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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    4 hours ago, kieselguhr kid said:

    review on The Quietus

    Good review. Quoting for truth:

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    There’s always been a human hand guiding this music.

    This is an intrinsic part of Autechre’s appeal. Even the most mechanoid tunes have something soulful at their centres. There’s that moment towards the end of ‘Cichli’, a celebrated track off 1997’s Chiastic Slide album, where the granular chaos of the rhythm lifts away to reveal a gorgeous floating melody buried deep within it. It’s like the clouds of a storm parting and the sun shining through. Even the most abstruse tunes on NTS Sessions have something human at the heart of them, and this is what Autechre fans live for: that moment when it all clicks into place, your ears focus like the aural equivalent of one of those old magic eye pictures.

     

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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    1 hour ago, Rotwang said:

    Had difficulty deciding whether to listen to the stream or wait for the CD. In the end I settled on waiting for the CD to listen but reading this thread during the stream, which may turn out to be a terrible idea.

    Reading you guys' reactions has got me pretty intrigued.

    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    Had difficulty deciding whether to listen to the stream or wait for the CD. In the end I settled on waiting for the CD to listen but reading this thread during the stream, which may turn out to be a terrible idea.

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    TidalCycles

    in EKT General Discussion

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    3 hours ago, sweepstakes said:

    Before I forget, I wanted to express my appreciation that you chose Racket over Clojure. I do like both of them. However, while Clojure has a lot of nice libraries and a good community, it's always been a bit flaky for me and relying on the JVM has always felt kind of icky. I admire that you kept it lean, FOSS-pure, and platform-agnostic.

    I was just about to ask if rhmilo had considered Clojure. I'm writing music software in Clojure right now and can recommend it, having access to the Java ecosystem as well as the ability to farm out low-level number-crunching code to Java is a big plus in my experience. I haven't tried doing anything with MIDI though, my software does all the synthesis itself.

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    AE_LIVE

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    Damn the Zagreb set is great. Not listened to any of the others yet, going to do my usual thing of familiarising myself with each set before moving onto the next one so that the differences are more surprising.

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