Perhaps he blew his budget on Syro’s blimps and stencils, because Aphex Twin just announced a new batch of songs via the very traditional method of email. Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt 2 comes out “everywhere” on 23 January.
While described in the artwork as an EP, the release clocks up 14 tracks in total, given titles in Aphex’s garbled computer language, such as “piano un1 arpej” and “diskhat2”.
News of this fresh material won’t come as such a surprise to fans, however: in an interview ahead of the release of his first new album in 13 years, Aphex Twin explained that he has an extensive archive of unreleased music in the vaults “pretty much ready to go”, and that Syro represented about a fifth of what he’s done over the past 10 years: “One album out of many possible ones,” he told Rolling Stone.
He added: “I’m in that mode now, so hopefully I’ll stay in it for a while,” James said. “I’ve got a few more things planned – at least a couple more albums, some EPs, things like that. Some more dancey things I did about 10 years ago. Experimental things, noise things, weird things. Shitloads of stuff. They’re all pretty much ready to go.”
Syro was released in September 2014. It clocked in at No 4 on the list of the Guardian’s album of the year list.
Tracklist: Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
1. diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13
2. snar2
3. diskhat1
4. piano un1 arpej
5. DISKPREPT4
6. hat 2b 2012b
7. disk aud1_12
8. 0035 1-Audio
9. disk prep calrec2 barn dance [slo]
10. DISKPREPT1
11. diskhat2
12. piano un10 it happened
13. hat5c 0001 rec-4
