thedisavowed

Yeah man I’m pretty bummed. I cannot count how many nights I’ve gone to sleep listening to Avec Laudenum. Wiltzie has done some great work on his own but something special happened when Wiltzie and McBride collaborated. He also kicked off my ongoing years long addiction to Harold Budd. He was super nice and approachable every time I saw him after their shows. He will be missed.

Really nice piece on Brian on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/28/1196369529/obit-stars-of-the-lid-brian-mcbride

Wow I forgot about this. I’m so glad you got to go. Thankfully I managed to catch them on that tour at a later date. Hearing “December Hunting” live was a peak experience for me. Between Brian and Harold Budd, we’ve lost legends of the genre.

It’s a great label. Skee Mask and Stenny are also priorities to check out if you haven’t already

So far so good! I wish I was listening to it on a proper system but I honestly can’t wait till later.

It’s been a wild year for releases. Aphex, Ae, OPN, Barker, Andrea, u-Ziq and that’s just off the top of my head. If Boards of Canada or Stars of the Lid decided to release a record that would just seem like the logical progression for 2023.

You know this track really does sound a bit like Autechre if they had more of a commitment to genre

Apparently the Drake/Weekend song wasn't a total product of AI, so I guess we're still a ways off. I guess the problem with BoC is there really isn't that much data to train on (their discography is pretty limited compared to, say, Miles Davis or something) so there's really no telling how compelling ML BoC clones would really be. It feels like we will eventually get there though.

We may soon have AI that can generate Boards of Canada tracks so plentifully that we no longer need to wait for more output. I mean seriously that fake Drake/Weekend track is terrifying. But if Tomorrow’s Harvest really does turn out to be the last “real” Boards of Canada record, I’d say the mood of TH is pitch perfect.

Lol this is the coldest take on this album I've heard yet

If I had a scrobbler that I'd been using across all the formats I've listened to this record on, I would not be surprised to learn that "Slip" is BY FAR my most played Autechre track and one of my most played tracks of all time. And this is coming from someone who thinks that "pendulu hv moda" is peak Autechre. I feel like the boys are hard on Amber sometimes like it was a surrender to commercialism or inauthentic or something. I really would love to see what Autechre would do if they were forced to be as concrete as Amber again. I think that's part of what made the Sophie remix kind of thrilling. It's not that it's their best remix or anything, but it IS Autechre playing by the conventions of genre and that is relatively rare these days imo. And that's why their output pretty much post LP5 is something that I can't really drop into my playlists or anything because I honestly have to be in the mood for Autechre and me and my wife/kids/guests have to be too. It's music that's just too situational. I know they have 'tame' tracks that would blow our wigs off on their hard drives that probably won't see the light of the day because it breaks up the continuity of their output too violently maybe. All I'm saying is that if Autechre get on Soundcloud and start up an RDJ dump of old tracks, I will probably be more excited about that than a new album announcement from BOC. Edit: As I recall from the AMA, Sean or Rob actually talked about trying to make genre tracks but getting bored and not knowing how anybody finishes those things ?

I agree I feel like I'm always struggling to listen to Skee Mask, Stenny, Andrea, and others that don't have their music on Spotify. I love them but sometimes I just lazy man I'd love for Skee Mask tracks to show up in my playlists again.

Dude thank you for pointing this track out to me. But oh my god, I want Skee Mask to finish this one. If it's this good as an unmastered sketch, imagine what it would be like if he really designed it out and brought those whipping synths wayyy more forward in the mix. It's a banger with the potential to be an all-timer.

Honestly, don't forget about this track that AFAIK never actually saw release.

For me the Commix remix is peak Burial: