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  1. 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 

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  2. 10 hours ago, DyeMyBlueBlack said:

    Dude, Ae didn’t come up with the title

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

  3. 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

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  4. 16 minutes ago, ignatius said:

    maybe the Sean ama on twitch? he said in that that LP5 was using the Environment window in Logic a lot  "like doing max before we used max" and a friend said they should check out Max after he saw their logic patching. and i think after that he talked about EP7? i can't recall for sure though.. 

     

    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 

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  5. On 5/4/2023 at 5:15 PM, ignatius said:

    el seq has some great stuff on it. a lot. i made a playlist of all my favs pretty soon after getting it. i've since added one or two tracks to that playlist. there's a handful that just didn't fit for me. but the rest i absolutely love. for me it only got deeper w/more listens. there's clusters of tracks that fit together really well and w/some moving things around in the playlist it's much more cohesive for me. it's stellar. some of their best work i think. 

    NTS is epic. it's an opus. have removed a few things here or there from my NTS FAVS playlist but it's pretty stacked. i've listened to it a lot. it grew on me really quickly.

    their mixing/mastering is so good. stellar. 

    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. 

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  6. 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)

  7. 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 

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  8. 5 hours ago, IOS said:

    also "statistical and universal" at 0:13, and "simply dismiss" at 1:04

     

    7 hours ago, toaoaoad said:

    There's also "pay attention" in IO

    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” 

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  9. 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 

  10. 37 minutes ago, rekosn said:

    bit OT but, anybody remembers something from the mxlr 2020 streams that was like a radio broadcast...cant remember the name but I looked it up and it was like 6 cds of assorted transmissions and stuff. dont feel like going thru the streams rn heheh

    The Conet Project?

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  11. On 5/18/2022 at 1:09 PM, sidewinder said:

    Looking at the RYM releases, Cavity Job is included but I'd venture to call that a single. Basscad,EP is literally called an EP so for me it counts. Plenty of artists have released EPs consisting of remixes. Discounting the 1999 Peel Session (though I'm not sure why it would be discounted), EP7 is the 7th.

    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. 

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  12. 18 minutes ago, someguy said:

    dunno about skull snap ep, but it's practically confirmed somewhere that sean did all of iss:sa i think?

    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 

  13. 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 

  14. 45 minutes ago, Amen Lare said:

    I recall Sean Anthony attributing that track to DMX drum machine hacked (not his exact word) in some way. Can't find the exact quote.

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

     

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  15. 3 hours ago, Boxus said:

    I was listening to Mouse on Mars and thinking about how great that time period around 98-02 was for music in general (and 'IDM' in particular). In addition to Ae you had some of the best ever material from Aphex and Squarepusher, BoC's Geogaddi, MoM's Niun Niggung and Idiology, Brothomstates' Claro, Amon Tobin's Supermodified, and so many more.. I'm sure my millennial nostalgia is a factor, but I do think it was really one of the most interesting eras in the history of electronic music.

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

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  16. 33 minutes ago, kuniklo said:

    This thread motivated me to go back and listen to Oversteps again. Like a lot of Ae records I'm enjoying it much more in hindsight. I think I just really hate the 3rd track but the rest of it is right up there with their best work.

    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) 

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