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from 1:08 on gonk sounds like a clown car when suddenly the breaks fail and the clown driver constantly presses the claxon to warn people while he drives in curves.
flol perfect description.
7:51 is screeching the brakes on gravel then righting itself, love it.
Yes, also the clown is pissing himself laughing about the whole thing.
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Also does anyone think maybe we need individual Session threads? I almost started them but don't wanna make the AE subforum more of a sprawling mess than it already is.
I'd second that - it's a lot to digest.
I'll just make another poll thread
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I'm going to quit my job, burn all my clothes and go live in the woods, naked, where I'll live out my days shitting and cumming into an old frisbee I found, and listen to dummy casual to work up the primal instincts required to forage for small berries and nuts for sustenance.
Every night at the crack of midnight I'll howl my best impressions of Autechre tunes to the moon so as to warn nearby predators of my lushness.
This release has broken me.
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9:00 in 9 chrO is all I need in life
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i keep forgetting we’re listening to two brand new autechre albums that are two hours long. and we’re only half way through. like what the fuck is going on
Savor the moment. It'll be back to bitching about the lack of new material in a month or two.
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9 chrO is the absolute highlight here for me. Good lord, I don't even know what to say about it. It's just so sickening.
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It's funny because I was kind of put off originally with the idea of an 8 hour long album because I always feel the tendency to start at the beginning of any given album, and so the last few tracks end up getting listened to the least.
This was particularly the case with elseq, but with NTS it seems like each record so far is it's own self-contained thing, with it's own self-contained feel. With elseq it felt more like one enormous album that was split up into 5 arbitrary chunks.
Where I'd basically never go "I think I'll listen to elseq 3 today", I could see myself deciding to play one of the sessions instead of feeling compelled to start from the beginning.
Basically, I like it.
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Now wait till you get to 9 chrO
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I realize now why the beat in six of eight was so familiar.
It's basically Jacquard Causeway by BoC
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avatar material right there. whose going for it?
It's tempting but I hate it when people change their avatars because I never really memorize usernames, I just know people from the pics.
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Whatever that track was at about 1:20:00 that sounded like a mellow version of feed1 was probably my favorite so far.
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I'm just extremely curious what tomorrow's set will be like.
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>what I'm saying is that writing circles onto lined paper is not "painstakingly crafted music". it's certainly painstakingly crafted as, like, drawing or writing? but not as music, or at least it's certainly not coming across that way
>playing with codes
>codes
let's say that I'm a novelist, and that I invented an absurdly complicated word processing program, and then used that program to write a few long, rambling first-draft novels that didn't break any new ground ... would it matter how complicated my word processing program was? I don't care if Rob and Sean are literally creating a new programming language from scratch, the music is all that matters
That it is max/msp does not make it inherently good/interesting/noteworthy. That, I agree with, but I'm not sure who's arguing against that here.
I think what you're saying is that they're just noodling around on max/msp instead of writing music proper. But then, I'm not really sure what max/msp has to do with that. If they were noodling around on elektron gear or max/msp or a banjo doesn't really make a difference.
From where I'm standing, this release sounds like it's more jammy than their usual studio release for sure, and the mutation of sound is certainly more gradual / subtle throughout some of these tracks than you might expect from Ae, but I don't agree with your characterization of the music.
Also keep in mind we have 6 more hours coming and it's anyone's guess if the other volumes will maintain the same style or switch things up a bit.
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I have to say I dig the idea of just releasing these super long extended cuts of the tracks. If you want to skip ahead then go for it. If you want to just be immersed in the same atmosphere for longer than their average length, you can do that without feeling like a weirdo for just playing a track on loop 4 or 5 times.
I think it still is painstakingly crafted, maybe even more than before. Everything they do happens within parameters they set, every detail is exactly how they programmed it. Sean says:
what I'm saying is that playing with coding in MaxMSP is not "painstakingly crafted music". it's certainly painstakingly crafted as, like, computer software? but not as music, or at least it's certainly not coming across that way
PBN that's ten strikes out of twelb by my count. Two more and I'll have to confiscate your Autechre badge.
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It definitely feels like less of a dramatic change than usual for Ae in terms of the types of tones and timbres, but on the other hand the arrangement and the energy is totally different.
This first session contains some of the least abstract and least off-kilter beats that they've made.
The focus on this one seems to be very heavily on consistent 4/4 rhythms compared to elseq and a lot less crazy chaotic noise.
It's almost like techno or electro even, where the energy of elseq was literally all over the map.
I'm curious if this will be a consistent theme or if each session will have a completely different feel.
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could you kick up the bqbqbq
bqbqbq Engaged.Can I get a printout of gonk steady one?
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Maybe we should pace ourselves and only listen to part 1 for the next 6 months, then part 2 etc.
lol yeah right
haha yeah IN THEORY I'd like to leave at least one NTS for the CD/Vinyl arrival around August.
I think this release pattern should work better than elseq. Dropping all five of those in one go was like thumbing through an index that had just thumped on to your desk. One release per week more confidently gives the individual sessions their moment to shine around the water cooler.
Lol @ water cooler talk.
"Hey so did you hear the new Autechre release?"
"The what?"
"Autechre just released a new 2 hour album"
"Oh that weird shit you listen to?"
"Yeah it's incredible, there's another 6 hours coming in the next few weeks"
"Well yeah I mean it's just random noise, I can see how they could just shit that out"
"Ugh..."
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I'm not really sure I buy the dimensions in that mockup. The box set looks barely wider than the Exai box set despite containing 3 times as much vinyl.
Similarly that CD set looks too small to contain 8 discs.
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gonk steady one is quickly becoming my fav.
Incredible track from start to finish.
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Someone should do the math on what % of their total musical output elseq and sessions constitute.
albums + remixes + comp tracks (excluding bootlegs like kalpol intro live etc, all of Gescom, and other aliases and collabs, but including Hafler Trio collabs) = almost exactly 4000 minutes (66 hours)
NTS = ~8 hours = 480 minutes
elseq = 247 minutes
so
NTS = (480*100)/4000 = 12%
elseq = (247*100)/4000 = 6,175%
Damn I was even going to guess it must be close to 20%.
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Someone should do the math on what % of their total musical output elseq and sessions constitute.
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I can't help but feel like releases with this much content would be better served spaced out throughout the 2 ish year wait between releases. I bet on prolificness they are beating their record from back in the Envane/Chiastic Slide/Cichlisuite years despite only releasing once every 2 years.
I like to listen to Ae albums front to back, and rarely have time to do that for elseq. Sessions 1-4 will be a full time job to get through, and if they keep going at this rate you won't be able to go front to back on their next album without staying up all night.
Shouldn't complain though, A huge dump of new Ae is certainly a hype bomb for sure.
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In case anyone was wondering, you do get the mp3/flac/wav downloads immediately for session 1 if you buy now.
I'm assuming that means we'll get the next 3 as they air.
Autechre. NTS Residency. (_O_)
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