Aphex Twin blimp over London

[deadly_habit]

its interesting no doubt but that sq album feels odd because of that principle imo

I look at it as composing like in a tracker or DAW just instead of a mixdown it's played via robots live, kind of like when i record a live syth part to midi and tweak and adjust it then run it back to the synth for audition with different patches etc.

I'm not prejudiced towards having robots do stuff- quite the opposite actually it's super, but imo he has not managed to deliver an album via that method that can live up the same usual quality or standard.
So if it excuses itself, it's by being superficially 'cool'.
I appreciate a jazzman turning his back on what is such a definitive plane in his work, the feeling or groove, and trying to hit up that maximalist potential 12 finger guitar represents, but imo it took it down a notch or three..

I dunno I loved Cosmogramma more than his last EP and especially the alt takes.

[esfandyar]

sounds so much like his tuss work. love it.

[deadly_habit]

I'd love a new analord

[hubb]

its interesting no doubt but that sq album feels odd because of that principle imo

I look at it as composing like in a tracker or DAW just instead of a mixdown it's played via robots live, kind of like when i record a live syth part to midi and tweak and adjust it then run it back to the synth for audition with different patches etc.

I'm not prejudiced towards having robots do stuff- quite the opposite actually it's super, but imo he has not managed to deliver an album via that method that can live up the same usual quality or standard.
So if it excuses itself, it's by being superficially 'cool'.
I appreciate a jazzman turning his back on what is such a definitive plane in his work, the feeling or groove, and trying to hit up that maximalist potential 12 finger guitar represents, but imo it took it down a notch or three..

I dunno I loved Cosmogramma more than his last EP and especially the alt takes.

oh safe - i'll be sure to check that out

[nowaysj]

Dudes, I'm really tired, are we talking about two different artists here?

[deadly_habit]

Dudes, I'm really tired, are we talking about two different artists here?

3 aphex, squarepusher and flying lotus sorry to deviate in this thread about fly lo and sq

just to get back on topic

the single and lp has shipped and been leaked

[DiegoSapiens]

emm yeah i was supposing you guys had already heard the full album

[deadly_habit]

i did and love it, you were right caustic window was better, but Syro is still a great return to Aphex and better than most releases.

[3za]

Got it today, with sticker, and some card

Just listened now, it gets pretty funky in places, and got some hiphop swagger to

That interview was dope, best one he has done.

[DiegoSapiens]

i did and love it, you were right caustic window was better, but Syro is still a great return to Aphex and better than most releases.

i liked it but after so much time i expected some evolution in his sounds, this sound to me like some unpleasant analord bits

[DiegoSapiens]

Got it today, with sticker, and some card

Just listened now, it gets pretty funky in places, and got some hiphop swagger to

That interview was dope, best one he has done.

i like the MTV one too

[AxeD]

it gets pretty funky in places, and got some hiphop swagger to

Yeah I was afraid of that. I've only heard 1 or 2 tracks, but it's not for me I think.

It's no saw v2 then.

[nowaysj]

Face it, he opened the door to all this, back in the day, and many have rushed through, he is still making the same type of work as back then, but much has flowed into this space, making this work less then remarkable. Not that it isn't good, it is just not next level in the way his earlier stuff was, in that earlier environment.

If he did take the current technology et al into the next level... jeez that would be amazing. I feel like the next level is out there, coming soon, new beat structures, new progressions, it is coming.

[esfandyar]

not as good as his caustic window lp? you guys are surely joking? this is far better.

it might not be as groundbreaking as the richard d james album but it's still so well done. his discordance he makes.. so aphex uuuggghhh. can't stop listening to it.

[3za]

it gets pretty funky in places, and got some hiphop swagger to

Yeah I was afraid of that. I've only heard 1 or 2 tracks, but it's not for me I think.

It's no saw v2 then.

Nope it's not.

Most of it sounds like the breakcore tracks from drukqs, but at 120/130 bpm. Though displaying more restraint, and coming across more defined.

The last track is a minimal piano piece also very drukqs like, but might be more up your street.

I feel like the next level is out there, coming soon, new beat structures, new progressions, it is coming.

last few years there has been some pretty next level music;
Amon Tobin's Isam Is pretty next level when it comes to timbre, just the actual music is a bit shitty. It's like a sound design orgasm.
Autechre's Exai, is pretty fucking out there timbre wise, and rhythm wise. It's abit like Isam, in the fact "the actual music is a bit shitty", though it's a lot more abstract, and synthetic.
Jon Hopkin's Immunity is very strong in all aspects, but doesn't really seem to push things that much further in any direction.

Drukqs though pretty old, is still the bench mark, Syro goes past it in some aspects, but overall drukqs is the better album. If someone made a album that sounded like isam, drukqs, exai had some strange 3way fuck, and made a baby, that would be the next level imo.

Though by reading that interview it looks like he is going to be following this album up, in the next few years with something more new. Maybe the next level...

[Phigure]

yeah agreed. reading the interviews it becomes clear that it wasn't really supposed to be the "next level" album anyways, and instead more of a bookend to this era of his production, which it achieves pretty well. good idea to give us closure with one last release in the more tuss-ish vein before he gives us something entirely new.

imo it's probably the most accessible album he's done, probably to serve as a bit of a primer for people who are new to him before the true next level stuff that's coming: "I've got a few more things planned – at least a couple more albums, some EPs, things like that. Some more dance-y things I did about 10 years ago. Experimental things, noise things, weird things. Shitloads of stuff. They're all pretty much ready to go. I haven't mastered them yet, but I should get that done pretty quick."


im just really happy that metz track is on it, even though ive listened to that youtube recording 1000 times

[esfandyar]

im just really happy that metz track is on it, even though ive listened to that youtube recording 1000 times

[3za]

imo it's probably the most accessible album he's done, probably to serve as a bit of a primer for people who are new to him before the true next level stuff that's coming:

I think it's the lest accessible albums he has done, not a pretty melody to whistle insight. Also it doesn't cover the whole range of his output like drukqs did, so not the best for an introduction imo.

[nowaysj]

Well, at least we're all at diametrical opposition.

[DiegoSapiens]

imo it's probably the most accessible album he's done, probably to serve as a bit of a primer for people who are new to him before the true next level stuff that's coming:

I think it's the lest accessible albums he has done, not a pretty melody to whistle insight. Also it doesn't cover the whole range of his output like drukqs did, so not the best for an introduction imo.

aphex said it was his most accessible album