APHEX TWIN - SYRO

  On 8/26/2014 at 6:29 PM, triachus said:

What font is Syro by the way? I think someone said OCR A which comes close but it's not that.

edit: nice telefunken

lol

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:21 PM, Joyrex said:

To my knowledge, there is only a CD version of SYRO for Japan: http://shop.beatink.com/shopdetail/000000001850/

 

Also, I don't know if anyone has noticed yet, but iTunes lists the track times for SYRO: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/syro/id911319255?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Track times were on bleep page the day syro was announced on warp. Keep up joyrex!!

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:17 PM, oscillik said:

"So then he put thesis two other records up for sale - Analogue Bubblebath 5 and Melodies from Mars and I asked him to stop it - because I want to release them Properly through Warp. It's part of my back catalog did I want them to put out. Then this Notch guy, this Minecraft guy who so bought the Caustic Window test pressing on ebay bought these from him. And I said fine as long as he does not release them. I just do not want anyone to bootleg them"

 

bit late for that.

They are on the net, like he said himself, but they aren't bootlegged as in: pressed up on vinyl by shady guys without permission.

Well chuffed at the fact that AB5 will perhaps be released on Warp :) sounds like there's alot of stuff happening in the Aphex camp in the future.

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:17 PM, oscillik said:

"So then he put thesis two other records up for sale - Analogue Bubblebath 5 and Melodies from Mars and I asked him to stop it - because I want to release them Properly through Warp. It's part of my back catalog did I want them to put out. Then this Notch guy, this Minecraft guy who so bought the Caustic Window test pressing on ebay bought these from him. And I said fine as long as he does not release them. I just do not want anyone to bootleg them"

 

bit late for that.

Richard's concern was that higher quality rips would end up online, effectively scuppering any reason to release them legitamately.

I guess I can finally share this bit of the whole story since he's mentioned who bought them ultimately:

When we were getting ready to list the Caustic Window LP on Ebay, it was also decided to go ahead and list ABB5 and MFM as well - all was fine until the last minute, when someone sniped both releases - turns out that sniper was Richard himself, as he explained his reasons - the more he thought about higher quality rips getting out there, the less incentive for him to legitimately release them (and he was working towards doing so).

So, we talked with Ebay, got the auctions cancelled, and approached Notch Persson, who at this point was buying the Caustic Window LP (and actually was in the running for Melodies From Mars, but Richard outbid him at the last minute), and Grant talked to Notch, who agreed to purchase the others at an undisclosed price, since we were assured Notch wasn't going to rip and leak these online (keep in mind, this was the last known copy of the MFM test pressing - much higher quality than the tapes that got leaked years ago).

That's why I had to say nay to the Kickstarters for MFM and ABB5, and why the Ebay auctions happened the way they did.

Baby I was burning bootlegs of MFM and AB5 for my friends in 2002, complete with cover art!

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:23 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:20 PM, telefunken said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 6:22 PM, Joyrex said:

Oh, nice identifying the font!

 

Interesting - a Google search for Silian Rail font comes up with the fact it is in fact a fictional font, most closely visually to Garamond Classico Roman SC...

 

And, it's used quite a bit on fictional business cards - very odd coincidence!

 

Simple Regular by Norm

http://lineto.com/The+Designers/Norm/

 

Ian Anderson used Norm's Replica for Autechre's Oversteps iirc

 

 

that's not the right font, the R doesn't look right (even if you take into account that it's a thicker style, the top part of the R has a smaller "hole" in it)

 

 

osc, on the website, check the little white box in the lower left corner, and go Norman > Fonts > Simple > Regular, and try in typewriter

btw, thanks guys

Woah.

If Warp don't have any hints from Richard yet to release MFM they're really blind.

Also, nice story about the Kickstarter campaign ! Too bad I was broke at that time...

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:31 PM, colunga said:

Baby I was burning bootlegs of MFM and AB5 for my friends in 2002, complete with cover art!

I thought AB5 came out in 2005

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:29 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:17 PM, oscillik said:

"So then he put thesis two other records up for sale - Analogue Bubblebath 5 and Melodies from Mars and I asked him to stop it - because I want to release them Properly through Warp. It's part of my back catalog did I want them to put out. Then this Notch guy, this Minecraft guy who so bought the Caustic Window test pressing on ebay bought these from him. And I said fine as long as he does not release them. I just do not want anyone to bootleg them"

 

bit late for that.

Richard's concern was that higher quality rips would end up online, effectively scuppering any reason to release them legitamately.

 

I guess I can finally share this bit of the whole story since he's mentioned who bought them ultimately:

 

When we were getting ready to list the Caustic Window LP on Ebay, it was also decided to go ahead and list ABB5 and MFM as well - all was fine until the last minute, when someone sniped both releases - turns out that sniper was Richard himself, as he explained his reasons - the more he thought about higher quality rips getting out there, the less incentive for him to legitimately release them (and he was working towards doing so).

 

So, we talked with Ebay, got the auctions cancelled, and approached Notch Persson, who at this point was buying the Caustic Window LP (and actually was in the running for Melodies From Mars, but Richard outbid him at the last minute), and Grant talked to Notch, who agreed to purchase the others at an undisclosed price, since we were assured Notch wasn't going to rip and leak these online (keep in mind, this was the last known copy of the MFM test pressing - much higher quality than the tapes that got leaked years ago).

 

That's why I had to say nay to the Kickstarters for MFM and ABB5, and why the Ebay auctions happened the way they did.

 

Thanks for sharing that - really interesting and I'm stoked to hear that these might get released proper.

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:34 PM, triachus said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:23 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:20 PM, telefunken said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 6:22 PM, Joyrex said:

Oh, nice identifying the font!

 

Interesting - a Google search for Silian Rail font comes up with the fact it is in fact a fictional font, most closely visually to Garamond Classico Roman SC...

 

And, it's used quite a bit on fictional business cards - very odd coincidence!

 

Simple Regular by Norm

http://lineto.com/The+Designers/Norm/

 

Ian Anderson used Norm's Replica for Autechre's Oversteps iirc

 

 

that's not the right font, the R doesn't look right (even if you take into account that it's a thicker style, the top part of the R has a smaller "hole" in it)

 

 

osc, on the website, check the little white box in the lower left corner, and go Norman > Fonts > Simple > Regular, and try in typewriter

 

 

btw, thanks guys

 

lol website design is terrible.

yeah that looks much more like it, thanks for the protip.

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:29 PM, Joyrex said:

 

I guess I can finally share this bit of the whole story since he's mentioned who bought them ultimately

Syro thread is surely the greatest thread on WATMM ever... every day it delivers

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:49 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:29 PM, Joyrex said:

 

I guess I can finally share this bit of the whole story since he's mentioned who bought them ultimately

 

Syro thread is surely the greatest thread on WATMM ever... every day it delivers

 

Wrong.

greatest thread on WATMM is AAA

  On 8/26/2014 at 4:32 PM, BunnyRabbit said:

Hi, I just had to reinstate by account to share this.

 

I always reckoned the intro to Compulsion from 808 State's New Build was like a psudeo time-stretch (eh? eh? ) done on the FZ1 (right?). And it was confirmed not confirmed, but explained in the recent Sound On Sound 'Classic Track' article on Pacific State http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr14/articles/classic-tracks-0414.htm

 

  Quote

 

"We had an early Akai sampler in the studio — pre‑S900. It was a rack unit, and you could trigger that with a pulse or a rim shot from the drum machine. You could also alter the beginning and the end of it on a lever; do the sample start points. So, for instance, the vocals on 'Dr Lowfruit' and 'Compulsion' were done in the sampler, and we could really start messing with the trigger points and stretch things. That was terribly exciting back then, before we had time‑stretch — 'This sounds fab!'

 

So they used the S612 for that, not the FZ-1. It's because you have sliders on the front of the S612 for start and end points so you can move through the sample manually like a really basic timestretch effect.

 

Compulsion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfSOT3-1QmQ

 

Errr, so what abou the FZ1?

It seems you can do the same trick accordng to this guy from Gearslutz http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-electronic-music-production/926789-casio-fz1-questions-3.html

 

  Quote

 

Assign the filter to the mod wheel, use the multi point envelopes to move the start point around = bliss back in the day. Loved it.

 

I don't really get his explanation, but that's what I reckon Aphex will be doing anyway.

Looks like Richard was focussed on vintage samplers some time ago.

  On 8/26/2014 at 6:37 PM, YELLOW said:

Let's see Paul Allen's card...

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:49 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:49 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:29 PM, Joyrex said:

 

I guess I can finally share this bit of the whole story since he's mentioned who bought them ultimately

 

Syro thread is surely the greatest thread on WATMM ever... every day it delivers

 

Wrong.

 

greatest thread on WATMM is AAA

 

 

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  On 8/26/2014 at 7:56 PM, andihow said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 6:37 PM, YELLOW said:

Let's see Paul Allen's card...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKGAqK184w

So was there ever another leak of MFM beyond the old low quality tape one everyone has?

back when i was a young'in Warp was THE label. They really had all their eggs in one basket with the artists we all love here. but they didnt release stuff often enough to keep the label going and changed into a totally different beast.

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:56 PM, andihow said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 6:37 PM, YELLOW said:

Let's see Paul Allen's card...

 

needs more chartreuse

I bet this will be Warps biggest selling Japanese cd of all time (and by a country mile). I'm sure the watmmer's orders are piling in.

  On 8/26/2014 at 8:04 PM, jasondonervan said:

I'm trying to listen to the new Aphex Twin tape, but Evelyn, my supposed fiance, keeps buzzing in my ear.

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:38 PM, StephenG said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:31 PM, colunga said:

Baby I was burning bootlegs of MFM and AB5 for my friends in 2002, complete with cover art!

 

I thought AB5 came out in 2005

 

Erm, ABB5 was scheduled to come out in 1995...

  On 8/26/2014 at 8:22 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:38 PM, StephenG said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 7:31 PM, colunga said:

Baby I was burning bootlegs of MFM and AB5 for my friends in 2002, complete with cover art!

 

I thought AB5 came out in 2005

 

Erm, ABB5 was scheduled to come out in 1995...

 

I think Stephen means the couple of AB5 copies being given away with the batch of binders that was delayed, seeing that as an official release date?