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  1. FEF

    Vinyl Represses!!

    6IE.CR comes out as a link in the newsletter. I clicked on it thinking it might be a promo video or something before I realised what happened
  2. Arrived in Ireland on Saturday. Sign took weeks to arrive, turned out they mistakenly sent it by standard mail instead of tracked (but sent a refund for the difference)
  3. Amazed by how X4 feels packed full of kaleidoscopic detail but also really airy and spacious
  4. Stupid brain is registering the title as POST ?
  5. They should do this and have an exclusive bonus track on the Japanese edition
  6. I disagree because the pianist either plays a score or otherwise decides what to play (e.g. improvisation) as distinct from generative elements. I only have a sketchy understanding of how Max works but as I understand it you can use it to trigger musical events within defined parameters and then refine the parameters to produce more desirable results. I would assume Sean & Rob construct parts with instructions like "play notes in this scale within these rhythmic limitations" or "play combinations of these six notes" and apply conditions and exceptions. Or maybe they invent a melody or chord sequence and have randomized (but controllable) things happening to it or against it. Edit: and I know they've mentioned using "if A then B" type commands My overall point being that it's a different method of composition / performance than sitting down at the old joanna, "Seinfeld voice" not that there's anything wrong with that. One of the most revealing comments they've made about their process, I think, is comparing it to jazz, though it's (as I understand it) generative factors (controlled, to varying extents, beforehand or in real time, by them) that are producing the variations, rather than the decisions (also dependent on parameters) that go into a jazz solo. Also think of Cage and others expanding the parameters of the piano with prepared piano techniques, e.g. using objects to damp the strings or change the timbre - there's a direct lineage from that to the way our bois mess with the envelope
  7. “The piano is beautiful but it’s dumb,” Booth told me. “It separates the artist from the string.” The clear implication here is that the harpsichord is ugly but intelligent, and you can get right in at them strings
  8. Since they dropped the solo stats bombshell (and "how do you know we haven't" made a solo record) imaginations have gone wild but that should be tempered with this (from the SFJ interview): “We’d get in touch and it would turn out we were doing the same kind of thing, without even talking,” Brown said. “I’m not sure we could do it in the same room now. But we’re often thinking the exact same thing.”
  9. The background colour and texture of the cover has reminded me of this from the start, reinforced by all the green talk - though I think the spectre of Saville looms over much TDR stuff And while a plain orange inner is probably far from unique, that reminds me of this https://www.discogs.com/Neworder-Roundround/release/77671
  10. Sign Felled Two albums about nothing
  11. RESIGN in a nod to Metallica's mediocre Load / Reload diptych
  12. FEF

    Vinyl Represses!!

    I got a dispatch confirmation 3 days ago but got a mail just now saying they're waiting on stock and shipping will be slightly delayed
  13. The first time I listened to this I was on the edge of sleep throughout but it was playing loud enough to keep me at that level of consciousness for the whole track. Very intense experience... like a combination of the stargate sequence in 2001 and the pic of Bender above
  14. FEF

    elseq 1-5

    Anyone else singing We Will Rock You along to TBM2?
  15. FEF

    elseq 1-5

    runrepik, oversteps tour, tuinorizn Ah yes, I think it's runrepik I was hearing, cheers!
  16. FEF

    elseq 1-5

    There's a sample or element of an older track in spaces how V - what is it? Driving me mad
  17. FEF

    AE_LIVE

    The plot thickens. It all underlines what a great little visual metaphor the artwork is for the variety of the sets.
  18. FEF

    AE_LIVE

    Dunno if this has been mentioned already but I came across this piece by François Morellet which really reminds me of the AE_LIVE artwork... Répartition aléatoire de triangles suivant les chiffres pairs et impairs d'un annuaire de téléphone, 1958 (which seems to translate as "Randomized triangles next to odd and even numbers of a phone directory"). http://a403.idata.over-blog.com/5/05/81/04/13-14/art-et-maths/morellet-_-repartition-aleatoire-des-chiffres-pa-copie-1.jpg And this! "For Morellet, a work of art refers only to itself. His titles are generally sophisticated, show some word play, and describe the "constraints" or "rules" that he used to create them. Like other contemporary artists who use constraints and chance (or the aleatory) in their works (John Cage in music, the Oulipo group in literature), Morellet uses rules and constraints established in advance to guide the creation of his works, and he also allows chance to play a role in some of his compositions" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Morellet
  19. Commenters expressed dismay at the irrelevant mentions of Whigfield and Rednex in the article, and the apparent suggestion that Tri Repetae is some kind of conscious reaction against the lowest common denomonator post-rave chart hits of the time. From his reaction on Twitter, Suarez seems to have taken that as a blinkered fanboy denial that Booth and Brown were aware of contemporary popular culture, and has conflated it with the notion that artists are capable of enjoying music unlike their own. No need to point out the fallacies there. I'd have some respect for his take if it amounted to a coherent point of view. I'm not a fan of his ultra-cynical persona but I tend to take his word for it when he writes about hiphop. But that piece typifies a fatal lack of context and perspective that I think is common in US writing on UK / European electronic / dance culture. I'm anything but an expert but it always jumps out at me - and if I see the term IDM, alarm bells go off. I've read lots of comments on this board that I might not agree with but ring true as someone's perspective and genuine opinion, and that piece didn't have any of that - just put me in a bad mood
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