Sean Ae
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can't think of anything i want to be asked i mean i can write anything here so it really doesn't matter what the questions actually are
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if i had to answer with a word, nah to both i mean there are bits i hear and like sometimes, but there's a slight element of shitness to both genres plus they are often liked (as an entire genre) by awful tasteless people who can't seem to discriminate the good tracks from the shit ones i mean i'm pretty uninformed tbh, i grew up with american electro so to me italo and newbeat sound a bit wrong somehow and i ignored them for years none can't rem if there were any recordings i think not actually guess you had to be there cichlisuite was done in 97 (i think it was 97 anyway), after the tour we did with edgar yeah we have tons of mutant half-things, but quite a few are on DATs that won't play without glitch hell. one day we'll get round to mothballing it all I meant to say hybrid, not mutant. mutant is better better on the right lost top end on both but you just eq your monitors and boom, new ears
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no plans, just see what we feel like doing the future is the kind of 'elephant in the room' of mysteries
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discover i get ideas for things to try out, but rarely get ideas for actual whole finished things which i then have to approximate i read interviews where people say they did that and then when i check their tracks its like, i can't even figure out what the idea was half the time. like the track is often something i already heard, at least from a formal point of view
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yeah what do you think of awepittance? clearly a thoroughly nice chap really close, was made like a few weeks b4 iirc, but unrelated until we were asked, and it seemed to fit in some way
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other than our stuff i've not been listening to much apart from old stuff lately not for any reason - just the relative amounts of new and old stuff in a lib spanning 90 years (well not really more like 50) tends to weigh in favour of the old a necessary phase in human development
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tbh not too many doors, none weird enough to mention anyway re politics, not active in any visible sense, nothing connected to autechre maybe, depends what we have at the end really it's unlikely i would spend a cpl of years doing non beats tracks but if we ended up with a few, and some way to separate them off onto their own thing, then yeah. just hasn't quite happened that way yet Sweet. as long as you keep releasing stuff, I'm a very happy person. Also, for the next tour, come back to Denmark-land. That'd be very nice! ah i love denmark
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no it was the residual ram contents of an ensoniq eps, revealed by making the loop length too small on an unrelated sample (an ensoniq glitch we exploited a few times) those samples hadn't been loaded into that sampler for months but they were still there living in the ram
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tbh i think everything has some emotional element, but we're not really thinking about that when we do stuff it's not that we don't feel like emotions are important, more that it's hard for me to imagine a sound that doesn't convey some sense of something, and quite often when people discuss emotions in music they only think of happy or sad as being emotions, when imo emotions are a lot more than that e.g. if we put out a really angry track, then people rarely describe it that way. they would more likely say it was unlistenable or difficult, the emphasis moves from expression to design, maybe they just fail to recognise it as expressive if they think it's very technical nowe did send them some beats once for a potential collab but they said they listened, enjoyed, and thought they couldn't add anything without spoiling it which i mean, it was cute but i really hoped they would hack into it somehow so nothing came of it Did you end up using those beats on any projects you can remember? no, they got archived in the vain hope they may one day become something
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over the years we both moved a number of times, we've been living is different cities since late 99 local environment def plays a role, in terms of aesthetics, attitude, vibe we can work anywhere but tech and room sound has a role as well so some kinds of work happen more while travelling than others making sequencers is easier to do without good speakers than making synths, but a lot of our stuff isn't strictly one or the other so it tends to happen incrementally in weird stages based on circumstances
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maybe, depends what we have at the end really it's unlikely i would spend a cpl of years doing non beats tracks but if we ended up with a few, and some way to separate them off onto their own thing, then yeah. just hasn't quite happened that way yet
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both they had the idea for hacking other sites (inspired by our myspace antics), and originally wanted to use it on things like .gov sites - we had the idea of using the referer and gave them a list of URLs, as well as making a lot of aesthetic contributions
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currently cloudline
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usually over really ego things disguised as autistic detail-oriented things, usually we snap out of it once we see that doesn't happen that much, maybe like once a year we disagree on something, and it's always some tiny detail or transition
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at the moment we're working on getting our programs to be reliable and flexible enough to use live again. we added a ton of functionality after oversteps tour but as usual there's that tradeoff between functions and stability (not to mention portability) going on next batch will probably relate to this somehow, hard to tell. we recorded a lot of test files recently and we might use bits but tbh i reckon we will dev it a lot more before we start recording properly again
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no we did send them some beats once for a potential collab but they said they listened, enjoyed, and thought they couldn't add anything without spoiling it which i mean, it was cute but i really hoped they would hack into it somehow so nothing came of it
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god no, everyone got blinded by options and retreated into fitting in i was young and naive, what can i say
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night only fleetingly, we usually realise we can't manipulate the harmonics enough and abandon it
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can't rem if there were any recordings i think not actually guess you had to be there cichlisuite was done in 97 (i think it was 97 anyway), after the tour we did with edgar yeah we have tons of mutant half-things, but quite a few are on DATs that won't play without glitch hell. one day we'll get round to mothballing it all
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can't remember it's hard for any pro writers to get too deeply into things cos their job makes it difficult to specialise that and SEO only advice i can give is do what you want in various ways
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fm is really flexible so yeah i cane it. also the sound of it does something to me, it can sound like it's inside my head or something - prob cos of the harmonic symmetry being a bit unnatural. fave gear - i dunno at all, i would prob be really boring and say computers, cos flexibility lol rigid see that's the problem innit, all that freedom and they go and buy a strait jacket
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nah they've been in a box since the quaristice gigs
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known(1) happened cos i was messing with tuning and karplus-strong, and i liked the way the upper octaves were sounding, typical kind of a leads to b thing
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i liked the one with rob on the drums also - watmm pls tough but i'd go with fm cos you can blag acid using fm
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just sitting at a dx tapping keys, i have no idea, just felt right at the time you're gonna have to be more specific than that
