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I keep asking questions when you guys go to sleep so no sure if you answered or not?
DO you like doing the Sound On Sound and Future Music interviews where you talk more about your gear? Its always a great insight to see the studio and read about the gear, kind of like what you are doing now.
not really its kind of hard to get into details with anyone cos there are too many details and just knowing 1% is a bit weird cos it slants everything brutally
but we do em from time to time, not as often now but i think they get that we're not offering tips on what compressor to use to get that kick drum sound
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I don't remember seeing an answer to the piano question(s?), but I'm sure you have heard this:
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Quite fitting IMO.
You should do a piano-only track one day. Worked out great for Clark and afx and whonot.
yeah i really like this
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Some of you might have come across the "original track titles" going around when Draft 7.30 was released:
Benk Chin
nwnw8
606.ie
Reppat
Theft
Prince Moth Mothy Moth Moth
Vlimpton Alpha 5
Foam Conduit
Uprock
Kidney Bean
So, are these real? Can you tell us a little more about how you come up with your track titles?
yeah real, the actual file titles
i threw them on cddb before the release for a laugh to see if anyone would notice
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How important is isolation in the creative process? Do you guys mostly follow routine and habits or do you have to deliberarely get comfortable to start really focusing?
nah the zone hides everywhere, in all different activities and settings
there are people who think they need certain conditions to be satisfied before they can enter but they just locked themselves out of going there in certain contexts, usually cos going there caused some external problem for them once in that context
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That track on Across Uneven Terrain is uncharacteristically straight up techno (and some fine fine techno imho), how did that come about? Do you guys listen to an current techno producers?
yeah bits, i like rrose, kyle hall, cygnus, AnD, bits of perc, and other things who's names escape
that mix of VA was like a tribute to basic channel and mills really. what he sent to us reminded us of that, we kind of did an ae version of the idiom we thought it was in rather than of the track, while sampling his track, and making it all digital for sport
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how are your backs holding up? (eh sorry if this sounds weird)
i mean i do notice a lot of strain from standing, head down looking at gear, or just sitting at a desk a lot....
mine was a bit fucked about 10 years ago but i got a new bed and new chairs and it seemed to sort itself out
just don't sit in one pos for too long, keep moving round
few ppl i know use exercise balls to achieve this but i got a dead mobile chair and it works for me
had a standing desk type scenario briefly for a bit but reverted
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Hello Sean, Rob just wanted to say hello, been a while, hope you guys are well.
ooh hi rich
are you still in roswell?
do you attract UFOs with your special electronic apparatus?
I've noticed some of your tracks have this intense, paranoid kind of mood (e.g. Ipacial Section, Pencha, Dial). Are there any particular kinds of moods/atmospheres that make you feel accomplished by having woven them into a track? Or is there something else about the act of putting emotion into sound that you tend to aim for?
Basically, what is your ideal victory when finishing a track?
i dunno they're all different
we don't really aim for anything we just see what reveals itself over time
a bit like having a conversation with reality
hey fellas, thanks for all the music over the years.
my questions are: how do you go about your collaboration? does one of you start a patch and send to the other to build off of or is it more of a situation where you are working things out together?
do you approach the collaboration the same way on each project? i.e: one of you handles sound design and the other handles sequencing etc?
bit of everything really, we pass stuff back and forth a lot, in various states of disassemblage
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Is this the best fan photo of you guys on the web?
le rob aphex face
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could you please id this track (from old dissengage show around 95..)
i'd been trying to found out for 10 years.. Gescom ??
sorry its so short but i cannot add more..
beaumont hannant - anokhi
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q: i sometimes play ep7 when i want a girl to understand me. this invariably ends with her jumping from my car, screaming, rolling down a hill and hiding for hours until a passing trucker finds her. every girl i've let listen to your music ends up psychologically shattered. why is this? what do you consider your sexiest song? for me, it is definitely "autumn acid (aphex twin remix)".
1/10 come ooon
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You are influenced by a lot of hip-hop, mainly 80's. Do hip-hop artist that listen to your music hear that influence? How do most hip-hop artist or fans react to your music?
Outkast praising Squarepusher, Kanye West sampling Aphex Twin... Were there ever any big rap/hip-hop names that approached you for collaborations/productions, or wanted to sample you (or have?)?
Any well-known rapper that you want to be approached by?
*push*
lel kanye sampled afx, which track? didn't know about that
no clue i dunno how many hip hop ppl check our stuff
i know el-p likes some of it, he approached for collab once, might still happen i was busy as fuck at the time
i dunno there are so many i like, like asking me what's my favourite cheese or something
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Hey guys, I'm still here following this, which leads me to ask did y'all realize probably hundreds if not thousands of man-hours are being lost right now due to the obsessive compulsion to click refresh?
Worth it tho :)
Also I'm about to record a remix of my friend's track onto cassette tape, first feeding a few live tracks into a fostex x-18h 4-trk, then straight recording it using a technics rs-t911 double cassette deck....have y'all any words of wisdom that would be some things to consider?
Edit:
What it feels like in Memphis today
yeah do a few runs at diff levels
make sure the azimuth's sensible, if not then def run off copies to digi like as soon as you do it
other than that nah, i mean there's no rules
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rob and/or sean, is there any truth to this: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=733223
truth in what sense?
sean eats? another myth horribly destroyed imo
i know i should have said i need to perform osmosis or something
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are you guys enjoying this? it looks tiring. You are very cool to do this.
yeah its good
keeping track of it all is a bit kind of totally impossible due to navigation slowness so if i'm skipping anything just repost it
some stuff i'm skipping cos i already answered ITT somewhere
and obv I'm trying to do other things like eat as well
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when you guys are getting your live sets together, do you usually start with a base of the record you are touring on or have a whole new thing going on? with stuff like flex 96, it seems all fresh but the untilted tour had obvious stuff from the album which then morphed into stuff for quari. i havent heard any of the oversteps tour (hint hint)
im excited over what exai material could morph into live with all those huge grooves.
it really depends, with quaristice etc it kind of happened 'organically' cos we didn't have a full studio for a few months and we were jamming with sequences from the live set
and sometimes we take sequences from album tracks and throw them into whatever live set we're doing
but yeah for the most part we start from scratch
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpFwCN3TTEE&list=PLC37AC9E52F3C505F
1. There is a chance on releasing this in good quality without people? start in 4: 37 but also full would be cool;)
2. If there are other versions of songs from the Exai I mean Quaristice (Versions) only, that for the Exai 3. may in the future I will let your album or ep, I'd like the names for them;)
iirc jamie did record this set but he did a mix of soundboard and room mics, so no basically
oh sorry
your weird formatting threw me
2 there are but no plans to release any yet
3 can you rephrase that?
Thanks
3 I would like to issue the album or ep . . . and I'm looking for a name for them, could you please name them?i'd rather not, sorry if this is disappointing - it just takes time to listen to things and think of names
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I always find it difficult to fathom constantly working with another person. Are there any "solo" tracks that either of you have put out?
What are some tips for collaborating with other musicians and not being completely selfish/dominant?
yeah tons of our tracks are solo tracks, usually trying to one up each other
about 1/3 of it is non-solo, as a really approximate guess
i dunno we just compete a lot, that seems to work for us, ymmv of course
do you mean 1/3 of released tracks? or do you mean just overall tracks that you've ever done?
nah released stuff
for overall it's a lot lower i reckon
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Any thoughts on that in 50 years maybe nobody listens to your music and in 500 years all your stuff is forgotten and lost forever? Do you care?
yeah this seems about right, but who knows
i mean i have trouble predicting what's gonna happen next week tbh
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have you guys noticed how little music seems to come out of these synth forum enthusiasts? like a guy with 30 grand in serge modules doesn't seem to make any music. do you find there is a danger in making the gear center stage? do you think it gets in the way of making tracks?
i think its more that there are shitton of people who see music as a lifestyle choice, and buying gear is easy for people who aren't really very motivated
Sean: Have you recieved that one PM I send you, with a link to the 2007 Dour Festival recording? It says "not yet read" over here, could be an error maybe.
yeah sorry i haven't checked my PMs yet, i prob will go thru them all when this is over
thanks
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I always find it difficult to fathom constantly working with another person. Are there any "solo" tracks that either of you have put out?
What are some tips for collaborating with other musicians and not being completely selfish/dominant?
yeah tons of our tracks are solo tracks, usually trying to one up each other
about 1/3 of it is non-solo, as a really approximate guess
i dunno we just compete a lot, that seems to work for us, ymmv of course
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I can't keep up with the questions anymore so I might be asking a repeat
How did you guys get set up spinning for IBC?
Also who did the scratching on Goz Quarter
originally, in 87 or 88, our mate ged met someone on a bus i think, and somehow rob b got asked to go and spin some tunes, but they got raided
so then in like 89 i think or 90 we got another call off them just asking if we were still djing and we said we were doing tracks and they invited us onto andy's show to do an interview as a band (i guess to fill some time)
then after the interview we got chatting and they came back a few weeks later and offered us a show and we thought it would be a good way to get our tracks out there so we said yeah
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpFwCN3TTEE&list=PLC37AC9E52F3C505F
1. There is a chance on releasing this in good quality without people? start in 4: 37 but also full would be cool;)
2. If there are other versions of songs from the Exai I mean Quaristice (Versions) only, that for the Exai 3. may in the future I will let your album or ep, I'd like the names for them;)
iirc jamie did record this set but he did a mix of soundboard and room mics, so no basically
oh sorry
your weird formatting threw me
2 there are but no plans to release any yet
3 can you rephrase that?
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please no guest vocals unless you warp and degrade them mercilessly
when making Oversteps, was there even a small element of it being a reaction against those folks who had been saying "they forgot how to make nice melodies"? Or were you just following your muse as per usual?
Edit: btw that tale about Bucephalus Bouncing Ball vs. Drane 2 is fantastic!
(Drane 2 is one of my absolute faves)
oversteps - basically we were making algorithms with a view to using them repeatedly, and seeing how flexible we could make them in terms of being able to reuse them in lots of different contexts (making diff styles of music) and it kind of grew out of that
i dunno if we were really successful in achieving our aims (not really, we got very sidetracked and went with it into a different zone) but we liked the result and ended up shaping it further into that kind of oversteps territory
i think we were concentrating on melody, harmony counterpoint and all that cos the rhythm stuff has been second nature for a while, in terms of programming and algos and such, and we thought we might learn more if we came at it from the opposite angle
shameless push
This page on whosampled.com:
http://www.whosampled.com/search/?q=autechre
Is it accurate? If not, where?
Any other things that should be added?
hah, you can't blame me for trying
*slight shame*
yeah this all looks in order. theres much debate as to the original Gangstarr part tho'
did u even check that recury one?
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ok cant find my old question on here but was wondering if u guys ever upgraded to a pacarana or still messing with kyma language ??> :)
nah i gave my capybara to bola
AAA - Ask Autechre Anything - Sean and Rob on WATMM!
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never been there, not really a huge fan of warm and dry places but i guess it prob looks ace
i like oregon, when we go there i like that drive from sf to portland, and up to seattle