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lol, is that Shatner circa '86?

Holy shit, this is wonderful.

What's the Cafe Press shirt-sizing like? I mean, is a large decent sized or is it super tight? The American Apparel larges are about as small as I can go, accounting for shrinkage and the like. But I also don't want to be swimming in my frigging shirt. Oh god, this is making me anxious, oh god. edit: ok, I see one of them is a preshrunk Hanes, so that works. I'm'a order that shit, after saying the same thing for two years already.

lawl, Sean.

*whose, lol :seppuku:

I can discount that mofo's opinion instantly because he clearly doesn't like Pro Radii, and in a Venn Diagram the Set "People who don't like Pro Radii" exists entirely within the Set "People who's opinions are shit."

Yeah, Treale has some serious mid-90s styleee Autechre payoff to it.

There's some really nice, subtle use of dynamic range on this album; a few tracks just get a teeeeny bit louder in certain passages/climaxes, and I'm finding it really effective. Has anyone looked at waveforms? I'm guessing Oversteps might be less compressed for maximum loudness than Untilted, but not sure. There's a lot of intentional distortion in Oversteps, but there also seems to be a good bit of headroom. This album sounds fanfuckintastic.

lol

I can't believe I just wasted time chasing this. 5:05-5:30 in Karn Evil 9 vs. 6:00-6:20in the sampler. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfuOjvAMaE8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJLhenv_OSw

There's a bit in O=0 that reminds me of a cheesy bit in a cheesy Emerson Lake & Palmer song (I think). I can't put my finger on it, but I love it. Edit: I think it's Karn Evil 9 2nd Impression, lol.

I deleted it, because I want to still be in the honeymoon period when it is released I download it again in three days.

I say we take off and nuke the thread from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

The probability of Hitler being discussed in the MegaThread has been approaching 1 for a really long time now, so I just thought I'd finish 'er off. Carry on.

HAI SEAN!

I would get an embarrassing boner at work right now if there was a Drane 3. Also, someone needs to put Inhake 3 on teh youtubes so I can preview that shizz.

Draft puts me in a weird place. It's a much harder listen for me than Confield; part of that is because Draft approaches your expectations a little asymptotically, and ultimately just subverts them. Whereas Confield primes you for abstraction early and stays in that mode. Confield is less frustrating in that sense. Lentic Catachresis should be more disturbing than Reniform Puls, but Reniform Puls makes me much more uneasy. Large parts of Draft also seem to move in the opposite direction of Untilted. Draft moves from relatively straightforward to epic fragmentation. Untilted kind of gathers fragmented pieces together and ends in a more traditional/cohesive place. It's a more listener-friendly development. They both have tracks that deviate from that formula, but the contrast between the two feels pretty deliberate to me. For example, Surripere seems to be a very deliberate microcosm of the Draft idea of development and deconstruction. Augmatic Disport kind of represents the opposite movement (compare the first minute to the last minute). And something like Bine represents the Confield idea of total, immediate immersion into the alien for the duration. None of that renders Draft less brilliant (and, arguably, it might render it more so). It's just a tricky one to handle. Requires a delicate balance between active listening and just getting carried along. I'm not surprised its placement on ae-preference lists is so variable. Edit: Then again, Confield was my first ae album, around 2001. So maybe that's why it seems more digestible to me. Uhh, OVERSTEPS.

1. Draft/ Confield/Untilted / [Glasgow Art School] 2. Chiastic Slide / Envane / Cichlisuite / Gantz Graf / EP7 / Oversteps (not sure yet) 3. LP5 / Both Peel Sessions / Anti EP / Quaristice + Versions / Garbage / Anvil Vapre 4. Tri Rep / We R 5. Amber / Quadrange 6. Incunabula / Basscad EP That's about as granular as I can make it, which is not very. No value attached to horizontal order. It would probably be totally different tomorrow. Everything down to level 4 inclusive is loved immensely, to the point the ordering feels artificial. 5 and 6 are great but seem objectively lower in quality. Edit: Tri Rep should probably be @ 3, but what the fuck.

Pentagsn is the split they did with Bathory in 1994, right? Just before Anti? I still need to pick up that shit. I wish they would go back to blackened idm.

It's like Die Antwoord: total next level shit! Also, stfu about The Wire's review. It's a limitation of the medium. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, after all. OH SHII--

Yeah, the whole thing really grew on me this last listen. I love this album. I still want to underplay it until the WAV release, but it's going to be a tough slog. Edit: unrelated note, Adult Swim just used Pro Radii on a bumper card while I was writing about teh awtekkers.

hahaha. . . AHHH fuck.

I'm sucking it up and listening again. Oh my fuck, I want to marry Treale.

I was thinking more along the lines of a controlled leak to prevent higher quality leaks, therefore driving interest in the high-quality product (the one you pay for). But that's too conspiratorial; the truth usually outs pretty quickly once the final product actually exists; info wants to be free, etc. I can't see them releasing a promo copy that didn't have the final product. I don't think they're money-grubbing assholes, but I don't think they (or more accurately, Warp) are totally careless about marketing the product with reviewers. I could see RDJ releasing something fucked up in lieu of the real deal, but not really Autechre. They always seem to care/obsess about proper versioning and packaging and presentation(see Quaristice, control over soundboards.) Edit: the YUOP fuck-up is just so glaring.