APHEX TWIN - SYRO

  On 9/21/2014 at 12:06 AM, Chris Toffer said:

I really can't wait for the more experimental albums he has in the pipelines. SYRO is nice but its just dance music. I want some shit I can listen to on my own and zone the fuck out or go mental to.

 

Listening to drukqs after SYRO is just like daayuuum this some next level shit. The mental beats r way less cluttered and have more interesting sounds n shit... and they seem to progress nicer. And the piano trax on drukqs r fucking boss.. they balance the mentalness with calmness perfectly. The anastasia track is way too minimal for my taste.. keen as fk to hear more piano works tho.. a whole album wud b legit.

 

I kinda reckon he just threw together his most dancey tracks together for SYRO and didn't put too much effort in to how the album wud progress. I'm glad he says he's done with this sound now.. not that i don't like it, it's great dance music, but im keen as fk for shit like Icct Hedral or On 28 mix or whatever... shit that i can zone out to and b taken somewhere else. True IDM stylez. Bring on Eznzea and Xbpi!!

You obviously have yet to get into the circlont's, syro, or the jungle track yo... or they have yet to get into you... shit surpasses drukqs imho.

  On 9/21/2014 at 12:28 AM, impotentwhitecapitalist said:

 

  On 9/21/2014 at 12:06 AM, Chris Toffer said:

I really can't wait for the more experimental albums he has in the pipelines. SYRO is nice but its just dance music. I want some shit I can listen to on my own and zone the fuck out or go mental to.

 

Listening to drukqs after SYRO is just like daayuuum this some next level shit. The mental beats r way less cluttered and have more interesting sounds n shit... and they seem to progress nicer. And the piano trax on drukqs r fucking boss.. they balance the mentalness with calmness perfectly. The anastasia track is way too minimal for my taste.. keen as fk to hear more piano works tho.. a whole album wud b legit.

 

I kinda reckon he just threw together his most dancey tracks together for SYRO and didn't put too much effort in to how the album wud progress. I'm glad he says he's done with this sound now.. not that i don't like it, it's great dance music, but im keen as fk for shit like Icct Hedral or On 28 mix or whatever... shit that i can zone out to and b taken somewhere else. True IDM stylez. Bring on Eznzea and Xbpi!!

You obviously have yet to get into the circlont's, syro, or the jungle track yo... or they have yet to get into you... shit surpasses drukqs imho.

 

I have gotten in to them and I like them. It wasn't until i listened to the mental drukqs tracks afterwards that I realized how much better (imo) the drukqs tracks are. Ziggo, 54 Cymru, Mt st Mike, Omgggyaa r just so insane its ridiculous

Apples and oranges innit

ayy lmao

Ziggo maybe. The point is, these tracks are no less than those before them, and stand as a logical and acceptable progression to his discography. Just wait, these new tracks will be just as much classics as all the aforementioned

Verdict after the second listen (first one at the listening party, second at home with a good scotch): it's even better when nobody is shouting over the music.

Bechuga described Syro perfectly saying it's like Aphex's Hello Everything, a perfect demonstration of what he does best. I claimed at first that the album felt like a cohesive one, but I must take that back - it's really obviously a collection of random tracks. I would have liked a bit more cohesion to give it a bit more of a personality, like all those interludes did on Drukqs for me. For example, I really, really liked with what the seventh track was going for, I would love to have a longer worked out version of that... Or more of those tracks throughout the album. Still, I am in no way disappointed and I think this album will be with me for a long time to come.

Favourite tracks are still PAPAT4, Aisatsana, XMAS_EVET10 and Produk29 (Aphex doing Vibert, my two fave artists of all time basically, would more could I want?), with Manchester / Minehead right after that. Those other (for us completely new) tracks were still a bit too much for me (in a good way) and need a lot more listens :)

Let's see what Syro brings us in the coming time :)

P.S. - I am almost convinced Earth Portal Mix has an Ultrademon sample in it. Can't seem to unhear it.

  On 9/20/2014 at 7:28 PM, Vaaler9 said:

yes, you read the guardian, i do as well.

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I have gotten in to them and I like them. It wasn't until i listened to the mental drukqs tracks afterwards that I realized how much better (imo) the drukqs tracks are. Ziggo, 54 Cymru, Mt st Mike, Omgggyaa r just so insane its ridiculous

I bet you'll change your mind. The time scale is unknown though :P

CIRCLONT14[shrymoming mix] - wow, oh wow!!! the voice spinning around, grabbing up all sorts of crazy acoustics! far out

So I guess most of us can agree that it's a great album but it's no new drukqs?

i still can't download my .WAVs? fuck that

why was exai different? why are americans getting fucked up the ass? i'm going to go try to stick my p in some v. this is dumb.

edit: and fuck you for charging me twice for 24-bit WAVs when i pre-ordered the cd & lp of tomorrow's harvest and syro. fuckin cunts

  On 9/21/2014 at 1:55 AM, chim said:

So I guess most of us can agree that it's a great album but it's no new drukqs?

/thread

  On 9/21/2014 at 1:56 AM, whylessness said:

i still can't download my .WAVs? fuck that

 

why was exai different? why are americans getting fucked up the ass? i'm going to go try to stick my p in some v. this is dumb.

 

edit: and fuck you for charging me twice for 24-bit WAVs when i pre-ordered the cd & lp of tomorrow's harvest and syro. fuckin cunts

nice meme. you wound me.

edit: fuck bleep

crazy aphex record scratching on syro u473t8+e [piezoluminescence mix] around 3:50

  On 9/21/2014 at 1:55 AM, chim said:

So I guess most of us can agree that it's a great album but it's no new drukqs?

why is everybody discounting Rushup Edge as his last extended EP/quasi full length?

I was listening to Circlont6 and a section of it reminded me a lot of Taking Control... Fucked around and it actually fit pretty well:

https://soundcloud.com/cassbopeep/taking-circlont6

The volume got fucked up toward the end, sorry.

  On 9/21/2014 at 1:55 AM, chim said:

So I guess most of us can agree that it's a great album but it's no new drukqs?

It's a different album with a different feel, so yes?

laughing at 'most accessible afx'. what a funny guy. I dunno if any of my mates who dig afx like it cause its too much haha.

still dig it, but i always start listening after 180, the first half is alright but i dig the second half a lot more

  On 9/21/2014 at 1:55 AM, chim said:

So I guess most of us can agree that it's a great album but it's no new drukqs?

Not that my opinion matters, but I actually feel that this is one album of his where every track was a great choice. I think that it flows incredibly well. I love this album, definitely think it's a contender with drukqs, maybe even better than drukqs. I get lost in these tracks. Perhaps because I've overlistened drukqs...

However, I noticed that if you listen hard in Syro, there is a lot more intricacy than is readily apparent. Every bar seems to be unique and lifelike. Although tracks like 180db are slightly repetitive and minimalistic, I get such great vibes from them that I feel that they are extremely appropriate additions to the mix. They break up the intensity, reprepping your mind for the mental beats, in a way. Don't get me wrong, I believe strongly that: complexity and intricacy =/= good music, but I still stand by my statement of this being one of his most solid releases in a long, long time.

  On 9/21/2014 at 1:56 AM, whylessness said:

i still can't download my .WAVs? fuck that

 

why was exai different? why are americans getting fucked up the ass? i'm going to go try to stick my p in some v. this is dumb.

 

edit: and fuck you for charging me twice for 24-bit WAVs when i pre-ordered the cd & lp of tomorrow's harvest and syro. fuckin cunts

me and you both (uh, the lack of downloads, not the whole "p in some v" bit, I might go suck some dicks though)

  On 9/21/2014 at 1:55 AM, chim said:

So I guess most of us can agree that it's a great album but it's no new drukqs?

Similar attention to detail but less manic/bleak, syro is more playful with sad/reflective emotions. Album aalmost sounds like a 'collection' of tracks but either by genius planning or sheer luck the album maintains an incredible flow from track to track. Having something as outright beautiful as xmaseve at start of album gives later tracks some emotional context. Tracks have incredible progression, etc

In short. Absolutely loving the album. Finding some of the kneejerk reactions in thread pretty harsh and tad more insulting than mere 'quite good'. When drukqs came out there were lots of opinions that electronic tracks were no more developed than what he was doing on come to daddy/windowlicker(people complaining and comparing). Now syro comes out and its the same thing; "album is quite good but its no drukqs".

Like, really?? Theyre different things! Syro is amazing guys .. just give it time maybe if you're not feeling it :)

no wait, maybe my point is = to compare syro to earlier albums is one thing. to say syro is disappointing compared to previous albums says less about the new album and more about the expectations you had set up !!

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Whilst i agree with many points skibby made regarding a photo posted, there seemed to be a consensus that the posted material was offensive or insensitive. I'll plug the issue into the moderator hive mind and see what happens, either way until something is decided i've made it so that you can't quote the post anymore ;-p And i'd ask that it not be reposted until we've had a little think about it (ala joyrex has chimed in).

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