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  1. On 2/5/2024 at 6:46 PM, jaderpansen said:

    been a while. goosebumps all over. fav (ae) album. probably perfect. refuses to age even the tiniest bit imo.

    was interesting to read about their ambition of incorprating song-like structures on this one (‘how does songwriting work?’) in that recent droid interview. makes me feel kinda pedestrian rly, but makes total sense i guess. i'd further argue it's the most "albumy" of the lot in the sense that every track leads very distinctly into the next, there's shitloads of interludes, tracks kinda "frazzeling out", paving ways and what feels like a comparatively clear overall dramatic arc imo. also it just sounds so fucking good, crystal clear like.

    lp5.

    I feel this way about Exai. LP5 is dope tho.

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  2. 36 minutes ago, WurstPLUS said:

    Do you like the mastering of that guitar part? IRL, that is a loud part, but here in the recording the volume is about the same as the first incarnation of the refrain. I understand Pop music does not like much dynamic in volume, but here...

    Also the mixing of that guitar part - compression kind of muddy.

    I have the same problem with that section. Just when it's supposed to explode with those distorted guitars it gets awkardly quiet and the sound is sort of ducked. Such a great song but I personally don't understand this decision.

  3. 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.

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  4. 7 hours ago, splesh said:

    It's been four years and people still can't help but rag on NTS Sessions (and elseq 1-5 for that matter) regarding their lengths. Okay...don't listen to it all in one go. Problem solved. I don't think "too much of a good thing" applies to music that you can listen to as much or as llittle of as you'd like. For some reason it bugs me... enough to bump this thread after it being dead 3 years.

    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.

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  5. 1 hour ago, X4creek said:

    I think this album finally clicked with me just now

    Blyz Castl kicks so much ass also

     

    I definitely want to listen to the rest of the era today (including that replicated live set). I think this will be pretty fun!

    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.

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  6. 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

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  7. 59 minutes ago, yekker said:

    So is it most people's opinion that the live stuff is better than elseq and nts? 

    As far as new stuff goes, new being exai and newer, I'd like to know what I should be checking out because I've kinda been ignoring ae for a bit and tonight I decided I want to get back into the stuff.

    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.

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  8. 2 hours ago, thefxbip said:

    Morton is a legend. What a boss. Kind of AE spiritual grandfather. He's an old man and he still gets young people pissed off at him because his music is too weird. Not a lot of old men can claim that.

    I reserve this title to Bernard Parmegiani.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Amen Lare said:

    (if you insist on appreciating) I dunno, it strives for this very common, watered down kind of beauty

    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.

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  10. 5 minutes ago, Amen Lare said:

    All end is a good example, nobody cared that much when it was at the end of bladelores years ago, then, by virtue of longevity, title and disposition it became this colossus everybody has in their head.

    I don't think this is true. Certainly not in my case. It's always been one of the most fave moments on Exai. And I feel like that section was discussed and appreciated a lot back in the day.

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  11. 25 minutes ago, BobDobalina said:

    Soz I was just going off the sample track.  I thought the others were listenable but apparently not :cattears:

    I also might have to walk back that comment about the album being available for download now, will know for sure when I try to buy it this evening from heimcomputer.  It definitely doesn't say anything about a pre-order, nor are they unwilling to take payment.

    Oh, it works now! There was no playable track on bandcamp when I wrote the comment. Looks like it was taken "down" for a minute. I even tried refreshing the page then and tried to play the embedded track on various sites but nothing.

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