thehauntingsoul

jesus motherfucking irl LOL

This comes out 2 days before my birthday!

holy fuck. Omg. Omg. Fuck. Jesus. This is such excellent news!

Got 4 for xmas this year. I'll list my collection in order of when I bought them. All CDs Draft 7.30 Tri Repetae Quaristice Incunabula Amber Anvil Vapre Confield Untilted EP7 and fuck yeah I want the rest but my financial situation won't allow for it for at least the next few weeks. Been harsh times for me but I got an income now.

I quite enjoy his music in the right circumstances. If you have ever attempted to listen to Merzbow, it makes H3O sound as mainstream as brittany spears

I really really really don't get this thread, nor do I get how it has gone on for just shy of 500 pages

I dunno where you guys are getting the idea that his quality has tapered off recently...... In my opinion his releases are getting better and better Meathole, Cavaclade, Hospitality, Infolepsy, Pink + Green, Detrimentalist, Filth, all of this stuff is latter era Vsnares and generally has a much higher quality control in my opinion. And I mean, Cavaclade is probably the single most awesome release, full of melody as well as the typical brain scrambling beats

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no I just pretend that she is of age

somethin about that cock pic that will always bump that album to the bottom of a 'best of' list

Luxemberg that is too true, thank god for you and your reassuring arm.(foyf reference). Please use the pic of luxemberg from the pulch for your av, I think it would be solid as fuck and I have a feeling that's where you got your name from. edit: I did it for you because I'm such a nice guy, here's the link to the toon if you haven't seen it Just wanted to list some songs that have really been melting my brain lately: Mouth (printf) is fucking harsh as shit and is the most brutal assault on the senses I have ever heard. Fucking love this track Befriend a Childkiller : same as above Fuck Toronto Jungle (237 0894) is brilliant as well Eurocore MVP is also fucking awesome, I don't get all the love for Flashforward, I mean it is a good track for sure but there are plenty of better ones on Detrimentalist

For those of you who like songs about my cats..... teach me because I don't really get that one yet. I suppose I just need to listen a few times. And o00o its good that he's not a total psychopath because he certainly comes off that way with the music. I suppose it was the Doll Doll Doll album that did it for me because I couldn't decide whether it was just a really sick joke or if there was some truth and conviction behind it.

As a quick aside: Do you think Aaron is a serious fucking psychopath? I mean.... I would not at all be surprised to learn that he ends his career by getting caught for the murder of hundreds of little girls or something. Do you think it's just tongue-in-cheek humor or does this guy have some SERIOUS fucking issues?

I just finished trekking through his entire discog and I'm now a fairly hardcore Vsnares fan. Like... at this point I would say he is tentatively in 2nd place under Ae in my books. The only albums by him I didn't thoroughly enjoy are Songs about my Cats and Horse and Goat. What do you guys think his best album is? If you're up to it, list a handful of the notable ones in order, like I'm about to do Detrimentalist Cavaclade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms Hospitality Printf Rossz Csillag Alatt Született Meathole Doll Doll Doll Infolepsy EP Pink & Green Filth man most of his music is so technical and unpredictable, two of my highest valued qualities in music. Also I love his album artwork, most of it is really excellent. If you're into breakcore/drum&bass you would be a fool to miss out on Detrimentalist, which is a sexy mixture of Jungle, Breakbeat, Acid and even elements of Dubstep, all mixed with the typical vsnares 7/4 timing. The whole 7/4 timing deal is a bit rough to get past at first but once you are comfortable with that type of groove, it sounds so natural and comfortable. edit: yeah I know, UTFSE, I just realized this now though so fuck it

holy fucking lol I love moon boots

nah man I was talking about Autechre play weissenssee against I'm gluck

I dunno man just the melody reminds me of the whole egyptian/arabic type of music scale

Word, dragon and bread you guys both raised some interesting points. I think it's safe to say that the overall theme of this album is darkness, and if you want to draw parallels to movies, pretty much everything Ae has done up until this point would probably fit into the sci-fi genre, but this album clearly makes the jump to horror or at the very least sci-fi horror. I think what really makes this album so hard to listen to regularly is that it is just a terrifying piece of music. It's not angry, or sad, or happy, but terrifying. Also I think I need to mention Splitrmx32 briefly Autechre play Weissensee against I'm Gluck is probably a severly underappreciated ae track. Has a really retro-sounding beat and rhythm, and the melodic component to the track progresses with all the finesse and class of earlier works like tri repetae. If you haven't heard this track you should certainly do so immediately. Drowning in a sea of indiependence is not really that fantastic but this track more than makes up for that. Has a really arabic feel to it towards the end when that blissfully brilliant melody breaks through. Autechre play at Drowning in a sea of Indiependance is probably worth listening to but I would just toss it on as background music when you're posting on Watmm or doing something equally pointless.

Its funny because pretty much right after I posted that, I went out and got really blazed and listened to Lentic and it blew me the fuck away. I think I've fully unlocked the track now. But for serious guys post up those reviews! We only have a few more days until muthafuckin Draft 7.30!!!

I'm not a huge fan of Lentic either. Teach me, fox!

Haha it's funny that you say that because I used to feel exactly the same way. Once I sorta started diddling around with DAWs to make music, I found an interesting thing. Once you know how the music is made very generally, when you listen to the music you will understand it in a deeper way. After this, you go back to the music MAKING and apply some of the new things you realized about the music, which in turn allows you to appreciate the music more, and so on.... If you're into Autechre I would highly recommend downloading a trial version of fruityloops or something and just see if it peaks your interest. Either way, I can say with confidence that you will be thoroughly fucking amazed at how deep and intricate the music actually is once you realize how the sounds relate to the music software (or hardware). Also @Dragon: please do post your review! I may have massive ADHD resulting in extremely long posts but don't let that discourage you from posting. We aren't having a contest here, after all, and we're just around to share our thoughts. Posting is only half the fun if others don't share their thoughts as well. edit: fucking lol that is the word if you had to pick one to describe Confield for sure! &@AJW: Thx man, and yeah its funny you say punchy because that word always comes into my mind with Parhelic Triangle...

I'm glad we have some new faces (or avs) around here, it always makes me glad to see fresh ae fans. I was thinking about this whole experiment and I think the biggest benefit that it has is that when you listen to the tracks after reading the comments of others, certain specific comments will stick to the track forever in your memory. The more we talk about the music, the more memories we have of things people have said about the particular tracks. Anyways time for my Confield review: VI Scose Poise is quite hit or miss at first. If you compare it to the rest of the album it sticks out like a sore thumb, but after you get past the fact that it is just a really experimental ambient track, its actually quite pleasant and blissful. I'm really impressed at how they manage to weave such a calming and serene atmosphere out of such a cacophony of noise. This is truly one of the most relaxing and entrancing Ae tracks ever, if not out of all music. After all of this, it really does seem like this is the perfect opener. Its a real warm-up round, and the length really helps to build the anticipation before the album blows. Cfern is a very difficult track to say the least. If you analyze the track right down to its core, it's built on nothing more than a 4/4 beat going kick,snare,snare,snare. The fact that such an awkward, stuttering and bent rhythm can be built around such a basic and simple core rhythm is really quite amazing. There is another magical trick here: the pads that come in around halfway through that whine and pop in and out of existence manage to convey one of the best examples of implied melody in the whole discography. After you hear the track a few times, you can follow the melody fully, even though it is never presented in its entirety. Alternating notes are severly truncated or omitted completely, but the melody is still successfully rendered in full in the imagination. Without rambling too much more, I really do think this is a fantastic track Pen Expers is quite an interesting fusion of madness and meticulous beat programming. The initial beat is crazy and heavy, and repeatedly disintegrates into a soup of generated noise, only to swiftly return via some really quirky reversal of the beat. The pads slowly creep through in between the beats and then fully forms on the surface, and although the technique of slowly revealing components is not new to Ae, they did it in a fresh and new way here. Also I can't stress enough how awesome the beat becomes after it morphs towards the end. Pretty ace track overall, although it could probably use a few more layers and progression. Sim Gishel is up and down for me. When I first heard it, it always used to trick me into thinking it was Rpeg and I was usually disappointed by what follows the intro. However, this track is really pretty sublime and brooding. Spastic twitching and clicking is found in spades here, and the rhythm uses a really interesting technique of alternating from straight 4/4 to 4/4 with swing/skip, and although the merging of the two into one track seems pretty intuitive, it has not really been done very often in music as far as I know. Also I love how the melody here is straight out of Tri-repetae. The types of chords and their interaction sound like they were taken from Leterel and then morphed and tweaked to near-unidentifiability. Parhelic Triangle is a weird one, even for Autechre. It's almost impossible to try to describe this track in terms of beat/melody because the two blend together seamlessly and components from one bleed and morph over into the other constantly. The beat sounds like it was written and then played in reverse, which is a really cool effect, and the creepy de-tuned wind chimes really make the track whole. The first chunk is really all about the atmosphere, but the 'beat' is subjected to one of the coolest evolution processes on the album, and is swiftly transformed into a much slicker and more energetic beat. Its really hard for me to say exactly how I feel about this track, but again it demonstrates Autechres amazing ability to combine two contrasting ideas seamlessly making a track that as ambient and relaxing as it is energetic and invigorating. Bine begins (in my opinion) Autechre's tradition of including at least one track that is more or less extremely experimental noise. The first few times, this track is just abraisive mind-fuckery, but it actually does have a fairly followable rhythm which it develops as the track progresses. I think the reason that it takes people so long to get into the track is that they usually skip after the first minute or so assuming that the whole track is the same, but like I said it does become quite cohesive and brilliant as it progresses. I'm actually quite a fan of this one, and even though it does not really do much musically (more of an auditory bath), Confield would just not be Confield without Bine. Its sort of an exaggerated melting pot of the various Confield styles. Eidetic Casein is honestly a bit of a meh track for me. Not that I don't enjoy it, but I feel like it really drags on a bit too much without changing things up enough, or really at all. The strings really sell the track though. To me, it seems like they have a few core melodic breaks that are positioned in the proper places, and they fill in the gaps with (semi)random notes. This gives the effect of randomness slowly forming into the short 'sweet spot' and then unforming into randomness again to repeat the process. This is almost exactly the same technique they use in Arch Carrier, wherein they tease the listener and only provide the sweet melodic chunk after a bunch of random nonsense. The rhythm is pretty awesome, but on some days it just pisses me the hell off. Its just such a smug and pretentious beat. The buzzing snare noise here saves it though, because that noise is really a core element of Confield. In summary, it's not that I don't like the track - I'd never skip it on a playthrough - but I doubt I would ever get struck with one of those "Omg I need to hear X track" where X is Eidetic Casein. Uviol I always forget about. I'll get to Eidetic and be thinking "aww shit the album is almost over" but then pop, a good 7 minutes of brooding tension. The melody in the background flows from light to dark, and the soundscape implies a vast, dark and empty landscape. It picks up towards the end and starts using some of the Ae fart noises that will become a staple in later works, and really once this component starts, I'm totally hooked for the rest of the track. The placement of it within the album flow is fantastic in that it really breaks up the action and gives you some time to build tension before the climax of the album. Also, the transition to Lentic is brilliant. Lentic Catachresis is really my least fav on the album, and certainly my least fav album closer. That's not to say its a terrible track, its pretty nifty, but I will elaborate. The first few minutes are really really awesome, but I don't think its really the beat, its more the pads, and obviously the insane alien-cyborg gibbering which really makes it sound like it was alien-cyborgs singing along to the track because it fits really well into the groove despite its eccentricity as a melodic component. The beat here is nothing really special for me, I can't really say why but it simply is not that engaging for me. I thoroughly respect the ending of the album because it really works well as a closer in that it slowly turns into a wall of noise and then glitches the fuck out, but I simply have difficulty enjoying it after the first 2 minutes. I would hardly ever skip it (I think its sacrilege to skip an Ae track) but my patience begins to run thin pretty quickly and I'm always glad when it finally ends So overall I would say Confield is a pretty spectacular work within its own context, but I generally don't listen to it out of choice simply because it is less about being rhythmically intricate and more about just being a total mind-fuck. It's interesting to me in the same way that acid is. Its beyond weird and totally unique but it is less than comforting and can lead to crying/screaming tantrums in certain scenarios. Its certainly a work to be respected, and absolutely fucking essential as a stepping stone in the Ae discography, but again it's more something to take in and analyze than to enjoy. Not that it's not enjoyable, just that it leans more towards the experimental side and compromises the integrity of the music in the process. To conclude, I don't want to imply that I don't like this album, but more that its just too cryptic to listen to on a regular basis (or when you just wanna hear some good fun music) Holy shit that was a long one.

I noticed that in Bine, there is a sound in the left speaker that sounds just like the speaker is blown. fucking hell it took me a while (and tests on more than one pair of headphones) before I realized it was built into the track and I could stop being worried that it was turned up too high. There's actually a few moments like that on this album, like the pads/chords in VI scose poise gets really bleety and clipped and makes it sound like you have shitty headphones but its just the way the track is. either that or I have shitty headphones. The Bine thing I'm fairly confident about though.

Yeah I definitely want to hear that interview ism! All of these interviews in the OP are serious quality. Good job rounding them all up for us!

just noticed that in Pen Expers at about 4:44-4:45 there is what seems to be a very brief but relatively un-altered vocal sample.... I never realized this was here before and its strange for ae to put voices in that aren't really computer-fucked up the ass but it fits