Nenlow66

+1

And I still don't think minimal (or shallow) is the wrong word to use to describe that track. lol 'my assumptions about AE are wrong, let me blame that on AE'Lolol!

Yeah, for me Exai felt paradoxically more accessible and simultaneously more "complex" (for lack of better word here). Like they achieved a different type of beat-fuckery, both more spacey and more earthy(?) maybe Like it leaves the atmosphere without losing its sense of gravity (?)

For me, when I hear tbm2 it makes me want to listen to mesh cinereal again lol I'm ok with that

Fed starts simple enough...Part A for 8 bars, Part B for 8 bars (two tracks), combine B over A for 8 bars. At any rate a very different track than what precedes it. It might as well be a pop song. If you snap judge something like this, it will be in your mind every time you listen and you will never actually progress with the track. Maybe. I liked/loved Exai instantly. To each their own. To further dissent from the majority, I'm bored by eastre and I really like curvcaten.I was kinda with you until you dissed Eastre..love it so much. I like TBM2 and Chimer Ok but I would agree they are among the weaker tracks on the whole thing. I kinda see TBM2 as a nice little palate cleanser between 2 epics "Palette cleanser" is a perfect way to describe it IMO it stands in sharp relief and contrast to its neighboring mega-track

When I listen to TBM2, it's like I'm waiting for something to happen and it never does. Plus, I get that "we will rock you" vibe someone else mentioned. I would appreciate more "beat fuckery", that's all. With that being said, I'm glad u agree it's more of a standard tune, and atypical of Autechre, which was part of my original point. And I still don't think minimal (or shallow) is the wrong word to use to describe that track.

To each their own. To further dissent from the majority, I'm bored by eastre and I really like curvcaten.

Fed starts simple enough...Part A for 8 bars, Part B for 8 bars (two tracks), combine B over A for 8 bars. At any rate a very different track than what precedes it. It might as well be a pop song.

Who would disagree that both chimer 1-5-1 and tbm2 are both very minimal, non-complex, even shallow tracks, especially when compared to the expansive, complex and oceanic masterworks that are elyc6 onset and mesh cinereal?

Very similar to the joke that is chimer 1-5-1, placed right after the monstrously vicious elyc6 onset.

So simple

Yeah this track is really something, quite psychadelic in that I find it one of their most immersive tracks to inhabit and explore. When its over it can be jarring to return to non-mesh-cinereal reality, so I'll either stop listening to music altogether, or put in on again.Yes that sums up exactly how I was feeling yesterday when it finished! had got so into the groove of it nothing else would quite satisfy Agreed on all counts. A masterwork. The song right before it has to be a joke.

Agreed. I don't understand the melody-seekers either. I like Autechre precisely because I can't get their "structure" anywhere else. What they do with music is beyond next level. I can't find anything synonymous with it in the entire Western canon. Most everything else feels so predictable, formulaic and boring. ABABCB. i iv v. I like how they demolish any and every preconceived idea of what "it" should be or what's coming next. Lol @ the do-doo-doo

Good comparison

Lots and lots of those tracks on the live thing didn't make it on to elseq. Almost as if the finished versions of those tracks were saved for something like an album... At the risk of beating the dead horse: I can't see why we have a hard time accepting that AE-Live is a new/actual album, considering it's all new material that doesn't appear on any other album.

A monstrous track, indeed...awesome

I haven't used, bought or listened to a CD in probably 10 years tbh

Couldn't agree more

"I know livin' with u 'techre was sometimes hard" haha

Not only is this release different from anything else they've done, it's different from everything else that's out there. Nothing compares...

I'm kinda hatin on chimer-1-5-1

All true

Pendulu hv moda; the end=fuckin cool