found when looking at some of the files, many of them are encoded by "SoundJam v2.5.3" which is the iTunes precursor from 2001

The only thing better than uploading all these would be if someone organized and annotated all of them, I have no idea where to start.

oh, i'm sure someone will be on it, once (if?) the onslaught ends.

yes someone please c&p that every day here, it's not like he doesn't have a million ardent internet fans who are waiting to do that

yeah I'm gonna stop being that guy, I'm sure someone will do something more or less definitive, hopefully broken up into album-sized chunks - this is just way too much to hear at once

by the way I'd lose my mind if Underworld did something like this. their archives have got to be huge!

i've added tags to sort them into the 12 original tapes and will add tracks numbers within those tapes (and probably rename them to match). but don't know what to do with the 40 new tracks. that said, i can't be bothered updating them all to the 320k versions.

nobody answered my question about the two taken down tracks 8(

red calx and girl/boy (dark) were taken down, also one called "fmsubbass" got caught in soundcloud's content filter yesterday

thanks

the most immediately interesting tracks here are i would assume from 95ish and recall the discussion upthread about the software music explosion and the period immediately prior to it

Where is this in the run? I've listened to the first sixteen or so now (presumably SAW1 and Digeridoo-era) and it's all nice but with one or two glaring exceptions I've not heard much that was screaming to be released.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:47 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seems to me, starting around the 50s (in terms of upload order), tempos slow down and drums start to get that crunchy ICBYD sound. first batch of 112 sounds pretty chronological, but the stuff he uploaded yesterday sounds mostly like more 85-92 stuff, so idk.

yeah this is just randomly playing soundcloud tracks so i can't remember which ones but there's a few tracks like that, i have only played a fraction of this and i will wait until it's all uploaded and sorted

i haven't heard any tracks that sound like hangable auto bulb onwards in that hyperactive breaky style

there's a couple of track titles referring to clissold eg Last Clissold Maybe that sound a bit like icbyd era and in the noyzelab interview he refers to

rich: particular period around 94, made in 36 clissold crescent north london, dont think you ever lived there? im sure u went there though?
a lot of mates/mates of mates lived there
memory is a bit hazy/smodged of that decade !-)
I made ICBYD, RDJ, half of SAW2 etc etc there, amazing good times.

Finally listening to that somadril account's tracks for the hell of it -- roffling that the second oldest song is a cover of the Smashing Pumpkins' "Quiet," all electrofunked up.

hilarious

holy shit nice find ned. this rules

i haven't heard any tracks that sound like hangable auto bulb onwards in that hyperactive breaky style

He's progressing down his catalog pretty nicely. Today's and yesterday's stuff sounds like it could have been written close to even Druckqs.

potential HAB b-side:
https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/14-make-a-baby

potential RDJ b-side:
https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/28-organ
https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/26-5a/

some appear to be Come to Daddy b-sides and possibly later. Vast majority of what's up is still pre-93 though.

I've not been paying attention enough/lost track of this... Where can I get an up-to-date list of tracks to download? Is it possible to do it in one go rather than individually?

hehe, reading upthread it looks like that's a very naive question... i'll wait a while.

there is an ALL set that he created which has the mass of the tracks (the first 110) if that helps

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

ah thanks!!

He's progressing down his catalog pretty nicely. Today's and yesterday's stuff sounds like it could have been written close to even Druckqs.

potential HAB b-side:
https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/14-make-a-baby

potential RDJ b-side:
https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/28-organ
https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/26-5a/

some appear to be Come to Daddy b-sides and possibly later. Vast majority of what's up is still pre-93 though.

― octobeard, Thursday, 5 February 2015 07:49 (5 hours ago)

excellent

that first one has a similar melody to 'every day' as well

So um am I the only one actually looking forward to some chin-stroking thinkpieces about RDJ when people have had a chance to digest all this + the new EP

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i'm shocked vice or spin or whatever hasn't done a "I LISTEN TO IT ALL / HOT TAKES" clickbait piece yet

Wow, I had no idea all of this happened. Assumed there was talk about the new EP, but not this huge hard drive dump. Really want to dig in once the deluge has slowed.

It hasn't. He put up four more a couple of hours earlier:

https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/tracks

one more now

killing us with kindness.

GodDAMN the four newest ones are gorgeous!

I think if the Frank Zappa who spent the last few years of his life fucking around with a Synclavier (and not getting much traction on the learning curve, imo) had lived long enough to hear what RDJ was going to start putting down, he would have made a pilgrimage to England and said "teach me, maestro." Mainly in terms of timbral possibilities, not as a composer.