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Jamesqdot

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Bad news then. The promo email I received from Kompakt stated that nothing would be available until the day of release. Which worries me.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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. ?
  8. 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.
  9. 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?
  10. 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... ?
  11. No no... I can do that... previous post apparently not
  12. From where? The Bleep Store or the Autechre Bleep Store? Try a hard refresh.
  13. RIight? Although... lazy journalism is the new journalism. So you know... that?
  14. That's fair enough. To clarify, I always thought if those three albums as being their "difficult" period. A softee like me just couldn't get into them, and they lost me. Especially Untilted because it gives me an actual headache every time I try to listen to it. Yeah. That was kind of my point. It feels like it's distant from all that. A bit like Oversteps was. There are influences, of course... but it's sort of nostalgic.
  15. Did this reviewer just discover hip-hop, like, yesterday?
  16. Maybe that's the reason. More than any other other album this feels like a distillation of everything they've done previously. With all of the contemporary production.
  17. I realised I generalised and followed up. Like the noob that I am...
  18. Okay, maybe not LP5, but Oversteps... let's overlook the trilogy that escaped me of Confield, Draft 7.30 and Untilted.
  19. I honestly don't understand the love for SIGN. I mean... I love it... I think this might be one of the best albums by Ae I've heard in decades... but what is it about everything else since LP5 that I'm missing?
  20. And so it should. This is NOT like anything we've heard from the last few releases or the Live soundboards.
  21. Building 24 bit WAV download now... Though, I might let that all soak in and listen properly tomorrow night.
  22. So what the fuck am I supposed to do now?
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