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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

good thread. i like the part at 10:17 where the beats come in. ugh...and that melody, the one with the four-five major chords oscillating with the tetragrammatic megachord sample of steely dan at 7:74pm is just like so sick, dudes. my favorite ae moment is when they shatter the beats and then, like with a fucking magnet (that's fucked up), the fragments chaotically cluster back together. so ill. but, yeah, 'untittied' is a master work of proportions. i heard sean booth sampled himself eating an apple. anyone else read that review? pitchfork claims that this is the number ones album from 1988 -- i question this assumption.

Jesus [H.] Christ, "My Life." Pretty good, but a little turgid. The thing with his father is cool, but, again, a little too verbose (like, yeah, got it dude). It reads kind of like Delillo and Milton and Sade (not the singer), whose works I have totally read n' shit and I find that they have the same basic message. The introduction is cool (like many others I always just assumed the Bible was just the name of the book and did not realize that for thousands (5,000? I think? can check, PM me) of decades scholars have been trying to point out his true identity only to find that they are marginalized and even imprisoned!) I was reading in the New York Review of Books (awesome periodical) how, in the 70s, a lot of people started to question their lives (you know, like, what does it all mean) and it was at this epoch that a lot of literature started to emerge to the extent that it was difficult (for the most part) to find out which section in which to look for it. So I asked the clerk who told me that they don't have a data base but he could tell me where to look if I could just give him the title already but I only knew what the book was about and when I read it it seemed like the end was just too cheap, like, "tied in a bow" or whatever. I tried returning it ("no, you can't return a book b/c you didn't like the ending" etc), then I wrote to the editor ('we're sorry, if you'd like to make a complaint please fill out -- in fact, we welcome you to do this -- a form," etc.) Not my day. (right?) So I took the day off and went to my father's house (he's dead, long story but I'm ok, not sad) and looked in the window and around the outside. Went to sleep in the grass but soon found myself all too awake (if you know what I mean) and basically just got the hell right out of there.

is this out yet?