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  1. Autechre's 2005 record. What's it called?

    Untilted. Bet you thought it was called Untitled. Google it. Look it up. It's been Untilted since 2005. But everyone thinks it's called Untitled. Does everyone just have a bad memory? Seems like an unlikely coincidence.. For everyone to just happen to get the same album title wrong, don'tcha think ?

  2. i find the level editing on the handheld to be totally fine. you can't input items onto the screen with the buttons; you have to use the touch screen. so you're going to have to get used to holding the switch with one hand and poking at it, but also holding the switch firmly enough to be able to use the buttons and L and R shoulder buttons. i reckon the Wii U input with the gamepad and stylus was faster and snappier, and this is slower. but it's not by any means broken or terrible, you just need to find a way to 1 hand the thing comfortably + get used to being slower and patient with it. i haven't used it with a stylus yet but i imagine that will improve things considerably. 

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  3. yes. discoverability is a big issue. it's like Soundcloud. you have a bunch of songs with 1-2 listens. then out of nowhere, one song will randomly get a small handful extra listens and likes. and then that wee bit of immediate attention snowballs it into more peoples feeds and sometimes you can (seemingly inexplicably) have songs that explode while other songs have 0 plays. 

    ie. case in point. wtf is this bullshit ??? come on maaaan ;-;

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  4. 6 hours ago, jules said:

    I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one. At first, I was pretty underwhelmed but it opened up quite a bit. I absolutely love how everything flows into one another. The jam at the end of Twist (Saturdays) is undeniably amazing. That big synth swell in News takes that song to bad ass levels. Dawn Chorus is perfect. I don't care what anyone says about it. I quite like the closer even though I am looking forward to the proper one on the vinyl. He keeps pushing and I have to commend that. This is definitely his most organic, fluid and natural-sounding album as a solo venture by far. Suspira helped a lot, me thinks, but a lot of these songs have been kicking around for a while. Though with the OK Minidiscs, it's just proven over and over how material can be around and simmering until it's right. That is a commendable thing for an artist to have the patience to sit on stuff or blow it up. 

    agreeing. i've made nitpick posts but overall i'm really liking this one. i also relistened to suspiria ost today and really like that one too. it's like this new album has balanced out what i found lacking in that one as an album and i'm able to enjoy it a lot more now. 

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    34 minutes ago, Uros said:

    I can't really wrap my head around Tom's reluctance towards releasing any archival stuff. I can understand that as an artist he wants to delve into new territories and try out new things, but like all the big archival dumps have proved, releasing old stuff to the masses doesn't take the spotlight away from your new work. In SP's case it's kinda contradictory since every time he has puts a new album out, the discussion eventually turns into us moaning for the archival tracks. It's especially us who are not so much into Ufabulufurries stuff. I believe that if Tom just put the damn archive tracks out it would create some breathing air for the reception of the new stuff. I mean, then we could focus on that solely and not on crying for these old tunes.

    Dunno how aware he is about our opinions though. One possibility is that he is little butt hurt for our partial dislike towards his new stuff and thinking why on earth would we even deserve the old tracks. Would he be more willing to put up his own bleepstore/soundcloud if we all were in heaven about Ufabulum etc. Can't deny that it's pretty shitty if the reaction is always "oh this sucks, I want the Rome 2002 track" when there's a new album out. It's good to see though, that with this warp30 set Tom got some of that credibility back of the status why he has a personal sub on watmm.

    There seems to be so much good shit to be released. Said Rome tracks, Warp20, the jungle tune Osborn spins now and then and who knows what's on that 12" white label Grant says has the best SP stuff he has heard.

    some entitled millennial bullshit right here. 

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  6. has def grown on me since first listening.

    still find the kid sample in Twist distracting and my stubbornness means i refuse to believe not having the sample would make the song any worse. but it’s fine, not a deal breaker. spoken word on Dawn chorus doesn’t bother me but i still think last track “this is how you know who your true friends are” is a real stinker. surely anyone can see it’s deliberately a shitty closing track and that the vinyl bonus track is going to be more on par with the rest of the album and they’re now going to rely on reddit twitter word of mouth to generate the buzz that the vinyl version is the definitive version of the album. super obvious when the album is going to be available at local music stores for $60 AUD. i see what games you’re playing, @ThomYorke

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  7. On 6/28/2019 at 9:19 PM, phudoshin said:

    Based on source: http://uk.thelion.me/nts/

    *played before otherwise "new"
    1.  00:50 - 4:25  : Sounds newish to me -  rolling bass hits, acid action 
    2.  04:24 - 7:20  : Synth line comes in with stabs and new lower key drum loops, chirrper acid, bass line stays same as (1)
    3:  07:20 - 10:36 : *2004-6 era previously played chirppy acid track with bass stabs and newer sounds 
    4:  10:36 - 14:10 : Bit of digital jamming here i think - nice overdriven sounds 
    5:  14:10 - 17:50 : *Warp20 track- new acid line - excellent jungle loops
    6:  17:50 - 20:50 : More bassy acid goodness with fab drums and phats bass stab melody
    7:  20:50 - 25:20 : *2004-6 era previously played chirppy acid track - new acid line
    8:  25:20 - 29:05 : Venus-17 style junglist track with those alarms and gorgeous acid bass staps
    9:  29:05 - 32:45 : *Warp20 track- classic pusher acid techno - the ghostly synth underneath comes through very nice
    10: 32:45 - 38:30 :  Dirty junglist track w/ those alarms, acid stabs and a kinda Vocoded acid element - kinda Damogen style
                         Haunting synth melody comes in at the end and mixes with next track
    11: 38:30 - 44:17 : Dancefloor killer -  Banging drums and dark synths n stabs - Set highlight and total crowd-pleaser i  would say! Stone cold classic - Lets hope for an album of this... Damogen F/ Venus 17 style
    12: 44:17 - 48:28 : Acid tinged melody track - Hello Everything style maybe?

    do you have examples/links/timestamps/etc. for these tracks ?

  8. Curse of the moon is a fun throwback and i'd probably recommend it to anyone looking for some castlevania flavoured nostalgia. But it also didn't hold my interest much. I found the visual style to be pretty lacking. A lot of the enemy designs just seemed either uninspired or just badly drawn and confusing to look at. Castlevania being so rooted in classic movie iconology goes a long way in easily identifying "oh, that's a werewolf man." "oh, that's a mummy." "oh, that's a fish man monster." and i just didn't get any of that from the bloodstained game. 

    I've still never beaten Castlevania 1 and 3. So i'd much rather just replay one of those then return to Bloodstained i think.  

  9. Just now, Extralife said:

    Runawayaway is a damn good techno track. Sounds like something Underword has been putting out recently.

     

    good to hear. i've only given album ~1.5 listens so nitpick criticisms obviously with a grain of salt. still gonna rinse this.

  10. 5 minutes ago, Extralife said:

    Really? I love Twist. One of his better rhythmic solo tracks. 

    this is such a dumb nit pick but i think it's the specifically "twist twist twist" vocals and the kid choir sample. it's hard for me to hear it and not more explicitly picture someone (Thom Yorke) playing around with samples in a DAW/sampler, as opposed to hearing the song as a song and the sounds as part of the song. 

  11. 5 hours ago, Roo said:

    Dawn Chorus does have that prestige sense of purpose about it, like it is meant to be a standout track, but the talking delivery used on that & Last I Heard just bugs me, doesn't suit Thom well for mine. Play to your strengths!

    But you never know. TMB by and large took on an added dimension after Thom's breakup and her cancer passing.

    agreed on this but especially for the last track. that last track had me thinking ??? REALLY ??? as it was looping around and going no where during the second half.

    overall i enjoy this but man. also i can't believe "twist" is a song on this album .... another case of ???REALLY??? 

  12. first listen now. immediate reaction is that palette wise this is right there next to TMB. i recon the "the songs just aren't there" criticism is something i've felt with a good chunk thom's solo output but generally it has a way to pull through and be enjoyable. curious how this one plays out.

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