Anticipating SYRO the new (2014) album by Aphex Twin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u53Jr4LDi5g

lush slow blips

yesterday i excitedly watched a video featuring four custom scales by RDJ so yeah i guess you could say i'm a completist

http://www.nts.live/projects/aphex-twin

(no idea what to enter, but speculation about the countdown and transcript of the voice are here: https://www.reddit.com/r/aphextwin/comments/6cmvsx/nts_live/ )

$('#date-label').text( padWithDots("SATURDAY.3RD.JUNE") );
$('#location-label').text( padWithDots("VIDEO.STREAM.LIVE.FROM.FIELD.DAY") );

Analysing the website source of the countdown timer, we see:
var b = 1499119200000;
Which is:
Mon Jul 03 2017 23:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Summer Time)
Interestingly Field Day, which afx is playing at, is set on June 3rd (not July like the site) and ends at 11PM. Maybe just a coincidence though.
EDIT: They just added another date variable. 1496520000000 (Jun 03 2017 @ 9PM) - possibly afx's set time.

Went to the Wellcome place in London, their current exhibition on graphic design, and saw these, prototype designs for plain cigarette packaging from 2011. I wonder if afx saw these?

http://studio.build/archived/icon-magazine-rethink/

Not historically a fan of AFX but I find that I kind of like some of this. The sound design and editing are pretty much peerless.

at the moment this is my go-to afx record

I crack up every time at all of the brilliant misdirection in it. It's like an infinitely more sonically satisfying Perrey and Kingsley record.

Possibly the Afx record I've listened to the most, despite its inexplicably dodgy reputation.

got a copy of this on vinyl now and uhhh it sounds insane. idk why they put it on 3 records when it could've easily fit on two (it doesn't even have the bonus track!) but its so good I guess I can overlook that. this shit reboots your brain

it really is great, a career highlight imho

XMAS_EVE absolutely is

Collapse EP is awesome too. man why'd he have to go away again

the 1st track is like a 3-D version of "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball"

don't forget Cheetah

could do without the electronically controller acoustic instruments one though

A fascinating release in a lot of ways. I’ve been thinking about doing an ILM review of it.

please do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnF_mMDgZ08

"Collapse EP is awesome too. man why'd he have to go away again"

seems to have cracked totally after his father passed, plus all his statements re covid/quarantine made me worry for his mental health