[APHEX TWIN - SYRO]

very surprised at the negativity here. This is quite possibly the greatest electronic music album ever released in my opinion. Quite clearly the work of a genius to me. If you factor it down to individual elements - melody, percussion, mixing (as in mixing the sounds into space, not mixing tracks as in the dj'ing term), production, progression, timbre, ideas, range of different kinds of tunes, everything is completely next level. Everything he has made previously has lacked on one or more of these factors IMO (apart from maybe rushup edge)

[APHEX TWIN - SYRO]

sound quality of this album is fucking amazing. 24 bit waves, 2 krk 8's and a krk 10s sub. oh my analord

So far, I don't like the album either.

 

To be honest, it sounds like richard noodling around with his hardware, no more no less. The tracks sound sloppy and disorganized. Contrast this with the sort of clarity he gets in, say, analord, SAW, and melodies from mars tracks. You may say that's a different style, but even on drukqs (e.g., vordhosbn), he has initially complicated tracks which are based on some clean principle (there are very few distinct thematic elements in vordhosbn, which then get layered and organized beautifully).

 

Also, I'm missing out on any big structure in the tracks. They just feel like pointless meandering. This is especially painful since so many glorious aphex tracks have a point that takes time to reveal (the journey remix, bwoon dub,acrid avid jam shred, etc).

Arguably I should listen more to find more structure. hopefully I'm wrong, and will see after more listens. But for the time being, my feelings on the release make me so sad about it that it's painful to put it on. I'm currently listening to other aphex which is just a world of difference....

 

 

well hopefully you'll figure it out. Feel sorry for you if you don't

[APHEX TWIN - SYRO]

 

 

 

I like 4 bit 9d as well, but… at 1:24 there's this lovely melody, which is repeated at 1:31 but altered in exactly the way 90% of mediocre producers would do. It makes me cringe everytime. That has never happened with Aphex so far.

 

Funny, I noticed this as well. I think I can safely say it's the first time I disagree with a compositional choice of his.

 

Sounds fine to me. If you have a problem with it then you'll be disappointed in like a fourth of the RDJ album jees.

 

 

Oops, sorry, was wrong then. Better start liking it RIGHT. NOW.

 

 

You may be right that this isn't the first time a melody was transformed in a foreseeable way, but this is the first time it bothered me.

Aphex Twin usually means: I don't hear the creator, the music just *is there*. With this melody I heard the process, “Hm, what are we gonna do here, let's cut this note and stretch the others and… yeah, that's alright”. It takes me out of the mood (a mood I never reach with most other musicians).

 

Sure, sounds nerdy or exaggerated, but it's sort of the standard of way of listening I've come to love so much with his music and it's a bit of a disappointment here.

 

 

I would agree with you if the melody in question was the backbone to the entire tune, but you're talking about a melody that is repeated once with a variation on the original theme and then thrown away

[APHEX TWIN - SYRO]

 

 

 

 

heard it three times now and it doesn't work for me. not at all. i think the whole thing is a complete mess. to me it sounds like he was fiddleling around without having the slightest idea where to go with these tracks. i like minipops, the metz-thing (is the live version faster? not sure) and the piano piece. 180db is funny and likeable, it sounds silly, playful and completely idiotic. a good joke, not a good track. papat4 starts off great but destroys itself on the way. syro has its short funky moments, but the rest is so random and messy. i really hope this album was the last part of this anal/tussy phase. i love the guy, but... 4/10

 

Random?

 

Youll figure it out after a few more listens I reckon

[APHEX TWIN - SYRO]

IMO better than drukqs, yes. It's got more of a coherent journey too it. And the it's mixed down more aesthetically

[Dave Monolith - Welcome]

If this doesn't have hints of dave I dunno what does

 

[Dave Monolith - Welcome]

beatwife - cornbrail acid II. It's like dave but with a pair testicles (more breakbeat)

[Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence]

mine hasn't turned up yet - is it any good?