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honestly I like Oversteps a lot more than Untilted. I get why others feel differently though. These albums sort of represent the two extremes of their style - Untilted is the dry and Oversteps is the wet. I tend to prefer the wet. (though my favorite is when they take the wet and freeze it, resulting in the elusive "icy" sound, as heard on Confield)

sweet! this is weird and good

drum solo @ around 2:23 - but this whole track is fucking amazing

Yeah the run from 98-03 is the most exciting chunk of their discography to me, with every release representing such a huge shift in their sound. I have a lot of nostalgia associated with that era, 2002/3 was when I was first getting into them and those albums (Confield in particular) were extremely special to me in my high school years. But I'd also agree the most recent decade has been amazing. It's staggering just how much great original music they've been able to release in the span of a few years. And in terms of sound design they just keep getting better.

holy shit RIP... I've always drifted in and out here and don't know anyone all that well anymore but this just makes me realize how much I care about this community, it hurts knowing someone who was a big part of it is gone. thanks for sharing his work too, it's great stuff and a nice way to pay respects.

come on these guys are making hours of crushing, emotionally cathartic epics all day, you gotta love hearing what happens when they just want to unwind and make some chill electropop beats the Hell Interface comparison is spot on - this track sounds like something that could be on a MASK album

I like their music but I kind of agree. It's quite generic. but pleasant. they stick to an extremely predictable formula but manage to make some nice chill tunes with it

totally, Quaristice in particular felt very choose-your-own-adventure: do I want to hear the short Tankakern next or the long one? One Perlence or five Perlences? With PLUS I haven't tried resequencing anything but I'll admit I often just listen to the run of ecol4 -> lux106mod -> X4 alone because those tracks are so fucking great

I still expect the Cipater beat to drop every time I hear the beginning of M4 Lema

Celeste was great, I was really surprised how much it resonated with me emotionally. And fun jumpy jumps

lol my usb ports glitched out and the speakers disconnected right after the vocals came in. thought they just inserted like 30 seconds of silence before I realized what happened. awesome track though, love this beat.

oh damn nice!! new AE mix is always cause for celebration, and I especially like what they do with vocal tracks

working on music does not stress me out but sharing it does. I have an aggressive amount of anxiety about initiating any form of communication and if that communication involves self-promotion it's even worse. I haven't produced anything but nanoloop jams on my phone for a few years now.. not because I don't enjoy the process but because my inspiration has tanked due to ongoing depression. In 2019 I was getting pretty excited about creative coding/visual art projects but for the past year all I can get myself interested in is playing piano pieces (which is not really creative but motoric so it's easier to will myself to do)

I've been listening to elseq 3 a lot the last few weeks, it really does fit the moment well. 3 remains my favorite installment, and eastre is my favorite track of the whole collection. it's minimal yet so bold, just grabs hold and doesn't let go. deeply engrossing murky doomscape

every prog rock song when the vocals come in

I find this really striking in the first 3 tracks especially - they're each so distinct and different from each other. si00 in particular is unlike anything else I've heard, it feels like its own perfectly defined sonic bubble, and no matter how much I listen to it, it still eludes easy contextualization. Definitely very reminiscent of Confield in that way, I keep coming back to it because nothing else can warp my brain quite like it does.

fuck yeah. I made a reverb using a bunch of comb and allpass filters in Max a few years ago and it's been my favorite to use since. I added a slider that moves the delays between their randomized reverb-cloud values and multiples of a single value (making it work more like a harmonizer). it's fun to fade between harmonic and aharmonic reverberation.

sick, this is like an even more mega megamix it is pretty overwhelming though. i'm tempted to periodically switch the playback speed to .75 to give myself a break

F7 but there are a shitload of great runner ups like this track was a recent discovery I really fell in love with

I love this track

so much of Pharoahe Monch's work in Organized Konfusion is amazing. I love his verse at 2:35 in Releasing Hypnotical Gases. this gets me every time: Damn it's hard to breathe... But if I got one breath left I'll suck wind from the valley of death

i love this track, it always gives me the mental image of some futuristic cityscape shimmering in the sun. i get the same vibe from some of their other tracks that sound really bright like Nil and Fold4, Wrap5. it also reminds me a lot of eastre, since they're both composed of repetitive tones and bassy background noises with similar sound design (despite eastre having a totally different mood, so much darker)

Kendrick's verse on Isaiah Rashad - Wat's Wrong (1:45)

I love when you have a complex, intricate beat and then a real simple hi hat comes in filling each note to anchor everything. Aphex seems to do this a lot, like at 0:54 in Laughable Butane Bob