Aphex Twin: Part 2 of SYROBONKERS! is now available

  On 11/11/2014 at 3:20 AM, Forgiveful Hammer said:

 

  On 11/11/2014 at 1:37 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

really digging this track

https://soundcloud.com/richarddjames/threnody-to-the-victims-of-hiroshimaaphex-interpretationmonaharm-kopeek8

 

really nice noisey number and also the symbolism behind it is great. Going to japan recently was a stark reminder of how fucking deeply brainwashed and sociopathic american born empire babies are who still believe in 2014 that Hiroshima 'saved lives' and wasn't one of the most horrendous acts of mass murder ever committed.

if you are one of the massively deranged twats who think dropping a nuke on Hiroshima was a good idea, please don't be ashamed to come out of the shadows

edit: just realized this was a Penderecki cover, had no idea. (rant above still stands)

 

I think the bad idea is worshipping the guys who made it possible — feynman & co — pretty much the contemporary hero of american nerd youth in 2014. If you can't the see the evil in your own doing, where are you heading, where ?

 

Evil isn't in the past nor is it in the future. It's right now as we're writing this. I figured that out more than 2000 years ago.

First of, the track plus context is brilliant.

The two nukes thing is not as black and white as you paint it, as far as I'm concerned. I agree the acts were horrendous, but the context makes it understandable, imo. Because the japanese - as a collective- were behaving like nukes at the time. It doesn't get much attention in western europe because of the Hitler thing at the time, but those japs made Hitler seem like just some other dude. So whether or not those nukes saved lives, is not a useful way to frame it, imo. In a way it did because it seriously disrupted the events at the time. But the costs were huge. Also in terms of innocent lives. Even for the decades after the events. On all sides of the fence, btw.

Whether it was a good idea to me is a difficult question. If people think it's not, I'm very interested in any alternative they would have proposed at the time. I'd rather have seen a different solution, but i can understand why people chose this option at the time, when other options wheren't at hand. As far as I can tell, it was a bad option, but the alternative seemed even worse.

  On 11/11/2014 at 5:36 AM, goDel said:

but those japs made Hitler seem like just some other dude.

woah

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

Between 17-22mln civilians (chinese) died in 8 years of war...those are some serious numbers

can someone wrap the whole lot into a zip like mentioned pls? i am on crapnets!

Anyone else enjoying some of these sounds more than Syro? Maybe it's just the slight timing shift in my life or the total lack of expectation but wow. Listening Jamming out hard as fuck to 2 tran 1 env delay edit+3 [time kink], this is the stuff that makes me love his music like the stuff I make for myself. Fascinating to me.

edit: also love CIRCLONT4A slowed, main rig blown right now but once I repair it I'm stoked to hear it pre master.

anyone else notice how he refers to [rhubarb] as rhubarb? :o

  On 11/10/2014 at 5:37 PM, tonfarben said:

What the hell is he talking about here?

 

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guitar music freaks me out , coz i look at a guitar, i bought one couple years ago, ha , coz i thought it was about only instrument i didnt have lying around the house.

and think why the fuck do people stick to 12TET, its ultra boring and guitars like most stringed instruments beg to be re-tuned, its so easy compared to most synths,

 

Retune a guitar? That would involve rearranging the frets, due to the physics of how a guitar works! Not an easy task...

Most other common stringed instruments have no frets, like violin and so on, so your finger position determines the tune of the string being swinging, which basically means there is no need for "retuning". Just put the finger elsewhere if you want that.

Is he missing the concept of these instruments, or trying to trick us? Or maybe just testing us if we as readers simply nod to everything he says instead of thinking about it. Basically as an experiment of his "mindless controlled mass" ideas.

I am courious...

Or maybe I just didn´t understand it right because english is not my native tongue.

He's just being a twat, guitars are amazing, and that's the end of that. And if you listen to the limited range of his favoured drum sounds, etc. he can't talk, heheheh. ;-p It's not the tools it's what you do with it.

  On 11/10/2014 at 3:07 PM, Consul said:

Reversed the reversed version of Rhubarb (orchestrated)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcBVSsmxT04

Yeah, this was great. I can't not see a face in that mountain pic that you used consul, it's bugging me. Nice pic though, not dissing, just didacting.

anyone have 320mp3s of the fenix funk early mixdown, the avril 14 reversed, and the rhubarb orchestral (not reversed) would love these in better quality. esp the rhubarb. the bass in that is so blown out

  On 11/11/2014 at 7:22 AM, petina said:

anyone else notice how he refers to [rhubarb] as rhubarb? :o

Well, on 26 Mixes for Cash it was referred to Rhubarb (original Version)...

  On 11/11/2014 at 9:13 AM, hayhook said:

anyone have 320mp3s of the fenix funk early mixdown, the avril 14 reversed, and the rhubarb orchestral (not reversed) would love these in better quality. esp the rhubarb. the bass in that is so blown out

  On 11/11/2014 at 7:22 AM, petina said:

anyone else notice how he refers to [rhubarb] as rhubarb? :o

Well, on 26 Mixes for Cash it was referred to Rhubarb (original Version)...

you're thinking of radiator, and no it wasn't , it was SAW2 CD1 TRK2 (Original Mix)

  On 11/11/2014 at 9:17 AM, yek said:

 

you're thinking of radiator, and no it wasn't , it was SAW2 CD1 TRK2 (Original Mix)

Correct I both points. My bad.

*on both points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38S2u_Lwe4E#t=320

^ starting around 5:20

managed to record aphex twin DROPPING his latest new old track wWINDOW PEEPER when he played live at future music festival in melbs 2012.
^-^ was listening to the soundcloud tracks today yeah-huh and couldn't help recognise that drum beat + gun shots from the live show :)

  On 11/11/2014 at 10:19 AM, bitroast said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38S2u_Lwe4E#t=320

^ starting around 5:20

 

managed to record aphex twin DROPPING his latest new old track wWINDOW PEEPER when he played live at future music festival in melbs 2012.

^-^ was listening to the soundcloud tracks today yeah-huh and couldn't help recognise that drum beat + gun shots from the live show :)

Lol nice one 8-) Funny how trax like this never got picked out as unreleased aphex

Can I just say to Dave and Rich (Or whoever ;) massive, great thanks for all this!

Amazing.

  On 11/11/2014 at 7:11 AM, purplegoat said:

Anyone else enjoying some of these sounds more than Syro? Maybe it's just the slight timing shift in my life or the total lack of expectation but wow. Listening Jamming out hard as fuck to 2 tran 1 env delay edit+3 [time kink], this is the stuff that makes me love his music like the stuff I make for myself. Fascinating to me.

 

edit: also love CIRCLONT4A slowed, main rig blown right now but once I repair it I'm stoked to hear it pre master.

I like the premaster tracks more than the mastered ones. They sound like analord or early stuff. they have his human touch I miss in most modern releases. I would really love to hear syro unmastered. I guess Tomorrows Harvest, Clark and FlyLo would also sound much better unmastered. But I guess many people have a problem with showing their real skills and have to hide behind perfect production.

look
got a surprise for you guys
http://www.mediafire.com/download/txmxoxlzk0le7m0/APHEX_TWIN_SYROBONKERS!.zip

  On 11/10/2014 at 2:27 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

  On 11/10/2014 at 1:27 PM, indulin said:

so nice! funny to recognize some of those modular tracks he's shared, as i heard them in his live sets, that chaos rave one and the last one sound familiar to me! like herr jan says, i'm so excited about the mixes with weirdcore, really hope to see/hear this soon :-)!!

Whoa, well spotted! I remember that chaos rave one vividly from the STRP gig in 2009. He opened with that!

 

edit: could also be dark rave, they're pretty similar. One of those anyway :)

 

Got it....

  On 11/11/2014 at 5:36 AM, goDel said:

 

The two nukes thing is not as black and white as you paint it, as far as I'm concerned. I agree the acts were horrendous, but the context makes it understandable, imo. Because the japanese - as a collective- were behaving like nukes at the time. It doesn't get much attention in western europe because of the Hitler thing at the time, but those japs made Hitler seem like just some other dude. So whether or not those nukes saved lives, is not a useful way to frame it, imo. In a way it did because it seriously disrupted the events at the time. But the costs were huge. Also in terms of innocent lives. Even for the decades after the events. On all sides of the fence, btw.

Whether it was a good idea to me is a difficult question. If people think it's not, I'm very interested in any alternative they would have proposed at the time. I'd rather have seen a different solution, but i can understand why people chose this option at the time, when other options wheren't at hand. As far as I can tell, it was a bad option, but the alternative seemed even worse.

 

Forgive me for bringing historical shits in this thread, but out of principles, let me reminds you that :

a/ building the nuclear weapons costs a fortune, the US built it for Berlin as a target (Nazis), but the bomb was finished (16 july 1945) after the nazis were defeated (8 may 1945) so the US army/goverments/congress were curious about its effects on the ground, as its never been used against enemies.

b/ Stalin's scientists were doing their best to have a nuclear weapon too, the US thought bombing japan would impress him, like a warning to Stalin (see what we can do to our enemies).

c/ When Stalin troops did occupied a part of Germany & half of Europe, very quickly it turned to be a nighmare for the US/democratics forces in Europe, so after that, the US decided not to occupy Japan with USSR, in order to be the ONLY country/army to occupy japan they had to defeat Japan by themselves.

They were also other reasons (saving US soldiers life, revenge after Pearl Harbour), but the main thing was to avoid sharing japan with Stalin.

That remix of Penderecki is awesome by the way

  On 11/11/2014 at 10:41 AM, Yosholok said:

Can I just say to Dave and Rich (Or whoever ;) massive, great thanks for all this!

 

Amazing.

Agreed, incredibly generous of them.

Those Doxa Sinistra tracks are beauts, I've never heard em before.

thanks for the zip

Ok, call me stupid by all means but doing a track at a slow speed then speeding it up to make it more hectic is cheating, right? (his own words)

So what is the circlont slowed down track about?

just woke up. holy balls. part 2. special thx for zip! 330 mb lol. it should've been 303

Thank you so much for this RDJ!

CIRCLONT4A[plydslow]+N[unmastered] is insane!!

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Whoa, well spotted! I remember that chaos rave one vividly from the STRP gig in 2009. He opened with that!

 

edit: could also be dark rave, they're pretty similar. One of those anyway :)

luv that track at 5:22 has he uploaded that and i missed it?