APHEX TWIN - SYRO

  On 9/19/2014 at 10:41 PM, Joyrex said:

Jasondonervan's made me LOL too, so 1 year EKT Plus for him as well!

haha, cheers!

Jasondonervan you is the idmizzle

So I picked up the CD today (Sweden). After 1½ playthrough, here are some thoughts:

* It's fucking great. Maybe his best release, time will tell.

* It doesn't really feel like a cohesive "album" to me, not like Drukqs. It feels like a collection of great tracks (which, you know, ages between "six months and six years" as he said in one interview). But this is probably the first RDJ release where I like all the tracks. The closest so far was Rushup Edge, but I always skip Death Fuck when I listen to that. Here, I would have no problem putting it on and listening to all the tracks in order. On his older releases I skip almost half the tracks.

* It is at least as good as any of his other releases, and I feel so incredibly happy about this, because I can't think of any other of the artists that I would categorize as being among my favorites for whom this is true. Some of them have completely lost me over the years, some are still good but not as good as when they did their first stuff. But for me RDJs stuff just keeps getting better. Like I can't really understand people who say that SAW 1 is the best release. This Analord -> Tuss -> Syro progression just fits my changing tastes (taste always changes) perfectly, and I feel so lucky about that.

I'm feeling in such syro limbo mode right now.. I didnt pre-order cuz i just moved didnt want to overdraft my first month of living in my new place...

but i also haven't listened to the ahem album online anywhere yet... nor do i think i will...

but then again, i did hear some of the previews on one of those reseller sites like bleep.. very low quality streams.. only heard it once in my headphones plugged into my phone on my way home from work.. i felt a mixture of pure excitement and giddyness, but also felt kinda guilty for A. hearing it for the first time via shitty previews and B. that i didnt pre-order.. but i was also in a bad mood that day cuz of life drama shit... nonetheless what i heard sounded amazing...

but, i think i will hold back from listening to the album in any format/way until the physical copy hits record stores after buying a copy and prob a vinyl. i may even then buy the 24 bit version online if thats still available then.

i had to confess my syro actions/lack of action to my fellows watmmers.

looking forward to hearing this full album all the way through for my first time on DISC! :D

edit: until then, i will live through the excitement of the ones on here whove heard it (:

hell yeah lane visitor, wait till you hear it, it's a wet speculation dream came true

ok, so I just listened to the snippets on Bleep. Whadyaknow, I think i'm going to like this album. Some Bass sounded muddy especially on the funky track (Syro?) but I like what I hear from most of the tracks. Now if the Sub 37 and this album drops this weekend i'll be a happy boy.

  On 9/19/2014 at 11:39 PM, Parsifal said:

On his older releases I skip almost half the tracks.

  On 9/19/2014 at 11:30 PM, xy_politics said:

 

  On 9/19/2014 at 10:41 PM, Joyrex said:

Jasondonervan's made me LOL too, so 1 year EKT Plus for him as well!

 

haha, cheers!

 

 

Lordy that is disturbing!

Yo Jasondonervan, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but xy_politics has one of the best videos 'shops of all time!

But really Jasondonervan deserves WATMM for life membership or something, always bringing the awesome. But yeah, those xy_politics 'shops of Popephex Twinnipicks made me kek like a mofo.

i dunno about you talking that this just a bunch of unrelated tracks. for me it's perfectly connected - same samples on a lots of tracks, same mood and bass, percussion and all the little things round there...very stylish and in one concept. many tracks are linked and have same melodies for a couple of seconds/patterns just as someone mentioned here, it gets you like "acid lost" - was i hearing that before, is it the same thing? oh god no no i see where it leads me...

it's like they were quite different at start, but he sit and tried to make it as a whole. some tracks (180db/anastasia) are different, but in a good way, so that album sounds alike and really different at the same time

Bushwick Brooklyn Right Now

  On 9/20/2014 at 12:13 AM, colunga said:

Bushwick Brooklyn Right Now

Whoa. WTF is going on. Is this all really just for Syro?

  On 9/20/2014 at 12:10 AM, Mag said:

i dunno about you talking that this just a bunch of unrelated tracks. for me it's perfectly connected - same samples on a lots of tracks, same mood and bass, percussion and all the little things round there...very stylish and in one concept. many tracks are linked and have same melodies for a couple of seconds/patterns just as someone mentioned here, it gets you like "acid lost" - was i hearing that before, is it the same thing? oh god no no i see where it leads me...

it's like they were quite different at start, but he sit and tried to make it as a whole. some tracks (180db/anastasia) are different, but in a good way, so that album sounds alike and really different at the same time

It could very well become more coherent to me the more I listen to it. But this leads me to another thing I've been thinking about, when he decides to release these 6 year old tracks, does he go back and work on them some more? Tying them together for the release, or just redoing them to more match his newer sensibilities? Is there any clear changes in the released versions to the live ones? (I'm too lazy to check myself)

  On 9/20/2014 at 12:13 AM, colunga said:

Bushwick Brooklyn Right Now

Color me chartreuse if that guy is doing it free hand.

fucking tracks 6 and 9, dude...

also, 4:27-4:29 of CIRCLONT6A

2:40-3:40 ain't bad either

of circlont6a

  On 9/20/2014 at 12:13 AM, colunga said:

Bushwick Brooklyn Right Now

Which street?

  On 9/20/2014 at 12:13 AM, colunga said:

Bushwick Brooklyn Right Now

That's hardcore

i think it depends on track. some of them, like minipops/180 are more or less the same as 6 years old, but he didn't need to bend them too much, cause they already fit perfectly...some of tracks are really connected, maybe they were just part of one big jam at the time, and some im sure he edited to be more fitting to album atmosphere...i like that every track is so not like other but alike as a whole at the same time, perfect balance...i was kinda lost in first listens by how much in blends alltogether yet sooo different

  On 9/20/2014 at 12:43 AM, Hodorsbn said:

 

  On 9/20/2014 at 12:13 AM, colunga said:

Bushwick Brooklyn Right Now

Which street?

 

Cook and Bogart, across from El Fogon II

A true masterpiece from start to finish.

Thanks Richard

Jesus Christ, the kids will wake me up in less than six hours but I just want to stay up and listen to Syro... It's just so much FUN to listen to!

god damn dudes. thanks for the goods rich!

The circlon twins with that minute breather between them are an adventure.