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mTesc

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  1. NICE! I was at the Atlanta gig featuring this set, and I've appreciated the fairly good recording quality of several from this era, but this one is tops. I'm surprised to have never encountered it (although I was mostly looking in the aughts. THANKSKSKSSSSKS!
  2. Yeah, this is up there with Hemsby & Glasgow/Art School (the two best of that extended Until / Quar era that I'm aware of - does anyone have any other high quality favorites?) - two of my all-time favorite "records" for listening to on long highway drives.
  3. No party ruination here, all seems like good news. It is slightly suspicious that this excellent recording which is also quite different from any of the bootlegs that I've previously encountered would appear in 2021. Does anyone think it could be a skillful reproduction using the Elektron patches / sequences? I'm not saying that I believe it to be that, just that it's curious timing and departure-ish enough.
  4. WOW and wtf!? Where did this come from and where has it been hiding for fifteen years?
  5. Bit heartbreaking if taken ironically. Not sure if that's the intention / spin.
  6. I appreciate that sentiment, absolutely. Speaking of silliness, by degrees, I think it was a bit of a joke above about Ae doing shows from home under the cover of live venue darkness, but I would actually be interested in the inverse. Despite the typical lack of any significant visual information / accompaniment when they're playing out, I would absolutely pay to watch live Autechre webcasts if only for the principle (and if the sound quality was direct from the board). Again, probably more enjoyable in principle than in practice, but there's always something to knowing that what you're experiencing is real-time / more or less in synch with the perception of others.
  7. Yeah, I don't recall precisely what he said they had during the (I think second?) Twitch AMA, but it was a significant step forward from previous lack of interest. He listed several potentially releasable live recordings from throughout the years, which was encouraging. Does anyone recall which ones he mentioned?
  8. Sounds about right. And mean Covid restrictions that prioritize public safety over having a good time at the fucking rave, seems.
  9. I saw Autechre at the Roxy in Atlanta, May 2001 and the Orange Peel in Asheville, October 2015. No recollection of how much the tickets were; both shows were great.
  10. My sentiments exactly. I always found LP5 and EP7 to seem companion pieces of sorts, but EP7 was the more compelling of the two for me. I didn't look at the next five years of material as being in any way lesser, but EP7 remained my favorite. I found myself a little less in love with Untilted, Quaristice, and Oversteps (although each has since grown on me), but Exai was transcendent. AE Live and NTS, as well. Probably some combination of those releases would now constitute my favorite AE, even if I'm unable to pinpoint a single release.
  11. mTesc

    elseq 1-5

    Which track from elseq are we hearing part of here? I love this set (I think this Youtube version is actually better quality than the file that I have...), but I'm not connecting this with elseq. There's that bit that made it onto tuinorizn, though.
  12. That + the L Event mischief def spring to mind.
  13. I apologize that this is a kind of useless / spammy thread that probably doesn't deserve your attention, but I'm very excited for this Spotify glitch that emerged yesterday while listening to my Autechere complete discography playlist.
  14. Amber. Incunabula is my least favorite AE by an impressive margin (although there's some very nice moments, no doubt).
  15. It's true. People have often mentioned finding the more, again, frenetic moments anxious for years. They haven't been for me. When Confield came out, a lot of people seemed to find it very bleak, but I thought it was really inviting if a bit trippy and challenging. Pieces like elyc6 can be kind of grating but not really disturbing. This is really the first time where I've noticed feeling on edge and then realized that the music has seemed to be informing (or at least heightening) that.
  16. Does anyone else find certain passages of the new live stuff to be unusually anxiety-inducing? I don't typically have that kind of relationship with more frenetic stuff, etc., but I think there's an element of urgency and relentlessness rhythmically combined with suspenseful tones that (were we dealing with cinematic context, or whatever) might indicate that something ominous is underway.
  17. Not trying to be negative, but I think it would be a significantly stronger record if it were a bit less BOC-esque. To whatever extent Boards is just as much psychedelic trip-hop as "IDM" (yeah, the latter is a non-thing, basically), the less psychedelic and less trip-hop cuts from ABCDEF...etc. are the strongest ones (the faster tempo, more acid-like ones, for instance). The synths that don't waver with BOC's signature faltering harmonics are also more appealing. Listening to the record feels like there was a checklist being employed to make sure that BOC's aesthetics weren't strayed too far from while there was a more genuine pull in a different direction. I'm not suggesting that this was actually the case, it's just the impression I'm left with.
  18. This seems like a reasonable place for the random observation that the cover art for Oversteps looks like it should belong to Confield. I always imagine it as being the artwork, really weird, I know.
  19. Oh yes, ok. That makes more sense. Yeah, those chords are almost like a character that shows up here and there in ae's world. T ess xi seems like the most obvious reprise to me, but for sure.
  20. There's a bit here where Sean is asked if some part of OneSix is a remix of Lera (I think), and he responds that it is but that it is also a remix of one of the pieces from Warp Tapes. Does anyone know which part of OneSix this is? And Which part of Warp Tapes. Does this also mean that Lera is a mutation of something that appeared on Warp Tapes?
  21. We're gonna party like it's 2002 (personal associations, anyway)
  22. This is really exceptional. Not really as Live-2010-ish as suggested by the various Youtube or Soundcloud bootlegs and a bit more like if you collided SIGN/PLUS viscosity/texture with something like 2014-15's freneticism. I'm very excited to get to know this and the other, forthcoming recordings better.
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