APHEX TWIN - SYRO

  On 3/19/2015 at 10:08 PM, kymppinetti said:

when syro were released, i listened it every day like 3 moths through. and not just one time, many times in a day. there were times when i got home from work, i would listen syro to the end of the day. when i would go to sleep. i was preatty obsessed of it. i even talked to my fellow workers of: that how i found a new layer from a track or some hidden trick. and they didn't have any idea what i was talking about. haha i just needed to talk about it with somebody.

 

and now i'm back on syro. gotta say, it's a good album. could it be even better than last times.

I loaned my mom my cd & had to ask for it back

said she liked track 2 best. I said I like that one too & our bond was strengthened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQsu4xAntec getting produk 29 vibe from this

I'm still putting this album on regularly and having my mind blown.

I can't remember listening to an album so many times without getting at least the slightest bit burnt out on it.

Completely brilliant and mesmerizing.

I think it also has to be my #1 driving album. Especially cross-town. My car has a pretty decent stock stereo and I keep the bass cranked up significantly. It's quite lush in there.

yeah im still unwinding that itemized receipt often. still a lot i'm noticing.

is this out yet?

heugh heugh heugh

  On 4/25/2015 at 11:53 PM, Alcofribas said:

is this out yet?

Nah. It's Richard's ccainese democracy

That 7 month nostalgia.

Yes

Pretty great work and as said before still not the slightest burnt out (though I'm careful not to hammer my favorite tracks). Still looking forward to my next Syro sesh.

edit: i am an idiot, LRN TO POST IN THE RIGHT THREAD XF

(syro is still amazing tho)

Looks like Syro is finally on YouTube, courtesy of their automated music streaming thing...

  On 5/16/2015 at 2:28 PM, valleyinaire said:

Looks like Syro is finally on YouTube, courtesy of their automated music streaming thing...

 

It says "This video is not available" for the other tracks. Why?

  On 5/16/2015 at 2:36 PM, Consul said:

 

  On 5/16/2015 at 2:28 PM, valleyinaire said:

Looks like Syro is finally on YouTube, courtesy of their automated music streaming thing...

 

 

It says "This video is not available" for the other tracks. Why?

 

That automated music streaming thing for YouTube isn't available (yet) for a lot of countries. Only the UK and US already have it I think? And wasn't it supposed to have it behind a YouTube subscription paywall too in the end?

i think the real track list is

Minipops 67,
XMAS_EVET10 (thanaton3 mix),
produk 29,
4 bit 9d api+e+6,
180db_,
CIRCLONT6A (syrobonkus mix),
fz pseudotimestretch+e+3,
CIRCLONT14 (shrymoming mix),
syro u473t8+e (piezoluminescence mix),
PAPAT4 (pineal mix),
s950tx16wasr10 (earth portal mix),
s950tx16wasr10 (earth portal mix),
aisatsana

Finally got some really nice headphones over the weekend and listening to Syro were amongst the inaugural items played. The album is a revelation and it was great to hear bits I hadn't noticed before.

After a few months I'm still listening to Syro, what a great album. With every listen I hear sounds I hadn't noticed.

Think my fav tracks must be:

CIRCLONT14 (shrymoming mix),
syro u473t8+e (piezoluminescence mix)

Looking back to the listening party I thought that being able to listen to a new Aphex Twin before it came out was the greatest thing ever. Now less than a year later there are like 12 new Aphex Twin albums.

Oh my God s950txwasr10 is so good. I love how everything comes together and goes all lush at the end. Makes me think of Christmas 2014... I'm somehow getting nostalgic over an album that isn't even a year old yet.

  On 5/21/2015 at 5:24 PM, AliceS said:

Oh my God s950txwasr10 is so good. I love how everything comes together and goes all lush at the end. Makes me think of Christmas 2014... I'm somehow getting nostalgic over an album that isn't even a year old yet.

Yeah I'm getting that too. think it's also case Xmas and minipops have been floating about for years now

Rough Trade East toilet, LOL

  On 5/22/2015 at 2:35 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Rough Trade East toilet, LOL

 

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Syro's out!?

Minipops_67_(Source_Field_Mix) I could be wrong, but it sounds like the high-percussion sounds were made from tapes of early gigs, rerecorded and reprocessed through the dust-clouds of ancient digital reverberation units. This process repeated until all the tapes turn to sand. Then I imagine the sands would have to be returned to their source field, to be scattered on a beach in Cornwall as ritual to honour some wicked, early 90's beach raves.

A lot of the equipment Richard uses is modified, and it would have to be! I don't care what limiters are supposedly listed, there's no way anyone is getting a sound this big out of regular, off the shelf components! I'm picturing massive, cabana-sausage-sized resistors which are the only way to achieve this perfect paradox coefficient of weightless, man-sized beats!

XMAS_EVET10_(Thanaton3_Mix) An octave divided entity introduces this track, part morbidly obese Santa, part trollish elf. It may be this entity who has an brain that makes a bassline that sounds like synapses growing at 120 BPM! At this stage it is still unconfirmed by The Infinite 24/7 AFX Soundcloud AMA!

Then when that fat chubby bass voice comes in to introduce the second part of the track, which was already a fan-favourite to begin with: oh god! There are epiphany tracks, and then there are epiphany tracks, but THIS is an epiphany track baby! I wonder if this was the Christmas costume orgy song..

Those bells at the end are realisations.

Produk_29 An humpback poultry waddle, by none other than the Tregraskins! This must be in the elevator shaft of the cottage-dungeon studio. It's even got the sheep-activated Tuss reverbs (given that the spring-coils would be stretched out across several lush green fields, it's inevitable that the sheep would occasionally gnaw on them).

Wait, there's some talking on this. I hear: “Like, we were at that club (inaudible) while you were swanning about in your cape like Phantom Of The Opera, (inaudible) fucking whore.” Rude.

4_bit_9d_Api+e+6 Subliminal whisper funk. This track is a prime example of something I've been wanting to bring up about this guy, which is the phenomenon of 'twinsounds'. For example, there are awesome organ plucks which serve to offset and accentuate their 'twinsounds', but would make little musical sense outside of that context. Further scholarship still needs to be done into this area.

Wispers again. Look, if they're going to get so close to the microphone, they should at least finish their soup or whatever it is they're slurping first.

180db These Vibert synth vamps sound like they were keyed in at the elbows, giving off the most boistrous of shimmies. Yet somehow, they go remarkably well with the hair-raising, squeaky horror-pads from the other room, creating perpetually ascending, barber-poll effects with my sense of apprehension..

CIRCLONT6A_(Syrobonkus_Mix) A reinactment of a call and response battle between the two great factions of electronic music: the Bleeps and the Bloops. The Bleeps attack first with Cossack dancing synth-fingers, but the Bloops retaliate with piping hot Turkish coffee basslines.

Fz_pseudotimestretch+e+3 If the medium is the message, then the message undoubtedly is Casio FZ-1. However, does anyone else think that there might be a bit of strategic misdirection going on here? I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the 'pseudo-timestretch' effect may in fact be a Max/MSP to Arduino controlled reel-to-reel motor-speed modification. In addition to this, kettle steam can be used on the tape for further pitch modulations. Without the use of these techniques, all of the tracks here might simply sound like elaborate versions of Amazing Grace.

CIRCLONT14_(Shrymoming_Mix) How can it be that these sympathetic synths seem to shimmer so magnanimously, so as to reassure the listener that they really understand what we have all been through in life? Then there's always a bit at 5:06 that really gets to me.

Syro_u473t8+e_(Piezoluminescence_Mix) “So how was your day today,” “Effortlessly busy.” Cue Syro_u473t8+e_(Piezoluminescence_Mix).

The great thing about an electronic tabla with CV controlled circumference, is that it forces you to think outside the box, because it literally gets bigger. You have to think creatively about where you are going to store it.

PAPAT4_(Pineal_Mix) I didn't think Richard would jump so readily into the Naturewave trend but you simply can't argue with these stunning desert mirage pads. Then there's those snares that drop their tails and escape like lizards when you try to grab at them.

S950tx16wasr10_(Earth_Portal_Mix) Drum and Bass from the future, which is now. You know how Luke Vibert said that when he was making Drill and Bass tracks, sometimes he was just drawing funny pictures on the piano roll? I imagine Richard is doing that here, drawing his big grinning face out of obscure scale patterns procured illegally from the deep web.

Anthony Fantano might call a track like this “exercising in order to avoid entropy” (OK he didn't, he was talking about Damogen Furies) but I reckon if there are any asthmatics out there who are disappointed in medical science, get youself a MIDI wind controller and start fucking carving it up like this!

Aisatsana Hearing the wooden levers in the MIDI piano moving, gives this a bit of a behind the stage curtains feel. Like a Punch and Judy show but more sweet and less violent.. and the audience is all birds.

Overall, great fucking album.

  On 5/22/2015 at 5:59 PM, webby said:

Syro's out!?

 

Overall, great fucking album.

 

 

Love your review Sir! Been listening to Syro since it came out and it's still a mystery to me.... musicality out of this world. 10/10

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HrrJn says at 3:59:

Unrelated but I just upped your bonus Syrobonkus track - opinion on the result of the rip :)?

Nice!