[monolake]

these guys are great

 

listened to hong kong last night after taking a bunch of pills (standard activity for me)

 

and i must say, amazing, amazing, amazing

 

polygon cities is also pretty cool but i don't know if i like it as much as hong kong. less ambient, less depth, more rhythm

[now playing thread]

school of seven bells - wired for light

[Need some good music like Autechre]

Things that are in the vicinity of musical quality to Autechre, to me:

 

non-"electronic"-

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

John Coltrane - Ascension

Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch

Pharoah Sanders - Karma

Claude Debussy - La Mer

 

(non-obvious) electronic-

gas - pop

anything by lithops

anything by microstoria

anything by oval

ANYthing by Mouse on Mars, with my favorite being Autoauditacker

 

believe it or not, Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding, by Venetian Snares, is pretty fantastic

 

Shpongle. Yup. Future Sound of London. For sure.

 

I think early Chemical Brothers is amazing. Maybe that's because it's my childhood love, but Dig Your Own Hole is pretty awesome.

 

EVERYBODY CHECK OUT TAKAgI MASAKATSU

 

trust me guys. specifically the album coeida

 

 

 

Kettel is pretty awesome too.

 

I've always found stuff like Arovane, Proem, and Four Tet to be pretty boring/no good. I should probably revisit that stuff sometime soon though.

[Autechre-Quaristice]

God, returning to Draft after listening to this over and over again for a week was an amazing experience. Gotta wonder if this will ever measure up to that one. I actually do think that some places on Quaristice are pretty amazing. I've been pretty hard on this one. I went about it differently than with previous releases, because this time I knew that with the other ones I had waited months to years before really unlocking them. I almost wanted to force this unlocking upon myself. Well I guess I was let down a bit, but now looking at the thing I see some brilliant, brilliant moments.

[Autechre-Quaristice]

How do you guys know that the bonus is all extended jams? Is anyone else kind of annoyed that this is a "jam" cd? I don't want a fuckin jam, I've got the live recordings for that. I want a composed piece of music, something they wrote. I don't think Quaristice sounds like a jam at all. Sounds like composed genius.

 

I'm fine if the bonus is extended jams, but I don't know, if it's not, MOAR AWESOME.