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Sounds great. Lots of interesting changes in the first couple tracks then they go all hypnagogic at the end. Much enjoyed. Good mix too.
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Boards of Canada Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
TwiddleBot replied to Alzado's topic in Boards of Canada
Yep, I've seen a few others say this as well, totally agree, about the krautrock influence. Several weeks of listening opinion now: great album. A few tracks I kind of skip, but other than that, quite like it. -
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TwiddleBot replied to Alzado's topic in Boards of Canada
I did a 2CI and mushroom mix. It was nice. Yeah, this would be lovely to trip too, I miss doing that kind of stuff. The album definitely takes me back to those kinds of places though. (The new AE was great that way too) Really not seeing the dysphoria or dystopia in this album, if anything it conveys imagery of early memories or something. but I don't really see dystopia/coldness in electronic music all that often. Goes to show how people just associate different things with music. -
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TwiddleBot replied to Alzado's topic in Boards of Canada
^Funny, those last two tracks were the ones I was thinking of when I mentioned the krautrocky sound of the album, like Cluster and TD had a baby. This is not a bad thing. Also I agree, some of the ideas on here are way too short. -
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TwiddleBot replied to Alzado's topic in Boards of Canada
Also, there's a shaker in there that has the exact same frequency distribution as the sound of my cat begging for wet food. It perfectly masked the sound of my cat meowing for another helping of dinner. Overall impression: 7/10. (<--that's my Pitchfork review). -
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TwiddleBot replied to Alzado's topic in Boards of Canada
The words I'd use to describe BoC are trippy nostalgic lounge chill-out.. I really can't imagine finding it unsettling. I definitely like this a lot more than Campfire Headphase, although it doesn't instantly feel as dramatically 'new' as their classics. My first reaction was along the likes of 'holy krautrock, batman' (I agree with another poster here)..there's a few tracks that sound like lost jams from that era.. but well, it's hard to get away from the shadow of krautrock and that in itself is fine.. What I do find interesting is there's sort of a gloss to their sound that I can't quite put my finger on yet. Maybe they're just now seasoned experts at filtering and eq-ing and can bring out all the right bits and pieces. Maybe it's just my own aural-haptic synesthesia, or my imagination, but I only really noticed it when I played this loudly on my monitors. It's weird, because otherwise, I wouldn't be giving this album as many listens but as it stands I'll definitely give it more listens. First impression overall: pleasant, not mind blowing, but pleasant and still above average compared to most of the 'lectronica coming my way these days. -
me too, there's a loooot of flange/phasing on this album. probably largely responsible for why the mix sounded so wide on some of these tracks on the first listen.. and why it jumped out at me on headphones so much. finally had a chance to listen on proper monitors, sounded fantastic on the event nearfields in my friends' studio. things really jump out.
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That's the key. I think it resists a rational inventory of the "goods" and "bads" of each track. Overall it's really quite ambient (I agree with the other person who said it's like SAW2). Very good album to work to. ^Same, agreed, I mean as a musician/producer I'm happy to stop and analyse/criticize the technique, but at the end of the day it's really all about evoking moods+headspaces...
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Enjoying the album much with repeat listens. Still hearing new things with repeat listens so I'll take a while before I find any real critiques with it, or I just won't bother for a change. For nearly every nitpick regarding a track I can find something sweet buried within, every listen I hear new details or some idea they were playing with that I didn't hear the last time around.. It's almost like their senses are sharper than they've ever been.. like the microsound references (esp playing with thresholds between pitch-delay), the things they are doing with spacialization and mixing esp in the treble, and all the little constant changes in the textures and how the parts work together, weaving in and out of each other. And technicalities aside it's just so easy to soak into and float away in. Sooo good.
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i dunno i've only been visiting watmm since Quaristice but srsly, we need to have SOME dissent about this album. So far this has been the most unanimous WATMM praise for an AE release I've seen.
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It seriously sounds like what an acid trip come down feels like. How they pulled that off is beyond me. ^This.
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i love the particle/granule sounding pads in bladelores. they make such nice patterns with them towards the end, esp when the delay between granules syncs up and goes in tune with the track. i suppose it's not a new technique but it's just one of those things you'd never hear if you were just listening on a casual stereo, you'd be more apt to hear it on headphones with the lights turned off or when in altered states. it just kind of represents the attention to timbral detail across the board on this album that I'm hearing so far. lush indeed.
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yep, but I often listen to music in hypnagogic states (call it free psychedelics without the drugs) and this album sits particularly well with that. actually re: repeat listens what you mentined is why i liken this more to ep7 and less to quaristice or draft (even if I do hear obvious quaristice samples in some of the tracks). ep7 is the last time that listening to an autechre album repeatedly had that kind of effect on me. it's partially the choice of sounds themselves (their tonality might not be obviously apparent on a first listen) and partially the way they are mixed with a lot of the tuned content heard differently depending on where or how you're listening, eg track one on disc 2 is a completely different experience listening on my mdrs from that of my studio monitors because some of the textural details are so fine that any shift in the reproduction of the frequencies is going to change things: the 'tonality' of some of the sloshy beats only really jumped out on my headphones with the right frequencies highlighted. I find from a synesthetic perspective this album is amazing. the shapes, taste and colors that jump at me out of these tracks is so palpable. this is the kind of subtlety that really drew me into autechre in the first place, and I've sorely missed it in their past few albums. it's a similar aesthetic across the board but it does shift slowly. I find the change from disc 1 to disc 2 keeps my ears interested.
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i think it's turning into an instant favorite.
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Cannot relate to that...i find everything pre-EP7 more accessible compared to this album...even Oversteps is easier to listen to I agree. I think Oversteps was much more accessible or whatever. I think it has something to do with this mostly being a shit ton hardware and how they are layering stuff. This is some complex stuff here — a lot going on both in sound design and how its made. Its like software events with hardware devices and better post editing. Disc two definitely seems more refined. Agreed. I found the mix in Oversteps very up front. This reminds me of the EP7 era with its thickly layered synthfuckery.. sometimes unashamedly unmelodic/just percussion and scrunched up synth, or the melodic content is buried deeply in the mix, obscured by dense layers, or in the attacks of the percussion (which I happen to like a lot). Of course I'm just finishing Disc 1 now. (edit OK bladelores.. throw a good chunk of that out the window.)
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On track 4 now. Enjoying it a lot so far first listen, if it keeps up this pace, this is going to be one of my favorite AE releases. Nicely weird and twisted and so many changes.
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Well the sort of waspy vocal buzzing sample in part 3 here (say around 1 minute in) is at the end of kalpol intro.. aside from that I can't say. it's very similar to their incunabula work. you could practically lay a track like eggshell over top of it with a bit of time stretching.. same key, similar progression. nice stuff, haven't heard it before!
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Hah, should have read this first before repeating the thread.
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This. Oh well, our pleas are falling on deaf ears, so to speak, lol.
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I know that's what they say, but as they say in acoustics, microphones do not differentiate between room reverb and direct signal like the human brain naturally does. As in, live room recordings are far, far more reverberant than the experience of actually being there. They always just come off sloshy and muddy to me. (Also, my room has more than enough reverb when I play it through my speakers.) What would be perfect I think, would be something like what Orb did with Live 93, a mix of DI and room mic throughout the album. All I can say is, bless whomever caught those last two soundboard recordings for Untilted. The Glasgow one alone totally got me back into Autechre after a long hiatus. The room recordings of that set lost all the intimate textural/timbral details that made is so freeeking sweet. IMO their live work is typically stronger than their albums. The quaristice tour was amazing. I wish there was a soundboard of it, for the above reasons.
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I think Autechre might be a bit too future.
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wow these female vocal samples are so great. I can just see dude there bobbing on his keyboard, rocking those samples. Feeling it man omg he just played the female vocal samples in a triplet. wow.
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Is this really the right station? I'm feeling pain right now
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Hah, i did the same thing and feel the same way. That's the reason I began to make music...not that my music is any good as Ae but I'm listening them cause thy can do it better (for now :-p). Oversteps is not on my Top 3 Ae list but they were honest whit it, didn't try to amaze us and i respect that. There's a million producers out there that just show off with a 'million events per second' music but nothing stands behind their music, no soul - no brain, nothing...and it's forgettable. High tech, high pro but forgettable. Ae is one of a few that differs. I can hear THEM, a thou them everything else, visible and invisible...cause their music is veracious. This is the only thing that matters to me and I know they'll deliver. So I don't expect any particular sound palette or style from Exai. For me it's enough it exist. I honestly think the initial 'wow gee golly' phase of Eye Dee Em is over and it's repeating what happens to any 'underground' music that gets a bit more popular and marketable.. just like what happened to 'alternative' in the 90's.. The first thing that happens is they send in the clones (out they come to recreate Isn't Anything--one more time!!) Dopamine sells, and once you find a sure fire way to trigger that release, best to trigger those pathways over and over till they burn out. We don't quite have a Nickelback of IDM yet, though generic dubstep spinoffs these days are getting up there. I doubt there's less quality music out there, there's just more to wade through to find it. All obscure means is music that is hard to find amidst a sea of a million Myspace pages. I want to find it. Feed me. I couldn't care less if music is obscure or mainstream if it holds my attention.
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Two hours?? Whomever makes the mock album this time around has srsly got their work cut out for them.
