The reclusive electronic music producer Richard D. James, who works under the name Aphex Twin, has hinted that he may be preparing to release his first collection of new music since his 2001 album “Drukqs.”
He mentioned in 2010 that he had completed six albums’ worth of new material, but none of that has seen the light of day. And an earlier album, “Caustic Window,” made it as far as the test pressing stage, but was set aside — unheard outside Aphex Twin’s inner circle — until June, when one of the test pressings was put up for sale, and fans on an electronic music website undertook a Kickstarter campaign that allowed them to buy the disc and release digital copies to contributors.
Over the weekend, Aphex Twin fans in London spotted a green blimp with 2014 emblazoned on it, the zero replaced with the round glyph that Aphex Twin uses as a logo. And others in New York posted pictures on Twitter of a Banksy-like stencil of the logo near Radio City Music Hall.
On Monday, Aphex Twin took to Twitter himself and posted his first message since 2012.
That message provides only a web link that cannot be reached using a conventional browser, but which the music magazine Stereogum reports can be found on the Deep Web using a Tor-capable browser. No need to try this at home: The magazine reproduced what you’d find there. But the link includes what is believed to be the name of the album, “Syro,” and includes the Aphex Twin logo, the title and what appears to be a track list, including “minipops 67 (source field mix),” “XMAS_EVET10 (thanaton3 mix)” and “s950tx162asr10 (earth portal mix).”
