Gotta love the Pitchfork interview. Here:
TL;DR:
*RDJ: "I don't think these Syro tracks are particularly innovative. There's
nothing there that I need to explore more. It just totally makes me want to
not do anything else in that particular style. Maybe these Syro tracks are
more pleasurable to listen to, but it's not that new for me. Maybe just the
composition's changed, but there's no next-level beats on there. I've kept
it like that on purpose.*
rest: (
http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/aphex-twin )
RDJ: But *I don't think these [Syro] tracks are particularly innovative*.
Maybe in really subtle ways they are, for me, but *there's nothing there
that I need to explore more*, so it's not going to put me off releasing
anything. It just totally makes me want to not do anything else in that
particular style.
RDJ: I've been doing loads of electro-mechanical stuff with drum robots and
things like that. I've got four MIDI pipe organs and a Disklavier
controlled piano and computer-controlled percussion. I've done loads of
stuff with those, and none of that's on [Syro], that's all for other
projects. That other material is maybe even better than--well, I prefer it
to this album, but I don't think it's as accessible. But it's more
unique. *Maybe
these [Syro] tracks are more pleasurable to listen to, but it's not that
new for me. Maybe just the composition's changed, but there's no next-level
beats on there.* I've kept it like that on purpose. All the other stuff,
which is kind of uncategorizable, is waiting to be fitted into another
folder somewhere.
Pitchfork: What does the release of this album mean to you?
RDJ: End of a chapter. It's like, "OK, fuck that lot off." Now I can now
concentrate on some new stuff. And you can't quite do that unless you've
released something. I mean, you can, but you can't properly. Because I've
been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that
production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last
one's out.
Also, if you're making things at home, there is no structure--no end, no
beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in
between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, "OK,
that's the end of that period." Otherwise, it'd be really hard to catalog
it. But my filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether
to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived. So with an album, at
least it's been set in stone and backed up 100,000 times, or however many
copies you sell. Hopefully five million backups!
Pitchfork: Yet Syro holds together well. As a listener, I wouldn't
necessarily think these were songs that had been made in different years
and different studios.
RDJ: I suppose that's good in one way. In another, I'd like them all to be
totally different, because I've got all these different setups, so it
should be really different. So it's probably good for [the album], but it
actually makes me think I'm pretty shit.
On 19 September 2014 10:46, Andrew Hime <andrewhime@verizon.net> wrote:
quoted 15 lines Think a friend gave it to me last night... listened to it twice. I like
> Think a friend gave it to me last night... listened to it twice. I like
> it, though it's going to take some time to grow on me. The single and the
> last track are the real standouts, though there's at least one other one on
> there that stuck with me as well. I think it's a bit odd if he's calling
> this one pop compared to what he's going to release, it's less pop to me
> than most of his previous works, the melodic intent is reduced.
>
> If, after listening to this, someone would maintain that The Tuss is NOT
> Aphex Twin, that person should probably not be trusted.
>
>
> On 09/19/14, Sam Loschl<watercat1996@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4826148
>