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Oh no... I get what you're saying 100%. I always forget just HOW MUCH extra stuff there was around the Green album. And so much of it is really good stuff. But it's like... you paid the £70 for the physical box set. Would it have hurt to then digitally include the other stuff? Sure maybe not the outliers like radio edits and the US mixes etc... but the stuff that they "included" in the surprise digital edition? If I'd known I might have bought the vinyl box set and the digital edition instead...

And that's just the start. The whole thing is utterly unhinged and designed quite simply to make you buy (at least half) the same stuff over and over again. I was really looking forward to these reissues and confess to having bought the deluxe CD box set in this case (the vinyl set was so massively overpriced I actually laughed out loud when I saw the listing for the first time). To then be sent an email mere hours in on the official release day with an "offer" to BUY an even further but still not complete, expanded digital download added insult to injury.

This is probably the greediest, most shameless, poorly thought-out reissue campaign I have ever seen.

Indeed. I wonder if they'll repress both 12" singles or just the original though. It's not exactly a huge loss not to have the Chime remix 12", but the four-track Omen 12" remix is pretty good.

I'm looking forward to Other Channels finally getting a vinyl reissue. It really is genuinely creepy. Properly "hauntological". Have never owned a physical copy.

For the longest time, I only owned 'Bytes' on bronze vinyl, and just learned to put up with the atrocious surface noise. It is quite literally the worst sounding pressing I've ever heard or owned. When I finally got around to buying a copy on CD, I remember listening to it and thinking it sounded wrong, I'd become so used to the terrible pressing quality.

Bad news then. The promo email I received from Kompakt stated that nothing would be available until the day of release. Which worries me.

The vinyl packaging was really good. I’d never owned anything quite like it at the time. Then the dog wazzed on it and my copy was gone forever… this repress will be printed on better card stock too so less likely to fox like the original one did.

Well there we go. Bleep, Boomkat, AE STORE and Warp emails for Chiastic Slide and LP5 all came in at once. Amazing news as I needed LP5 in particular on vinyl again after my last copy got destroyed by the dog. Bought from the AE STORE where downloads are available immediately. I'm not surprised there's no Confield though. I imagine they're batching these together as Ae's transitional period and will release Confield, Draft and Untilted together.

Thank you so much for this! I forgot to set my alarm and missed out on the first batch. Ordered my copy earlier today. Looking forward to receiving the discs as Grid Pattern are great at turning CDs into fun physical objects rather than just a one-sided booklet in a jewel case. ?

God damn it... I ordered this from the Hospital Productions website. Then realised you can get the LP editions from Bandcamp as well so I’ve missed out on the digital.

That reviewer sort of points up what I found to be the problem here, and it's an understandable one. When you drop a 4 hour album followed by an 8 hour one that are both full of what a lot of people (including me) cite as some of their most experimental and often best work in a long time, going back to a more traditional album length format is inevitably going to be - at least initially - underwhelming. We don't don't have the quantity. And on top of that, they've moved back to a more "melodic" form - as complex as it frequently is - than previous work that requires more structure and less algorithm. That isn't what many of us want from an Autechre release right? But... these albums need to be given time, I think. It's odd that they've released them separately rather than as a double album like Exai, which might have ultimately garnered a better reception. But even Exai was hard to absorb on initial release because it was so fucking long and dense, and why try to recreate that anyway? I didn't like PLUS when I first heard it. I was under the impression that it was just a shorter, more minimal take on elseq and NTS. But of course it's not, as tracks like X4, marhide, TM1 open or lux 106 mod attest. I'm fucking hooked on this album now, because the complex melodic element is just fucking awesome... like Oversteps and Move of Ten. I hope soon to be equally hooked on SIGN. Did they maybe release these in the wrong order?

I'm not sure what just happened, but yesterday I was finding PLUS a little too chilly and alien. It reminded me of the Confield/Draft 7.30/Untilted days in all the wrong ways.* This morning, listening to it again, it's suddenly just clicked. I think it's just incredible! And yes, X4 is a stone cold, all-time classic! I'm kind of hoping this is going to happen with SIGN at some point too, but I suspect that may take longer. Initially it hit me like Oversteps 2.0, but I haven't really gone back to it the way I did with previous albums. * I should point out that I was no longer "getting" Autechre back then. I'm better now... ?

I would tho... ?

No no... I can do that... previous post apparently not