Aphex Twin: Part 2 of SYROBONKERS! is now available

  On 11/13/2014 at 6:28 PM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

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some people have said to me, do you make your tracks slow and then speed them up, which is funny to me, answer is no, the vibe would be totally different if you did that, Ive tried it, doesnt work for me, it would sound sped up, I make them at the speed they are, of course I do stare at and enter data in, speed set to zero , ha but thats it, tracks like mt sain michel st micahels mount off drukqs, im surprised i didnt have a heart attack when makin those tracks, i know i was in a total rush state for the entire time of making tracks like those, especially that one!

i'm not sure he's telling the truth... Vordhosbn for example... i'm sure he normally played then changed speed...

 

nah... vordhosbn isn't that fast anyway

wasn't that track made on a laptop? assuming it was made on a tracker (or other kind of "pc" sequencer), you can perfectly program a track at high bpm.

what do you mean by "changing speed"? increasing the pitch isn't the same as changing the tempo.

ill take a try at the guitar question. why dont people micro tune guitars more? people have, blues musicians in the early 1900's. some rock guys, too.

The guitar is a fucking extremely difficult instrument to play on a physical level. requires incredible dexterity, and i would say that people are thrilled they can do anything on a guitar once they actually start being able to play riffs without fucking it up.

guitarists do all kinds of tunings, but in the studio and live it's just a whole lot easier to coordinate multiple instruments and maintain consistency by sticking with 12tet, and then when there's a drumset, going out of 440 becomes problematic because the cymbals will be tuned to 440.

however there are midi guitars these days, like adrian belew and squarepusher use, which don't need to constantly be tuned the way analogue guitars do, and you're dealing with midi data so you could get out of the 12tet aspect of the fretboard by setting filters for the midi data and make any kind of scale you wanted

It's not uncommon for people to change the tune of the guitar, drop D being popular with metal for example, or the open tuning for slide guitar. Sonic youth had heaps of guitars that their techs would hand them in different tunings they would need for different songs. As for microtuning, there's always the whammy bar, haha. Or bending the string or whole chords. Or hitting the string in places, to get overtones that are slightly out of wack. etc.

Seriously though, to dismiss an instrument when every other instrument he uses doesn't involve microtuning for the vast bulk of it's use by everyone. I think it was more a note by him that it isn't an easy input method, rather than just playing some keys on the keyboard to make some notes or using preprogrammed arpeggios, there's a bit of a barrier of entry to playing the thing even from a purely physical standpoint. So why would anyone bother with this thing. Fair enough.

i've replaced all the strings on my guitar with plastic "keys." i've also completely removed the pickups and replaced them with oscillators. i've kept the knobs. i call this tuning "synth."

  On 11/14/2014 at 12:20 AM, very honest said:

going out of 440 becomes problematic because the cymbals will be tuned to 440.

You're joking, right?

Anyway, getting out of the 12tet is easier on a guitar than any keyed instrument. For instance, just use two strings, one tuned a quarter note above the other, and you have access to the 24tet pretty easily.

Or use a slide...

I made my own consolidated and metadata-tagged file folder for the SYROBONKERS tracks: all 55 of them. DL at the following link: http://we.tl/X43ZWBdqhP

  On 11/14/2014 at 8:14 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

I made my own consolidated and metadata-tagged file folder for the SYROBONKERS tracks: all 55 of them. DL at the following link: http://we.tl/X43ZWBdqhP

thanks for that

  On 11/14/2014 at 8:14 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

I made my own consolidated and metadata-tagged file folder for the SYROBONKERS tracks: all 55 of them. DL at the following link: http://we.tl/X43ZWBdqhP

Stellar work as always, GS

Looks like it was fairly prudent as all the interview trax have been removed from soundcloud...

That, and the interview itself has been removed too. Wonder what happened!

Here are both parts as a .doc: http://we.tl/MIvmVdjnhb (link is only active for 7 days!)

  On 11/14/2014 at 11:14 AM, Herr Jan said:

That, and the interview itself has been removed too. Wonder what happened!

 

Here are both parts as a .doc: http://we.tl/MIvmVdjnhb(link is only active for 7 days!)

You are a gentleman and a scholar sir

strange... maybe warp decided they didnt like it? can't think of any other reason for it all to be gone

  On 11/14/2014 at 11:18 AM, petina said:

strange... maybe warp decided they didnt like it? can't think of any other reason for it all to be gone

Warp were involved with putting the blog together so I doubt it

I don't think Warp would make such a call, they promoted it on their site too and helped with the videos. Maybe it was meant to only be online for a week or so, maybe Richard wanted it gone. Maybe it'll be back in a few hours. Maybe this is part of the plan for the new shit ©. Who knows :)

  On 11/13/2014 at 8:16 PM, Mag said:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 6:28 PM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

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some people have said to me, do you make your tracks slow and then speed them up, which is funny to me, answer is no, the vibe would be totally different if you did that, Ive tried it, doesnt work for me, it would sound sped up, I make them at the speed they are, of course I do stare at and enter data in, speed set to zero , ha but thats it, tracks like mt sain michel st micahels mount off drukqs, im surprised i didnt have a heart attack when makin those tracks, i know i was in a total rush state for the entire time of making tracks like those, especially that one!

i'm not sure he's telling the truth... Vordhosbn for example... i'm sure he normally played then changed speed...

 

really why u need to do this? its really a bad idea generally to speed the track after detalization, cause before speeding it may sound fine, but when you do it everything changes and sounds little different, not how u planned. specially the tunes. you need to play it right from begining, it will loose magics. you still can chop and slice breaks at high speeds as usual

even if to twiddle as many knobs as possible on a synth and then speed it up, you dont know how it will sound in the end.

hm maybe at that times DAW was limited to smallest element size fro chopping and he recorded drums at slow and then apply to main track speeded up. but still it's more of a quick fix then cheating. im sure he wouldnt do it on purpose.

 

or it is some precise moment in vordhosbn that your talking about? im sure it was written as is, its just high tempo

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 9:15 PM, qnio said:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 6:28 PM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

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some people have said to me, do you make your tracks slow and then speed them up, which is funny to me, answer is no, the vibe would be totally different if you did that, Ive tried it, doesnt work for me, it would sound sped up, I make them at the speed they are, of course I do stare at and enter data in, speed set to zero , ha but thats it, tracks like mt sain michel st micahels mount off drukqs, im surprised i didnt have a heart attack when makin those tracks, i know i was in a total rush state for the entire time of making tracks like those, especially that one!

i'm not sure he's telling the truth... Vordhosbn for example... i'm sure he normally played then changed speed...

 

nah... vordhosbn isn't that fast anyway

wasn't that track made on a laptop? assuming it was made on a tracker (or other kind of "pc" sequencer), you can perfectly program a track at high bpm.

what do you mean by "changing speed"? increasing the pitch isn't the same as changing the tempo.

 

lol

u're not musicians 2 know it... try 2 play this track on piano! u'll c... lol

Part 2 as a complete web archive - opens in your browser with all images, youtube embeds, etc:

http://goo.gl/XrjhyW

I can upload part 1 later, it's on another computer in another part of town.

  On 11/14/2014 at 11:17 AM, Timothy Forward said:

 

  On 11/14/2014 at 11:14 AM, Herr Jan said:

That, and the interview itself has been removed too. Wonder what happened!

 

Here are both parts as a .doc: http://we.tl/MIvmVdjnhb(link is only active for 7 days!)

 

You are a gentleman and a scholar sir

 

Wow, brilliant, thanks for this, I was literally on the soundcloud page this morning (listening for the first time before downloading) when the play buttons stopped working, I refreshed the page and they were all gone.

  On 11/13/2014 at 11:49 PM, marf said:

ill take a try at the guitar question. why dont people micro tune guitars more? people have, blues musicians in the early 1900's. some rock guys, too.

 

The guitar is a fucking extremely difficult instrument to play on a physical level. requires incredible dexterity, and i would say that people are thrilled they can do anything on a guitar once they actually start being able to play riffs without fucking it up.

It's a bit messy, like the youtube guys show you

the guitar isn't that difficult, after some callouses and barre chords you're pretty sorted... what you do with one hand on a guitar you do with both hands on a piano

no? all tracks r gone? happy & glad i've downloaded them there is 5 days...

WHERE IS ALL THINGS

  On 11/14/2014 at 11:40 AM, triachus said:

WHERE IS ALL THINGS

Excellent new emoji use. Also, watmm has you covered, there are links to d/l both the interviews and the soundcloud tracks

  On 11/14/2014 at 11:22 AM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

lol

 

u're not musicians 2 know it... try 2 play this track on piano! u'll c... lol

 

I don't think anyone tries to play drill and bass on piano, or inputs it via one either. Why would they?

M8 do you ever sequence?

What if the "I'm not aphex lol" part is true ? That would mean that the man the journalists interviewed isn't Aphex... So the man we all know visually as Aphex isn't RDJ... Or the man we all know visually as RDJ isn't Aphex... Who is Aphex Twin ? Who is Richard D James ? Do they even exist ?

lel fuck you richard

oh shit. thx for uploading the interview! glad i immediately dl'ed all the soundcloud stuff...

  On 11/14/2014 at 11:22 AM, Anchio Arch io Son Pittore said:

 

 

 

lol

 

u're not musicians 2 know it... try 2 play this track on piano! u'll c... lol

 

loled at start of first video. not the best examples thou