Alcofribas

is this album any good?

this one's from an italian magazine called "soundini" -- sorry for the bad translation" In a world where home computers are becoming the norm and everyone and their grandmother creates algorythmic musical compositions in programs like Max and Facebook autechre struggle to maintain an edge by creating edgey music that not only walks the line between noise and music but takes that line, puts it through a comb filter, adds a break beat and puts it out on a little label called WARP (grizzly bear, battles, etc). i met up with rob brown, 1/3 of autechre, to talk about just what does it take to surrvive in today's economy. please tells us all abouts Overtep, your new CD. well, sean and i use Digital Performer for all our tracks so this time around we loaded it up with VSTs and took all these field recordings, from like, family vacations and stuff and just went super nuts mangling the samples... mangles them how? we used some wicked effects, like Reverse and changing the pitch. so like, the first track on the album ["Envane"] starts off with this low pitched barking sound -- that's actually a sample of a dog barking, pitched down. also reverb is on it, we LOVE reverb, especially the one's Alesis makes; he's a great reverb creator. yes, A;esis is my brother anyway, i do most of the computer stuff while sean booth handles the acoustic stuff and we have another dude who writes the music. we all just have a laugh, cum our pants, silk our sisters and annoint our membranes sounds wicked it is wicked yeah. so, when are you going to release new albums? probably do you ever think of getting into producing? songs? yes we have already done that, like, for some pretty famous people. i'm not going to name names but bustah rymes is one and j dilla, we did most of his beats. i have a new computer so i can finally expand my skills via email. hotmail is excellent for this yes in the past we were very competetive, usually we used our bmx bikes, screenshots from SOS magazine, old boss delay units, etc. but now that we're older there's a lot more stuff we can do, like for exampling we are too fast for our computers so everything we think about requires two computers each and brian eno is he involved in a lot of your production? yeah, he did several of our first albums":: "Discreet lOOPS" "Ambein" "live at Appolo" so we're indebted to him. when we first played our first video game ("little red hood") we were always already like, "yes, we've got to get into this business" and the music was a soo inspiring to me and him, sean. what do you think of the apples ipad? it's ace, we have got it to run max, msp, and so on. on our label, 12k, we have an album entirely done on ipad, it's called "IPOD" and it's released by Guescom -- which is us mostly. is rob hall a dj? totally what's for the future? eden. i know a lot of people are cynical because the big bosses and fat men are running the world to a halt and the ground but if you just buy the newest equipment from such sites as harmony central, best buy, eBay, etc it shouldn't be a problme. people have gotta man tracks in this age part words? stay healthy and give it a dick.

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i met up with sean booth, one half of autechre (ae) and talked about everything from the duo's new album to horror films, even to what his mum's favorite sarny is innit. so, how does oversteps compare to your previous records? well, it's much better. we use a lot of melodies and wrote it on a kyma system MIDI'd up to some old roland drum machines we bought from moby. that bloke is a vegan, lol would you say it's more emotional than, say, Quaristice? nah what was different about your work methods? well, rob and i met back in 2001 and we've been working with pretty much the same equipment over in his dad's attic. so, this time around, we just did the same old shit. i usually make the beats and the melodies and he usually records it into his computer. then i master it and he plays about with his two kids. then i do the artwork. under your alias TDR? yeah, you've done yer research mate! thanks! what records inspired this album? ugh, i'd have to say "amber," "incunablua," "drukqs," all by autechre. and i guess mira calix, cuz she's my mate. do you buy a lot of new records? not really,...well, yeah, i by 'em off discogs a lot. i've got like every atom tm record. but mostly i buy mp3s off itunes. itunes is lush! do you think it's possible to make music after 9/11? nah how do you cope with the trauma of war? work on tracks, innit? are you going to tour in america for this album? no, just europe and mexico. mexico is fucking lush! are you working on any new tracks at the moment? yeah. are they any good? yeah. i've got one with this epic crescendo, like huge, fucking half hour crescendo. i'm calling it "bolero" by ravel. ever read watmm? yeah, i'm ET on there. lol what else is going on in your life these days? i'm making some kids with the missus, that's well lush. rob and i are doing yoga together too but with the distance we have to do it together on skype. nirvana is lush. when's the next album coming out? later this year, autumn prob. autumn is lush. thanks for talking with me! lush mate.

you're reading a movie? epic

in the early 90s sean booth and rob brown met through a mutual friend. setting aside their bmx bikes and spray paint canisters (you can still see "sean was here" graffiti-ed on walls across manchester's seedier parts) they began making mix-tapes, finding that they loved the same tunes although sean was more into the acid bits while rob leaned more towards sound design. at one point they broke a friend's kit. they quickly introduced roland tr606 and roland juno106 into their mixes and by the time they got their first roland mc202 you couldn't tell what parts of the mix were booth/brown and what parts were the original. after signing on warp they put out "incunabula" a melodic ambient record that was weirder and less hardcore than their debut "cavity job." tracks like "maetl" and "autriche" laid down the template for their obscure track titles which they never abandoned (over their career listeners have been faced with puzzling gems such as "bine," "yulquen," "liccflii," "wtf," "lol," and "omgwearel33thax0rs.") by the time they put out "chiastic slide" in the late 70s they had already begun to polarize their fans into two separate groups: those who liked the more melodic, ambient autechre and those who were into the more drill n baths style with the fucked up beats. sean said they did a bunch of mushrooms. then lp5 came out and people were like "jesus, wut?" this changed music forever. "draft 73" (the inspiration for prefuse 73's nom de plume) was unlistenable, but so was "confield" which is all algorithms on max/msp which generates all the tracks, they just press space bar. sean gets completely pissed when blokes come up to him at the bars and show him max patches they made on their laptops. richard d james likes "confield" but thinks the rest of their shit is quite daft really. always controversial autechre plays their more danceable shows with the lights off. in america the crowds just stroke their beards and adjust their glasses but in the UK they go nuts on the dance floor. "quaristice" came out in a bunch of different versions, one of which was limited to 1 copies and sold out in 7 months. it's basically just a compilation of live tracks b/c their studios weren't set up b/c they were moving out of their parent's house (they are brothers). "oversteps" is a return to form, basically a re-hashing of "incunabula" but with computers.

does anyone remember when encey made that epic seinfeld post a few years back? i would like to read that again... mo

amazing

This. lol

I don't think an artists amount of effort should be defined by how much work was done by manual input or automatic choices made by a computer. All that matters in the end is how its going to effect you on a base level also, word up awepittance.

wtf is my track by track doing lost in this fucking mega turbo clusterfuck thread? i do not think it best serves the community in this thread

has anyone figured out if it's "dicks, eat 'em" or "this is IDM?"

hm

obviously you haven't heard the song, n00b

WOW

some one, preferably rob brown, please do this

oh sorry

r ess - pretty cool. more of an intro than a song. i think "r ess" means either "res," viz resonance, or maybe RS like, i dunoo, maybe some one's initials or like "Rob Sombie" or something. ilanders- first autechre song with electric guitar. starts off slow, like just plucking around, you know like noodling or whatever. but then a wicked ae beat comes in, really tight compressed kicked with like really fast drum rolls all over the place. also the first ae track with vocals. as far as i can tell these are the lyrics: using energy we create this recording if you are sound of mind you won't mind our sick pads and their sense of forboding (that las line might be "sons of fur-coating?" but wtf is that?? known(1) - literally the best song. reminds me of LUDD, kinda dumb but like brilliant at the same time. sick beats/ambient stuff. pt2ph8 - i think the title refers to peer-to-peer gaming or something (is that even a thing?). anyway, this starts off very cinematic, lush orchestral swells, dark heavily reverbed brass looming in the periphery. then it conveys perfectly the following: you're in a nightmare, but it's a cube, but it's the house you grew up in. it's so weird b/c you know your way around perfectly but it feels like you're getting to the different rooms a lot faster than it should take. so: are the hallways smaller? or are you bigger/faster? fucking does your head in the way they do this. qplay - kinda shite see on see - made entirely of samples of water this piece is ambient but a bunch of times a big break beat just randomly comes in, like totally un-quantized and makes me think they didn't even know it was happening or something. pretty mental, the samples of the ocean are totally manipulated beyond recognition so it basically sounds just like the bass line in "vose in." Treale - by this time i was pretty wasted so i feel like my observations might not be as objective. by the time this track comes on the album has already been playing for 65 minutes. so, you're kinda sick of it. this track sounds really gay, like, in a gay way: there's this 909 beat with a cute little whistling moog sound over the top (think snoop dog's first record) and a vocal sample that's saying either "dicks, eat 'em" or "this is IDM." i dunno, the voice sounds kinda like my ex so i skipped this one. os veix3 - completed wasted by this point. i tried to turn this one up b/c it's really ambient but accidentally pressed the buzzer for my doorbell thus letting my mates in. they were like, "hey, is this the new ae?" and i was like, "dude, i don't even fucking know anymore." they told me this track was mega turbo ambient and i have no reason to doubt them. O=0 - obviously a pisstake b/c this one is just 15" of silence (cf the title, lol @ ae) d-sho qub - this one had me loling hardcore. the title is a play on the phrase "fo-sho, cuz" which is slang for "for sure, cousin," or basically, "yeah, dude." it sounds like they're using a korg ms-20 through a boss dd6 and then sampling that with an ensoniq eps with customized parameters and then filtering this through a korg wavestation? i think i also hear cs80, ems synthi100, and some buchla oscillators in there. it starts off really fucking creepy. like, creepy as fuck. like, i left my house at this point. st epreo - depressing tune. a remix of "maetl" although at first it sounds like a remix of "silverside." really dark pads hover over a coffin-heavy bass line (probably a roland super jupiter). the beat sounds like it's composed entirely of samples from coltrane/rashid "interstellar space," although my mate pointed out that i was so fucked by this point that i had actually put on interstellar space but forgot and thought it was still oversteps. redfall - via email i was told this was from a scrapped soundtrack for "redwall" but who knows. anyway, this sounds A LOT like the first track on incunabula. actually, my mate said i was at this point listening to incunabula. the song is lush, ambient synth strings with nice soft attacks. they sound metallic but gentle and soothing. leads into "bike" which totally surprised me. i was like "bike? on oversteps?" and i mean like the actual song, not a remix. mental. krYlon - mental drill n bass thingy. Yuop - the entire album, played in reverse, sped up X100, through a ring modular and buffer override. surprisingly the best tune. 8/10

just biked in to say i heard oversteps and it's pretty good. it's a return to the more incunabula, amber, tri, chiastic, lp5, ep7, confield, draft, untilted and quaristice ae. definitely a return to the generative software ae but also a return to the more hardware-oriented albums. fukin lush

this helped me sort some shit out: http://www.amazon.com/Gravitys-Rainbow-Companion-Contexts-Pynchons/dp/0820310263 incredible book

i loled

depressing? most certainly; bloodless? most certainly not. it's no accident that nietzsche, the philosopher of blood*, was a great admirer of dostoyevski. but perhaps i have no idea what you mean by "bloodless." *Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.

Lilac Carpets -- Original 13" Four Quartets in Vicious Yellows -- 10 CD set (in secret compartment of mannequin leg modeled after Sean Booth) Incunabula -- 30th Anniversary edition in Gold "Vynil" Anvynil Vapre -- first edition in paper wraps, some damp-staining to text block Autograph of Sean Booth/Rob Brown -- Marker on Paper The Holy Satchel of Knossos -- 70 foot tape loop with 8X10 glossy photo of "Krik" Cameron Chasm Slide -- Backwards edition remixed by Jack "Dan" Dangers Ronald Regan -- mummified corpse

wisp - the shimmering hour