Boris de Vries
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My opinion so far: Syro is good, but not as good as The Tuss. Melody and sound wise, the Tuss is simply superior.
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I feel the same, but mainly about the last half of Syro. I really love the first 5 tracks and the last one.
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First listen I 'hated' Circlont6, it was too chaotic. 5 listens in, I'm already starting to love it. This was what I was hoping for. The best albums are the ones you have to get used to. My experience is that if you like something right away, it gets dull very soon. pseudotimestretch is such a good intro for a very crazy track, It keeps dissapointing me because I mentally prepare for something very mental.
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i'm going to have to get used to this album, but the albums I have to put effort into getting used to are usually the best. I can't judge Syro for now. I'll have to listen to it a couple more times.
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It's quite good
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Nah, best release since The Tuss.
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These letters would arrive on friday. Syro is already out by then.
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produk 29 reminds me of vibert for some reason Yeah he talked about his Vibert influences in a recent interview. About how he doesn't like hip hop but Luke does, and if people hear hip hop influences it's via Vibert
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great, thanks :) 64kbps/44.1kHz mp3 samples instead of Honest Jon's 64kbps/22kHz mp3 samples. whats with all the static on the metz track? =S edit: and by that I mean all the tracks. Mad amount of static. Watermark of some sort? A lot of these tracks are terribly distorted. Possibly on purpose? Still, I like what I'm hearing. Sounds like Syro is going to be a very good album :)
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cool! but terribly distorted
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produk 29... pretty chillwavey huh? how so?
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yeah yeah yeah http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/keanu-reeves-met-with-the-families-of-the-9-11-victims.452971456/#post-472626618
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In the editor, click on the polaroid with a tree on it, paste image url.
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They didn't even make it very hard to find the mp3s, haha just look in the source code of the page.
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AWW YEAH!
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Where did you see/read that? I found this at http://thegroovenashville.com/now-taking-pre-orders-for-aphex-twins-syro/ "The dropcard provides you with an exclusive URL to a secret Syro site – only functional via the Tor browser – where Warp Records will be continuously adding new digital content over the upcoming weeks… " Is this true or just more store disinformation like what happened with the Tommorow's Harvest dropcards ? Guess it doesn't doesn't say music, maybe a badger screensaver ? Cool if true! Too bad I don't have one of these dropcards. I guess this won't apply for peple that preordered via Bleep? What was going on with the Tomorrow's Harvest dropcards?
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Is this a joke?
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huh? what? has is leaked???
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Does anybody even still check the latest 'leaks' if they're real?
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Oh well, it'll be on the pirate bay on friday. I won't be able to resist anyways.
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so when is the release date? the 19th, the 22nd or the 23rd?
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1984
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Yay lots of 80s influences!
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LOL - no need - SYRO is probably my favourite Aphex Twin release since ICBYD. Hands down. It's that damn good. Weren't it you that thought drukqs was only 'quite good'?
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On Aphex Twin's wikipedia page, which was updates since Syro of course I read this: James was meticulous about the process of recording, mastering and pressing. He tried a number of pressing plants until he was satisfied with the quality of each EP. James prefers vinyl or tape to digital. However, label co-owner Wilson-Claridge convinced him to release a CD compilation (Chosen Lords) with 10 tracks from the Analord series. There's no sources there, but I can clearly hear he really put a lot of time and effort into the Analord sound. It's got nice dynamics. I also read in a fairly recent (2011?) interview with him that he doesn't care for the loudness war too much, I think I can roughly quote him saying 'Pop music is so loud these days, why not have nice dynamics and turn your volume up once in a while. People are lazy' or something like that. [edit] Whats your opinion on sound [aesthetics] in this music ? Its quite extreme. Strongly compressed to maximize the volume. Recently I've been looking through a pile a sounds from some chart music, and it seems that its incredibly loud music. Louder than many of "trade-off less" noise recordings. And I use those same audio processing applications myself and I know how to set them up, how to makeup to average loudness in the same manner as the audio producers of advertising industry do it, but the problem with this is: it destroys the transitions of the broadcasted sound character. And the dynamic drops to zero. Everything is on the same level. Honestly speaking: it fascinates me that this is popular music and ppl want to listen to it. Maybe they got used to it, and they won't be able to listen music recorded back than? If we compare my strongest (in the sense of volume) recording from the 90ies to todays pop music it will be 10 times quieter, but has so much dynamics in itself that if you turn the knob on your amplifier it will sound better. Its nothing contemporary producers aim at. They try to make people not to regulate their amp knobs so they get max volume right away. Thats the case with radio and television broadcasting. source: http://forum.watmm.com/topic/68649-new-afx-interview-september-2011/?p=1653431 When I first heard minipops, I was a bit dissapointed with the lack of dynamics and how dense and loud it all sounded, but still, it's one of his best tracks imo.
