EXTRASUPER81
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LolDublin is my fave. I think those freqs that are making u all crie are giving me bonner
Thing is I really liked it otherwise. Maybe I should just EQ it a bit myself.
Edit: Nah too lazy.
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Dublin from AE_LIVE is a particular offender in this respect. It's probably why it's my least listened to of the bunch.
FWIW I'm not having this problem with the NTS stuff. So i guess I'm OT. I should be banned.
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Also I don't think it's like super high freq's that cause the probs, more like frequencies around the crossover point of speakers. Those high mids, like tinnitus frequencies.
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Interestingly (? :Well, to me at any rate) Confield was their last record mastered by Frank Arkwright. Everything after was Noel Summerville (at least that which was pressed to vinyl). So maybe that is related. Idk.
This is one of my main issues with their releases after a certain point. There are certain frequencies that seem to cut into my brain like a knife that never showed up until after Confield. It shows up a lot of Draft, particularly V-proc and Reniform Puls, which is why this is a release that I still think is way harder to get into than Confield. Quite a few tracks unfortunately have this effect on me from elseq. C7B2, C16 Deep Tread, Elyc6 0nset, and Mesh Cinereal as others have pointed out. The beginning of l3 ctrl has it on the new release as well although that's too good of a track to hold against it.Really curious if all you getting harsh high frequencies are sharing any of these qualities: younger (under 25ish?), listening to lower quality or streams, or listening via subpar means (headphones in particular). Or a combination of those things.
God I sound like a douche. Lol
I'm in my mid 30s so I don't think it's an age thing, but probably a specific frequency I'm overly sensitive to at loud volumes. Anything high pitched that sounds intensely and loudly like insects buzzing or metal scraping seems to vibrate inside my skull. I relistened to Envane, Chiastic Slide, and EP7 this week and the general timbre and mastering is so much more pleasing to my ears.
Living in NYC I don't have the leisure of blasting music on speakers because of neighbors and not having a car so I listen loudly on solid midrange headphones, which is perhaps my issue. However, I went to the live show in Brooklyn without earplugs and it was unfortunately an unpleasant experience for me as were the live recordings later on. My friend had the same exact problem and angrily left after 10 minutes (I didn't really warn him what he was in for to be fair).
It sounds like I'm bitching, but I am LOVING all this new stuff. Just saying others are not alone with this issue and we are not crazy lol. It's the one thing preventing me from liking some of their tracks and every track I dislike in their entire discography shares this commonality. Overall NTS has totally kicked ass and I'm super pumped for tomorrow!
I recall them mentioning it in the AAA, they liked NS cos he didn't fuck with their mix. I get the impression that he is more of a cutting engineer than a mastering engineer (in as much as they are different, which depends on your POV on mastering I suppose?).
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Also re: loud noises at high-mid frequencies. Yes I totally get this with a lot of elseq, less so with latest stuff. Can be a bit off putting, I listened to mesh cinereal yesterday and thought exactly that.
Don't get that problem with Exai at all.
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No physicals is kind of a relief for me. Right now I'm anxious that I'm not going to be able to afford to buy the vinyl box before it goes off sale, which I will regret even if I know it's completely fucking irrational.
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Had never heard of this film...the 60's were a strange time. Would be great video to layer some gonk tuf hi with the visuals though.
Yesyesyes
Someone else tho,not me
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Miles Davis hehe
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Yeah Big Fun was also in the boxset, along with OTC, Jack Johnson (which I already had) and Water Babies. Not bad for like 12 quid.
Need to hit Dark Magus, Agharta/Pangaea and Black Beauty too. All in good time tho, I have a lot of autechre to listen to atm, y'know?
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nevermind On The gaddamned Corner
GET UP WITH IT Maaaaan
I've not listened to Get Up With It yet, heard Rated X way back on the Jazz Satellites compilation that Kevin Martin did. Frikkin incredible.
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Yeah completely paranoid car chase music. I have borrowed a car ATM and all the music I have in it is a boxset of late Miles and a boxset of Otis Redding. Covering a lot of bases right there.
Could stretch the analogy (in a silent way::oversteps, bitches brew::exai) but that is probably a bit much.
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We can but hope!
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Yep Known(1) is ace. I love the squiggly solo voice.
Was listening to On The Corner in the car today. Similarities between electric Miles and autechre really struck me. Especially listening to Mr Freedom X/Helen Butte in comparison to, say, t1a1. The long form exploration of a single theme, retaining the same groove throughout but constantly shifting rhythms and texture. Similarities in form and content.
Also my wife hates autechre and Miles (actually, all jazz) equally.
I have similar (but different) feelings with AE_Live too, like hearing different contemporaneous recordings of jazz groups playing the same material but completely differently every time.
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No worries... I think we've all posted things we don't agree with the day after.heh I was a little harsh last night, after a few wobbly pops. Boring is not a fair word to describe any of this.
apologies fair thread-goers.
I stand by the rest of what I said but take back the word boring. that was just rude.
=P
Even if you did find it boring, you're allowed to think and feel what you think and feel.
=D
*support group mode off*
If you ever do it again...!!!
=P
Hehe...
more: I think it is a common experience that, with Ae's new releases, if we are in a moment of decline in attention, everything can suddenly appear boring or even repulsive. Personally, I can immerse myself in the new Ae ocean just when my mind is rested and willing to abandon: all analytical criteria are left aside and they cum in all their baroque and lascivious spontaneity...
I must say, however, that in the last two weeks I have been listening to this new vision of hell without being able to give me at least one hour of peace. I see almost no more people, and those few, look at me with the eye of mercy, as you look at a person fallen into disgrace.
Woah crikey
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Ah that bell sound ah
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eO is ahhhhhh
On second listen, big hang/mong over from yesterday's sesh, this is gently massaging my spot
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imoWell im with bulk on this. I found myself skipping through both sessions and fast-forwarding tracks, biiiig 'so far'
Last time i did that was with eastre and before that with subrange 6-36 but just to see if anything elsez going on. Im not saying this is bad per se (subrange 6-36 is my fav ae track now) just itz different. I see these sessions just like that, like sessions, something that differs from their regular releases. They have albums that are the most emotionally pollished and time-proof, eps that are "more radical ideas", release of live sets /cause ppl asked/, which are the most 'immidiate' and now this sessions which are something in between, maybe between eps and lives.
Imo
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u know how this reads like..? “when they released confield, they stopped making real music and from there on it’s just abstract wank. When will they ever make real music again” - it’s this, but 2018 version.. the bois are clearly exploring that longer format & normalizing new extremes here, there’s a lot actually, some obvious bullet points are: “long-ass stretched-out tracks (longer than comfortable)”, “steadier-than-comfortable beats”, “less curation of their system”
imo, it’s just a very confident approach and imo it’s just what their new “album” is.. what if there will never be something ever again which you could call an “Autechre album” because the new output doesn’t suit the arbitrary definition of what you would find on one from the past.
Still reading thru since I had a couple days off cos I couldn't listen...
Anyway, this i agree with fwiw.
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credit: godzilla - guest vocals on dummy casual pt2
I love that shit where they do huge spooky chords that arch across the mix. Like on pce freeze on move of ten.
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Damn, I'm saving NTS 2 til Saturday when I have a mate coming round for a serious listening party/very localised rave. So I have had to stop looking at the thread some way back to avoid spoilers. See you on the other side.
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Anyway it's incredible. And even more incredible that they made it around the time of EP7 but didn't know what to do with it at the time.
Dial I never really got til I heard it in a DJ Stingray mix, it made so much more sense in that context.
And CapIV is just straight gorgeous. When those chords bust in...ahhhh
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It just occurred to me that the 'graf' in gantz graf probably refers to graffiti...i may be way behind on that one. So maybe the name is some combination of the ganzfeld effect and graffiti you might see as a result. And the tune is like an evocation of that.
Or something.
It sounded better in my head than when I wrote it down tbh.
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Hmm. I'll have to try again. Kind of found TBM2 to just be a little oddity, just like a loop that doesn't really develop or go anywhere?
woah woah woah waoh, TMB2 happens to be one of the most killer tracks on elseq, that is like *the* chillout track of that album, dim the lights slow smoke hovering in the air, your eyes sink back in your head, wafts of the most amazing perfume, gorgeous women with full thick breasts, rainy city lights at night blurring in slo-mo along the lake…Just want to say t1a1 deserves more love, each thump is unique. It's a vastly improved TBM2,
also TBM2 has such insane visual 3d sonics, it's like i experience that track like an axis in my head when i close my eyes, it knocks so hard. ugh. it's pure sex. maybe the sexiest, sweatiest track they've ever done.
t1a1 is pretty sweet too, and i'm not talking trash about it by anymeans, but calling it an improved TBM2,… well, not to my ears
I was sure there was something I was missing. Maybe I am the problem?
Oh it's not a loop, there are many many subtle changes and and swirly background drones and grooves.
I will assume the position and listen with new ears.
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woah woah woah waoh, TMB2 happens to be one of the most killer tracks on elseq, that is like *the* chillout track of that album, dim the lights slow smoke hovering in the air, your eyes sink back in your head, wafts of the most amazing perfume, gorgeous women with full thick breasts, rainy city lights at night blurring in slo-mo along the lake…Just want to say t1a1 deserves more love, each thump is unique. It's a vastly improved TBM2,
also TBM2 has such insane visual 3d sonics, it's like i experience that track like an axis in my head when i close my eyes, it knocks so hard. ugh. it's pure sex. maybe the sexiest, sweatiest track they've ever done.
t1a1 is pretty sweet too, and i'm not talking trash about it by anymeans, but calling it an improved TBM2,… well, not to my ears
Hmm. I'll have to try again. Kind of found TBM2 to just be a little oddity, just like a loop that doesn't really develop or go anywhere?
I was sure there was something I was missing. Maybe I am the problem?
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It's going to be covers of 80's hip-hop done with bagpipes and meshed together with giraffe hums and samples of cats in heat.
All sequenced in MAX, of course...
More of the same then?
Brilliant
Autechre. NTS Residency. (_O_)
in Autechre
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I'm going to save for Friday morning when I have free time. So shhh! I'll see you on the other side.