APHEX TWIN - SYRO

  On 9/25/2014 at 1:23 AM, whylessness said:

 

  On 9/25/2014 at 1:17 AM, Allize said:

Never happened to me with drukqs

na und?

 

And so you should let me post and stop being a jerk, there's enough ass licking here to satisfy you.

Well.... my cats finally weighed in on Syro.

The little one, she doesn't like it.... so we put the little salty bitch down today....

My male likes it though. IDM cat.

jk we will keep the female even though she's a little cunty.

zzz

bastard with your new page! ruined my boring cat pic

na und?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  On 9/25/2014 at 12:54 AM, Candiru said:

 

  On 9/24/2014 at 4:17 PM, LemanRuss said:

None of you who like it have gone into any detail about what you like about the tracks.

Because we're all faking it and don't want to admit that our taste isn't as impeccable as yours. We're just plebeians that can't appreciate the subtle nuances in everything that you can, which is why we don't spend as much time trying to preach it. Aphex fans are in tears at the harsh truths of your words and women from miles around are swooning at your ability to just confidently tell it like it is, brah.

 

There you go. Commence masturbation. Your dream has come true.

 

Not to feed a troll or anything, but this whole forum is literally exploding with detail about what watmmers like about the tracks just about every second of the day lately. It's pretty much impossible to avoid, as a matter of fact.

There are whole threads devoted to tracks. I posted the "awesome syro moments" thread and it's nothing but details about what watmmers like about the tracks.

Honestly, that quote is just nonsense.

https://www.wasabeat.com/releases/189306-aphex-twin-syro

  On 9/25/2014 at 1:39 AM, beringelab said:

https://www.wasabeat.com/releases/189306-aphex-twin-syro

Good find, but I signed up to order MARCHROMT30A and it wouldn't let me add the track to my cart because of my location.

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"Territory Restricted. The track you have selected for purchase is not available for your country."

 

I tried it with my new TOR browser too. Still didn't work. Thanks tho!

  On 9/25/2014 at 1:54 AM, J3FF3R00 said:

 

  On 9/25/2014 at 1:39 AM, beringelab said:

https://www.wasabeat.com/releases/189306-aphex-twin-syro

 

Good find, but I signed up to order MARCHROMT30A and it wouldn't let me add the track to my cart because of my location.

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"Territory Restricted. The track you have selected for purchase is not available for your country."

 

I tried it with my new TOR browser too. Still didn't work. Thanks tho!

 

This was very helpful for me when I ordered some Japanese releases:

Edit: I see now you're trying to purchase a digital copy. Can't help ya.

http://cdn.halcyonrealms.com/japan/how-to-order-from-amazon-japan-a-detailed-buying-guide/

  On 9/24/2014 at 10:19 PM, baph said:

 

Anyway, on XMAS_EVET10, that warm, vaguely MFM/RDJA melody that comes in between the 4-5 minute mark almost made me get a nostalgic lump in my throat; hi Richard, it's very good to have you back, even if you never really left.

yeah this part really got to me too, it was almost like an apparition of the 18 years younger RDJ grinning & winking at the listener for a brief moment before fading into a vapor. Really emotionally satisfying little nod to 90s aphex. Probably the most stand out classic Aphex moment of the whole album.

(4:11 -4:20 specific point)

I'm noticing now on the more readable google doc gear list, none of the tracks between 6-9 list any 'various plugins' which im guessing means that these were mostly done outside of a computer. Part of the barness/raw sound of those tracks are really growing on me. At first they sounded like more busy/complex analord but too dry. It takes balls to make a track with that little effects but still create such an emotionally resonant trajectory.

edit: total speculation: tracks 6-9 & 12 were made much more recently and maybe even initially worked out in a very short span of time, they all feel very linked in some way.

tl;dr: typical fanboy fapoff

CD arrived yesterday evening. Took a nice day road trip through winding hills and farmland and listened to Syro in the whip. The CD sounded so great I kept pushing my amps until Produk 29 blew one of my speakers. The bass in that track is so beautiful. The hits are real tight and sweep low. For sure there's some 25-30khz sweeping kicks that were wobbling my windshield. I fucking love that song. Track starts off on some vibert funk tip and ends like a dancey psychedelic boc track.

Going to have to replace my speaker and not push syro to hard. Also there's some very abrupt high frequency drum samples in 4bit( I love love love those crystal synth melodies that come in).

The track 180db has some brain slappingly loud drums and almost so many layers of synths I get lost trying to hear them all. But actually 180db, which I only wish my system could reach, would probably stop your heart at a certain khz. To be honest that's championship competition car decibels right there. Car audio junkies at that level don't even sit in their vehicle or play more than a second of audio to get that high of a reading. Could it be possible Aphex has a system that pushes 180db?

I want to make a loop of Anastasia that has a 20 sec slow verbed fade out to silence before it loops, and let it last a few hours. I think I could sleep to that.

My favorite track as a whole is the title track, Syro. Aphex fusion is unexpected and hits home. I want an official Rich & Tom project album made up of ideas of syro & ufabulum.

My favorite moment of Syro is the last half of the xmas track. The first half is great, but when that groove hits, I get the same sense of awe I feel when listening to grooves like Alberto Balsalm.

My favorite section of that album is the Circlon twins with the timestretch interlude. Makes me want to dance and have an aphexian wigout. The repeating female vocal in the second half echos in my brain often now. Sounds like "sotchski"? So beautiful as it repeats. That vibe feels good, and the rolling beats and emotional synths force me to get down.

Beautiful album. Seems to fit well in it's place in time amongst other Aphex releases since I first discovered the RDJ album in 96. It all flows so well. There's a level of maturity, patience, and care with the entire hour that will be a treasure to cherish for the rest of my days. Thanks.

180dB = death of hearing tissue.

Make of it what you will.

I just did a quick side by side comparison of the syro vinyl and the 24bit wav on my sennheiser hd25 headphones (XMAS_EVET10 for this test).

The vinyl mastering feels much easier on the ears, noticably less compression compared to the WAV file.

haven't even listened to my vinyl copy yet. here goes

edit: sounds fantastic, im not sure if there is actually less compression or that its just less noticeable than on the digital or CD but yeah It does sound nicer.

  On 9/25/2014 at 3:51 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

haven't even listened to my vinyl copy yet. here goes

 

edit: sounds fantastic, im not sure if there is actually less compression or that its just less noticeable than on the digital or CD but yeah It does sound nicer.

well.. its mastered differently (cd track is mastered by Beau Thomas, 2-12 mastered by Mandy Parnell. vinyl mastered 1-12 by Beau Thomas).

so format arguments aside, you technically are listening to something totally different to the CD :)

what the hell happened here? It's like a penny stock forum.

~~~~~ long $SYRO ~~~~~

  On 9/25/2014 at 4:20 AM, bitroast said:

 

  On 9/25/2014 at 3:51 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

haven't even listened to my vinyl copy yet. here goes

 

edit: sounds fantastic, im not sure if there is actually less compression or that its just less noticeable than on the digital or CD but yeah It does sound nicer.

 

well.. its mastered differently (cd track is mastered by Beau Thomas, 2-12 mastered by Mandy Parnell. vinyl mastered 1-12 by Beau Thomas).

so format arguments aside, you technically are listening to something totally different to the CD :)

 

where did you find out that information?

Firstly, this thread is humungous... so much love for this album (who says love doesn't involve gnashing of teeth)

I've spun the first half of the album on mp3 320 about ten times and am massively into the Sy. Before it was released I was champing at the bit and thrashing SAWI, Analord and others. Syro on the whole is a more complex beast than Analord (other than something like xmd5a which is a comparable ripper)

Glorious return of the AT moniker and apart from waiting for My Bloody Valentine's follow up to Loveless last year, this has been the most EPIC wait, and like mbv, has delivered in spades!

Syro second half is more difficult to get my head around, more impenetrable synth lines to untangle and restless drum lines to awkwardly brain dance to. I think I have two left brains.

I understand how people might think they're disappointed with Syro to begin with - it is indeed a grower, people; once our brains attune to the tunes, you can enjoy the sounds more... And there is a non conventional gas fraccing abundance of tune.

What I think makes this album hard to get, and this is alluded to in the p4k interview, is that a lot of the record doesn't follow conventional tunings. So it's possible our brains are not wired yet to know what response to make. Anyone remember the first time they heard a 20 minute Indian raga or a long Philip Glass piece? Serious WTF moments

This is probably the main reason I think it's an important record, along with the envelope and texture detail in every (mostly) analog sound. How can it be that the vocoders sound so awesome, but that even in Minipops67 which we've all heard loads by now, it's so hard to work out what's being said? (I know, there's a thread for this)

One of my fave moments which I reckon is a typically playful tip of the hat to Warp, happens at 7:30(!) of XMAS_EVET10 where a very BoC sounding synth comes in - ah, the serenity - which lasts a few seconds before a "bonk" disrupts beautifully and the acid synth bounces on.

Also love the delay sound which creeps in and beautifully grounds the track from this point on.

Listened to the full album on 24bit last night on some KRK monitors with a friend and the requisite imbibements and MAN I can recommend this particular experience... Sounded so punchy but warm, no mastering problems to my ears.. But it was a lot easier to have the first half up loud, whereas the second half overwhelmed and we had to lower the volume! Rinse, repeat, I know

180db was particularly bangin', this track may be out of kilter with some of the album, but it's a collection of tracks from a wide period, an AT catchup, so it was never going to be as disciplined as Drukqs. IMHO it is better than Classics!

Bounty is within. If you don't like it, sell your rotten ovaries.

i just got this funny analogy in my head that this album is like the beatles white album..

  On 9/25/2014 at 1:54 AM, J3FF3R00 said:

 

  On 9/25/2014 at 1:39 AM, beringelab said:

https://www.wasabeat.com/releases/189306-aphex-twin-syro

 

Good find, but I signed up to order MARCHROMT30A and it wouldn't let me add the track to my cart because of my location.

I just ordered MARCHROMT30A from ototoy.jp with my CC and had no trouble at all. You have to create an account, do a bit of google translating etc but it's not a biiig deal. It's also the 24-bit WAV version.

  On 9/24/2014 at 11:10 PM, Mag said:

As time went, we have discovered almost everything about sound synthesis, heard almost all possible combination of waveforms and beats imaginable. It's not that album isnt innovative by itself, it's the nature of sound that is creating the barrier. We can't jump higher because focking physics and laws of nature. Before it was much easier to invent and shock people with new shit. Now it's not..

That's so blatantly false.

  On 9/25/2014 at 3:05 AM, cloud capture said:

tl;dr: typical fanboy fapoff

 

CD arrived yesterday evening. Took a nice day road trip through winding hills and farmland and listened to Syro in the whip. The CD sounded so great I kept pushing my amps until Produk 29 blew one of my speakers. The bass in that track is so beautiful. The hits are real tight and sweep low. For sure there's some 25-30khz sweeping kicks that were wobbling my windshield. I fucking love that song. Track starts off on some vibert funk tip and ends like a dancey psychedelic boc track.

 

Going to have to replace my speaker and not push syro to hard. Also there's some very abrupt high frequency drum samples in 4bit( I love love love those crystal synth melodies that come in).

 

The track 180db has some brain slappingly loud drums and almost so many layers of synths I get lost trying to hear them all. But actually 180db, which I only wish my system could reach, would probably stop your heart at a certain khz. To be honest that's championship competition car decibels right there. Car audio junkies at that level don't even sit in their vehicle or play more than a second of audio to get that high of a reading. Could it be possible Aphex has a system that pushes 180db?

 

I want to make a loop of Anastasia that has a 20 sec slow verbed fade out to silence before it loops, and let it last a few hours. I think I could sleep to that.

 

My favorite track as a whole is the title track, Syro. Aphex fusion is unexpected and hits home. I want an official Rich & Tom project album made up of ideas of syro & ufabulum.

 

My favorite moment of Syro is the last half of the xmas track. The first half is great, but when that groove hits, I get the same sense of awe I feel when listening to grooves like Alberto Balsalm.

 

My favorite section of that album is the Circlon twins with the timestretch interlude. Makes me want to dance and have an aphexian wigout. The repeating female vocal in the second half echos in my brain often now. Sounds like "sotchski"? So beautiful as it repeats. That vibe feels good, and the rolling beats and emotional synths force me to get down.

 

 

Beautiful album. Seems to fit well in it's place in time amongst other Aphex releases since I first discovered the RDJ album in 96. It all flows so well. There's a level of maturity, patience, and care with the entire hour that will be a treasure to cherish for the rest of my days. Thanks.

 

 

  On 9/24/2014 at 11:10 PM, Mag said:

As time went, we have discovered almost everything about sound synthesis, heard almost all possible combination of waveforms and beats imaginable. It's not that album isnt innovative by itself, it's the nature of sound that is creating the barrier. We can't jump higher because focking physics and laws of nature.

I'll just leave this excerpt from Bill Bryson's wonderful book A Short History of Nearly Everything here:

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The whole world clanged and chuffed with the machinery and instruments that their ingenuity had produced. Many wise people believed that there was nothing much left for science to do.

In 1875, when a young German in Kiel named Max Planck was deciding whether to devote his life to mathematics or to physics, he was urged most heartily not to choose physics because the breakthroughs had all been made there. The coming century, he was assured, would be one of consolidation and refinement, not revolution. Planck didn't listen.