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autism spectrum quotient score: 21
Exai gonna be full blown 50 son
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Jatevee C.
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The Untilted review is very silly for obvious reasons. It pisses me off a little bit to see one of my favorite albums described this way, and I feel like the album was totally disregarded. He's obviously making some fun out of the fans. Whatever.
But another part of me thinks some of it is pretty appropriate. Reviewing the album in dialogue format reflects the obviously wide range in opinions on Autechre. I think Ae is definitely something special, but most of us surely have friends that just cannot hear anything but colorless noise. But the Achilles/tortoise thing is over-reaching.Tortoise: My point is, I am still moved by this music. Not just the form, not just the hidden beats and seemingly chaotic shifts in meter. I believe artists are those who instinctively recognize the ways of things, and translate them in ways ultimately true to their spirit. Ours is a "seemingly chaotic" world, but underneath the maze of people and opinions, there is order, truth, and beauty. And maybe, just maybe, Autechre have the rare gift of showing us just where we stand, turbulence and all.Achilles: And my point is, if it's driven by form, it's a pretty messy, lazy form-- certainly no more structurally sound than any other software wank music. On top of that, if I'm supposed to "feel" this, to pick up on some obscure metaphysical in-joke, I'm not-- isn't it the job of a good artist to make that shit clear? Either way, it fails for me. Autechre decided to go their own way, fine, you know, just don't expect me to call them "geniuses."
I also think this last part is good for a review. The static, but not stagnant, feeling of blissful content I get from the middle of Augmatic Disport and the final third of Sublimit is a pretty unique thing that I don't get to experience much outside of music. Still very different from walking around my campus on a clear morning after finishing a big term project, for example.
However, I can totally understand the other view. I first started listening to Autechre soon after Untilted came out and I didn't respond to the music at all for a long time. It wasn't until one night as I put it on before going to bed and it suddenly *clicked* and I stayed up late repeating the album.From http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=94682
those of you Acroyear2 fans are gonna shit for this record. it's super-complex, beat driven, but not at all in a boring way. i'mloving it so far on first listen.On first listen I'd say it's a bit of a cross between LP5 and Untilted. It's very rhythmic, lots of hiphop influenced beats, startling sound design (ghost noises looming out from aural blind spots in a 'did I really just hear that?' way) - sort of reminds me of tracks like Acroyear2 and UnderBOAC off LP5 (which i'm very happy about) and yeah, it's got Oversteps' stateliness in there too, but then it's very long and I haven't quite digested the whole thing.More great news! Thank you. The covers of Ae releases are usually remarkably congruent to the music. By the color I wondered if it was going to be similar at all to LP5. I'm down for ghostliness; that's what made Confield and Draft so off-putting at first, and later the same reason I became so attracted to keep listening until I liked them.
Pretty cool message board too. I can't believe I've never visited it before. -
Whether you actually have Exai or not, I don't want you to prove anything, I've already read enough info on the album, I just want it to either leak or not, that's why I'm here all the time. If it leaks, I might download it, if it doesn't, I'll wait for it to be properly released.
So can we please stop the questions about whether or not Exai sounds like something we've already heard? Just wait for its release or leak, then you can listen to it yourself. I'm fine with answers or questions about pix's experiences and such, but I don't want every track explained in detail, no one can possibly know what it sounds like.
Please, just stop.
If some folks feel pixelives' impressions might ruin their first listen, it might be a good idea to use the spoiler tags as a courtesy to them.
I appreciate all the descriptions so far and they've actually convinced me to shell out the money for the vinyl instead of my original plan of dropping by my local store to pick up the CD. Since vinyl is generally expensive I usually only reserve those purchases for my favorite music, but it sounds very likely so far that this one will be well worth the money for me.
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It's rash for me to make a decision on purchasing music without proper reviews, samples, etc. but...
There's bits of Untilted in some of the beat fuckery, Oversteps lushness in pads, hints of 90's color and timbre. But done in a way that seems contemporary with production techniques of the more recent work. Big beautiful reverbs, etc.. Some very interesting twists and turns in some of the tracks so it is very far removed from the Quar linear jam type thing.Standouts will take a while I think. I mean it's two hours of music. Fuck. It was a bit easier to nail that down with the last LP, this is a different beast.Some of these tracks have things in them that seem like tracks within tracks to the point where I'm checking my itunes to see if it is actually a different song. Usually it isn't.
There is some Untilted type beat stuff. But it's less dry, harsh and vacuum-like. Lush?...but holy damn. This is exactly what I like to hear. Especially for a description written for other fans, not like a press review that takes half the time just describing Autechre in general. Sounds to me like this one has bypassed all the problems I had from Q and O that had prevented them from getting regular plays in my stereo. Righteous. Fuckin pre-ordered.
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perhaps something en the vane of rale or the last part of Perlence. Seems most likely
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It seems that set went over its schedule by about 32 seconds.
What a strange new direction
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spl9 on repeat for an hour
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Good spot, yeah it's a slightly downsampled loop from the opener of Calbruc -
That soundtrack was made by Front Line Assembly. They also have another album that samples Chiastic Slide quite a bit.
Not much of a gamer myself, but I played Metroid Prime as an early teen before I got into good electronic music. I remember being very impressed by some of the soundtrack. The general atmosphere of the game, I think, is primarily what has made it so memorable for me.
I've read that Ae were credited in the game, and that they were also initially contacted to write the soundtrack. If only; that would have introduced me to their works way earlier.
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Pretty sure that's just a cut from a Quaristice tour show or something, it's very familiar. I can hear the crowd in it. However, if they made a track with the concept I would certainly be happy!
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A double concept album about robot divorce
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I feel generally uninterested with the art at the moment. But for most albums the artwork tends to match the music pretty closely (prime example for me is Chiastic Slide), so I'm confident I'll grow to like it once I stare at it along to the music. Earlier I saw a face half-in-shadow in the center and now I'm starting to see it automatically.
I've been listening to Ae for a few years but only became a "fan" a couple years ago. This is my first pre-Ae-album anticipation. Has anyone else had the experience of disregarding the art and then "getting it" once you hear the album?
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Party time at the record store
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I was also concerned that it might be another Quaristice by the amount of tracks (main reason I prefer Quadrange is that the tracks are simply longer). But with 2 hours of music, the average run for a track is 7 minutes! I expect some long and fully-developed epics
(release date 04-03-13)
Is this English or American date notation? As in, April 3 or March 4? Because one of them is my birthday
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I laughed when I first heard the term. I'm not convinced the appeal has anything to do with aesthetic. It's a branch of the continuous indie movement, ironic references to culture during the audience's childhoods. So much retro going on here I'm beginning to believe that people really are running out of ideas. This is certainly glued together scraps from the bottom of the recycle bin. However, this does remind me of Oneohtrix Point Never's tape loops, which are not unlike vaporwave in concept. There are some that I actually really like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OcMocEoqQE
This example is also a slowed down loop of an 80s pop ballad, but somehow I hear something more relate-able than the original
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Altered carbon
Altered all the way
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Lot of pan flutes, Gregorian monk chants and samples of Cherlene Werner lectures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_y4-z-kDqQ
DEEP
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The whole quarter thing is so draun out
Are you on the Autism Spectrum?
in General Banter
Posted · Edited by Vilwx
Compared to people with Asperger's I have met, I know I'm just awkward and not autistic. But it's been slightly interesting to me since I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and found myself identifying with the narrator during some of his "unusual" moments. I scored a 29, which was a little uncomfortably higher than I expected.
I agree that the results can't be indicative of even having autistic behavior, but answering the questions is fun for self-reflection and the number results too for seeing where you fit relative to the averages. There's a couple more tests:
Empathy Quotient
Systemizing Quotient
which I scored 23 and 39, towards the autistic end from the average. I'm sure the first number is just due to moderate social dysfunction.