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    draft 7.30

    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.
  2. 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?!
  3. 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).
  4. 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...
  5. Yes, this has a very Gerald Donaldsy atmosphere to it. Love it!
  6. Guess she must've been quite desperate to use a squirrel for it... She's creative though.
  7. Have been wondering about this for a while, but I thought I heard Jamie Lidell's voice in 'Shin triad' on Squarepusher's third album. He's not credited anywhere for it as far as I can tell. Seeing now that they did a live collab afterwards and that Lidell released music on Spymania, it doesn't seem implausible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G66o_ddSUj0 Perhaps this is common knowledge and I'll for a bit...
  8. Must've been a busy few hours for the thing during the flyby. Either that or it must have a shitty dial up connection out there to take so long :D
  9. Yes, so do I. But how stunning is it to think that back then "scientists" questioned the world around them that had always been the way it was. To question gravity for instance must have been unfathomable at that time. And that's just three centuries ago; Aristarchos of Samos proposed the heliocentric model in ancient Greece, even understanding stars to be other suns at great distances. An idea only proven more than 1500 years later.
  10. It would take a large amount of fuel to slow down in order to be captured into orbit, since Pluto has such a low gravitational pull. Same thing with what they needed to do with Messenger around Mercury. But I guess it also depends on what your objectives are. I would have preferred an orbit as well... They may need a reason to go back in a few years :D
  11. Interesting how dramatic the separation between the light and dark region is. Beautiful image, indeed.
  12. Almost there... The NASA's Eyes simulator is pretty nifty. Gives you a good idea of what goes on during the approach.
  13. The visuals in this video are nice, but the overly dramatic music and voice make it that kind of space documentary corny... The visuals should speak for itself, I think.
  14. Wow. Incredible journalism job there. Complete and utter bullshit. Those tracks are basically what this thread is about. The two hundred tracks are the ones on Soundcloud, not additional ones. Unless you just meant to point out that he (or someone) put them up on Mega... Anyway, the thread is an interesting read. You can 'relive' the excitement WATMM had through the days.
  15. Is this idea being promoted on more platforms than WATMM (since Joyrex is the one to manage the kickstarter)? We need to organize a TEDxWATMM event, people!
  16. lol and the name of the playlist would be: vocal music, the very best of. The fact that number two is missing from this list intrigues me and makes me all expectatious. Will continue to F5 for updates on this here list. No sleep tonight, I guess...
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