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What did you guys think of Lynch's Inland Empire?
it's my fave thing he's done
it's weird cos a lot of my mates slagged it cos of the film quality, but i reckon it appeals to me even more than film cos i like some old video art as well
the way it flows is amazing tho
it's sad that he said he won't do any more, but he's old and i like enough of his music for it not to be a huge deal. but man, he was getting so good there
He's certainly not retired yet. There was an article on him in NY Times this year mentioning he's working on a new script, which wasn't denied by Lynch
The quote:
A few months later, I reached Lynch by phone at his hotel room in Paris. Bob Roth had told me that Lynch said he was working on a new script and that it was typically dark. When I asked Lynch about this, he paused, annoyed. “Bobby’s got a big mouth,” he said. I asked him if the script was influenced by his work with T.M., and he said no, absolutely not. This will be a David Lynch picture, he said, adding, “I think people would probably recognize it.”what a beauty
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Several questions all related:
1. When one of you have made a new bit of music - do you call it a "beat" a "track", etc.
ie. Do you say "Hey Rob/Sean, check this new beat I made"
I call them beats due to childhood hip-hop associations.
2. When you are amazed at what you just made but the other half of ae is not around, do you then go to your wife/girlfriend/lady/etc. and say
"Dear love, check this new beat I made"
3. Does said wife/girlfriend/lady/etc. then begrudgedly listen and say "That's nice"
4. According to your mood, do you then think "I'm half of fucking autechre - there are fuckers on the internet who'd be going crazy for this shit right now!"
1 both, beats for beats - tracks for tracks, but yeah i know what u mean, or we say, "so Sean, what'r u sayin'?" after a friend of ours - who is fully hiphop
… pretty much sums it up.
2 yeah, its not quite the same response tho'
3 no, something more amusingly patronising. =)
4 i try
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How do you like watmm sense of humor?
Also...we somethimes make jokes about you but it's all love.
When/if u get really angry about something how that looks like?
Thnx forever! Come by sometime.
yeah we can take it - also we understand i reckon.
cya xox
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Sean and Rob, it has been a true pleasure participating in this q&a with you. Your music has been an inspiration and a conduit to new and heightened experiences for me and my best friend since we first stumbled upon it. Thank you so much for your music and your time and best of luck and health to you both in the future.
thanks cebec, really appreciate the buzz.
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It was raining yesterday in Memphis, it's rather clear and sunny here today.
What's the weather like over there for you boys?
dark, post wet
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my only questions for AE, sorry if asked before
autechre, what the hell should i do with my life?
what types of objects could i attach to drumset for cool autechre sounding drumset?????
bump:
also - amazing set in toronto in 2008. music has always been a huge part of me, and that set literally changed my perception of music overall.
do you guys like tool?
u mean drumset IRL or Vdrums? u tried tinfoil yet or crackers (edible)
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Is this your last night answering questions? Everybody is saying their goodbyes! (I haven't read up on what has been said today
)yeah shame, joyrex says no (from midnight CST)
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3 questions that are really just one :
Being constantly working / listening to music, do you feel it does still move you as much as when you were young teenagers, discovering everything ?
Do you think your sensitivity evolved a lot or are your obsessions pretty much still the same ?
Do you feel more creative now or in your earlier days ?
1 more
2 more
3 more
yeah i'm not kidding,cos its just causing a wedge shape for most things i like, and in doing this as much as i can sort of feeds back in. even something as silly as hearing some new band doing something re-done say but as 'new people', as shit as it sounds, even that adds to it all. we get asked so many times ; when u were a kid what did u want music to be like in the future?
sup. had to get a beer, Soz
What are you sippin'?
tyskie atm.
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sup. had to get a beer, Soz
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No question, just a cheers for alerting me to this D.M.S. track as played in one of your old IBC pirate shows, I love it so much
I think that's me done for questions - I've bugged you guys enough! Huge thanks to both of you nutters for going all out here over the last few days, mammoth effort and I'm sure you realise it's hugely appreciated by the old WATMM heads and newcomers.
Don't be strangers
ok, roger wilco
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Thanks for answering so much :) thanks for so many great releases. Hope you come back here one day :)
ok thanks - yeah !!
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CU Ae guys it was a pleasure. Also my Augmatic Pisspot asks for a visit, don't want to go into details though. Have a good life!
yeah thanks - u look tired, take it easy from now on ;)
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what do your parents think about your music?
also, will you name my casio hdd600 (a watch, not audio gear, sorry)?
my mum, definitely thinks its cool, she prefers say early stuff, but she's into the new stuff too. she likes FSOL and so on.
your hdd600 is called Son
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Hmm, maybe do a break in the middle of the set to do body part naming requests?
argh lol
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Bumpage:
If you were given the option to select one of your tracks to go on a golden record* to be beamed into space, which would you choose?
*Incomplete without surface noise
yeah this is a variation of the faves question
i dunno man, fuck, you decide
Your golden record track will be Drane 3
aye good choice
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this has been so awesome and fun. when you get your live stuff worked out and come to nyc, what should i yell out to reference the epic watmm aaa?
wow, dunno. whats most universal here after all this?? bearing in mind now though there are more guests on here than users, so there might be some lurkers using this hallowed chant without having earned the pleasure.
Do either of you have a record that you own which you enjoy so much, you have doubles (triples? etc.) of it?
yeah loads,
PE
mantronix
actually mostly hip hop
I hear Guild Navigators chattering in Tankakarn. did you enjoy the original Dune?
yeah Dune, i did, i think i was too young to criticise it so i was lucky to have it memorised as perfect
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Either of you suffer from migraines with an aura (that look something similar to this) -
First time I had one I thought I was going blind, now I embrace the fractalline (is that a word) beauty of them ... until the nausea and headache sets in that is.
no, I'm lucky i don't think i ever had one
no me neither
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This one is probably difficult so just whatever comes to the fore of your minds at first: What are some of your favourite pieces of euphoria inducing music (considering that different things are euphoric for different heads)?
'now this is fun' by depeche mode always gets me in a really up state, but it's not really euphoric in the way most people mean (i.e. 'too many fizzy synths')
wait, you named someone's left nut Hitler, but shied away from proposing baby names? Clearly you don't fully appreciate the solemn, terrible responsibility inherent in naming someone's balls. Next to that, naming a kid is a walk in the park...
i know and hitler? how lazy
you could have called it bobby
cool, bobby it is, let's hope it's not a girl then. Will let you know in 6 mos
thats a bit like my name, anyway bobby's nice for a girl too.
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One last question:
Do you want to get down?
Yeah, this
fully dope.
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wait, you named someone's left nut Hitler, but shied away from proposing baby names? Clearly you don't fully appreciate the solemn, terrible responsibility inherent in naming someone's balls. Next to that, naming a kid is a walk in the park...
whahah
true dude. christ, u got me. its just that yeah easy to be silly with ppl s testicles, but yr offspring?
what if the kid sues me in 30 yrs time or whatever ? can u sign something to make it all safe
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This one is probably difficult so just whatever comes to the fore of your minds at first: What are some of your favourite pieces of euphoria inducing music (considering that different things are euphoric for different heads)?
isoprophlex - afx
mountain goat - amorphous androgynous
polynomial-c - afx
circles vicious mix - john & julie
temple - jon hopkins
jungle - jungle wonz
allowance - isolee
work harder/work softer - perc
no.3 - VA chain reaction
X2 - electric soul
indicatif roissy - parmegiani
from the hame hill - brian eno
untrue - burial
i could go on and on, mbe
all diff contexts but pretty much euphoric to me
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what do you think about Terrence Dixon?
dunno, haven't been played any - detroit guy right? . sorry any good suggestions?
his classic releases on Tresor, Background recs
and recent are not bad too (as Population One)
http://hardwax.com/69500/population-one/random-variables/
he is kinda voodoo man
yeah thanks , we like the magics
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no questions left, but endless gratitude for your music that had been following me for years, throught ups & down, days & nights. hugely impressed by what you achieve. thanks a lot for the questions answered, the time spent here & the ID tracking of that Beaumont Hannant tune !! :-)
cheers
yeah np at all, massively happy u found Beau, get any stuff of his
basic data manipulation
sculptured
texturology
mostly mind blowing - yet, too clean to be so, somehow.
yr welcome,
Just want to say you guys have made my whole week... really appreciate it.
Hope to see you in NYC soon.
ok - like new york a lot. hope so!
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Greetings again! you still keep up strong, are you glad it's almost done, or could you keep on a couple of days longer? I must say this is fan-service like I've never experienced before, just super cool of you guys to do this! :)
ok so just a a couple of follow ups from previous posts.
- so Sean, while we're at the topic of Lost and SW.... any opinons on JJ. Abrams taking the SW franchise further with epVII? On imdb the original cast (Hamill, Ford, Fisher) is even rumored to reappear in their original roles. Will you watch it when it's released? or just forget that this whole thing is even happening?
- and speaking of books/literature, were any of you guys into Roald Dahl as kids? He was my childhood favourite, Willy Wonka, The BFG, the Twits and so on... so many memorable characters! his adult fiction is pretty ace as well, read anything of that?
some more random bits (a few questions from a post way back I think they were left unanwered):
- Dali or Escher? (any thoughts why you'd prefer either)
- Did you know that "pule" actually means "to fuck" in Norwegian? was that a conscious choice when naming the track or coincidence? I think it's pretty cool anyhow, and the track is great as well. It follow that pattern from Amber and Tri Repetae were you had one more ambient track towards the end of the album. It's almost like these albums (amber, tri repetae, chiastic slide) creates some kind of a narrative in a way (but then again I guess your whole discography taken as a whole, does :)
- what do you guys think of xploding plastix? like tracks such as these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJ998Trn7g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDz1Q_pxgc0
- What kind of teas are you mostly into? had noteworthy lately you'd like to recommend?
really not feeling the kazoo in here or the washboard stuff - thats totally wack, but the carpenter esque stuff with mellotronage at the beginning is nice - overall comes over as knowingly bad goofy. some sounds in it are good - like deep acoustic percs, but its not really focussing on any in particular, like needlessly switching to the wrong instrument every time i notice a good bit. seems like they're not 100% sure what they like imo.
cheers Rob, interesting views on these tracks! (tbh i'm not into music making at all, and ehm.. know very little of the technical stuff behind the process. but I really appreciate your thoughts and opinions, very interesing). . oh.. and ehm.. feel free to consider providing something on the other q's to in my post, I'm really curious about the pule track for instance! :)
oh and one more thing, I'm sure many in here are curious about this:
*** drumroll please ***
who would win a match of arm wrestling between Rob and Sean?? and a match of pool (8-ball, etc)??
sorry for all the nagging, I'm just very eagerly excited about the fact that I'm even having an interaction with the mighty AE! it feels strange kinda... in a good way of course!
yeah ok, sorry if i was too nitpicky - hot/cold those trax. oops
but yeah re: norway 'pule' - its quite a slinky number too so could be deployed to good use?
funny someone posted that æ means 'I' in finnish was it? so yeah theres probably a few
i think seans lower arms more chunky so i'd put money there if i were u. i might win pool. we'll run that test next outing and report.
no prob man, I don't think it was too nitpicky. What do you think of Biosphere btw, while we're on the topic of electronic music from Norw?
hmm yes I suppose pule does have some seducing powers, I'll keep that in mind! while on the topic... any suggestions on how to have more luck with the ladies/dating scene? all kinds of tips is highly appreciated!
ah haha, æ is actually Norwegian again, and yes it's a dialect variation of Norwegian "jeg" which means "I" (æ is pronounced as a combination of a and e, as the form suggests). I happen to speak that dialect actually. Lot's of the vocabulary in our dialect consists of single vowels, like for instance the sentence " æ e fra Norge" means "I'm from Norway" Actually the æ vowel existed in Old English, as in words such as æsthetic and encyclopædia. Reminds me off.. .isn't the track name "dael" from tri repetae actually an old English word, "dæl", meaning "part" or "unit". In Norwegian the word for "part" is "del". (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dæl) pretty cool stuff this I think :)
Awesome! I'm eagerly awaiting that report! =)
Thanks alot man for ur time!
ah yeah re Dael. i mean it could be said as dial, or dale or whatever, so i'm glad we came upon autechre, and like that start and end of = ae, it works well in my local ancient surroundings in many ways that are cool. so yeah. thanks for the details there norway cru
It must have been asked, but didn't see an answer. Was the Japan bonus track on Exai, 18 (keyosc), a reference to the stupid WATMM misunderstanding of a supposedly new Autechre album called Kiosk?
hahah i don't think it was…. : -
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