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I'm okay with this. Just really looking for my package in the mail and the higher quality wavs. Oh, and then live set/ live recordings, and then more releases later in the year... there's nothing to complain about!

that would be rad

This is a good thing

Bye!

What? No it doesnt. I just went to both those links and clicked on ilanders and it takes you to the page and it say 5:32

I doubt it's supposed to repeat. Can you imagine it doing that on the Vinyl release? Yeah, good call.

Regarding people asking if parts of the Quaristice tour appear in this... I cant say they do explicitly, but they kind of do in spirit... namely the (for lack of better words) jamaican parts of the live set... steel drums and shit. I'm totally hearing that same vibe in the beginning of pt2ph8 and parts of d-sho qub.

With the "split up" multitrack version, we have the following: - discrepancies in track times (likely due to the subjective cuts made as to where one track should end and the other should begin) when compared to the last.fm scrobble investigative work. - the same awkward cross fades in some areas - the same doubling of ilanders - the same abrupt cut off at the end of Yuop - perhaps not a technical, but a perceptual, improvement in sound quality - st epreo still sounds like it clips when it goes nuts. As does krYlon around the 3:30 mark. ---------> In conclusion, the m4a was taken from this or the m4a was arbitrarily split up and piped through some editing software to clean it up.

I like the way those times don't match the track lengths taken from that guy's last fm page who is doing the interview. Do you have those numbers again by chance? Yep. 01 r ess (5:12) 02 ilanders (5:32) 03 known(1) ?? 04 pt2ph8 (4:09) 05 qplay (4:38) 06 see on see (4:37) 07 Treale (6:05) 08 os veix3 (4:37) 09 O=0 (4:52) 10 d-sho qub (6:26) 11 st epreo (1:43) 12 redfall (3:48) 13 krYlon (6:08) 14 Yuop (9:58) WHY DON"T I OWN THIS? WHAT THE FUCK Anyone have any explanation for this... how can the legit track be a minute 43 seconds, while the fake says its fucking 4 TIMES LONGER I would hesitate to say any of these times are "legit" though. Unless of course, the fake leak released by them is more well received than the actual release.

Has anyone actually sat with a calculator and added up the differences between the (possibly) m4a sliced version vs the last.fm scrobble version? And why is no one mentioning that Yuop cuts off at the end in both the m4a and its sliced version?

Whoa... thats a big discrepancy. Its worth mentioning the tracks we're going off of could very well be solely perceptive or interpretive based on the slicing up the single track. That, and getting inspector gadget on some dudes last.fm scrobble doesnt seem that official either.

Maybe its not twice and is supposed to repeat. i find the repeating quite effective actually. Where'd you find this?

I still love this album. One day, I'm sure you will too. Heh, I kind of remember you not liking Queersauce and Untilteduh when they first came out too.

Uhhhhhhhhh........ what? From where? Rars? As in more than one?

wait, where's the second m4a version? How is it different than the single track with the double ilanders?

It clips pretty bad in areas. Maybe THIS sounds tolerable b/c the source was so great (24bit?). If they recorded, however this promo was recorded, from say a 192kbps mp3, it may have sounded way worse. Just a theory...

Re: about 50-55minutes in... The best parts of Pro Radii and Iera mixed with a bit of Cap.IV . This track is going to be amazing, but the clipping and shittiness of the recording device is really evident here. I can't wait to hear the final release of this track

Sometimes the simplist answers are the most telling. Why would Warp offer 24bit wav files if *this* was indicative of the final mix/master ??? I can literally hear things suppressed that should otherwise come forward. It's almost there, just not there completely. I really think a 24bit wav will reveal much more than a shit proprietary mp3 that has likely been transcoded. I have to keep going back to the increase in quality given the newer version of that 2005 soundboard and how hearing it that way was like hearing it again for the first time

I believe these are the actual songs, but the m4a format leads me to believe this is not an accurate representation of the sound quality. Maybe an un-EQ'd line in to a minidisc or something. It's funny, it's like I can hear that it's supposed to sound huge, and I know that it will, but this mix is just compacting the whole thing.... Like it's a recording of a recording taken in a plastic bag

If this was in fact recorded to an iPhone, that would explain the compression/muddiness to this "master.". It seems like with the timbres used, the mix should be opened up a bit more. It just all sounds like what really bad headphones sound like... Blown and only reproducing the mid to high ends semiaccurately. Which is to say, the actual release is gonna sound even more lush and immersive

Quaristice is derivative and piecemeal. It's the one album in their catalog, that if magically disappeared and/or was never made, their creative trajectory would have never been affected.

I dont see why? I wanted Autechre to do something unexpected and thats what we got. They dont have to be abrasive and super complex to get their point across always. I'm fine with that. For me, they've always presented two paths upon listening... either awe at the mindfuck beat slaying or a deep-rooted nostalgic, yet alien sense of haunting at their melodies. I got the later with this release. I didnt quite get either with Quaristice. Take Confield's VI Scose Poise. This album is a natural progression of what we got there. Same goes for Fermium, then Simm. Perhaps those sounds are more bright and sharp, but they are also more "holographic" or 3D in how they cut through the listening space. I'm enthusiastic because the album deserves to be. If it was just another beat slaying album, I'd be sitting here saying, "..Albeit good, its the same. Where's the melodies?"

HAHAHA. You okay dude?

This and This (and great review by Greg Reason!)

There's some weird spectral wave shaping distortion on this that is strikingly similar to Christian Fennesz' last album.