Sean Ae
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i haven't been there for so long now how is it still online?
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ok so yeah i mean we learned about making tracks at the same time so we didn't really come to the table with pre-formed ideas as it were, just a mutual understanding of what tracks that were out at the time had things we liked going on (and tbh there were other people around us who liked the same thing) i think it was the weird way that we learned about what we were doing that we shared, and that's the main thing that marks us out (if anything) dave hanal was doing amazing graff back in 87, he was a huge influence tbh (and all the things we all liked like 2000AD, ridley scott etc) but you're right you see the same line and angles popping up all over, some kind of basic shared understanding of dynamism i think you know how some angles just look cooler than others, i never studied any visual art but the same kind of principles apply to music i think and you can tell when other musicians have a sense of that, moritz is def one of them, and mills. i would put afx in there too, and gerald simpson, stakker, they all have a kind of angular thing going on kind of hard to explain cos i never bothered coming up with a decent textual way to describe it
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you really don't want a detailed answer to that q probably
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i got diff opinions on all them genres tbh, some aspects of vaporwave make sense to me, others don't witch house makes me laugh. it's like, there was a time when that would have just been one record, but anything can become a bandwagon now, so many people producing i like 0pn a lot
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depends, theres usually a screen somewhere but anything could be on it, sometimes i just put films on silently i actually made a few jitter patches around exai time that i would leave running on another computer with some midi and audio hookup from the patches making the tracks, that was pretty nice not yet, i will next, thanks
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well i mean, obvious people, entry level - wiley, preditah, footsie, ruff sqwad, trim, dot rotten, jme, wonder tbh it's not a genre we checked a lot, not being in london etc probably i was listening to tons of hessle and hemlock etc in 2010 spellcheck
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your mpc is now called 'derek'
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Here's a question for you: why would you say something so dumb? Hey mate, I said it was my opinion. More accurate: my feelings. yeah don't feel like you can't say negative stuff ITT, i might not respond directly but that's just cos it's hard to answer if you don't agree sometimes
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well we approached it as though we were temporary members of the hafler trio, formally deferential to andrew if we had put beats over it that would have made it more boring for us working with him on that gave us the opportunity to explore some of his territory without plagiarising him too much (while simultaneously plagiarising him too much) he's a brilliant man inb4 awepittance says something petty
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the tracks are from the same sessions but they got separated out when we compiled exai basically it was all compiled as a series of 12" records, and l-event was the one that didn't fit, so that became a separate entity it was originally going to come out before exai but warp flipped the release order having said that we see l-event as interchangeable with any of the 12"s in exai (which we see as a box of four 12"s)
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it usually gets a descriptive filename and goes in the 'current' folder Is the 'current' folder huge? Presumably you have reams and reams of outtakes, alternate versions(like the Quaristice eps), and tracks that didn't really go anywhere. Do you bother to organize them at all, listen to them, or do they just get sorted by year and forgotten about? well it can get pretty huge when we're close to release but then after release it all gets mothballed and yeah, sorted by album usually, sprawling huge folders
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nah tbh i just have a load of archive, and then i have one current folder for tracks, and another for jams (which is a lot more full and hectic)
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licensing nightmare we suggested it to warp back when there were only about 40 of them and they passed on it if any labels wanna do it, contact us (if you want it to be above board that is, cos trademark issues)
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architects are worse than rockstars i think the main difference is the social element is more readily acknowledged in music circles, but architects (and to an extent designers) position themselves above it or outside it a lot. i think that's why there's been this drive toward functionalism again lately (altho even by framing it as an -ism they still manage to achieve some kind of intellectual superiority) ok so i know nothing about architecture, pls disregard prev paragraph as far as retro computing - well i like it if i see people doing new things with old machines, same as i like new things on new machines it's more about the actual output for me, if it's too much about the computer itself or about the past i get bored (that's more like a fashion thing really tho)
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oh sorry u asked about the eutow vid , i wasn't blanking you I'm just being hasty yeah i mean, its kind of fun, the footwork is kind of electro-ish
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i used to have a cat not presently but i reckon i will again in the future yeah cats are mental, really
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not usually anything to do with tech limitations, but sometimes i think about decisions i would make differently now. time is a weird thing, esp when it comes to music. it's usually to do with something i didn't notice originally. i try to learn from it when it happens we want to, i think he wants to, but we've not been in touch for a bit but yeah i reckon yes to both
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i find these kind of Qs impossible depends on context and timing
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oh that's interesting we also have a background in pirate radio yeah we'd love to work with chris again at some point, and alex both of them are visionary geniuses imo i dunno what they make out it's prob more useful than reaktor core (i will prob get flamed to fuck now for saying that)
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we would never use sc live back then cos it could only really handle doing one thing at once on a laptop, apart from boring things like sound file playback etc. it was good for realtime fft tho, and a few other things so u could load up a patch and do like 2 min of stuff with it, but you couldn't realistically do a full set unless your work was really boring we got into max originally to make midi sequencers and so the first few years using it were crash free, but then we started making really simple synths in there so we could run the same midi patches without hardware and that was when it started crashing (just cos of poor/naive design really)
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prob not tbh i mean that and being repeatedly told while in primary school that we would prob never be able to get jobs
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it usually gets a descriptive filename and goes in the 'current' folder
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which ones? both of us do that
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yeah we love touring but it's hard to stay out for long periods cos of the physical toll we get uk festi offers but we usually turn them down, i don't really care where we play tho, the lineups are becoming the same across europe (a kind of annoying and weird level of sameness)
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yeah it was really muddy, like insanely muddy, and i was already somehow covered in mud, and i was really beyond drunk at that point cos we didn't have to play (our tent was flooded and cancelled) and i had already downed a couple of bottles of champagne - i thought it would be a really good idea to try and push mike paradinas into the mud (he seemed to be really concerned about getting any mud on him at all). anyway it failed and i ended up face down in a load of mud next to him, but he got pissed off about getting some mud on his wrist, so I WIN
