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    Chiastic Slide or Confield?

    in Autechre

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    1 hour ago, beerwolf said:

    Difficult question. Both of them aren’t my favourite AE. Tricky albums. But basically what Friendly Stranger said. Cichli and Pule also being favourite tracks. I think I respect/admire Confield more than I enjoy it. If that makes sense…

    Nah makes sense totally, Confield is just the deepest of 'chre dives and (IMO) one really needs to be in a certain headspace to appreciates it. I went w/ Chaistic cuz it's where it all "clicked," yadayada, &c. and it's a close second favorite to LP5 which if you look behind you is busting thru the fucking drywall.

    And Nvane. key nell m88s. The bros squeezed the entire heat death of the universe into the 2nd half, mental

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    2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar

    in Football (Soccer) Discussion

    Posted

    37 minutes ago, Hail Sagan said:

    Just call it a shoot out like they do in Hockey. They do have penalty shots in Hockey as well, but when you get to the end of OT the ref doesn’t blow a whistle and penalize both teams by having them square off in a series of penalty shots where neither team has an advantage outside of the individual talent within their team. Damn kickballers.

    I don't like them either, but have gradually accepted them as a necessary evil in knockout competitions when there has to be a winner.  If they've slugged it out for 120+ minutes and there's still no winner, then yeah the reward for both teams is a complete crapshoot.  The psyops, nerves and dumb luck of it all is amusing in a way.

    Ordinary league football has draws (ties) which are IMO a completely acceptable outcome, esp. when nowadays for league table (standings) both teams come away with only 1/3 of the spoils rather than splitting it.  I'm old enough to remember when the NHL had ties.  They'd play a 5 minute OT and neither team would try since they'd both be satisfied taking the point.

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    Deepchord - Functional Designs (Soma)

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    Yeah that what has me confused, I'd'a though this kinda fuckery would be a major turnoff around here but apparently not so much.  I'm with @cern on this one, Echospace are f'n sketchy.  Way before the outright scamming I caught them gaming their release ratings on Discogs, everything they put out was getting like a 4.91 / 5 or something which made no sense.  Turns out they had a bunch of lackeys who'd rate all 5 "versions" of a particular release (the vinyl, the promo, the wav, the mp3...) as 5/5.

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    Deepchord - Functional Designs (Soma)

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    WATMM halp a'member a'member, was it Modell or Hitchell that sold a bunch of pre-orders on bandcamp and failed to deliver the goods? I don't recall how that panned out other than the A+ meme @prdctvsm honored it with :sorcerer:

    And TBH, at some point a while back all of the Deepchord started to become a lil samey.  Not bad, just the same (albeit lush) playbook. Curious whether this one has any new angles to offer.

    A few albums recently listened.

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    On 11/1/2022 at 11:22 AM, lyst said:

    The new Dorian Concept album "What We Do For Others".  I've been patiently waiting a long time for some new work from him.  He's one of my all-time favorite musicians and artists.  Sadly, I do not like ONE TRACK on the new album.  Not one.  I think the reason why is he departed from his more organic side, the soul / jazz / funk backbone to his music.  Sure his older music did get very electronic, but there was always some soulful vibes and chords to it.  This is all just very generic and metallic sounding, with rather unappealing chipmunk-like vocalizations going on in almost every track.

    Thanks for this, I was almost about to plunk down for this album but also realized there's a lot of back material of his I've yet to hear.  Where would u recommend to dive into releases instead?

    Autechre. Live. Twentytwentytwo.

    in Autechre

    Posted

    Sorry but I already have a low tolerance for audiophiles, and even smaller one for those who zealously enjoy fixing the unbroken burger, so feel free to draw the Venn diagram however you want.  I prefer just to cane Autechre, and this set slaps.

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    Autechre. Live. Twentytwentytwo.

    in Autechre

    Posted

     

    To each hir own, but I'll never understand the urge to twiddle knobs after the 'chre have put their stamp on it.  Into the fan fiction bin it goes with stereo differences, 45>33 versions and lush nulls :sorcerer:

    Wonder if this clown even stopped to consider for a second that whatever "sounds much better" (to him) might not apply to others, might just have something to do with the playback system/environment, or that his mastering abilities might not be superior to whoever did it for Shah/Raj-approved release.

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    Actress - Dummy Corporation EP

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    19 hours ago, thumbass said:

    Its pretty normal with more pop oriented singles. Its like a radio edit.

    Ayyy, comment made fully aware of this.  Unless there's a critical mass of fanbois running shit-hot IDM pirate radio from their mom's basements (and pressed for time at that, lol), I don't get the point for (edit)s on an Actress EP.  Bro is just padding the runtime with 53% new footage.

    Losing the 'one' in tracks and knowing it

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by BobDobalina

    Just gonna drop this here cuz it's a 90s trip-hop jam, fits the bill, and that baseline still slaps

    It's straight 4/4 as its should be, and not gonna spoiler (cuz I ain't no snitch), but the thing they do leading into the bridge (~2:08 >) - and then <pregnant pause> out of it - is so fffresh

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