Sean Ae
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as an album phaedra but as a track probably kiew mission - that ppg vocal stuff does my head in, and even tho the track's slightly cheesy it's really evocative for me of some other time/place
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yeah they're top guys they gave us sausages on our last tour - they were really cool, hospitable as fuck yeah i want one of those million-year-lasting hard drives they say they can now make
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definitely not what I was suggesting, It's just curious to me that Warp is creating controversial videos again. Or i shouldn't really say 'again' since the only ones that might be considered controversial are rubber johnny and maybe windowlicker. the !!! shorts thing was kind of a joke but the other half of my question was serious about the 0pn and new Jackson video (with all the penis hands being chopped off and lush forests made of pubic hair) My earlier question probably was skipped over because it was silly but does autechre's music convey any sexuality whatsoever ..ever either unintentionally or not? Even in an obscured way like sampling from pornography (matmos has stated they are fond of sex slapping sounds from gay porn). edit: I've noticed at least here in America people seem afraid to dance to your sets, at least the last time you've played here. Since that time, there has been a much higher ratio of female attendees at weird electronic music shows. How often do you see females gyrating in a passionate fashion to your music ? Are Americans just chin strokers or is it typical audiences of yours won't feel comfortable going wild on the dancefloor? That old video (from like 92?) posted recently of you guys playing was the most people I've ever seen dancing to Autechre music. partly that we were being marketed in the usa by an industrial label, and then a kind of clueless well-meaning vanity label, for like 10 years there were traces of dance music culture in the usa in the mid 90s but not like the uk and europe really, and our audience there were like, the wax trax audience, all introverts and weirdos
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we knew tortoise already, mutual fans nah never had a collab offer from either of them er partly based on us wanting their music on the bill and partly on whether we can live in a tiny bus with them for a month without doing each other's heads in we had a few offers to make presets in return for free shit, not really interested can't talk about anything else sorry
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yeah i dunno sort of sounds like he's treating like he imagines we would if we were remixing it now or something
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yeah i would agree with both of those, i know what you mean i had a similar thought quaristice is meant to flow like a long dream, you know how doors lead to different chapters and worlds before you realise oops im revealing things now
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on this tip I'll just quietly put this here ah i see where you're going but tbh they always had weird things like coco steel and lovebomb or whatever there's always been some things on warp we weren't hugely into, that's what labels are like we approached them cos they seemed to be up for taking chances with artists, and we really liked lfo's and nightmares on wax's first albums true, i was too vague, specifically what do you think about the shorts? Is this evidence that Warp is trying to go into some strange unsettling psycho sexual territory ? I only say this because of the recent Jackson and 0pn videos (have you seen?) so it made me think of the shorts. weird i can't connect them but ok, i guess he is wearing shorts i dunno i'm not disturbed at all by this. just seems a bit like, 'ooh look he's wearing shorts on stage he's being edgy, in a kind of prescribed 'new york musician' way'. and the 0pn vid is deliberately unsettling and highlights all these issues and stuff. at least it feels deliberate are you expecting them to try to sneak some porn into one of our videos? i'll keep a lookout
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your laptop is now called stephen
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can't foresee an end the music might change, i'm sure it will, but i don't reckon i'd ever stop. or at the very least - i'd never stop making things
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nah warp only signed like 2 or 3 bands off demos, ever don't go to bandcamp unless you're already working it, only start your own label if you really want to run a label cos it eats your time do live shows, make them memorable (and good obviously)
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your homemade sequencer is now called kiki
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think so i mean tbh i reckon it could have been better i'd do it really differently now fucking love the original
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not a huge amount, we mix as we go along there's no 'mixing stage' as such
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we never have stems for things, not how we work at all but anyway nah not really interested in remixes that much tbh
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i got no idea what kind of deal they got, ours is p good u got a source for that quote? Sean - here you go: http://www.relevantbcn.com/index.php/egg-box-radio/djs-bands-producers/item/3899-plaid-interview Have you thought of releasing material on your own? Yes, more so of late since Warp now distribute mostly through Bleep, which is an autonomous company. At present we are exclusively signed to Warp but there isn't really any point in this exclusivity now. Our advances aren't big enough to justify it and we could deal direct with Bleep and therefore not lose 50% of our income. It's a shame it has worked out this way though and I hope we can continue to have a relationship with Warp in some form in the future as we have a long and generally happy history working with them. We will shortly deliver a new album to them and come to a decision about our future output after that has run its course. oh of course, they were one of rob's bands yeah - the real reason's prob a bit more complex than this
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early on they weren't at all, in the uk you'd see tons of women at club nights we'd play at all the way thru the 90s, all across europe actually but it changed a bit when the art scene started getting in on it, that's when it became less sexy that and americans thinking idm is a thing, labels there selling it as brain music for white males
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on this tip I'll just quietly put this here ah i see where you're going but tbh they always had weird things like coco steel and lovebomb or whatever there's always been some things on warp we weren't hugely into, that's what labels are like we approached them cos they seemed to be up for taking chances with artists, and we really liked lfo's and nightmares on wax's first albums
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- wouldn't turn up if so - hahah What's the worst thing that ever happened while playing live? once my r8 caught on fire, and my hands were covered in vodka so they also caught on fire, and to put them out i starting clapping my hands together, and all the audience started clapping as well, and some of them started setting their hands on fire as well, as a kind of tribute
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i got no idea what kind of deal they got, ours is p good u got a source for that quote? would you guys ever think of doing bootleg versions of Incunabula-esque productions with the technology you use now a days? yes we do, probably not, i mean we still are to some extent. lel
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yeah well, at least we don't have to keep all our 'private' compositions in a special drawer i dunno i mean i can't predict things we might do, and def not things we might find
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nah we had no idea what the rest was gonna be like it was just weird, we didn't get any parts we just had this cd sent to us, and the track wasn't our thing at all, and we had been messing with soundedit a lot so we thought it would be fun to chuck it into soundedit and see what came out the other end is prob the weirdest mix we've ever done tho nice, macromedia soundedit for old mac? You guys ever use Hyperprism around that time too? yeah good old sound edit 16 yeah we had hyperprism but i dunno if we ever used it on a release i think by the time i got it fatboy slim was already hammering it so it was like, straight in the bin I remember soundedit16 was out before my computer was able to do multitracking (too slow) and you could open up like 20 instances of it and have them all playing at once. Do you remember anything you might have used hyperprism in.. gescom minidsic perhaps? I think the skinny puppy remix is what made me think you guys might have dabbled with it before. honestly can't remember i don't think so anyway there are some bits of granulab on the minidisc maybe
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i guess i never had that dilemma cos it's what i prefer doing, it's a real privilege to be able to do it all the time. i know that's prob not normal nowadays but w/e back when we had jobs, in the early days, i would get so little sleep cos i loved doing tracks, it def never felt like a chore i mean this is my real life on that tour we didn't even have a sound man iirc, so they'd just have to deal with it we started taking jamie out in 2005 and things got a lot easier did you guys break out individual channels for things like kick drums and the other layers then in max/msp? no it was just 2 channels out of each laptop, and we had a nord each as well for a couple of tracks, 2 chans out of mine and maybe 4 chans out of rob's i can't rem now
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all of the above altho max 6 came out after we'd done all the exai stuff so like, it's sounding different again, being 64 bit
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top 40 material
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would you guys ever think of doing bootleg versions of Incunabula-esque productions with the technology you use now a days? why? never knew this, awesome if you really [have time to kill] + want to dig details on alien this site is fucking class if you've not come across it. Esp worth checking the Ivor Powell + Terry Rawlings interviews. they're totally brilliant guys. http://www.zen171398.zen.co.uk/Alien.html cheers, wicked
