Pirtek

Been listening to mine. Usual excellent standard!

He told me he will email everyone with the download code very soon ;-)

Same here...

As mentioned before, this EP was based around the challenge of programming for the Cheetah synth (all the press makes it out to be some major feat; anyone familiar with it can speak to that?), and he created some fun, bubbly tracks that he decided to share with the rest of us. I think you're setting your expectations too high by thinking everything the man releases must be some ground-breaking and forward-thinking reinvention of electronic music - sometimes the most simple, basic form of things are the ones we appreciate the most. The innovative stuff sometimes falls flat after time as that was the only merit it had going for it to begin with. And Richard running out of ideas? I highly doubt that. If anything, I think these recent releases are the beginning of a 'second act' akin to his 90's period and the best is yet to come... I couldn't agree with you more.

Successfully managed to do this as well!

I'm going to play this soooo many times. I've been listening to the Analords all this week (the ones from the Rephlex site) back in the day, these were on heavy rotation, looks like it'll be the same for Cheetah! Found my old cheetah joystick the other day "the bug". And my Atari ST :-)

This EP is fantastic!!!!

Got it! Excellent EP!!!!

by some, of course. Syro is my fav album of his. My top 3: 1.Syro 2.Drukqs 3....I care because you do 2 more Oh god yeah!!!

Whoops! Bloody phone!!

Despatched :-)

I hear ya!

There was the Atari 520 ST and Atari 1040 ST. I had a 1040STE, my first computer (in 1987). So did I!! Still got it somewhere....

Just listened to it 3 times. Very enjoyable! :-)

:-D !!!

I embraced Syro from the moment it was released. So looking forward to the Cheetah EP!

I mean, if you disagree with the expectations that's fine but i don't think they're unreasonable. It's like if i bought a can of beer from my favourite beer company, took a sip and there was orange juice inside. Turns out the company's switched to producing oj instead. Sure it's gonna quench my thirst, but i'm not gonna get all the fun extra things that came with drinking beer. So i'm disappointed because i wanted a beer from my favourite company. The company's done nothing wrong, i'm just a little sad. Aphex Twin is not a production line based company, he's an artist. There are musicians who work this way and release another album in the comfortable old style (AC/DC and others), but I have never expected Aphex to be this type, as with Squarepusher and others of that ilk. I can be disappointed too if it's not quite what I hoped, but to expect it to match my own invented / preferred ideal is unreasonable. At no point had Aphex ever promised or advertised himself as a beer supplier: we get to drink what he serves (and I prefer OJ to beer anyway). Syro wasn't what I was expecting*, along with certain other music he's made, but then, there was never any formal customer / supplier contract stating what I was to receive. I can lump it or leave it, I can be sad, but there was never any promise made to be broken. Any promise was in my head and nowhere else. *although I love it just dandy now**, having erased my own expectations and come to love what the album is, not what it wasn't **sounds better on vinyl*** ***imo I started listening to Aphex Twin when drukqs came out and love everything he's done (icbyd is amazing!) but I must admit that I listen to the Analords and everything after mostly nowadays.

bah, why does this dude bother? Could bare to watch this all the way through. This guy is so annoying! The way he pronouncers' Autechre for example. WTF!!!

There have been on Amazon Yeah and were quickly removed. What's the problem with Aphex Twin samples being on there?! For example, they never do that with Autechre.

Why is there never any previews for Aphex on bleep?!

Agreed!

Oh god yes! This sounds good :)

Ordered. Can't wait to get it!!!

This is fantastic news!!! I love those Cheetah tracks ?

I haven't enjoyed an album this much by them since Quaristice.