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Ae is finally selling out?
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- Reachy Prints
- Scintilli
- Spokes
- Double figure
- Polymer
- Feorm Falorx
- RPC
- NF3
- Digging remedy
Haven't listened to their other stuff enough to have much of an opinion either way.
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I'm pretty ignorant of music theory in general, but I'm often struck by how distinct plaid's melodies sound.
I figure that a lot of it has to do with the unconventional chord progression which does all sorts of cliffhanger and sour resolution work, but I feel like just their choice of notes in general is very indicative of their style.
A couple tracks that particularly embody this sound:
- Zeal
- Thank
- At last
- Unbank
- Hawkmoth
- Los
- Dancers
- Modenet
Is there a more specific way to describe their melodic tendencies in terms of music theory?
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I might have considered the thread topic more carefully if I knew it was still going to be active 13 years later
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I think it's because Autechre simply doesn't qualify for the label "music" by most people's definition.
I used to dismiss that as a completely ignorant mentality, but I have kind of come around on that opinion. I love Ae as much as anyone, but their work resembles music in the way that Picasso's work resembles actual people. People who are used to, and expecting to see a classic semi-realistic painting of a person is going to be totally off-put by something like The Poet. As interesting a piece as it is, it resembles a person in the faintest sense of the term. About the only thing it has in common with a more classical portrait is that it is a bunch of paint on a canvas. There are vague hints of human-like features but you need to look to even see those.
Over the years I've realized that while my need for Autechre is rarely quenched by other music, my need for other music is rarely quenched by Autechre. They are separate mediums in a lot of ways. Autechre is where I go to for exploration, intrigue, novelty, and it benefits greatly from concentrated attentive listening.
On the flip side, if I just want to have something on in the background, or listen to something to cheer up or relax or whatnot, I'm much more likely to toss on something more conventional.
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Did anyone see the speedrun of it?
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Am I crazy for saying this reminds me an awful lot of EP7?
Bit of confield in there too.
I needed this so badly
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I'm a little concerned that this one will end up taking the back seat in my Ae rotation, perhaps even after Oversteps which I hardly ever listen to. I can't really think of any tracks that have enough excitement for me to just pick them and put them on randomly, it's kind of a self-contained album. Even Oversteps has Ilanders, Treale, D-sho Qub
As much as I appreciate their textures and sound design, I come to Ae for the intricate beats and composition, and I don't feel that in Sign much at all. Maybe my opinion will change in the future.-
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I think under normal circumstances I might be a tad underwhelmed by this release, but the way life has been going lately, I really needed an album like this. I love the tonal space it sits in as opposed to something like Oversteps. It's got a hint of creepiness and a dash of melancholy, but it's overwhelmingly warm and optimistic. This album is like a hot bath.
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What's not to get about pce freeze? It's an exercise in discordant, dissonant chords
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6 hours ago, dcom said:
Roel Funcken's three hour Autechre megamix. Lather, rinse, repeat until you get the Sign.
The bastard actually manages to work out some pretty awesome transitions between tracks... something that I didn't think was really possible with most of Autechre's work.
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10 hours ago, Hugh Mughnus said:
Aye.
Music is made.
Preorders are in.
Why delay the release, especially when there's no hype-train, teasers, etc. ?
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This
I thought we were past this with the previous several AE releases just dropping out of the ether with little warning.
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I dug up the quote:
QuoteHow about Mark Fell's Composing With Process PodCast?
in the upcoming second part of the first episode they will play a track by Sean Booth called Horizon
31:44 Sean Booth 'Horizon', 2004 (20 min)
'Horizon' is a generative piece composed in the BBC BASIC programming language. It was composed for the rand()% generative internet radio station in 2004 but was never broadcast. The aim of the piece was to use as little code as possible and be interesting enough to hold the attention.
Where is it?
Quoteoh yeah
basically we're exclusive to warp, but we can do stuff with mates as gescom (but we can't do solo stuff or use any other names, particularly our own names)
mark just didn't know so he put my name, and we couldn't put it out then even if he changed the name.. it was my fault for not saying
happened w/kouhei as well but that was already produced when i found out (oops)from the AAA spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAizLmKun4yF6oBVUhIrewYN-ZiY_9ORckmT-hF93Ho/edit#gid=0
So basically, they can do solo stuff but only if they do it under Warp? I guess that's what I'm understanding.
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42 minutes ago, Soloman Tump said:
If it was a Booth or Brown solo album then it would not be called Autechre.
For example, not Autechre:
If I remember correctly, Sean was upset with them for crediting him directly, as he wanted to be credited as Autechre. Don't ask me for a source for that though, it's just memory.
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Here's hoping they pull an Autechre on us and drop the full album downloads in a week
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I think it looks pretty sweet, and It's been over a decade since they had some color in their album covers
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Most of the second half is a tad waffly for my liking, but otherwise it's a pretty solid release!
Definitely beats The Digging Remedy, but falls a bit short of Reachy Prints for me (though I have an enormous hard-on for RP).
Standouts for me so far:
- Los
- Maru
- Ops
- Drowned Sea!!!
- Dancers
The Pale Moth starts really strong but kinda gets a bit faffy when the oboes come in. The beginning bit really reminds me of this track from Cultist Simulator though (very plaid-like)
Meds Fade is half decent but I can't figure out what they're trying to do there.
That goes triple for Recall. Interesting premise but it doesn't go anywhere. Can't figure this one out at all.
The rest is fairly standard Plaid fare. All pretty good stuff but not much else to write home about...yet...
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I've gotta say, I've been really enjoying 9 chr0. I feel like there's an enormous amount of depth that I keep picking away at on each listen. The polyphony in this track is insane. In the way that some autechre tracks are like a synth duet, this track is like several people all excitedly talking over each other trying to tell the same story.
It's also one of the few tracks on this record where the rhythm is slippery enough to get away from me regularly. I'd be interested in listening with a metronome to try and figure that aspect out.
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Ugh, I really don't like the idea of streaming only bs. So I need to have an app to listen to the one track I don't have in my mp3 collection?
Here's hoping they release it for paid download later on their site or something, otherwise I will defo be finding a rip.
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While listening to the slowed down bqbqbq I realized it was in 4/4. fuckin cool.
120bpm, hey? During the broadcast personally I only managed to locate the pulse towards the end, because if I'm not mistaken that's when the snare drum becomes more steady. I think of it as 12/8 or 4/4 in triplets
yeah it's 4/4 triplets.. cf.:
https://soundcloud.com/0f-digital/autechre-bqbqbq-vs-vnv-nation-electronaut
what a bunch of smartypants we all are
Not to be that guy, but how was this not super obvious like partway through the first listen?
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My theory on the organization of NTS sessions
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RE: the spaceships thing, to be fair didn't rob say that r ess was a spaceship docking in the AAA?
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