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if you look at my avatar, there does seem to be some sort of logic to the sequence (that's all artworks animated in sequential order)

I really wish I knew. I'd love to be able to get my hands on one of their recent patches and just play around with it. Anyone know if the sounds are being generated in software or are they controlling nords/machinedrums etc with MIDI output from their laptops?

The pricing seems about right, it's basically 5 decent length albums... so that's £5 / £7 / £8.60 for each album in MP3 / WAV / 24bit WAV. That's actually pretty good value imo.

^ i was thinking the same thing earlier actually

those comments... claiming that syro is 'lazy' too? wtf

With disk space so cheap nowadays I don't see much reason not to go lossless if you're really into music, it's nice to have the .flac files (plus log and cue if it's from a CD) just so you know you have a true digitised exact copy of the CD that you can use to create more identical CDs in future or create as many transcodes in as many formats as you like from.

fingers crossed for an interview soon, would be good to hear some of the background to this release

the sound on this release comes alive on speakers better than headphones imo, can often be the other way round with ae. sounds almost 3d at times. Lots of detail to be caught with headphones though.. like a lot of what sounds like room recordings of the track playing out through monitors sampled back into the track and fucked about with? idk but generally the sound / mixing / mastering / eq of this thing is amazing

I've listened to 1, 4 and 5 so far and they're all really great, there's only 2-3 tracks that I didn't immediately like. Still got to listen to 2 and 3 though

This ultimately links you through to here if you try and buy https://bleep.com/release/73327 It 404's currently but I guess when it goes live we might have some details about physical formats

If they are doing physical I imagine it will be on the ae bleepstore, and those that already bought the tracks will have a discount applied..? also, it surely couldn't fit on either 2xCD or 4xLP. maybe the physical will be like an elseq best picks kinda thing that's more of a typical album/double album length?

i like how they've used (what sounds exactly like) microphone recordings of the tracks playing out in a room in some segments of the tracks I've heard. adds a cool extra dimension to the sound, fixes my only criticism of the ae_live 'sound' which is that it could seem a little flat/2d at times. what a beast this thing is though, thought I was spoiled when exai came out... then ae_live... everything I've heard sounds great so far. disc 4 is standing out, but not heard all of them yet. is this counting as a new LP then? also someone commented on fb "Hi Warp, media outlets stating that the new EPs will be released physically via your label. Truth?"

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so still no official story on what this is exactly? livejam studio edits? bunch of EPs? 5-part album? I'm guessing it's gonna be digital only seeing as there was no physical pre-order put up at the time of sale.. seems in that way they are differentiating it from their usual studio release strategy? unless they've just given up on physical releases for good

The artwork is mesmerising when animated.