Anticipating SYRO the new (2014) album by Aphex Twin

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.

Zappa would have degraded him as untalented and kept making his own substandard crap.

He's been replying to some of the comments as well btw - https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/comments

ok I’m drunk and talking to people i don’t know, is that good ,i ve no idea, hi!

i'm always impressed when i come across someone with the ability to read the mind of a dead person

The Grammy Award-winning Richard D. James: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/08/grammys-2105-syro-by-aphex-twin-wins-danceelectronic-album-of-the-year

!!!

And next year the Soundcloud wins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJ_f8igu68

lol

xxpost And the crowd shouts "user48736353001! user48736353001!"

that is the most polite applause ever

Meantime, a small misidentification tonight:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10968540_10152966401261136_3123305895671621263_n.jpg

Trying that again...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9XK4XZCcAAJ9v7.jpg:large

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/07/14/37/1886163/4/628x471.jpg

The next album should be called "I thought I saw them coming"

I Thought I Saw Them Coming (54 Cymru Mix)

nice!

http://www.cbs.com/shows/grammys/nominees/best-dance-electronica-album/

http://oi62.tinypic.com/2e5lg6p.jpg

god

Some say

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11ouNaaVrNp60Ib34Kp0TO1n1XSc7-9DvfiZ9ZiTiD2c/htmlview?sle=true#

just search for this to get the archive

Aphex Twin user48736353001 (157 previously unreleased AFX tracks) [~320 kbps MP3] soundcloud

too many tracks so currently setting up a crowdfunding page to pay dog latin to go through all of it for us and curate an ilx friendly 'chosen clouds'

three more tracks posted today, so he could be starting up again

[SAWII un]

!!

up to 11 new ones now, 166 total

<3 5 Scorrier <3

it's a remix/variant of 101 rainbows on caustic window lp

<3 Just Fall Asleep <3

it's all so good

getting heavy Muslimgauze vibes from "1.5 dp5 beats"

this fuckin guy

Jeebus.

this casiotribalfonics thing!

7 Dub Cliker + 0hz

:O

Put up four more earlier.

the fmsub thing that wasn't downloadable due to copyright reasons is now downloadable.

6 RANDOM FX is distinctly not random! I feel taken advantage of.

xpost with the µ-ZIQ thread; looks like Mike Paradinas was inspired to upload some of his '80s recordings: https://soundcloud.com/mikep

Friend of mine noticed this about one of the new ones: "1.5 Dp5 Beats"

https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/15-dp5-beats

Music is such a powerful memory trigger. RDJ started up the gravy train again yesterday, and this 'new' track was one of them. I instantly recognized it as being one of the unreleased tracks he played when I saw him in San Francisco in early November 1993 at the Galleria as part of the N.A.S.A. "See The Light" tour along with Mark Gage's Vapourspace project, Orbital, and Moby.

They were supposed to have played the night before out near Marina Del Rey at Circa '93, but the lovely L.A. Fire Marshalls shut it down even before nightfall. My ex and I thought, no way we're missing this - so we jumped in the car the next morning and hot-footed it up to S.F. One of the best decisions of my life, in retrospect.

My dearly departed friend Dwayne Goettel drove down from Vancouver with Phil Western for that show, and afterwards we talked for a bit - and then they turned right around and drove all the way back home!

He then added a link of the live performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8_oMYnZK8A

nice

he organized 11 into a playlist "saw 1.5" - a sign he's gonna be breaking this stuff up? very cool

his descriptive note for the saw 1.5 playlist:

"there are more, inc. versions of the tracks that were released on saw1, those will come out on a re-release one day hopefully, so saving those for that."

drooooooool

has anyone taken the time to listen to all of these and write some assessments yet? i've probably gotten through 25 tracks and I don't feel like I've done anything more than skim

yeah i've listened to the first 40-50 of them a bunch and i like them a lot