dr lopez Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I'll be wearing black face for Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I will yell TRI REPETAEEE in BK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I will pull an orubasarot and drive around with a mini camcorder and yell and scream and bare my teeth at people in line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I will do yoyos too close to Sean's face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I will blend in with the crowd and enjoy the show.Also Vancouver show ticket arrived. Yuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drillkicker Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I will stay in the back and sexually harass other spectators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adieu Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I'll be wearing this at the show if you want to say hi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS20 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I'll be the one parked in the alley with a black windowless panel van with a sign on the door that says "PLS ENTER HERE FOR TASTY, FUN, REAL, SAFE FREE AE TIX. PLEASE ENTER!" Just look for the plate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I will stay in the back and sexually harass other spectators. I'll be the one parked in the alley with a black windowless panel van with a sign on the door that says "PLS ENTER HERE FOR TASTY, FUN, REAL, SAFE FREE AE TIX. PLEASE ENTER!" You guys just might just give the venues reason to increase their security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I haven't been to an ae show before, and I haven't been to U Street before. What should I expect there? Would you recommend bringing my earplugs to this show? Ever since that Swans concert, my hearing has been pretty awful so I want to be careful from now on. You should bring earplugs just in case, but in my opinion you won't need them at U-Street. The venues/parties with legit sound systems properly calibrated by soundguys who know what they're doing (like U-Street) should actually not give you tinnitus at all. I'd definitely bring them, any decently loud sound for more than a few hours will cause permanent hearing damage. Shows always sound clearer listening with earplugs anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Good call on the earplugs. I'll make sure to bring some too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YELLOW Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I plan on yelling "ITS LIKE A MOVING VISUAL...AN AURAL PAINTING" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 please no one yell anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drillkicker Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Shows always sound clearer listening with earplugs anyway Yeah, that's sort of why I want to bring them. Whenever a show gets too loud my hearing ends up distorting about an hour into the set and at that point I can no longer discern the individual sounds and it all just sounds like a big distorted mess to me. Not all shows do that, but louder ones like a lot of metal shows always do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 I plan on yelling "ITS LIKE A MOVING VISUAL...AN AURAL PAINTING" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 SSSSTOP IT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 i plan on yelling this (Sitting in the dormitory room just after class on Thursday, Achilles changes into his gym clothes as his roommate Tortoise bursts through their door in a fit of happiness.) Tortoise: Achilles, have you seen this? Achilles: What? Tortoise: Do you see? Yes? I'm referring to the object, though small in size, quite interesting in stature, I am holding in front of you now. Achilles: It's a CD. Tortoise: Brilliant! I can see I have come to the right man. Achilles: ... Tortoise: Never one for suspense, I'll begin the next phase of our conversation: It is a new album from one of my country's most respected groups of musicians, Autechre. Achilles: Okay. Tortoise: And I am holding it in my hands. Achilles: Okay. Yeah, I heard a new one was coming out or something. Tortoise: Or something indeed, for I think it may be their best. Better even than the fineConfield. Do you remember the one? Achilles: Yeah, to be honest, I kinda stopped listening to them a few years back. I liked the first one, I think I liked EP7. I don't really remember much about it. Tortoise: I would happily grant you a very big favor in return for a moment of your time as I explain to you my thoughts on this record. Might you humor me? Achilles: Hey, hand that to me. Over here. Thanks. Yeah, whatever. Tortoise: Thank you. For starters, it's called Untilted. Isn't that funny? "Un-til-ted." They really do have a good sense of humor, don't you think? Achilles: Um, not really. It's kind of stupid. Tortoise: Well, I think it's a decent title all the same. But funnier still, I will admit, is that it's comprised of eight letters. Achilles: Oh shit, yeah, that's hilarious. Tortoise: Which is to say, funny when I recall that their previous album's title was also comprised of exactly eight alphanumeric characters (not counting the colon, of course). As was the full length before that-- Confield. Don't you think that's strange? Achilles: No. Tortoise: And even stranger still, Autechre-- A-U-T-E-C-H-R-E-- has the identical number of characters. Why, when I happened upon this, I was struck by the similarity in form. Achilles: Okay, way to go off the deep end. Are you going to tell me now that they're geniuses and I can learn trig faster by listening to them? I mean, what's funny is I might actually study to them more if I could hear a beat somewhere. Tortoise: As it happens, I do believe they are masters of form. But then I also believe they are as instinctively driven as any other musician, if that's not a contradiction (and I don't necessarily believe it is). Take "Pro-Radii", the third track: It begins with pounding, industrial-machinery sounds, as if stomping through a foggy alley using meter-thick blocks of iron as shoe souls. Yet, it slowly mutates into something lighter, with stuttering snare and what sounds like a digital sitar drone in the background. Achilles: You sound like a critic. Tortoise: And I haven't even gotten to the punchline! As it changes into something even further removed from the weighty opening, as eerie overtones ring above the pinging, metallic percussion, I realize the piece has arrived at this point in segments, lengthy and subtle, but obviously delineated to be sure. This, or course, is exactly the same scheme much of the dance music-- that with a "beat"-- follows. Measure by measure, units of 8, 16, 32, 64-- it proceeds formally, yet changes its "colors" quite unpredictably. Achilles: Hey, hand me my bag. Tortoise: And the first piece, "Lcc"-- Achilles: haha Tortoise: --"Lcc", with its rapid-fire artillery precision, tight snare, and clear, meteredrhythm, could easily be mistaken for dance music. In fact, I'd move some limbs for you, but would hate to influence your judgment negatively. Achilles: Next. Tortoise: Achilles, if you'd listen, you'd hear that the beat you are looking for is here, and an especially well-put-together one at that. Autechre are rightfully accused of being influenced by hip-hop, even as I imagine a rapper laying behind the beat might find himself on the wrong side of "1" from time to time. Achilles: So, you're saying it's got an interesting beat as long as you don't expect any kind of groove. And you know what? It's not even like I'm turning to Autechre for "grooves." Where the fuck did all the cool IDM even go? Like three years ago, you couldn't stop finding cool shit, shit that nobody'd ever heard before. Tortoise: I'm saying that interest is found where you are sufficiently motivated to look. "Fermium" would fit perfectly in the Berlin mix you made for your nephew. A little busier, perhaps, but... Achilles: Oh man, I forgot I was supposed to copy that for that board chick. Fuck, hey, can I use your computer? The library's closed today. Tortoise: The point is, despite their abstraction over the last few years, Autechre aren't an altogether different beast than when they started. In fact, they're smarter, more refined. Achilles: Look, I'll grant you they sound more complicated, but so the fuck what? I mean, I heard Draft 7:30. I liked it at first, until I realized all this form and content or whatever you're talking about is totally transparent. Dance music? Come on man, you need a more than "beat" to make dance music. If anything, I think they're out of ideas; throwing in a bunch of random shit to hide the fact that they peaked about seven years ago. Tortoise: My point is, I am still moved by this music. Not just the form, not just the hidden beats and seemingly chaotic shifts in meter. I believe artists are those who instinctively recognize the ways of things, and translate them in ways ultimately true to their spirit. Ours is a "seemingly chaotic" world, but underneath the maze of people and opinions, there is order, truth, and beauty. And maybe, just maybe, Autechre have the rare gift of showing us just where we stand, turbulence and all. Achilles: And my point is, if it's driven by form, it's a pretty messy, lazy form-- certainly no more structurally sound than any other software wank music. On top of that, if I'm supposed to "feel" this, to pick up on some obscure metaphysical in-joke, I'm not-- isn't it the job of a good artist to make that shit clear? Either way, it fails for me. Autechre decided to go their own way, fine, you know, just don't expect me to call them "geniuses." Tortoise: [Sigh] Alright, Achilles, I can see we're going to have to agree to disagree. I'm sorry to have wasted your time. Achilles: Oh don't worry, dude, just wear headphones when you play that stuff. (With all apologies to Douglas Hofstadter and Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, which I'd send you if I had an extra copy.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WNS000 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Definitely do use earplugs on the show no matter what others may say. Their music is incredibly loud and full-spectrum. (tinnitus owner here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secularlove Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 What earplugs do you guys recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 What earplugs do you guys recommend? Etymotic ER20 (or Hearo Hi-Fidelity plugs, which are the same thing), but it's a bit of a pain in the ass figuring out which size to get the first time (basically buy both the large and the "standard" (small) and try them and eat the cost). And I usually bring a pair or two of cheap foamies that will cut 32 dB, just in case it's absolutely brutal; though the foamies muddy the highs too much. The ER20s will only cut around 12-20 dB with less of an impact on clarity, though there is still an impact. Also make sure you twist them when you pull them out, I fucked my eardrum on Saturday at a concert with an absent-minded pull-out, and I totally knew better. So no ringing or muddied sound post concert, but two days of ear popping and painful yawns). Oops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellyrajah Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 What earplugs do you guys recommend? Etymotic ER20 (or Hearo Hi-Fidelity plugs, which are the same thing), but it's a bit of a pain in the ass figuring out which size to get the first time (basically buy both the large and the "standard" (small) and try them and eat the cost). And I usually bring a pair or two of cheap foamies that will cut 32 dB, just in case it's absolutely brutal; though the foamies muddy the highs too much. The ER20s will only cut around 12-20 dB with less of an impact on clarity, though there is still an impact. Also make sure you twist them when you pull them out, I fucked my eardrum on Saturday at a concert with an absent-minded pull-out, and I totally knew better. So no ringing or muddied sound post concert, but two days of ear popping and painful yawns). Oops. couldn't have said it better myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secularlove Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 What earplugs do you guys recommend? Etymotic ER20 (or Hearo Hi-Fidelity plugs, which are the same thing), but it's a bit of a pain in the ass figuring out which size to get the first time (basically buy both the large and the "standard" (small) and try them and eat the cost). And I usually bring a pair or two of cheap foamies that will cut 32 dB, just in case it's absolutely brutal; though the foamies muddy the highs too much. The ER20s will only cut around 12-20 dB with less of an impact on clarity, though there is still an impact. Also make sure you twist them when you pull them out, I fucked my eardrum on Saturday at a concert with an absent-minded pull-out, and I totally knew better. So no ringing or muddied sound post concert, but two days of ear popping and painful yawns). Oops. See, I wasn't sure if I should go the ER20s or the ETY Plugs. The Etymotic website has an ETY Plug combo w/ both sizes for the same price as the ER20s which is quite tempting. I don't go to concerts much, but my right ear hasn't been picking up bass all that great lately and higher frequencies are beginning to hurt. Thanks for convicing me to go with Etymotic though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I will stay in the back and sexually harass other spectators. I'll be the one parked in the alley with a black windowless panel van with a sign on the door that says "PLS ENTER HERE FOR TASTY, FUN, REAL, SAFE FREE AE TIX. PLEASE ENTER!" You guys just might just give the venues reason to increase their security. this place already has a little bit more of a fascistic mid 90s SF club vibe to it, the bouncers act tougher and there are more of them than necessary for the space. definitely not as casual or relaxed as places like Public Works or F8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoomTssPhace Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 will be at the Orlando show in a stretcher w/ an IV drip if need be I can't believe it's at the Social. I can't wait! Cool, didn't know there were Orlando WATMMers. The Social is probably my venue of choice for this, I am so fucking pumped. Some questions - 1. Does Ae usually sell swag? 2. How "live"/distinct are their shows? Thinking of catching the Miami show the next day because holy shit Ae is in the united states. I logged back into watmm out of sheer excitement for this tour. Still in disbelief they're playing in the downtown of my city...and in a venue small enough to smell their sweat wouldn't mind running into others from here though. Already taking two buddies, one of which is yet unfamiliar with ae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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