Anticipating SYRO the new (2014) album by Aphex Twin

interesting. i wonder if that means now (or once this leak series is over) the well is pretty much dry on pre-2007 material?

3 new tracks + a couple of the earlier tracks now have download enabled (higher bitrate)

2 of them are from Bradley's Robot EP, 1993, btw

Well, that comment makes sense: the old stuff isn't coming out as 'new', the last eight years just might..

These two cheetah tracks sound quite newish though

Nutcrapper: "apologies for both of these tracks! possibly the best track ever made"

and wtf Mulberry Bush " i think this and the next one were first couple of tracks i did when i got a sampler :) "

And another 11 today

The recent lot are really great. To my mind a lot better than the pile uploaded a couple of months ago, even if they were pretty good.

man i cannot keep up. this is so insane

so wait, he's grouped some of these into titled album-style playlists?

this is new(ish) to the bio, right?

"In answer to a lot of messages:
hmmm..i think if there were some sort of poll or something, I would get the best of/faves mastered & pressed up/backed up.

I can make almost all of these tracks sound A LOT better, if I transfer them properly myself and then master them .
There are lots of other releases planned on Warp but it could fit in fine there somewhere."

really cool how much his tone/intent toward his fans seems to have changed lately

Poll?

We should definitely poll all of these new tracks and then forward him the results

Does anyone have that last download set?

no?

What you mean last download set? Which tracks are you missing?

(he just uploaded another one today btw)

At this point so many songs have dumped I can barely keep them straight (advantage: albums).

Here's a two hour mix (official stuff, none of that Soundcloud upload) on NTS Bleep:

https://soundcloud.com/bleep_bot/nts-bleep-avril-14th-aphex-twin-special

The recent lot are all downloadable now.

Oooh! Thx for the heads up

been only listening to tracks at random and while most of them have been really unremarkable the good stuff has been really really good, anyone tackled making a best-of playlist of the stuff?

wouldn't it be cool if RDJ sorted through everything, chose maybe about an hour's worth of tracks that are high quality and work well together, and then collected them on an "album"?

Scroll up a bit, 3 weeks ago - soyrev quoted something like that

oh, nice! i need to read the damn thread.

Here's a playlist I put together of the most "ambient" of the material he's posted:

https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/aphex-twin-saw-iii-beta

guhh i mean i've only made it up to the hangable auto bulb outtakes from the first round of uploads but.. after several listens there's way more than just 1 cd worth of goodness there, imo. it's some good old fashioned 90s aphex twin. plenty of stuff that's up there with my favorites of his (suzanne, 2tone, martin's car, sam's car, the donkey rhubarb remix, with my family, no cares, high hats tune....)

I've made this into a monthly Aphex album club, living with each volume before burning the next. I'm up to album three, the ordering is wayward/alphabetical, but.

Just noticed a link to this mix by Carlos Souffront on today's RA Podcast

The first time we'd ever heard of Carlos Souffront was in 2006, when Derek Plaslaiko was encouraging us to book him for our first 3/03 acid party (alongside Mark Verbos). Derek would not shut up about a party in Detroit where Carlos just played Aphex Twin (and his many aliases) vinyl all night long and demolished the place. So it only followed that we should invite him to play an all acid set on 3/03. Carlos of course was phenomenal that night and has been a regular guest at The Bunker ever since. Earlier this year, when Aphex Twin began uploading a seemingly endless stream of unreleased tracks to Soundcloud, it was Derek once again who called us and said: you HAVE to ask Carlos do a mix of this stuff for The Bunker Podcast. Carlos obliged and did this mix for us live in one take (after a surprise practice session on RBMA radio). Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/thebunkerny/the-bunker-podcast-98-carlos-souffront

Carlos is a super solid dude and DJ. He was one of a few people in Detroit playing anything melodic during the minimal craze.

New AFX:

@AphexTwin
AFX • ‘orphaned deejay selek 2006-2008’ released 21 August on Warp

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI5vPT8UMAAcp96.jpg

nice cover.

1 serge fenix Rendered 2 4:45 AFX
2 dmx acid test 1:17 AFX
3 oberheim blacet1b 2:26 AFX
4 bonus EMT beats 6:09 AFX
5 simple slamming b 2 3:25 AFX
6 midi pipe1c sds3time cube/klonedrm 1:42 AFX
7 NEOTEKT72 3:16 AFX
8 r8m neotek beat 3:51 AFX

1 serge fenix Rendered 2             4:45 AFX  
2 dmx acid test                      1:17 AFX
3 oberheim blacet1b                  2:26 AFX
4 bonus EMT beats                    6:09 AFX
5 simple slamming b 2                3:25 AFX
6 midi pipe1c sds3time cube/klonedrm 1:42 AFX
7 NEOTEKT72                          3:16 AFX
8 r8m neotek beat                    3:51 AFX

i miss memorable aphex track titles...

http://www.factmag.com/2015/07/22/aphex-twin-upload-loads-more-old-tapes-soundcloud/

jeez dude

Meanwhile, Aphex fans are helping RDJ compile a possible future release by ranking their 30 favourite tracks from the 200-plus he uploaded to SoundCloud earlier this year.

nice!

The voting tool that is also up that RDJ is gonna use to put a comp togetgher was made by my mate xf from WATMM. He's been speaking directly with RDJ about it which is neat as.

Isn't there already a forgotten tapes thing coming out? Yes, end of Aug. Is this different?

Not that I won't happily buy them all given his recent generosity...

That comp is going to rule. I listen to these tracks randomly and I think it's like 15% brilliant, 35% okay, and 50% crap/unfinished, but the good stuff is as good as anything else he's done

Still very amused by all this, I always thought that whole "I have 300+ unreleased tracks that I'm too lazy to put out" line was just fan-baiting, what a boss this guy is

it's overload for me. i've had the initial splurt of tracks on my phone for weeks now but i've barely taken the time to listen to them properly.

yeah, been going at it slowly.. just follow him on soundcloud, some of the stronger tracks (cheetah3 Teac, 5 7z, pretend analog, 14 Cornish Spreek5b, ibiza spliff, 24 Tsim), are near the top of the heap. it's definitely too much to process at once, but if you let em trickle in, it's nice. those are some of my favorites, though i've not really listened to the bulk of the load yet.

Part of it is because i think those initial tracks must have been made at least 2 decades ago, so while they're historically interesting as artefacts, they're not THAT interesting to me as a listener. i'm much more up for hearing what he's been up to from the druqks era onwards, and possibly more recently. Sad to say Syro has failed to move me - I bought the vinyl, I tried and tried to get into it but it just hasn't clicked in any way. Part of me thinks it's just down to my tastes having changed since he went away, but i'm not so sure; Syro just didn't seem to have that mischief sparkle or maverick disobedience I used to like about his work.

The other thing is just the track titles. Same with Autechre in the last ten years. As the track titles get more and more impenetrable, so too it gets harder for me to differentiate my favourites. Maybe that's the point - Exai (by Ae), for instance, has highlights, but their work has turned into more of a hard drive lucky-dip. Whack everything into a playlist, hit shuffle, and see what comes out.

Agree with the above re. Syro. I have never fully engaged with it.

That's a good point about the track titles. For Aphex at least the titles would be funny or utterly unique in some way - the small photos on SAWII, the anagrams of "Aphex Twin" on I Care..., the math equation, the computer virus names on Analord (which I thought was truly clever). Ae is pretty obnoxious with it.

Will need to spin Syro again - probably was my most listened-to of 2014, though tbh a lot of that time was kinda spent trying to figure out how much I like it - like Daft Punk's RAM there's a lot of baggage attached to a release like that, and it's neither obviously great nor obviously bad, and if nothing else both these albums sound incredible. But outside of "minipops" and "180 db" I don't remember much of it!

Metz track is the one for me, like a late-career statement of purpose

4 bit, papat4, and the 'earth portal mix' track are enduring favorites, as well as the metz track. the earth portal mix (2nd to last track) especially, there's a lot to chew on.

Never really got into Syro, nothing really stands out for me on that album. I did enjoy the EP he released early this year quite a bit (which seems to have been mostly forgotten since the huge dump of unreleased tracks has come shortly afterward), it makes me optimistic about what he's going to do in the future.

I only gave Syro a proper listen about a fortnight ago and I flat out loved it tbh, one of his best.