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    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    I absolutely love "recks on". Especially the second part. Those sweeping pads are really something beautiful. I love how the track keeps on going steadily, not too much mind fuckery; just an easy listening beat accompanied with a sweet autechrish vibe. A++

     

    My other highligts so far: irlite (get 0), deco Loc, bladelores, t ess xi, jatevee C, YJY UX and 1 1 is.

     

    I guess I like my Autechre a bit more downtempo, easy listening. Even though spl9 is quite something too. Mind boggling madness.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    Fredd E check out the Harrier/Gershwin and new Silver Cloud EPs as well if you have only heard the albums.

     

     

    ^ this is such a dope beat :music:

     

    Will check his EPs soon. Thanks for the recommendation.

     

    you have it wrong, i have a special disdain for the sort of muffled sound he does. I don't know why i hate it so much. Richie Hawtin never put his entire mixdown through a fake tape hiss filter and made it sound like it was playing under water. He was confident enough to put his sounds clearly in a mix. Consumed is probably the most 'muffled' album he did, but he didnt rely on putting the entire mixdown through an effect, each sound has a quality to it to give it that overall sound. Did i already mention that i don't like when an electronic artist puts his entire mixdown through some kind of muffling filter?

     

    it doesnt need to be complex. i'd just like to hear what music by Actress sounds like when its not relying so fundamentally on different forms of sound dithering effects. Once that happens we shall meet again to discuss new semi rational reasons why i dislike it

     

    /agree. I'll see you when the sun sets east, don't forget me.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    whatever autechre are doing in these new clips it just puts so many other electronic producers to shame. IT's soaked in a lot of processing and various effects sooooo much better than all these half-assed musicians who just put everything through record crackle filter or bandpass or sonic decimator or fake tape hiss filter. AE wins again. (fuck actress)

    Why the hate towards Actress? The last days I've been listening his three albums on Spotify repeatedly and I really like what I'm hearing. It's definitely a style on its own. Sounds fresh. Why comparing it to AE btw? I don't really see the connection.

    Other than that Actress mentions Autechre in interviews I agree; apples and oranges.

     

    Actress

    The way I approach music is much more from a sculptural perspective. You build algorithms. You can layer those algorithms so they become marble-like. Autechre do the complete opposite to what I do. You can see the axis, you can feel what they’re rotating around certain things. What I do is the same but I smudge it completely, so you can feel the axis but you can’t get that clarity of where it is. I like things to drip. There’s execution and there’s perfection and even though I’m a perfectionist I don’t like having something that’s so perfect you can’t see the flaws. You have to have a sense of there being a flaw in it, because essentially I’m human and I want a human aspect always to be there in my music.

    http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/13235/1/exclusive-actress-rip-film-interview

     

    And again, 30 second 128kbps previews dudes!

     

    Btw Obel or JR, can I just put the 30sec mp3-links here?

     

    cool so he admits he 'smudges it completely' the same facade all modern electronic shit 'abstract' producers do because they don't have real sound design skills so they have to absolutely soak the music and entire mixdown in shitty effects. Welcome to 2013 guys. At least when you're going to 'smudge' something , do it in an interesting way, not just turn all the dithering effects up to 11.

     

    >>>

     

    whatever autechre are doing in these new clips it just puts so many other electronic producers to shame. IT's soaked in a lot of processing and various effects sooooo much better than all these half-assed musicians who just put everything through record crackle filter or bandpass or sonic decimator or fake tape hiss filter. AE wins again. (fuck actress)

    Why the hate towards Actress? The last days I've been listening his three albums on Spotify repeatedly and I really like what I'm hearing. It's definitely a style on its own. Sounds fresh. Why comparing it to AE btw? I don't really see the connection.

     

    I don't hate him, but there is certainly something wrong with the level of worshipping of his releases from hip webzines up to specialist magazines like The Wire. I had listened to a lot of minimal techno and other non-idm electronic stuff back in 00's that had no attention from outside the scenes, and then Actress, sounding like complete and not always inspiring re-hash of those ideas, suddenly has unique style and fresh sound, talking about being opposite to Ae. A couple of years ago he also wrote on his twitter that AFX was god but current Zomby is probably better than AFX.

     

    wow, just wow. Most overhyped artist of 2012 easily, i guess this is what Terrence Mckenna meant by us reaching 'full novelty'

     

    his newest track sounds like he's doing flying lotus vs zomby (at their worst) through a fucking bit crusher, what the bloody hell has happened is my question. I'm not arguing with the fact that people get genuine emotional resonance from it... but are any actual music producers here in any way impressed by his sound?

     

    its interesting he would bring up Zomby because that's another artist who's amateur sound was mistaken by many as some kind of brilliant invention, when it seemed just sort of at best an 'enlightened amateur' approach.

     

     

     

     

     

    whatever autechre are doing in these new clips it just puts so many other electronic producers to shame. IT's soaked in a lot of processing and various effects sooooo much better than all these half-assed musicians who just put everything through record crackle filter or bandpass or sonic decimator or fake tape hiss filter. AE wins again. (fuck actress)

    Why the hate towards Actress? The last days I've been listening his three albums on Spotify repeatedly and I really like what I'm hearing. It's definitely a style on its own. Sounds fresh. Why comparing it to AE btw? I don't really see the connection.

    the connection is that Actress is wrongly described as being unique and original when Autechre knocks so many dicks out of their mouths its not even funny in terms of truly carving their own path instead of being a mashup of other previously existing avant-electronic producers (on RIP i hear Coil, basic channel, aphex and autechre influences blatantly being recycled)

     

    the only 'original' points Actress gets is using all these blatant influences to a 'bedroom hyper compressed 4 track recorder' retro fetishized modern sound that kids love these days. Not terribly original at all, and since the music is so basic and unevolving it actually is shocking to me how excited people are about the music.

     

    *crosses fingers he drops in this thread to face his reckoning*

     

    Since when does music have to be non-basic and evolving in order to be interesting? There's for instance lots of monotonous techno that a lot of people can appreciate in the right context. Not everything has to be oh-so-difficult production-wise.

     

    Also let's for instance take into consideration Plastikman / Richie Hawtin. His music sounds pretty "basic" with a lot of subtle progression/effects but still it's really interesting to me. It doesn't have to be overly difficult to the point where it's hardly listenable to be enjoyable. I also prefer the more easy listening tracks by Autechre. I can't get my kicks out of the too experimental songs by them.

     

    Which leads me to the following, your hatred towards Actress definitely stems from the lack of super-duper-production-techniques which you seem to focus on in all your rants about his music. For you it apparently needs to be super complex for you to be able to enjoy music. Luckily for you Autechre fills in that void a lot of times, but I reckon you are turned off by a lot of other music due to the lack of "intelligent production design"? Try listening his music from a different perspective. From a non-producer aspect.

     

    Why do I like Actress? His music is a fun listen. Cool sounds, nice flow. There are definitely influences from a lot of music subgenres I do also appreciate. It sounds really enjoyable combined. Perhaps not super original in a way, but still I haven't heard anyone else combining stuff like he does. I'm specifically talking about the albums: Hazyville (2008), Splazsh (2010) and R.I.P. (2012). I've been listening these three multiple times the last days; hadn't really heard of him before reading all the hate in this thread. So thanks for a fine recommendation. Appreciated! :)

     

    Also I couldn't really care less how music is produced. Wether it's produced in a bedroom with fruity loops or in a massive studio with a lot of cool analogue gear. To me, and I reckon also a lot of other music enthousiasts, the end product is what counts. In the end I just want to hear great music.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    whatever autechre are doing in these new clips it just puts so many other electronic producers to shame. IT's soaked in a lot of processing and various effects sooooo much better than all these half-assed musicians who just put everything through record crackle filter or bandpass or sonic decimator or fake tape hiss filter. AE wins again. (fuck actress)

    Why the hate towards Actress? The last days I've been listening his three albums on Spotify repeatedly and I really like what I'm hearing. It's definitely a style on its own. Sounds fresh. Why comparing it to AE btw? I don't really see the connection.

    Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

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    anyone else love the chord resolutions towards the end of Treale? something about some autechre tracks...it's like your ears are begging for the chord resolution and when it lands you're just like "fuck yesssssssss"

    I feel the very same about treale. We're talking about the part which starts for the first time at 3:45, right? Love that!

    Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

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    You received promo for Untilted and Quaristice you say. That leads me to think you will receive promo for Oversteps too? Right? RIGHT? :)

     

    haha yeah hopefully so, we haven't received it yet though!

     

    So you haven't received the promo but a, to me obscure, German radio channel did receive the promo?! Isn't that odd? If you think about it.. why does this German radio channel get the authority to play the VERY FIRST tracks over say for example Mary Anne Hobs? I reckon more people are familiar with Mary Anne Hobs.. it would attract a broader range of people... I for one hadn't heard of Radio FRITZ before...... and German > English, guess not?!

     

    I reckon promo cd's are sent out in batch? Why would they delay your promo disc? (for which magazine do you write?)

    Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

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    If it were a promo CD rip it would surely be in separated tracks. There's definitely something fishy about this but it all sounds indisputably like ae so I can't doubt the authenticity of the contents.... Maybe the form will be slightly different.

    You received promo for Untilted and Quaristice you say. That leads me to think you will receive promo for Oversteps too? Right? RIGHT? :)

    Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

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    Can Bleep please tell us in some way whether this is fake or not. I'm losing my patience. :P

    I second this. But like I've said some post earlier, if this latest leak turns out to be the real stuff (the more I listen, the more I'm convinced it is) then Bleep will put the downloads up real soon now. They need to counter the illegal downloading.

     

    If they don't put up the album this week, I think it's a fake one we've been listening to. I just can't comprehend if they allow ppl downloading the full album like this without doing jack shit.

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