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    What track is Sean referring to here?

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    Timestamped. 

    He is asked about sampling in Tankakern, and says that the oil tanker which was sampled is also in the Skeng remix, and then another tune - I don't recognise the third tune he mentions though, anyone know it?

     

     

    Autechre gigs you attended and how much the ticket was

    in Autechre

    Posted · Edited by Sam

    Gas that you mention The Red Box gig, my older brother told me about that years back when I started getting in to them, that their gear went missing in transit. He said it was a much bigger deal back then though for it to be switched to a DJ gig and that some heads were looking to get their money back. iirc he stayed though and said it turned out to be an alright gig 

     

     

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    Autechre. Live. Twentytwentytwo.

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    5 hours ago, oscillik said:

    I'm gonna have to hard disagree here — The Barbican set (first one, didn't have tickets for second one) was the clearest I've ever heard them. I was sat in the balcony, directly in the middle though so maybe where you sat affected the sound that much.

    We were second row at the far stage right . Would have made a difference for sure, middle and far back would have been much better I'd say.  

    Not sure where in the auditorium this recording was taken from, but it sounds pretty identical to how it was where we were.

    https://youtu.be/esnuZ833jYw?t=6162

     

    I mean the material is super dense and there are lots of low frequencies swimming all over the place, but - where we were anyway - most elements were just getting swallowed up by all the lows and didn't really have any room to breathe / stand out. 

     

     

     

    Autechre. Live. Twentytwentytwo.

    in Autechre

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    Yeah I mean there defo isn't anything else like it, that's why we love AE. And yeah, it's defo jazzy in a loose, "bitches brew" way. I think the vibe is probably most comparable to the oversteps tour. But that set had a ton of moments in it you'd relisten to over and over. I haven't gone back to this one at all really, and that's kinda saying something after 20 years of rinsing their live gear non stop. Look YMMV ?‍♂️

    Autechre. Live. Twentytwentytwo.

    in Autechre

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    I would be slow to criticize them about how long it is/isn't taking them to release the gear. First off, they're the most generous artists going.....you could set your watch by them releasing an album, an ep AND (as of late) 8-12 hours of live material every 2-3 years. Second, as they've stated, they usually have to vet all the live material before making it available. That means listening to every set (probably more than once), mixing/mastering, and doing it all on top of preparing for upcoming gigs. That's not even factoring in the fact that may be working on a new album, AND have their own lives to get on with as well. So yeah, they can take as long as they like as far as I'm concerned. 

    As far as to the tour being a flop? Depends on what you mean. Financially i'd say they did fine. Some people (mainly on here) seem to dig the work. But in terms of how good the material is, I don't think it's their strongest work. You look at the sets from 2005 to 2010 and each set has about 6-8 sections that are just absolutely amazing. The 2014 - 2018 sets, about half that. These sets it's very hard to point at any given passage and say that it's standout AE. There's the ending passage of the Barbican set, but that's kinda it. Out of the 10 people I know, no one talked about it since. 

    I hate saying it all that, because I know they put a huge amount of work in to everything they do, but the material just felt a bit empty this time around. 

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    Autechre. Live. Twentytwentytwo.

    in Autechre

    Posted · Edited by Sam

    On 4/16/2023 at 9:50 PM, toaoaoad said:

    The sub-sub bass on this (helsinki) is just heaped on. It's a bit too much and detracts from overall enjoyment, gets really fatiguing by about 2/3 of the way in. I still think this is probably what overwhelmed the sound system but of course can only speculate cause I wasn't there and generally never listen to audience recordings.  
    They seem to be REALLY into these low sub frequencies over the past several years. Loads of it in S+P. I wonder if that has something to do with them getting older and losing some degree of hearing, sparking a greater interest in mostly "felt" frequencies. Or in this case it serves a specific purpose to the physical live experience. Maybe fatiguing on cans cause it's not meant for cans (yet). So personally I'm hoping to hear those frequencies reasonably mixed down in the final edits. Ymmv of course. 

    100%

     

    Same at the Barbican. Bass and overall volume just way, way too high. Like, if you listen to that set on youtube, the one with both sets, you might think that it was recorded from inside someone's jacket, or outside the room altogether, but that's *exactly* what it sounded like. Trying to orient yourself in such overwhelmingly complex music when it's played that loud and with that amount of bass is just exhausting. Felt like the sonic equivalent of sitting 2-3 feet away from an IMAX screen and being expected to take it all in 

     

    Love AE and always will and never gonna not attend a show, but each gig I've been to the past three tours the sound has just been muddy muddy muddy 

    Condolences to Richard for losing his dad

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted · Edited by Sam

    On 1/18/2021 at 10:51 PM, kev_belfast1 said:

    hey all, just joined this site and found this thread ha. my dad died tonight - sorry to join the morbid convo - but getting a lot of solace from these forums and listening to blue calx, tha and stone in focus a lot right now - seems to capture the immensity of the situation. Look after your loved ones all - nothing is forever. peace X

    @kev_belfast1 

    Sorry to read your father passed dude. That's really tough. What you say about getting solace from SAW II is so true and very close to home for me - only the other day I was telling a friend about how I found it very difficult listening to music during the time my Dad was passing back in 2005. It felt, in a way, disrespectful to engage with anything too upbeat, and then perhaps too indulgent to listen to anything too downbeat or sentimental. So it was Blue Calx that got me through that period, along with Radiohead - "Treefingers". 

    On that token, Stars of the Lid are an act I've gotten very in to the past few years. Poignant in the extreme, but definitely hugely comforting in the right measures. "Tired Sounds" is an album that's gotten me through some tough times and well worth a goo

     

    I hope you and family are doing ok dude 

     

    Hello from Dublin!

    Serum / Sylenth / Massive - Which to learn?

    in EKT General Discussion

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    Picked up Syntorial a while back and there are free lessons packs for Serum, Sylenth and Massive amongst others.
     

    Not completely new to production/synthesis, but decided it’d be nice to learn in a nice cohesive linear fashion for once. Bread and butter up until now has been Operator and Elektrons. 

    Going to pick one and get stuck in, any recommendations as to which synth to go for? 
     

     

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