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actually i think the distortion in ilanders is great. nice and crunchy. i kinda wish the rest of the album sounded like that! i think if the whole album had beats like in ilanders, it'd be fuckin' excellent.
lol let's all gang up and write some percussion for this album and re-leak it.
ahh well it will concede it does sound better on headphones and my setup is a bit shit so hopefully the WAV/CD will deliver. I think st epero is the other one I am moaning about with the muddy ass distortion. Its the last track with beats anyway.
lol percussion
(edit: damn my percussion notation doesn't post well) it was a boom-tiss 4 to the floor)
that should do 909 of course
or maybe some amenz
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I guess known(1) is good in a lol way. Maybe that's what Oversteps is mostly about. It's Autechre having a big old lol. It's an..erm... overstep, a step too far, using borrowed time. I thought before it'd be Oversteps as in 'screw you, we're next level, we're one step ahead.' But maybe it's more like, 'over did it there a bit, bit of a misstep, isn't it? Whoops - well, never mind, we're just havin' a laugh, innit?'
I figured oversteps cos they are over (sick of) using step sequencing...
known(1) is awesome imo just to throw that out there
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Oversteps is one of their best albums imo
Oh, you've heard the real album then? Awesome~!
Haha you are like the old men in the muppets in this subforum
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I gotta give Plaid another chance I think.
Since this thread is off to a negative start, I just thought I would vent on the distortion in Ilanders and the beaty track nearish the end. I am all for distortions - usually love it. But this sounds pretty terrible and overdone to me. Its on the snare, bassdrum and all the synths. And afaik ae have never gone overboard on horrible distortion before. Sounds like cheap amp sims up in my face or something. And really out of place VS the rest of the album.
Funnily enough it is these two overly distorted 4/4 ish trax that peeps seem to be diggin. And they may sound alot more palatable and musical when not played though a MP3 encode of a m4a on a cheap Mp3 player into my stereo. Eg gantz graf sounds about 10% weaker from a decent non transcoded mp3 than off the CD.
So I have decided to not listen again till I have WAVs. I'm joining the "this will sound magically better on WAVs camp" I guess.
Apart from these two trax the rest I found to be most satisfying.
played though a MP3 encode of a m4a on a cheap Mp3 player into my stereo. (thought I would facepalm myself on this one. but the rest sounds ok apart from these 2 tracks)
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2nd listen: Ilanders sounds terrrrrible through my speakers. Th other tracks sounded like a mess. Might be fake after all
Could be soundtrack for a Daft Punk wails youtube.3rd listen: Headphones - Ilanders sounds great again. [Rest of the album:] Great range of synths hanging in space. Interesting melodies found amongst the dissonance. Watching the melodic lines change very interesting. Timbres are colourful! This is allll about the variety of synth timbres and spaaace. Fantastic.
Opinion at this point - you have to be in the now for this one. You gotta meet it halfway. And headphones are essential for this rip it seems.
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Well they did say they were leaning towards beatless (or less beat focused) and have rebuilt their studio setup...
Sounds like a throwback to pre Draft period. Definitely generative although to my ears I would describe some borderline chaos involved (not the math). It sounds a bit like they let loose the AI/midi-robots on this one.
I'm liking it.
But yeah, Sick Beatz for live/EP would be best case scenario.
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re: new fake
from first skip thru: cheesy buffer override (redfall, d-sho)and not reverby/spacious enough. some buildups too long and are just fade ins. trk 1 ends with awful clicks. Too easily accessible to be new ae. I get the feeling it will be a stranger journey than this.
way better than altered carbone. if you made a sampler from bits of this material i'd be fooled. It's a pretty good faek, trk 1 - 2 combo especially.
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what are some interestingly derived sampled sounds on oversteps?
That's a good question and I am also curious but I think they will dodge questions on samples and where they are from.. partly b/c they like to blur the line b/w synthesis and sampling.
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Oh I was more thinking of thehauntingsoul or mesh gear fox or that chap with the sweater avatar or some of the other young uns full o beans around here. I am waaay too web 1.0 to do anything productive.
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Someone should plug all the quotes about various albums into the albums wiki pages. There are some good nuggets in these interviews
"It gets more cohesive and succinct. That's obviously been framed by interaction with the crowd. Things were occurring in more concise positions, and we'd learned how to get the most out of each bit before we moved onto the next one, in shorter time.""We were left with the residue of two years of influence and input and development, and then we could be completely self-indulgent in the studio. But it felt like we were making something really sharp."(On how the crowds at gigs influenced the source material for Quaristice)
"Apperciation of music is instinct, it's innate," asserts Booth."You know what a large metallic changing sound represents probably at the age if six months, Whether it's in tune or the production sounds sweet. it's all innate. That's become more and more interesting to me."Getting into music psychology territory. Interestingly about 6 years ago it was listening to AE that started me thinking along the lines of musical psychology in relation to evolution and culture. Although its hard to find material on this! Also mentioned are ideas of music in relation to memory recall and what would happen if this ability is not present (Ae mention drugs, but there are other ways of achieving temporary tabula rasa mindstates). You normally get shouted down for discussing shit like this so it's cool to find snippets in this interview.
and a druggy misquote for fun:
there are moments when we're both on X, and that's when it really works. We try to catch those apexes.Right enough bs for one day
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Anyway, realizing that you all seem to know Ae's music back and forth (as do I, admittedly), I do have an interview with Sean Booth coming up, so if you have any burning questions or insights, I'd be interested to see them.
Can you tell us about the process of starting from a clean slate to ending up with the new album? Was this material edited down from 1 hr jams like Quaristice of did you approach it a different way?
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It's not like any Autechre fans are not going to buy "Oversteps" because of a fake release, get real. Anyone who got the fake and was disappointed, serves you right.
I dunno, if this gets around on a lot of blogs/ last.fm it could put off the first time/casual listener who are curious this time around (because it kind of sucks). I only listened to the youtube promo (skipping), but that generic scary dark synth line at the start was so cheesy I'm surprised anyone had the patience to listen to the whole download.
(Glotches fake promo was way better!)
The purpose of this "leak" had nothing to do with trying to pass an album off as Autechre, it was targeting those who will only listen to something for plain aesthetic value rather than for its content, and taking the complete piss out of those peopleWeird use of the word aesthetic. I think they mean literal or critical value or maybe symbolic-social. IE listening to the mp3 tag rather than the mp3?
So their idea was to make some people on a msg board look dumb by making them think their average music was in fact Autechre because they know their music is average? That is kind of retarded. They should just focus on making their music not so average.
If they knew what aesthetic means that might also help with this. -
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Fake or not, that promotional mix sounds pretty good.
needs more singing to be convincing
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lol, oh the fake madness again, happens every time...
These are fake, but sound fun on my laptop speakers.
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Naw thats wrong afaik Soundmurderer and SK-1 are Todd Osborn and Tadd Mullinix. Who are real people who do real things.
But that does remind me that this is some awesome shit and I should get the wavs. Especially fathom. [listens to fathom] ohhh niiice. umm just buy it and pretend its AFX. Its better jungle than he can do anyway
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One reason I just can't see music becoming a download only thing, you could end up losing everything you just bought with no way to get it again unless you pay them all over.
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64kbps ? that's damn near unlistenable.
well it's just for streaming eh.. gives you a fair idea if the tune is good or not. That said I prefer higher bitrate too..
But the main thing with the site for me is the prices are reasonable - especially for some of those EPs with heaps of tracks.
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Awesome - purchased Monolith and am listening to heaps of clips. Best surprise tune so far is Rings of Saturn off Mental Union - totally awesome, will probably get the whole album. (and new Wisp, and Jodey Kendrick)
Noted some (most) of the streaming mp3s are indeed 64kbps but some are V4 (Macc and Doghn, Jodey Kendrick, Mental Union).
Unreleased AFX is interesting - I was really hoping for an unreleased track from Analord 10 but nope :(
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Superb! Fantastic! Can't wait for the DVD link!
If you are a Tri Repetae fan I would love to see _anything_ from that album interpreted visually..
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Track ID for u dubstep experts:
Man, I went to N-Type a few weeks ago and it was frickin great. I recognised a bunch of tracks he played but there was a standout track I need to know what it was.
It was more like a skankin reggae vibe and had a giant comedic boing springy sproing sound effect (cartoony). This springy sproing sound effect was fantastic. From memory it did not exactly have wobbly bass, and was probably more of the halfstep sort of vibe. This is a springy sproing sound that I have never heard similar in any other dubstep tracks. The track itself was not a dark track, it was quite upbeat which is not too usual for an N-Type set I think?!
I was a bit wasted so thats all I have to go on.
It is not on N-Types dubstep all stars mix.
Any hints? lol. It was a great springy sproing sound. it was all like "Boooiiiinnnnngg!!"
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only listened to first half once (lol) but reminds me alot of the last gescom release. but way better. some kick ass reverbs and nice big empty spaces gives the tracks room to breathe and a couple of nice delayed reverb tails that are awesome. defenitely not messy fx at all, clinical. the track with the three bass drum hits from right to left with the middle one with the real low bass kills me
(really should go listen instead of adding 2 cents)
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Hmm of the first 7 trax I like 2 a lot (niggy and black history month). The others are mostly cheeze and that u2 cover is a bit embarassing.
Still 8 tracks to go (yeah i am a bit slow). Hope it gets better. But at this point I would say I hope TR doesn't produce the next Saul Williams album. O well.
And goddamn some of that singing does sound like the rezo. I hate the rezo's singing, he should stick to sax LOL.
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make better shit. but watch. the NIN community is going to reach into its pockets because they're all IT managers now and fork over a few bucks a download. thanks for the memories trent. well it's a better service to the artist to not pay for shit if you dont like it if they're going to release it in this format.
lolz I just read this. And you are wrong I am an IT Tech, not a IT Manager, but one day...
Seriously though, I bought this more to support SW than tent ramzors. I cut off my purchasing nin habit after that live DVD. No not the last one, the one before. I refused to buy with teets, any of the singles from it and year zero. And I had all the halos before that.
Now that I think about it even though I was a nin weenie back in the day, I got into saul from his guest spot on the Blackalicious album Blazing Arrow that totally ownz everything ever.
So to conclude Saul > TR > Mosca > Josso
(thought I would facepalm myself on this one. but the rest sounds ok apart from these 2 tracks)
Could be soundtrack for a Daft Punk wails youtube.
If they knew what aesthetic means that might also help with this.
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I had choc chip waffles with jelly and ice cream last night so good.
but thats all the waffles i got