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    elseq 1-5

    in Autechre

    Posted

    Physical release on floppy disk, please!

     

    Also, Warpbot says "Autechre have released ‘elseq 1-5’, a collection of new music, available now exclusively on AE_STORE", so no Twelbs. Right?!

    The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)

    in General Banter

    Posted

    Not a comic book reader, but I was really engaged during this episode. Heart pounding in the throat in those last twenty minutes. I do agree that not knowing who gets killed was vastly unnecessary. To me, the point of this confrontation was to show that Rick's group isn't on top of things, even though they thought they were. I really want to see what happens next, and I don't need a cliffhanger like that to keep me interested.

     

    I'd probably dislike these things a lot more if I read the books.

    Autechre - Kalpol Introl (live 1994)

    in Autechre

    Posted

    I was playing this track last friday night, but then my friend came over and said this sounded like generic hipster garbage :( lol

     

    Oh man, my cousin once said he could conjure up a beat in under a minute easy that would ass-pound the Autechre track I let him hear. Which he then did. Safe to say I haven't stopped laughing ever since and don't plan to stop 'till this earth ends.

     

    Actually, I feel bad for all the næysayers...

    ALIEN / PROMETHEUS / COVENANT / ROMULUS - SPOILERS INBOUND!!

    in General Banter

    Posted

    ugh. if the characters are all as stupid as the ones in Prometheus i'll skip it because it'll just fill me with rage. dumbest scientists in the galaxy. terrible characters. morans!

     

    When will they stop sending ships out where everyone gets killed and no one ever returns??

    Well, I'd send my stupid scientists on missions in space to not ever return if they were of the Prometheus sort. I wouldn't make a movie of it, though...

    draft 7.30

    in Autechre

    Posted

    Great post, t yst r.

     

    I am glad I am not the only person on WATMM being passionate about music. Thanks.

     

    actually you're wrong, you are the only one who is truly passionate about music. not just on WATMM but in the entire world. and possibly throughout all of history. really. give yourself a pat on the back, champ.

     

    My interpretation: Jev relates to the story (and the ten year effect it had) and expresses it as such. This does not imply he (or she?) thinks other WATMM'ers aren't passionate about music.

    draft 7.30

    in Autechre

    Posted

    Why would strong self-criticism make you less humble in what you do? Or the audience you'd make it for. You can be super critical towards your own work, be satisfied with it in the end and release it to the public, because you think it's worth releasing. Then you can still be humble towards its public reception.


    Also, what's the threshold for being either humble or self congratulatory, as you say? Does banging together a track in half an hour and uploading it to soundcloud make you a selfless, humble artist? It could be a catchy and fun track, but most of those things aren't worth anyone's time. I wouldn't bother anybody outside my own circle with how I progress in something on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. So who's being self congratulatory?


    On the other hand, sometimes it's better to not leave something to your own critique. Public reception can be something in it's own right, even when it differs from what the artist thinks of it. The original Star Wars trilogy is something quite different towards the public than it is to Lucas, making it something better (imo). Same goes for Donnie Darko, where the public embraced a very different (and better) view on the story than the director's.


    I think what Jev's saying is that only Autechre manages to push (almost) all the right buttons. They do for me too. That doesn't mean that I don't also love Steve Reich, Maurice Ravel, Morricone, BoC, Broadcast, Stereolab, Tortoise, etc to death. They just do that thing which makes them overall the best.


    Anyway...


    As for Surripere; I went through something that made me love this track to actually despise it. This is 11 years ago when I discovered Autechre, Surripere being my 'cherry pop' track. Enthusiastic as I was I told my mates about what an earth shifting experience I had hearing it, praising its arhythmic properties. They wanted me to let them hear, so I warned them that they probably wouldn't like it. So with this in mind (me repeating several times how harsh it is and that they probably wouldn't like it) I put on Surripere. Biggest mistake I could have made! During the first bit one of them comments it's not harsh enough, so I say "it's coming, wait a bit". When it hit the 3:56 mark they all went WTF! "So yeah, there you have it. That's what I was talking about, guys." Then... Apparently the music was rather offensive to their puppy ears and minds, cause they couldn't have me switch it off fast enough. I didn't switch it off fast enough, so one of them did, saying; "hey, this is what good music is" putting on Grandmaster Flash. Me thinking; "Now, I know that Grandmaster Flash is good music, but that wasn't the fucking point of this, you twat! And I already know that you like it, because you don't play anything but Grandmaster Flash. I didn't expect you to like it, but thanks for making me feel bad about the whole thing!" After that they all though I only ever listen to arhythmic stuff, turning the whole share-music-interests into a farce. Even when I was playing my music to myself, alone, and the Grandmaster guy would enter the room, he'd switch it off only to leave the room seconds later. Fucking audio fascist!


    So...


    the despise-a-beautiful-track thing is because I link it to this event. I wasn't able to enjoy it after that for almost ten years, skipping it on most of the plays. Finally I've shaken the bad mojo off of it. I may seem overly sensitive about it, but the music I like does actually mean a lot to me.

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

     

     

    Okay gonna be 'that guy'...

     

    Does anyone have the alt version of the 'Uchoob trax links' file which is shorter spelling out letters or something? I never got that one and would love for someone to hook me up! I have all the other ones as far as I know.

    I'm also missing this one.

     

    Also apparently Harmonicom 13 had a different mastering uploaded? Does anyone have both? Are the differences significant?

     

     

    Added the louder version of Harmonicom 13, file is titled "269a - 1214 - harmonicom 13_128.mp3"

     

    The first one's length is 6:31.746

    Second one is louder, length is 6:32.243

     

     

    There's more loud in it, making it longer. Right?

     

    Dur?!

    How did you get into Ae?

    in Autechre

    Posted

    True. That's the Ae way. I spent so long listening to Confield and when Draft came out I wasn't into it at all at first apart from V-Proc even though I was listening to it constantly trying to ''get it'', months later Sudden Roundabout and Surripere clicked completely then Untitled and I was bewildered again. But yeah, Surripere as an entry point is mind blowing, given all that I got through to get to it. Ae rock.

    *listens to Draft all the way through on headphones*

     

    It is indeed a strange one to start with, but I fell in love with it right from the start.

     

    To me, Draft sounds like Confield grown up. More focused and concrete. I even see it as the apotheosis of their sonic development as a band, something they worked towards. Untilted took it in a different direction. More horizontal than vertical (if that makes any sense).

    How did you get into Ae?

    in Autechre

    Posted

    My -now, then not yet- girlfriend introduced them to me with 'Surripere' and it blew me away. It opened up a whole new world of sound to me, sounds I didn't know existed. Before that I listened to shit like trance (Bonzai etc.) which didn't really satisfy me anymore. Artists like Cass & Slide sort of appealed to me more, but I was looking for something different entirely. Then Autechre happened! Never listened to my old tunes again...

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