APHEX TWIN - SYRO

WAYYYY Too soon. Ask again in a year... then ask again in 5 years. Then ask if **** ***-** or whatever is better than Syro and whether or not ??? is better than Drukqs and if Xtal is sexier than Syro + ??? - ****-*** and so forth and so on into dawn.

Take out all of the piano and short bits from drukqs and replace them with these and blow your minds.

oh and btw, anything that feels remotely close to being worthy of comparison to drukqs is a masterpiece by default.

It was funny to read that bit about Autechre saying everybodys doing the robot drum thing :)

In the Pitchfork interview, Master Richard mentions re-amping, the only other recording artists in electronica I've heard doing that quite blatantly (lets just say lately) is The Tuss and Mattias Östling. (especially rolando simmons stuff if i recall)

The way he makes those synths shimmer, just WOW. The sound design is breathtaking and in a lot of the tracks it just sort of slowly creeps up on you and you find yourself just listening in awe. CIRCLONT14 on the Audio Technicas is just amazingly loud but so so crisp. The whole thing is like your first MDMA trip.

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:32 PM, panz0r said:

 

heard it three times now and it doesn't work for me. not at all. i think the whole thing is a complete mess. to me it sounds like he was fiddleling around without having the slightest idea where to go with these tracks. i like minipops, the metz-thing (is the live version faster? not sure) and the piano piece. 180db is funny and likeable, it sounds silly, playful and completely idiotic. a good joke, not a good track. papat4 starts off great but destroys itself on the way. syro has its short funky moments, but the rest is so random and messy. i really hope this album was the last part of this anal/tussy phase. i love the guy, but... 4/10

 

Random?

lol

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:02 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

drukqs goes deep and twists your soul

don't know yet if syro can do this

oh yeah for sure.

the drukqs comparision is shitty. when I compare syro to drukqs I refer more to drukqs style hyper editing that is unparelled except for... whats on drukqs.

well his comments in the Pitchfork interview released today echo my sentiments exactly

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Maybe just the composition's changed, but there's no next-level beats on [syro]. I've kept it like that on purpose. All the other stuff

really surprised at all the (hate to say it) naive comparisons to Drukqs, none of these tracks have anything near the beat fuckery of Drukqs or frankly even Death Fuck. Great album though, will be listening on repeat for the foreseeable future

my biggest 'complaint' and its not really a complaint at all just was expecting a real dark/evil belter like Death Fuck. Also was anyone else expecting to hear more piano stuff mixed together with regular tracks? After minipops I was thinking piano was going to be on most of the songs (ala Rushup bank 12 & Death fuck). So far I haven't noticed piano like minipops on anything else.

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:32 PM, panz0r said:

 

i really hope this album was the last part of this anal/tussy phase. i love the guy, but... 4/10

 

It is just the beginning!

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:32 PM, panz0r said:

 

 

heard it three times now and it doesn't work for me. not at all. i think the whole thing is a complete mess. to me it sounds like he was fiddleling around without having the slightest idea where to go with these tracks. i like minipops, the metz-thing (is the live version faster? not sure) and the piano piece. 180db is funny and likeable, it sounds silly, playful and completely idiotic. a good joke, not a good track. papat4 starts off great but destroys itself on the way. syro (the track) has its short funky moments, but the rest is so random and messy. i really hope this album was the last part of this anal/tussy phase. i love the guy, but... 4/10

Did you like all aphex releases right away? Let's talk again in 3 weeks

next level beats

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:33 PM, A Reggae Lee Bowyer said:

 

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:32 PM, panz0r said:

 

heard it three times now and it doesn't work for me. not at all. i think the whole thing is a complete mess. to me it sounds like he was fiddleling around without having the slightest idea where to go with these tracks. i like minipops, the metz-thing (is the live version faster? not sure) and the piano piece. 180db is funny and likeable, it sounds silly, playful and completely idiotic. a good joke, not a good track. papat4 starts off great but destroys itself on the way. syro has its short funky moments, but the rest is so random and messy. i really hope this album was the last part of this anal/tussy phase. i love the guy, but... 4/10

 

Random?

 

yes, random. i don't get your point

Druqks is better IMO. There were lots of 'okay how the fuck did he do that moments' plus some of his best melodies if not the best he's ever released (nannou 2, avril 14th), but this is crazy good. That being said, I've listened to the album on repeat all day today, about 10 times in all. I am just so happy that I've got something to obsess over again, no one does it like this.

Rich, if you ever read this, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:15 PM, A Reggae Lee Bowyer said:

Take out all of the piano and short bits from drukqs and replace them with these and blow your minds.

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:30 PM, skibby said:

In the Pitchfork interview, Master Richard mentions re-amping, the only other recording artists in electronica I've heard doing that quite blatantly (lets just say lately) is The Tuss and Mattias Östling. (especially rolando simmons stuff if i recall)

I've done re-amping (in different ways) at various points since I started writing music, 15 or so years ago...I really don't think it's that uncommon. It can be a great technique though, for sure.

It's better than drukqs for me. Then again I think the first 5 tracks are the clear standouts, so what the hell do I know.

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:38 PM, panz0r said:

 

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:33 PM, A Reggae Lee Bowyer said:

 

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:32 PM, panz0r said:

 

heard it three times now and it doesn't work for me. not at all. i think the whole thing is a complete mess. to me it sounds like he was fiddleling around without having the slightest idea where to go with these tracks. i like minipops, the metz-thing (is the live version faster? not sure) and the piano piece. 180db is funny and likeable, it sounds silly, playful and completely idiotic. a good joke, not a good track. papat4 starts off great but destroys itself on the way. syro has its short funky moments, but the rest is so random and messy. i really hope this album was the last part of this anal/tussy phase. i love the guy, but... 4/10

 

Random?

 

yes, random. i don't get your point

 

It just couldn't be further from random. It's the total opposite of random.

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:31 PM, 123 said:

The way he makes those synths shimmer, just WOW. The sound design is breathtaking and in a lot of the tracks it just sort of slowly creeps up on you and you find yourself just listening in awe. CIRCLONT14 on the Audio Technicas is just amazingly loud but so so crisp. The whole thing is like your first MDMA trip.

I feel like he's been incredibly brave using so many raw synth sounds together with so little processing. Most producers would instinctively push things back in the mix with reverb and stuff, but on Syro they're all right at the front jostling for position, and it all works so well!

the craft of our master faphex is 2 powerfull to speak our worm onions on it yet

but man that subwaf on produk 29 is destroying my precious home

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:38 PM, panz0r said:

 

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:33 PM, A Reggae Lee Bowyer said:

 

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:32 PM, panz0r said:

 

heard it three times now and it doesn't work for me. not at all. i think the whole thing is a complete mess. to me it sounds like he was fiddleling around without having the slightest idea where to go with these tracks. i like minipops, the metz-thing (is the live version faster? not sure) and the piano piece. 180db is funny and likeable, it sounds silly, playful and completely idiotic. a good joke, not a good track. papat4 starts off great but destroys itself on the way. syro has its short funky moments, but the rest is so random and messy. i really hope this album was the last part of this anal/tussy phase. i love the guy, but... 4/10

 

Random?

 

yes, random. i don't get your point

 

he did say "It just totally makes me want to not do anything else in that particular style." so you're in luck!

Cathy and Richard

What does it mean.

thank you for you attention bye

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:37 PM, o00o said:

 

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:32 PM, panz0r said:

 

heard it three times now and it doesn't work for me. not at all. i think the whole thing is a complete mess. to me it sounds like he was fiddleling around without having the slightest idea where to go with these tracks. i like minipops, the metz-thing (is the live version faster? not sure) and the piano piece. 180db is funny and likeable, it sounds silly, playful and completely idiotic. a good joke, not a good track. papat4 starts off great but destroys itself on the way. syro (the track) has its short funky moments, but the rest is so random and messy. i really hope this album was the last part of this anal/tussy phase. i love the guy, but... 4/10

Did you like all aphex releases right away? Let's talk again in 3 weeks

 

actually i did. never had any probs "getting" his music. didn't like drukqs, the analords or tuss. i really hope he will move in a (completely) different direction.

having said that: i'm sure i will listen to syro more often than boc's TH.

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:44 PM, SmackSmash said:

 

  On 9/18/2014 at 10:31 PM, 123 said:

The way he makes those synths shimmer, just WOW. The sound design is breathtaking and in a lot of the tracks it just sort of slowly creeps up on you and you find yourself just listening in awe. CIRCLONT14 on the Audio Technicas is just amazingly loud but so so crisp. The whole thing is like your first MDMA trip.

 

I feel like he's been incredibly brave using so many raw synth sounds together with so little processing. Most producers would instinctively push things back in the mix with reverb and stuff, but on Syro they're all right at the front jostling for position, and it all works so well!

 

that's what gives me a much stronger analord 1-9, 11 vibe of all these 'raw synth' tracks. It sounds like work-flow wise the setup was closer to Analord than Rushup Edge. Whereas Rushup had a lot of post-processing/mini edits and breakbeats with the synths, this to me sounds like almost all hardware sounds (the noisefloor is even more pronounced on some of these than Analord too)

it's just astounding to me how 'off' professional music reviews of 15 years can be about the sounds being used in a particular record. Joe Muggs said every song was 'acid + breakbeats" or something to that effect. it's by far the most purely synth heavy record he's ever put out besides analord.

climb to the mind