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William is far from a clown, and his arguments sound very reasonable to me… not one of those “I know better” arguments you refer to.

If that thing on the Helsinki official recording is weak I can’t imagine how good the London shows must have been…

The primavera set I attended, the Helsinki soundboard recording and the snippets from Barbican, all seems to indicate they have finally realized the “live set as a complete real time generated album” concept. So much detail, so much ambience and naunce and variety on every set… I personally can’t wait for the soundboard recording for all these concerts, it’s already for me the most interesting Autechre period by far, they’re the Miles Davis or Can for this age.

That’s my theory too as soon as read one of the first SIGN interviews mentioning Sean was in Norway.

This recommendation may seem totally unrelated to Autechre but some days ago I had the chance to see the Netherlands Dans Theater contemporary dance company in Barcelona and I have to say I have never experienced such a feeling of absurdity, strangeness and wonder (that feeling of recognizing the elements but seeing them working in a totally unexpected way) as watching Bedroom Folk live, except from a handful of artists such as Autechre or Lynch: The preview doesn’t make it justice at all. Me and my partner looked at each other afterwards not really understanding what we have just seen but knowing it has been extraordinary for sure. Check them out in Europe, I think they are touring or something.

In my opinion it’s more related to them being “drum machine kids” (his words) and starting doing music that way and thinking on loops more than being smart (although he clearly is).

Also, the way some sounds mutate in space, shape and timbre is on another entire level to anything I had heard before, save for musique concrète (except this is live music and not tape manipulation!)

I agree with your review pretty much. But I do think is their best set yet from them, precisely because of that feeling of not knowing anymore what’s texture rhythm harmony or melody. Also the mix was something peculiar very related to SIGN in that’s there is layers and layers of important content buried down. This one really needs a soundboard recording for second listen on headphones

That’s only of the laptops. The other one has The GarageBand

I think they didn’t allow anyone touch The Rig. they came with the laptops. They went out of stage with the laptops on their backpacks

Wow. I don’t think anybody enjoying the current Autechre era will be disappointed. Not to say it’s not demanding at the same time. Just wow. Surprised by so many incredible beats

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Ok. I just found out Autechre doesn’t play on Primavera on the main open area but on the concert hall next to it… this place has awesome acoustics… I’m officially looking for tickets for that day…

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I thought just the same. Some kind of 2h NTS Sessions pt2 as a live act would be beautiful.