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Thanks man you got it, recognise it from the vocals. Heard it in a Sophie live set, didn't realise it was a remix of GFOTY.

Enjoyed it. An unusual case of Ae making something sound less alien. This or Lemonade was always my favorite Sophie track, wasnt too fussed with the album. Does anyone know if they ever released that live track with the lyrics about sucking cock in nightclub cloakrooms? That one was great too.

Delighted to fall further down the funk-hole.

Ulla - Tumbling Towards A Wall Cindy Lee - What's Tonight To Eternity Wire - Hive Mind Squarepusher - Be Up A Hello Ben Bondy & Exael - Aphelion Lash CS + Creme - Snoopy Seltene Erden - Scorched Erden Aleksi Perala - Spectrum Shinichi Atobe - Yes Critical Anmesia - s/t Jon Collin & Demdike Stare - Sketches of Everything 1995 Epilepsy - s/t Autechre - SIGN/PLUS Air Krew - Discuss And Come Back Zoviet France - Russian Heterodoxical Songs

I'm enjoying it, but it is low-key I'm presuming the guest vocalists contributed the lyrics. They generally work well enough but sometimes come off as poor man's Burial/generic rave slogans. Maybe if he'd done the words himself it would've ended up like SP's 50 Cycles.

DekDre Scap B - a heady, dubby soup. Recalling Perlence or Surriperre, we are sloshed about between retriggered kicks and reverberant bass fleps. 7FM ic - even more off balance now, a clumsy beat is accompanied by whooshing metallic textures. As the track settles, a detuned lead synth like from F7 begins to knit everything together. Marhide - the first track that really settled me. Sounds like zoviet france trying electro. 808s + tape hiss/extractor fans. Cannot go wrong. Maybe no synths at all on this track? ecol4 - trippy alien prog gamelan. Sounds like the glassy, tuned percussion from glos ceramic has been refined into something smoother . Reminded me a little of Parhelic Triangle or Reniform Puls. lux 106 mod - very SIGN with that rich phased synth patch, (could be a moded106? I guess) but also very Oversteps with all that wandering chromatic stuff. Nice interlude. X4 - Straight off, a fast beat, busy mexican jumping bean gonk sound. Ominous distant lasers/strings. Paced like something off the front of Untilted but develops in a way like something like irlite (get0) with all these slow moving backround sections. Then the fade to sterile pads is the cherry on top. Chef kiss. ii.pre esc - its esc desc.. off SIGN..., but different!. And with some resonant zaps bubbling about esle 0 - its gr4.. off SIGN..., but different!. And with some more gloomy harmonic choices. Two great tracks, but their impact is lessened here, in a different context. TM1 open - one of their techno-adjacent tracks like 90101 5I-I. Hi-bpm almost juke hihats skitter around a mutant acid line. Then they reveal everything is happening in this cavernous space. Very different, not immediately lovable but intriguing. Sounds related to si 00. After the more immediately gratifing SIGN im glad that PLUS has moments which leave me scratching my head. I like being outfoxed by ae. And then there is also so obviously top tier stuff like X4 and ecol4, so I'm happy. The only downside being the alternate tracks which dont offer anything better, which worked on MoT but not so much here on a separate album.

I can't really get into this one yet, to me it sounds like Afx's Akunk with fol3 playing over the top.

Got to give props where its due, this is a step back up in quality from Age Of. I shouldnt have been so hasty judging the album from the fairly lame pre-release singles. I suppose they work in the context of the radio station conceit, I mean, if youre scanning thru drivetime radio, youre gonna pick up a bit of shite, and at least this is slightly weird shite. The back half is, like plenty have said, reminiscent of R+7 and Replica, and up there with his best material.

SIGN for me, but not by much. Seems like a more coherent statement as a whole, maybe also cause it arrived first and I was more hungry. PLUS seems to do the same job as MOT did to Oversteps. Mops up a few alt. versions with some stylistic outliers and a couple of total stormers that didn't fit the mood of the 1st record.

Yeah i would expect so.

I can't remember the source but I believe its a cd reissue for the Japanese market which combines the album with the 2001 bonus tracks and the Quoth ep. No new trax tho.

Looks like this'll prob be my last opn purchase. Age Of was weak for me, and this is much of the same but worse. Hes gone and done a Machinedrum. "Daniel, dont lower yourself to the level of the mainstream.!" "Lisa maybe if I'm part of that mainstream I can help steer it in wise directions"

Hands together for those lovable lads from Liverpool ???

The amount of delicate piano and plummy voiced falsetto on this makes it sound like the last Radiohead record.

Got some of my order today. Cursory spin, 'The End of Nothing...' does seem to be a re-edited version of '...Spaghetti Western.' And it sounds fantastic.

As well as known(1), F7 is beginning to remind me of the 2nd half of Rae but without any drums and a more paranoid vibe.

After 20 years of complaints about Ae's music becoming too abstract, obtuse, dissonant, atonal etc. it's been quite gratifying this time to see a slew of comments saying the exact opposite.

Don't really remember exactly but it must have been a combo of listening to John Peel and reading the NME around 2000ish. The first release I really got into at the time was Confield, hype ever since.

The opening minutes of M4 Lema teased me into thinking we were in for an inhospitable sounding album, with all its distant grumbling and whizzing. Then those luminous pads hit and its pretty much all lush from there on out. F7 sounds like a mix of those bagpipey Coil synths from know(1) but with a Lorenzo Senni abstract trance sensibility si00, amazing bass, haunted underwater vibes reminded me a little of Sim Gishel esc desc sounds like an extremely stripped back take on their emotional chord progression type track a la see on see or Vletrmx21, but with super smooth & syrupy chorus. au14, some welcome beats. Shaky digital ghost blips rattle off EP7 type beats. Reminded me a little of veKos and Sublimit. Metaz form8. A stunning highlight, luxuriant Vangelis synths play a stately impressionist chord progression as Fennesz style fizz forms around it. sch.mefd 2. Evil robot hiphop track like Cfern or Prac-f, understated with an unusually straight ahead bassline gr4. More analogue sounding arpeggiated synths, with reverb fuckery. Beatless, but rhythmic, the closest thing I'm hearing to the BoC/OPN comparisons. th red a. Takes the approach of something like eastre or acid mwan idle, but with these new pretty, bright synths and stricter editing. The old garbled robot voices lurk in the background. psin AM. Sounds like Arch Carrier or Acroyear2 remixed by GAS. Richly chorused chords float by a distant 4/4 and quiet, relaxing chaos. r cazt. Another highlight. Fm trumpets swim around in reverb tails, while the high end bell synths occassionally swell up and twinkle like c-beams. A very positive first listen, a nice chill, sad but beautiful sounding ae is just what I needed. They havent been this 'easy listening' in 20 years. I dont mind cause Im still in backlog half processing the difficult tracks off NTS.

Mustve been a very limited release cause it had sold out very quickly on bandcamp/boomkat. I was expecting something a bit more warm cosy ambient from the description... it isnt. There are no beats- but the actual sound design isn't too different from Disclosure. Very shiny and twinkly though.

https://edmsoundwave.bandcamp.com/album/super-deluxe-edition Quality copshow dadfunk meets 80's aerobics workout tape. Sounds like Jodey solo to me but who knows. Getting Jake Slazenger, early Cylob & DMX vibes as well. Nice art by Marco D'Arcangelo too.

I agree, the West Mineral and Experiences releases are the strongest but it's all good. I'd say Ben Bondy is a bit of an outlier amongst this bedroom ambient scene. He covers a lot of different styles, some tracks seem to be able to mimic the tone of 90's Warp organic techno incredibly well, while some of it is almost detroit-ish. Some of that may be subconscious tho, the artwork on this new one is an alien smoking a spliff in combats and chunky trainers. Guess thats the vibe.

I remember reading it on here (This thread) but not sure of the true source, maybe a Storey interview. When VOD originally put up the info for the box earlier on this year, it was different; there were less LPs and LP1 was named Music For A Spaghetti Western. They only changed it later on. It only ever saw a bootleg release anyway and its very good so I am happy if it is. Still, could be something totally unheard as well.

Look Into Me, similar vibe to Misfits.. and Gesture... Shadow Thief of the Sun and Just an Illusion are excellent (and I believe are Robin Storey solo works) I'm quite excited to hear these 2 previously unreleased albums, i think some of Russian Heterodoxical Songs has been played on the duck in a tree podcast but its mostly a mystery. I'm guessing 'The End of Nothing, The Beginning of Everything' is just a new title for 'Music For A Spaghetti Western'

Well blow me down I was expecting the usual acid/drill peppered with some linn drums and fairlight orch stabs... But this turned out to be an incredibly faithful, straight ahead 80s action movie score. No tongue in cheek here. Cause of this I can't imagine it having much replayability for me but he really nailed it as a genre exercise. Prob the weirdest release since French Police.