eclipsis

You know that one? 😮

Exai is their perfect album in my book. Perfect length, perfect blend of digital and "analogue" sound, perfect ratio of dry vs wet, of complex beats vs lush pads, top notch track sequencing - each track is very different yet they transition quite nicely into each other. I don't feel like there's any weak moment. It's definitely my number one AE album since 2013 and it got me through some difficult times that year.

I loved they older stuff. Didn't gel much with They Can't Be Saved (great sound design but kinda... boring?) but the new single sounds fresh!!

Well, it was presented as a four part thing where each instalment works individually on its own so I don't think it was ever meant to be listened to in full.

13 years to click with Quaristice? This gives me hope that Chiastic Slide might click with me one day ...perhaps in another decade or so.

This one was pretty cool though:

I loved Narkopop a lot but Rausch was just... I don't know, I just couldn't gel with it. I tried listening to it today once again but couldn't get through the whole album. I just don't like the sound design of Rausch I guess.

GAS - DER LANGE MARSCH is the 10th album from Wolfgang Voigt's impressive and timeless series of works and will be released on 3.12.2021 exclusively by Kompakt Records. The release is also part of the large Wolfgang Voigt art exhibition WERKSCHAU, which will open on the same day at Kompakt zu Köln in collaboration with Jens-Uwe Beyer Galerie (JUBG). At the latest with the release of the albums "Zauberberg" and "Königsforst", in the mid-1990s, one associates GAS, Wolfgang Voigt's very own artistic cross-linking of the spirit of Romanticism and the forest as an artistic fantasy projection surface, with intoxicatingly blurred boundaries of post-ambient infatuation and the impenetrable thicket of abstract atonality. The distant, iconic straight bass drum marching through highly condensed, abstract sounds taken from classical music by the sampler or modulated accordingly, and the enraptured gaze through pop art glasses into the hypnotic thicket of an imaginary forest, manifested over the years this unique connection of audio and visual, which to understand fully, then as now, would be neither possible nor desirable. Quite the opposite. The album GAS - DER LANGE MARSCH once again invites us to follow the deep sounding bass drum, to give in to its irresistible pull into a psychedelic world of 1000 promises. In the process, the journey leads us past stations of memories sounding from afar, from "Zauberberg" to "Königsforst" and "Pop", from "Oktember" to "Narkopop" and "Rausch", back and forth, now and forever. Way. Destination. Loop. Forest loop. No beginning. No end. https://kompakt.fm/releases/der_lange_marsch

i needed this

I guess I'm the only one who likes it here. Didn't know Halsey before. I've learned about the album via the NIN fb page the day it dropped and am kinda hooked since.

If you haven't checked Exai properly, do so. In my opinion it's their best album yet. It has everything AE is known for and feels very composed. Also the length of the album is perfect for what it is in my opinion. There's no weak moment. Well, I mean Exai + L-event actually. The original idea was to release 5 EPs but 4 of those EPs ended up as an album (Exai) while the 5th EP (L-event) is standalone. L-event was actually released only in an inner sleeve (sort of a fancy one) and fits into the Exai box. NTS Sessions have my second place among the new era of AE. It's long as fuck but filled with great ideas and stunning sound design. I enjoy AE_LIVE very much but can't say I listen to it that often.

I reserve this title to Bernard Parmegiani.

brotechre

Interesting. I don't think I've heard anything quite like this release. But I shouldn't be exactly surprised by the lack of attention given the fact that WATMM primarily focuses on those rephlex-esque cookie-cutter retro bleeps and bloops over 808 beats that all sound the same. I feel like when I see some to me unknown artist in the New & Upcoming Releases section with shitload of pages in the thread it's almost always that same tired and endlessly rehashed early 90s sound design. Clouth's stuff always sounds fresh to me. Oh well.

Bump. This album is so underappreciated here on WATMM it's unbelievable. Am listening to the vinylz rn and it's such a mindblowing shit. Casimir is one of the most beautiful tracks I've ever heard.