APHEX TWIN - SYRO

have you seen guys another article on Pitchfork about staff pick, it's like they making 3 articles a week lol

link?

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9512-richard-d-james-10-essential-records/

  On 10/4/2014 at 10:37 AM, klore said:

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9512-richard-d-james-10-essential-records/

Hm, let's see, what would everybody else pick as essentials… ok, done. Let's not pick those.

  On 10/4/2014 at 2:47 PM, HokusPoker said:

 

  On 10/4/2014 at 10:37 AM, klore said:

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9512-richard-d-james-10-essential-records/

 

Hm, let's see, what would everybody else pick as essentials… ok, done. Let's not pick those.

 

fuckin bradley's beat, gak, and a single remix presented as an 'album'. pitchfork is delusional

hey pitchfork, can you please tell me again which song it is that skrillex likes and which one kanye sampled? it's been 5 minutes since the last time you mentioned it, fucking morons. and those guys are important so if they mentioned this aphex twin dude then it must be OK for me to check him out. oh but hmm whats this? a video for a song called windowlicker. i'll click on that and give that a chance. wow is this racist? i dunno but its really disturbing and super weeieeieeirrrd! eewww!

Aisatsana sounds really lovely on vinyl. Has any one said that yet? Well it does.

one thing i noticed while looking over my records was how different aisatsana's grooves looked to every other track. i just thought that was cool.

noticed that too. anyone know why?

  On 10/4/2014 at 4:16 PM, petina said:

one thing i noticed while looking over my records was how different aisatsana's grooves looked to every other track. i just thought that was cool.

Aphex Twin's "Syro" Hit #1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Album Charts

  On 10/4/2014 at 5:06 PM, coolandfrank said:

 

noticed that too. anyone know why?

  On 10/4/2014 at 4:16 PM, petina said:

one thing i noticed while looking over my records was how different aisatsana's grooves looked to every other track. i just thought that was cool.

 

Just go and grab two records from your collection. One ambient, and one full of beat-heavy drillcore. And see how different the grooves look on the two records. The ambient one prolly looks a bit darker than the beat records, I'm guessing. Has to do with how the waveform looks...

  On 10/4/2014 at 5:09 PM, Producer Snafu said:

Aphex Twin's "Syro" Hit #1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Album Charts

Well deserved!

  On 10/4/2014 at 5:06 PM, coolandfrank said:

 

noticed that too. anyone know why?

  On 10/4/2014 at 4:16 PM, petina said:

one thing i noticed while looking over my records was how different aisatsana's grooves looked to every other track. i just thought that was cool.

 

Bass makes wider grooves.

"Avril 15th"... Lols. Great reporting pitchfork.good to see you did your homework.

  On 10/4/2014 at 5:52 PM, YELLOW said:

 

  On 10/4/2014 at 5:09 PM, Producer Snafu said:

Aphex Twin's "Syro" Hit #1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Album Charts

Well deserved!

 

Would be awesome to see RDJ receiving a gold record !

Something I made while jamming out to CIRCLON14_

here is my take on circlonts

  On 10/4/2014 at 10:31 PM, Mag said:

here is my take on circlonts

 

I need to sleep.

Syro>Analord

  On 10/5/2014 at 3:34 PM, MadnessR said:

Syro>Analord

pie>caek

I’ve now listened to Syro twice with thought and played some random bits here and there, so here are my first impressions ( I guess that all has been already said so I’m not really bringing anything new to the table). I was expecting this to be more in the Tuss vein which was based on the preview snippets I had listened to. Yet it does contain some similarities but still there’s something different and new in it. I did find the overall tone of the whole album suprisingly mellow especially when compared to Drukqs which had so many edges that it could accidentally poke your eye when listening to it. I had similar feeling when I had my frenzy but brief affair with Autechre. Oversteps did have this soft tune in it when I was used to the soundscapes of EP7 or Draft 7.30. I can’t find similar tones from previous Aphex releases as Syro has. So this is something new to me. Feeling very sorry for those who cried after ‘’something new’’ and couldn’t find it here. And like most of Aphex albums the tracks will evolve when you get to know them better and get to deeper into their layers. I’ve only scraped the surface so can’t say anything infinite about the album yet.

As for the favorite tracks I must be little lame since I really can’t help but to love Minipops and PAPAT4, don’t care how many times they’ve been heard before. I don’t hear anything wrong with 180db, I think it’s great. Also loving how the Produk29 is subtly bowing towards BoC (no matter if it’s intentional or not). If Basefree is the most Aphex-like song from BoC then this is the most BoCish song from Aphex. But instead of children from Sesame Street you get women restroom chat. As great as aisatsana is, it’s somehow out of place as the final track. It sounds so much different from the other Syro tracks that it somehow emerges too much. It’s more obvious in the Japan version when Marchromt40a takes you back to Syroland after aisatsana which could be seen as the actual closure to the album. Could the difference feel more subtle if aisatsana was fair and square somewhere in the middle of the album and giving the whole thing a little breather before the other half? Dunno. Well it doesn’t bug me too much, just thought to mention it.

All in all Syro deserves a golden star from me.

Right. It's Monday. Where's this news then, Joyrex?

  On 10/5/2014 at 11:08 PM, LoveRhino said:

Right. It's Monday. Where's this news then, Joyrex?

What a nice feeling to find a Syro cd in the post waiting for me after my trip to Bulgaria :) here some thoughts

1 track is nice

2 meh too long, yeah don't care much about it

3 meh, feels cold and not honest, "leave this track out of the album" track

4 what's more interesting! some kind of futuristic space lounge

5 well is this a joke? I but yeah it's funny

6 yes this is starts to impress, I think that's Aphex Twin starts to warm up his frankenstein

8 Now you are totally in Aphex danger zone!

9 This is at his best, the fuckin drums at the end of the track is something crazy! fuckin fucked up pluto from disneyland banging the drums

10 Nice track not much to tell tho

11 This is great track...

12 And this piano track feels like a good ending, but nothing superbly, just a piece to calm down I guess, not very much to say

Nice album overall