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Greetings from Mexico, thanks for all of your stuff
, here are mi questions What feelings/emotions do you want to transfer in Vletrmx??
Will you ever come to Mexico?
What is your favorite Aphex Twin track?
Thanks!
vletrmx was a track made for someone
yeah maybe, not been asked
didgeridoo
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worst lost on the studio ?! ( hard drives burnt or something like that )
ah too many to recount
no whole drives (usually got multiple backups) but plenty of whole tracks
like tears in rain
Were the Oversteps circles hand painted? Or did they just use one of those brush-mimicking programs?
Was the Move Of Ten cover hand drawn?
hands, both
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The naming thing has been hilarious - every time it was like "oh, here's another naming request, they'll get pissed off man, bwahaha lol with the response"
Can you rename Earth? PLS
Also, do I really see an 'S' in Etchogon-S on the vector scope?
planet naming has been forbidden for 12 parsecs
yeah, cool eh
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1. describe acroyear2 :D
2. will you allow me to take a photo with you on your next tour if we meet? :D thank you for aaa!
1. his arms and legs fall off regularly
2. probably
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Do you guys often create with headphones in mind? How do you usually approach the stereo spectrum?
bit of both really, i mostly work on speakers but i listen back to stuff on headphones a lot
working on live stuff is better on headphones generally
and laptops + headphones is pretty common too for working while mobile etc
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this has been great cheers.
listening to that stephen malinder album, really nice
i guess one last question:
can you name my phone? couldnt resist
your phone is now called archibald
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if there was no more electricity to be had, WAT DO?
empty sachets of silica gel out onto my wooden floor
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To sean,do you think a majestic raid on a cell would be the most defist shame?
wow 5 not bad
i can't top that
i was gonna try but, nah lol
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Last last question.
I just received L-event in the mail today. Where/how should I listen to it for the first time, for maximum extreme impact? Any suggestions?
on good headphones
track1: rollercoaster
track2: ghost train
track3: maze of mirrors
track4: beach
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well that's a huge complimentto me Inland Empire is the most Autechrian film ever, if that makes any sense.
it def resonates with me in a weirdly deep way
i mean i was always a massive fan but that was like, times 10 for me
Have you read anything by Thomas Pynchon, Sean?
To me he is the most Autechrian author (I guess it's the other way round as he came first, but you know what I mean). Especially Gravity's Rainbow.
no never
i will now tho
in a similar vein someone once suggested james joyce, but i tried to read finnegan's wake once and was like, whatthefuckamireading.jpg
LOL! That's the standard response to Finnegan's Wake. Try Ulysses instead.
And definitely try Gravity's Rainbow. And maybe some of Jorge Luis Borges' stuff.
oh i read library of babel once, that was highly awesome
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What are your opinions on the use of fractal formulas for generating beats or melodies?
Any particular favorite types for particular applications? (i.e. L-Systems for melodies... Mandelbeats...etc)
Just bumping this one, in case it wasn't previously answered in the last 150ish pages.
Additionally: thank you guys so much for doing this. It absolutely blows my mind that you've put so much time and effort into this.
yeah (altho some people prob already know this) i'm a huge fan of simulating fluid dynamics to make things move around in a controllable but beautiful way (using navier-stokes equations)
For generating sounds? Can you also do turbulence?
sort of yeah
it's a lot easier since gen came out as well
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How did you guys do this marathon? How did you keep up with it? What tactics did you use? What are the highest number of tabs that you had open because of this?
Were you able to do other things while doing this? It certainly consumed my time to do other stuff, and I didn't even had to answer hundres of questions!
There was talk to ask you guys to take pictures of the place you did this marathon from. The reason for this eludes me. I don't think there ever was one. I assume it is meant for a greater good. You care about greater goods, right?
no more than 4 at once
the main prob is keeping up with ones that have been replied to, if there had been some little light on posts that had been quoted it would have been faster
yeah but nah, i'm in the studio atm and i'm not posting pics sorryyyy
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what are your favorite BoC tracks?
northern plastics
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Edit #2: I'm currently pumping incunabula in the streets of mem, I'm at that part around 4:00 in bike when there's that synth smoke chamber that gets me every time :)
Q: y'all ever have drycleaning? If so is it delivered to you?
:D that's the best bit
yeah, yeah
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What did you guys think of Lynch's Inland Empire?
it's my fave thing he's done
fuck yeah cheers, mine too! saw it in a little indie theater on mushrooms and it was... transformative! definitely a similar uncanny beauty to listening through recent ae albums.
Huge thanks for taking so much time for this! It's been fun and insightful. And thanks for the massive inspiration I've gotten from your music - it's played a significant role in my experience of art and life. I really can't say enough positive things but I don't want to be too fanboyed out so I'll leave it at this. I thought of a couple more questions I'd been curious about -
What was the deal with Tried by 12? How did so many great experimental producers get on board to remix? Did you have a lot of fun putting yours together? It's an all-time favorite for me, I love the vocal processing so much.
Also, just a taste query - have you listened to Freestyle Fellowship much? Inner City Griots is one of my favorite hip hop albums so I was curious if you're fans at all.
tried by 12 happened cos that guy seven (think thats his name) was pretty pushy iirc
glad it did tho, he had a good list of artists there (like, who the fuck would think to ask sluta leta). yeah it was tons of fun, esp splitting the vocal up into two people
never heard freestyle fellowship, i have a weird gap in my hip hop knowledge from about 89-93 cos it changed so much when mtv tried to get hold of it (imo)
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How has running SKAM been for you guys? (I assume you guys still run it. Please correct me if this is wrong) Has it been lucrative? more a labor of love? Does it require a lot of your time or do you have people helping with it to alleviate some of that?
nah we never ran it, it's run by a guy called andy maddocks
a tiny number of their other artists are sometimes part of gescom
i would never run a label, way too time consuming
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I would be much obliged if you could name my Roland JX-3P and my euro-rack modular rig that I'm in the middle of putting together.
Cheers!
jx-3p's are ace, did u get a controller? those things are so cute
your jx-3p is now called brian
your eurorack is now called galactor
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Oh sh*t, is this over? I didn't get to my question in time :-( Thanks Sean and Rob, this was an awesome gesture to the fans -- reading through all the answers in these 150 pages is awesome.
I think I've been to all your Glasgow gigs. My absolute favourite was in ... Tin Pan Alley I think, the tour around the time of Tri Repetae. Man that was good -- proper pummelling. Anyways, I don't expect you guys to remember that particular gig, but it leads on to my question ... do you have a favourite venue or city to play in, and do you have a stand out gig that's been your most enjoyable to date?
(places vary) but many fave gigs have been in glasgow, newcastle, dublin, manchester and london
Peter Chung did Aron flux
yeah then, used to love liquid television
Lol, the AAA isn't over yet, and people are saying their goodbyes.
I don't know, there's some confusion about the time. I think we have time until tomorrow, right?
it's til 6am GMT but i'm gonna be fast asleep long before that i reckon
edit: i think it was GMT anyway
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Hi again, in some ancient interview you stated, that major society thinks that music 400 years old is the best music ever created and has no ability to look forward...and that aphex twin uses some of it in his compositions...precisely crafted melodies witch he creates by moving notes for hours until it's perfect...you said that it's cold approach to music and you are trying to be more human...to get to year 0...how you think about it now? tbh i like each of those principles...because i don´t think that you're more human just because you follow your instincts more...
2/10 - cherrypicking and poor paraphrasing
try again
Y'all dig Peter Chung?
dunno who that is, sorry
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I have no idea when this thread will end, so I'm going to say this before it does:
Thank you guys for doing this, it has been a great pleasure. Thanks for putting up with everything. Our lame jokes and awkward questions. And for answering them! Yeah, just, thanks a whole lot. I feel I can't say thanks enough.
One thing, I was surprised that the word "weird" got said a few times when talking about your music. Something like Q: "do you get annoyed when people find your music weird" A: "nah, we know its weird"
I just want to say that to me, your music has never been weird.
It all makes fucking sense to me.
Not sure what that says about me tho, lol.
And never forget....
twelb.
awesome, thanks
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well that's a huge complimentto me Inland Empire is the most Autechrian film ever, if that makes any sense.
it def resonates with me in a weirdly deep way
i mean i was always a massive fan but that was like, times 10 for me
Have you read anything by Thomas Pynchon, Sean?
To me he is the most Autechrian author (I guess it's the other way round as he came first, but you know what I mean). Especially Gravity's Rainbow.
no never
i will now tho
in a similar vein someone once suggested james joyce, but i tried to read finnegan's wake once and was like, whatthefuckamireading.jpg
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Are y'all into any noise/harsh noise stuff?
bits
i really like incapacitants
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What are your opinions on the use of fractal formulas for generating beats or melodies?
Any particular favorite types for particular applications? (i.e. L-Systems for melodies... Mandelbeats...etc)
Just bumping this one, in case it wasn't previously answered in the last 150ish pages.
Additionally: thank you guys so much for doing this. It absolutely blows my mind that you've put so much time and effort into this.
yeah (altho some people prob already know this) i'm a huge fan of simulating fluid dynamics to make things move around in a controllable but beautiful way (using navier-stokes equations)
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recommend me a good album to listen
pow wow plus by stephen mallinder
, here are mi questions 
AAA - Ask Autechre Anything - Sean and Rob on WATMM!
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your unborn modular synth is now called Tambien