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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    26 minutes ago, Franciscus said:

    please stop posting in this thread unless we get some samples

    Is this the watmm equivalent of holding your breath as a threat?

     

    11 minutes ago, brian trageskin said:

    i say we deserve nude pics from the bros at this point 

     

    Draw your own!  Call it a rob/sean remix.

    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    26 minutes ago, Lianne said:

    I have always felt they could afford to be more literalistic with their artwork...there is nothing wrong with the cover clearly describing the situation! Please feel free to use my image below, Warp.

    Damn, champ, way to sell yourself short.  I was going to offer my design services for $5k, which I'm sure is a discount on what tDR likely charges.  I could fart out all sorts of stuff for >free< but why would ae be interested in that?  Surely they could fart out their own free art rather than pay tDR to do it......

     

    fwiw, I like the SIGN artwork, (though I wouldn't mind taking a crack at future ae release.  $5K, whatta 'ya say guys?)

    How did you get into Ae?

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    Necro post but so what, this is a really good thread.

    Back in the early '90's I was clubbing a lot and had really gotten into EBM.  Front 242, MBM, RevCo, Ministry, that whole WaxTrax scene.  About the same time I landed a job at IBM which gave me access to UseNet, which really opened my world to a whole lot of music I had never heard of before.  Mostly I read rec.music.industrial and rec.music.ambient.  I keenly remember a Greg Clow(*) post from 1993 in which he prophesied the death of EBM and the emergence of bands like Aphex Twin and Autechre as the future of cutting edge electronica.  Shortly afterward I picked up a copy of SAWII and not long after that I purchased Amber.  Amber was like the sound of liquid mercury to my ears and I was entranced in a way few bands have ever equaled before or since.  Autechre has been among my favorite bands since.

     

    * - He ran a fantastic label called PieHead Records, which put out quite a few classics that are well worth tracking down.

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    Influx of bad artist names

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    This thread reaffirms something I've been saying for some years now:  All The Good Band Names Are Taken.

    Of course that's a generalization but like any generalization there's a grain of truth to it.  Any truly creative mind will surely be able to think up a good band name despite the fact that so many one word and/or common and/or obvious names are already taken.  My wife and I named our fictional proto-punk doom metal band "Scrap Leather", which is better than the majority of the bad puns on display over these 180 pages.  

     

    So, that begs the followup question, is it better to have an original >bad< band name or be the 38th band to use the name 'Mako'?

    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    Heaven's sake, it's only 3 1/2 weeks away.  Go do a 1000 piece puzzle of the Swiss Alps or something.  In the grand scheme of things, 3 1/2 weeks is nothing and the album will be here before you know it.  ?

     

    1 hour ago, Soloman Tump said:

    Gantz Graf was their only "single" release I think? Or is it an ep

    I'd call GG a mini-ep.  Basscadet was their only proper 'single'.

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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    3 hours ago, IDEM said:

    Don't lose any sleep over it; it's not an axiom, just a personal answer to a personal question. I dunno. I just find the combination of shape and color a bit nauseating, plus it looks so ancient while the musics are still fresh. And I don't mean 1990s old, I mean 1930s to 1940s old, the whole thing looks like a still from a fucking Oskar Fischinger video. No disrespect for him either, but I think it confuses me because I don't know if it's intentionally retro or if there's some story behind it that I'm unaware if or whatever the fuck is going on there.

    The font, the slightly pretentious all-lower-case phrase "mechanically reclaimed" and the extremely enerving spacing between those slashes don't help either btw.

    Everything else in their catalogue ranges from kinda alrightish (Amber, Quaristice) to hella awesome (Confield, Draft 7.30) afaic.

     

    This was my sophisticated deep reading of the cover image of Sicklesweat by the influential electronic pop group Awrtekker. If you liked it, please support me on Patreon.

    Thank you for that considered and thoughtful reply.  I trust you took my criticism of your criticism as nothing more than a friendly jab.  I do respect your right to be different, otherwise we'd all be fighting for the same pair of shoes.

     

    You do make some very valid points.  Nauseating color, check.  Pretentious addendum, ('mechanically altered'), check.  Cutsey pun title, check.  As you mention, the art has a retro vibe, though I would peg the aesthetic as 1980's color and wire frame graphics put through the then modern blender.  

     

    cichlisuite is perhaps the most lighthearted and playful title in the entire AE catalog.  I've always felt the art, with all its whimsical quirks, to be a very good match for the music within.  

     

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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    Posted · Edited by tailings

    As we ponder the superbness/lameness of AE cover art, it will be interesting to see what the whole package for SIGN looks like.  Tri Repetae's diarrhea brown front cover is underwhelming in the extreme, but the interior images are fantastic, some of the best AE art to date, IMO.  Absolutely love that glitched out rotary engine. 

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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    It's pop music >now<, but it certainly wouldn't have pleased many restaurant patrons in 1993.  

     

    Some tracks have certainly held up better than others.  Eggshell is still wonderful even if simplistic by modern AE standards.  Autriche, on the other hand, sounds like something off a cheesy comp.  And windwind sounds downright newage-y.

    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    1 minute ago, sidewinder said:

    Does it suck now because it's dated, or did it suck in 1993? (I personally like it)

    I think the album art for Incunabula has aged better than the music.....

    (ducking for cover.....)

     

    Seriously, I don't >hate< Incunabula but it has become my least favorite AE album, in no small part because it hasn't aged as well as the rest.  Amber sounds a much more mature effort to my ears.

    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    5 hours ago, Wurstwasser said:

    Best ambient track that ever existed for me. Plus Nils Frahm "Says" if that can be called ambient.

    Vletrmx is a great track, but c'mon; that's like saying you cried when Bambi died.  Do rainy days and Mondays also get you down?

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