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My recollection of that time was Sean doing a lot of extended musical excepts set to video clips that reacted to the sound… though according to Sean it was the other way; the music reacted to the video feed. And while that seems like a very cool thought, i have doubts. I tuned in through multiple days and there were some days that had very similar loops/elements that popped up regardless of if the video feed was a play through for a race car game or an amorphous object moving about, or even the chat window turning itself into an amorphous pulsating blob. sure sure multiple days/times did have sounds that were very different. But at no point did I see any signs that the music playing was directly influenced by the images (given several dramatically different images accompanying similar musical moments) and really you can catch up on a lot of the music/visuals through YouTube archives likely what your really want is the juicy chat content covered in parallel to all of this stuff. sadly this twitch chat was not dense with info in the same way most of the 2022 twitch ama streams went. most of it, as I remember, were people just posting LOLz in the chat window, and Sean periodically dropping in and using the Moderator-Sword to delete people

Edit: (Shit never mind sorry)

Ohr-Teh-Chay?!? seriously?

My understanding was the Ae did title this one EP7. it was LP5 that was retroactively titled by warp

IMO the only tDr works I would call “good” are Chiastic, Envane, and Sign/Plus. Maybe Exai too, but slightly less so. While the rest aren’t truly bad, they just don’t do it for me. the best Ae album art is non-tDr (EP7, Confield, Draft, Untilted) imo imo imo

He may very well have discussed this in the twitch ama. But I’m with DyeMyBlueBlack in thinking it came about earlier. I definitely remember knowing for multiple years that Liccflii was admitted by them to be fully in Max well before twitch was ever a thing I suspect it’s come up in multiple spots, and I have not time to check the old 2013 AMA, but I suspect it was mentioned there

Yes elseq is full of quality content to make a great mix of “best of” but that was my main point. I can pick and choose a lot of amazing stuff, but the whole thing is still not up to their standards (imo). this is also partially my issue with quaristice. Lots of great material (and supplemental material) but the full document released to us was not to their level (imo) meanwhile NTS is monstrously longer, and yes has a moment or two that I willingly omit, but is overwhelmingly stronger as a complete thing I don’t know. If they had just exercised some better quality control then elseq could be masterpiece. But instead it’s like a Van Gogh with tiny little pieces of shit smeared all over it.

Amber for sure. not because I love Amber (but I do like it plenty). but there are few albums I would place below incunabula (other than albums by artist that are already pure garbage). It’s just not the style of music I would ever gravitate towards. Too repetitive. Almost boring. Cheese ball cringe (imo)

Very disappointed in these results I certainly love chiastic slide, and it was my first introduction to Ae. But Confield should be the clear winner! and the comments about people not choosing Confield because they have to be in the right mood just doesn’t sit right with me. some of what I consider the all time best albums are ones I might reserve for special occasions. Because my reaction to them is SO intense and it completely takes over my world, so I have to set aside time to let myself become completely taken over by them. chiastic is an album I can put on and love, but still be a functional human being. Confield takes me over and I cease to exist in the physical world

Jam like a ‘tecker (jam like Autechre) is the obvious choice

While I might not be correct, there are also parts in IO that sound like: ”let’s go back to being a person.”.. “Let’s go back to the imagination”… “This solution doesn’t have an equation”

I have decided the pummeling 1st Barbican set was Sean, and the hip-hop 2nd set was Rob. I base this on pure conjecture, wild assumptions, and a little dash of nonsense. These are the facts people

Just acquired the set today. This is definitely my kind of AE. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. Will definitely be purchasing the other sets whenever they release Thanks Sandra and Ronette

There are numerous tracks on elseq that I absolutely love, and enjoy more than the majority of NTS or SIGN/PLUS however, to this day I still cannot shake the opinion that it is overall “less than” / weaker within the more recent material. it’s just not a cohesive document the highs are extremely high, but there is too much that makes me wish for tighter quality control. Meanwhile NTS is long as all hell and yet with rare exception nothing seems to overstay its welcome. perhaps I am in the minority on this though

The Conet Project?

This is basically how i think it is counted too cavity job is a single, basscad is an EP, and to make EP7 the 7th requires Peel Sessions to not be counted. while I agree it makes no sense to not count Peel Session, it seems consistent because to make Move of Ten be the 10th would also mean Peel Session 2 wasn’t counted either I’m not saying it makes sense and I agree it’s all likely part of a troll on the notion of what is an EP vs an LP In my mind cannon EP7 is much more than an EP, and I’d put it as one of my favorite albums.

This gets thrown around a lot, but I would disagree that it’s “practically confirmed” someone asked Sean about it in the AAA, and while he didn’t say no, he seemed put off by the idea people thought that

Could someone perhaps explain how this follows a Fibonacci pattern? im sure I’m just being dumb numerically I understand what the Fibonacci sequence is, but I fail to hear anything in that song which sounds like 1,1,3,5,8,13,etc

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

I just have a hard time believing the drum pattern is just some samples on random shuffle I mean, I may be wrong, but I just struggle to believe it

I will also say that of the post-Exai material, elseq is my least favorite however some tracks on elseq are absolutely amazing, and are superior to much of NTS. But the “whole” document just doesn’t hold up well enough. It would have made a great ~2hr album with certain tracks cut out

Around the 8min mark in this interview he says Pen Expers was made with a minidisc and pausing a DMX drum machine:

Very much agree. supermodified and out from out where for Amon Tobin in that era. Plus Radiohead had Kid A. Golden era.

I skip known(1) every time I listen to oversteps the rest of the album is good but that track is just annoying (mostly because of the skipping-cd sound)