APHEX TWIN - SYRO

  On 9/25/2014 at 9:07 AM, xy_politics said:

 

  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.

 

alac or flac or wave from ototoy are in 24-bit version, saw the price, it's the same for these formats... i would like to have in normal quality as cd... but thanks! this will prevent me from having/buying the Japanese import in addition to my CD and LP...

  On 9/25/2014 at 9:07 AM, xy_politics said:

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.

Done! Registered, paid and downloaded within 5 minutes. It cost me the grand sum of £1.60, you can download all formats for the one price as well. Great find, thanks very much!

 

 

Plenty if these sounds on Syro.... am I right?

 

Loving them..

 

  On 9/25/2014 at 9:53 AM, ZoeB said:

 

  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.

 

 

sorry, if i haven't made my thought very clear. I've never said there's no room to grow - there is, of course. It's just more challenging because there is so much done already. And "innovations" are not in your face like they were in 90s. Syro is new for me in terms of composition - it's so alive and morphing like nothing out there. We've heard all synths and percussion before, basically, and maybe that's why people are complaining that it sounds like tuss outtakes on the first listen. But when you get used to it and start listening to album as a whole new experience (not in comparsion to tuss or drukqs), you start discovering that besides alike sounds, it's actually a really different beast with different ideas. It's really fresh to me, and Im sure he will do something even more experimental and new.

  On 9/25/2014 at 10:39 AM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 9/25/2014 at 9:07 AM, xy_politics said:

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.

 

Done! Registered, paid and downloaded within 5 minutes. It cost me the grand sum of £1.60, you can download all formats for the one price as well. Great find, thanks very much!

 

 

Yay

yeah 24-bit... there is not 16-bit from ototoy?

  On 9/25/2014 at 11:24 AM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

yeah 24-bit... there is not 16-bit from ototoy?

 

16-bit is here, my man: http://ototoy.jp/_/default/p/45511

Should i get an email from http://ototoy.jp/ with download link?

 

(pretty sure i just purchased the thing after registering)

  On 9/25/2014 at 11:31 AM, phudoshin said:

Should i get an email from http://ototoy.jp/ with download link?

 

(pretty sure i just purchased the thing after registering)

 

I had a confirmation of purchase email, then about a minute later another mail with a direct link to the file - downloads as a zip file, job done!

Edited September 25, 2014 by jasondonervan

  On 9/25/2014 at 11:26 AM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 9/25/2014 at 11:24 AM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

yeah 24-bit... there is not 16-bit from ototoy?

 

16-bit is here, my man: http://ototoy.jp/_/default/p/45511

 

Oh my lovely man, how can I thank you! Great! Cool! Yeah! Wooow! Youhou! happy am i, may the force be with me & i go! yo!

I can not describe my state you or you'll be afraid...

 

to jasondonervan : ;-) thanks again! promised, i will learn the japanese!

  On 9/25/2014 at 11:33 AM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

Oh my lovely man, how can I thank you! Great! Cool! Yeah! Wooow! Youhou! happy am i, may the force be with me & i go! yo!

 

I can not describe my state you or you'll be afraid...

 

to jasondonervan : ;-) thanks again! promised, i will learn the japanese!

 

 

hell yeah, looks like i won't have to pirate the track afterall, thank u!

must check the old cc. maybe maxed out :/

Shit on a stick... got the website message.... but no email d/l yet.....

 

Processing has been completed Notice of purchase already message please confirm so we arrived as. Also,OTOTOY app (iOS version / free) in, you can enjoy immediate streaming track you purchased right now. Please check the list "song was recently acquired" and "library" to launch the app you have a iOS device.

Payment OK (success)

Thank you for your use
We are looking forward to using you again. OTOTOY top to

Got it!!!!! Patience my prettys

  On 9/25/2014 at 11:48 AM, phudoshin said:

Got it!!!!! Patience my prettys

 

Told ya

 

Mine came exactly a minute after the original confirmation mail

 

  On 9/25/2014 at 10:58 AM, Mag said:

And "innovations" are not in your face like they were in 90s. Syro is new for me in terms of composition - it's so alive and morphing like nothing out there. We've heard all synths and percussion before, basically, and maybe that's why people are complaining that it sounds like tuss outtakes on the first listen.

 

If you're suggesting there haven't been many real innovations in music making technology lately, then you're probably right. Additive, subtractive, amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, phase modulation, phase distortion, wavetable, pulse code modulation (sampling), and physical modelling synthesis have all been around long enough for their patents to have expired, and although we're starting to get a lot more processing power and some nice new interfaces, it's been a while since anyone's discovered or invented a whole new method of synthesis, to my knowledge.

 

But I'm sure there are plenty of alternative methods of synthesis out there, we just haven't thought of them yet. It would be naïve to assume we've just about finished work on pretty much anything. Of course, this has nothing to do with musicians releasing albums, and everything to do with engineers releasing synthesisers. Although musicians drive the demand, and most people (myself included) seem to be getting really into old school synthesis methods right now.

 

Having said that, musicians as a whole still haven't really pushed samplers anywhere near as far as they can go. They can turn any sound in the world into a musical instrument, but most people seem to just want to play the Amen break on them.

 

Come to think of it, one of the nice things about Syro is the use of acoustic percussive instruments that are pretty obscure in popular music. That's good lateral thinking.

  On 9/25/2014 at 11:44 AM, phudoshin said:

 

Shit on a stick... got the website message.... but no email d/l yet.....

 

Processing has been completed Notice of purchase already message please confirm so we arrived as. Also,OTOTOY app (iOS version / free) in, you can enjoy immediate streaming track you purchased right now. Please check the list "song was recently acquired" and "library" to launch the app you have a iOS device.

Payment OK (success)

Thank you for your use

We are looking forward to using you again. OTOTOY top to

 

for me it's long... i ever wait it... hope soon, otherwise, i'll see this evening... crossed fingers

  On 9/25/2014 at 12:28 PM, ZoeB said:

Come to think of it, one of the nice things about Syro is the use of acoustic percussive instruments that are pretty obscure in popular music. That's good lateral thinking.

 

Some great points there (esp. about the untapped potential in sampling), but to pick the above one out: when acoustic percussive instrumentation is used in pop music, it can fall into the trap of being a shoe-horned gimmick rather than a sincere motivation to benefit the piece of music it exists within. From what my ears have gathered, real instrument percussion on Syro has been utilised in a nuanced manner for the most part, with a genuine approach rather than the likes of 'hey, check out his Water Udu, front and centre in the mix'.

I'd always try to focus on what benefits the piece of music in question the most, and not worry so much about its historical context or whether it would be seen as fashionable or traditionally fitting in with it, but that's one of them, ah, philosophical questions, I guess.

What makes Syro impressive is that, in a world of copycats and of people who want artists to be their own copycats, Aphex Twin is always just himself and his music is always evolving and the same at the same time... Syro would not be an aphex twin record if it sounded like some other record by himself.

He just does what he feels when he feel it. And you can feel that. You may not like it, but you can defintely feel that.

Edited September 25, 2014 by pierlu

Agreed! As much as I like some of his releases more than others, it's great that each release (series and compilations aside) is unique. Variety is the spice of life. ^.^

  On 9/25/2014 at 12:58 PM, pierlu said:

What makes Syro impressive is that, in a world of copycats and of people who want artists to be their own copycats, Aphex Twin is always just himself and his music is always evolving and the same at the same time... Syro would not be an aphex twin record if it sounded like some other record by himself.

He just does what he feels when he feel it. And you can feel that. You may not like it, but you can defintely feel that.

 

This is of course correct. And it makes a bit of a mockery of the complaints you see here and elsewhere along the lines of "this record is a failure and people shouldn't like it because it does not contain <whatever> types of sounds and vibes that are on some old record or other".

 

I think the most important point of this type of music, and what marks the successful from the not, is that it should be a human expression, that transcends the circumstances in which it was created. The sound you hear is that of machines and devices, but the important part is the expression, and the personality. That has to come from somewhere honest for it to really mean something, and while I'd be well chuffed to have an album that sounds like Isoprophlex, or Crowsmengegus, or whatever, I know that the person who made those records 20 years ago is not the same person who made this new album, and to do something like that would ultimately be a little contrived, and false. I think Syro is an album made by someone who cares a great deal about integrity, and because of that I like it a great deal, and it totally deserves its place alongside the rest of his work. It shows that he is still on a journey - it's your choice to stay on board or to get off.

got my order today with a card too!

hope that card is useful

the japanese must be having a right laugh at all the people buying bonus track :) $$$

Edited September 25, 2014 by B1000