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It's very common indeed, but that's a pretty funny situation one guy babbling on about made up stuff while the other not listening and just chilling and typing on watmm lol
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lol spot on, the eternal wellspring of gonk.
NTS full blast on headphones has been a perfect noise cancelling device for reading on airplanes this last week. A protective cocoon of lush gonk shielding my ears from the noise and general nonsense of fellow passengers
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this album is such a beast. dense. detailed. sam & rod were definitely not short of ideas here.
i still regard this as their last actual 'album'. since then we've gotten live recordings (AE LIVE), extended jams of their tour material (ELSEQ), and the long evolving radio session jams (NTS), but we haven't gotten an actual "album", with all the WARP promotion, round of interviews, artwork, etc that that entails.
is there a difference? there is to me. there's something different about an "album" release. more work on the production, editing, mastering.
the stuff the've done since then has been cool and i've liked it but i still feel that something is missing. an extra level of polish or production, or depth to the sounds. it's hard to describe but if you put on exai now & listen to it you will immediately hear the difference. i feel like their current max-based system generates so much stuff that they are kind of letting all that output take the lead. lots of extended jams and sketches but not things that feel like finished works somehow.
That "lacking something" is indeed hard to pin down, yet it's evident everywhere on post Exai material. My theory is that on their older stuff, especially Confield, Untilted & Draft, Sean & Rob were grappling with this unruly monster of pure primal energy of sound they'd created, trying to mold it and keep it from escaping and running loose.
And as you mentioned, it's as if now the ideas are let to float around by their own accord more, seemingly with less emphasis on restructuring/editing.
Maybe they finally tamed the beast, or perhaps it's quite a peaceful beast now that it's roaming loose.
Of course this isn't indicative of every single track since Exai, but seems to be a general direction of their material since.
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Man that's a sad story, I feel you. Hope the next lil hog you see is an alive and happy one.
When I was a kid and playing with the neighborhood kids one afternoon, we came across a little family of hedgehogs.
We were fascinated by them and wanted to take care of them so we made a cozy little nest for them from a cardboard box filled with hay complete with a little opening.
After carefully lifting them into their new home, we thought they'd like something to drink so we put a saucer of milk down to them.
We then went home for the evening and when we came back to check on our small friends the next day things did not look good. One of the small ones was dead and the others seemed sickly.
All sad and disheartened we took them out into the woods and let them go, then buried the dead one in my friend's garden and made a little cross for him.
Years later i found out that milk is poisonous for them :/
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Option D or failing that Option A
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Not sure about these lps. Kind of feels like buying expensive packaging for a product I basically already have. On the other hand it would help pool money for Shawaddywaddy & Rob van Winkles' future endeavors in buying expensive new music equipment/shoes & drugs, and I would have the whole NTS on sweet lp format, but the way the tracks have been placed, butchered here and there to fit the format? Hmmm.... Should I fall for the marketing or realize that I already have the essence of the thing - the music itself, and be happy with that?
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I wonder how the Seinfeld gang would have turned out x amount of years after getting out of jail. Maybe something like the four main characters in A Scanner Darkly
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DJ Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pop-pop) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable Arthur Norman Michael (squeak) Featherstone Smith (whistle) Northcott Edwards Harris (bang + whoop) Mason (chuff-chuff-chuff-chuff) Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert 'We'll keep a welcome in the' (bang bang bang) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeak) Tiger-drawers Pratt Thompson 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter (honk) Pussycat 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mainwaring (hoot + whoop) Smith.
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onara gorou ...
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Resolution
Spring
The Endless
More films from these guys please
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I still find it a bit of a mission to get through any one of these sets, I had a total ball of a time there on the beach at Grafenhainichen, and since then I've listened and quite enjoyed them in small bites, but they still seem so impenetrable to me. More so than any of their other output. I dunno, maybe live Autechre is just best live! Though I do hope they will open up to me more with time
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Early stuff up to Chiastic are my summer Autechres. Oversteps is long winter walks & misty nights.
Exai, Elseq and to some degree Quaristice are probably their most hit and miss albums for me
The tri force of Confield, Draft and Untilted is hard to top, NTS is catching up though.
Favorites are always in flux, mostly listen to playlists anyway.
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Ha, assuming they become more skilled over time, they're most recent output will always be their best
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Session 4 is pure perfection. Such a delicate, cohesive collection of tracks. Autechre's nocturnal chill EP.
Current picks from the other sesh's
t1a1
bqbqbq
dummy casual pt2
violvoic
e0
clustro casual
tt1pd
acid mwan idle
g 1 e 1
nineFLY
shimripl air
icari
Listening over the last week before sleep it's hypnagogic heaven
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And it's not the end, just a tune about crypto currency Allend Coin, right?
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Nice one this is excellent, got all nostalgic for Japan. And the picture quality! Lushness in overdrive.
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RE: The tac lacora thing, here's the quote:
ExtraLife:
What is the first track you play for people that have never heard you before?
SB:
i had a guy round fixing my boiler a couple of years ago when i was doing tac lacora so i played him that cos he was asking
he just said 'who listens to this then? loads of guys sitting in their houses smoking weed?'
and i went 'yeah, pretty much'
northernplastic
:So you worked on tac lacora for several years? Impressive.
SB:
nah it was done in a week or so, i was playing him the edit
the original live jam was done in a few hours tho, a few months before that
Mancs and they're boilers, I've often wondered whether the KP man Pilkyboys head like a fuckin orange knew the 'chre bois back in the day
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Mostly I have been listening to them session wise, but I return to favourites. Once all of the sessions are out, having them all in one playlist might be a good way to go. That said, there's a whole lot of stuff to digest. Might ration it out, so I don't burn out on it too quick.
There'll be a perfect Autechre album for everyone once all the sessions are released, pick n mix heaven
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clustro is like cruise control flying over the streets of cloudline
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It would be insane if the NTS releases just kept building to greater heights
That would be an amazing accomplishment, especially if they're doing these sections are done in an ad hoc manner.
Roll on 5pm
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bqbqbq is awesome
Man that could have gone somewhere but like so many of these...it didn't. The changes are very subtle but too much is just long with no real development.
You're doing it wrong, Autechre's music isn't "going anywhere" anymore. It's gotten where it wants to go and is now chilling out some. bocbocboc is a highlight tho, really soothing after a couple of listens. Has potential to open up further down the road, I wanna find more patterns in cute bleepy droplets while bathing in warm pads
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I'd like to hear how a version of Cold Earth without the vocal snippets of cartoon characters saying 'gilf' and 'bleurgh' would sound.