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When are they going to learn?
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7 hours ago, Earth said:
Versi on loop for days. Fuck this is good.
This!
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22 hours ago, chassis said:
I think Stott's been quite particular about the composition of the albums over the years. Wasn't there an interview where he said that he creates a load of tracks specifically for club situations where he could play one of two tracks depending on the mood of the crowd. I think this is just a compilation of those tracks and not meant to be a body of cohesive works like any of the albums.
That is how I would interpret it anyway.
Oh really? Fair enough then. To be honest, this sounds pretty cohesive to me (more so than Faith in Strangers, for example) and I always think of Passed Me By and We Stay Together as albums, especially after the expanded CD editions.
On 11/10/2019 at 5:57 AM, Key said:To be fair, I think 'Passion' was also promoted as a double EP as well whatever the fuck that means. Whatever happened to mini-albums?
Oh yes, you're right. They called it a "doublepack" at the time. I'll just shut my cakehole then.
Great EP this, though. His best stuff in quite a while. We're spoilt having this and a new album in the new year.
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1 hour ago, scumtron said:
Good stuff. But "double EP"?
I know right? Just call it a damn album. It’s eight tracks. How is this not an album but a diminutive travesty like Demdike Stare’s “Passion” is?
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26 minutes ago, dr lopez said:
no digitals is weak as fuck honestly. just going to pirate it than hand over the odds for limited vinyls. dont they understand this?
It’s precisely for this reason that I haven’t actually listened to this album anywhere near as much as I’d want to.
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7 hours ago, beer badger said:
Lol I can't stand Rest Proof Clockwork! Might have another pointless revisit because it's apparently their best album (???). Just one of those music brilliant enigmas. But you know that's what makes some artists (Autechre being the prime classic example on Planet Earth) interesting. Trust me that's what's special about Warp artists. A decade you hate it, then it blows your brains out.
If it helps, you’re not alone here. Rest Proof Clockwork does nothing for me either, save one or two tracks. If the universe gave me a choice between it and Not For Threes, it’s Threes every time
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Not feeling these two new tunes. Recall sounds like an experimental piece of noodling that should have never made it out of the demo sessions.
Still pretty hopeful the album will be very good.
Have to agree, particularly with regard to Recall. I'm hoping, however, this is once again just Warp doing their usual thing of only previewing what in their opinion are the most "edgy" tracks first (much like Ghostly International always pick the most tedious ones) and that the actual album will be much better than this initial impression.
Also: go here and fiddle with the odd interactive for a free download of Maru.
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Some of those tracks are different from the digital version of this album.
Oh you're right! I didn't even pay attention to the tracklisting on the Boomkat website. It has quite a few exclusive tracks on it. Nice! :)
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I think the relative silence in here says something about what this last part does to people...
Personally, I find everything flowing into a sort of logical progression of what I could have expected. Tense, frightening and claustrophobic atmospheres alternating with those blissful peace-at-last parts. It works, it really works, especially when you consider this project grew organically. Part 4 now sounds rich and almost oversaturated compared to the later parts, whereas it first sounded empty compared to the preconscious states. The last track really stands out, because it is absolute bliss, free of all that earthbound hiss and those pops and clicks... Peace at last, not minding to be there any more. But then that last part bursts through...
I don't know what to make of that... is that heaven? Or did we just get pulled back down? Is that a requiem for ourselves, or is it one for our life-long loved one that we are forced to witness, in an absolute last moment of consciousness? And then nothing... Fuck...
I'll have to get back to you on that...
Thank you, mr. Kirby. I think...
I'm not entirely sure what the relative silence says on this forum other than perhaps (and that's a big perhaps) this is a more emotionally and musically challenging release than the vast majority of Autechre's output.
It's certainly on a par in terms of duration - or at least very nearly. Seven discs for this.
But as a journey it has most certainly been more diverse, more challenging and more difficult. I agree with you about Stage 4, sounding shockingly random and overwrought as it sort of did at the time. But I think this is why James wanted us to consider the project of this six part series as a whole, not as individual parts, that progressed over time. Stage 4 is utterly terrifying, confusing... nonsensical. A confused jumble of memories, emotions, experiences and dissonant feelings. Stage 5 took those elements and built on them, whereas Stage 6 is exactly what I thought it would be... a haze of dark, drone-like blurrings of the past. It breaks the fourth wall with a funereal scene at the end. It's breathtaking.
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YES!!!
This is what I thought the last stage was going to be like. All droney and cavernous ambience. :)
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On 3/14/2019 at 12:49 PM, MIXL2 said:
is this it?
Nope.
That's a free album that just went up on bandcamp!
Caretaker deluge!
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I missed out on this too. They definitely underestimated demand for this.
back in stock
https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/104634-fflp001-e-r-p--afterimage
Fantastic - thanks!
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^ creatin dat hype
Have heard the whole album already on YouTube. It’s pretty damn good. If you like electro anyways.
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I missed out on this too. They definitely underestimated demand for this.
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Indeed! Considering they’re never going to have to fill a huge room in my case their smaller size seemed a good fit. I too was impressed at how good they sound for their size. I also auditioned some Totems at the time (along with some of Rega’s own rather dreary sounding floorstanders) and preferred these too.I've heard the kudos x2 and they're solid speakers, I found especially so at mid-high volume they started to open up. edit: especially for their size I was impressed. We compared them with the Totem Rainmakers and I preferred the Kudos.
Nice setup. I think I'm going to go for a Rega for my next TT as well, not terrible pleased with how quick the Pro-Ject died on me...
But I would heartily recommend ANY of Rega’s turntables. No frills, sure, but it’s what they do best.
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Not that I post around WATMM much anymore (so I'm not sure why anyone would care) but I've had a traditional hifi system for many years now. I started with an all Rega system and have stuck with it for many, many years because of the lovely analogue sound their kit has. It's been upgraded many times (the components hold their value quite well, so reselling to fund upgrades is an easy win).
Current system for living room listening is:
Amplifier: Rega Elicit-R
CD player + DAC: Rega Saturn-R
Turntable: Rega RP8
Cartridge: Rega Apheta (the original, not the 2 listed at that link)
Photo stage for turntable: Rega Aria
Digital streaming: Sonos Connect hooked up the Saturn-R's DAC
Speakers: Kudos X2s
Next upgrade will be to switch out the Sonos Connect for a better digital streaming transport so I can play my lovely Autechre 24 bit WAVs properly. The Sonos is incredibly outdated and sounds dreadful compared with any of those other sources.
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I'm not quite all the way thru Session 2 yet. Left off on e0 I think. But violvoic is like the belly of the fuckin beast. So much wicked shit going on this time around.
Is it just me though or are they using some of the same patches they did for Ae_Live? Because it seems like there are recurring sounds.
Yeah, i think they absolutely are.
In fact I kept expecting violvoic to shift into 48:00 of Nagano for a while for some reason. I tried to find an AE_LIVE where it shifted from something like the second half of violvoic into it, but no luck. Guess it's all in my head.
What do you remember?
They definitely are. They were doing this with elseq 1-5 as well.
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I think almost everyone's sleeves look like that. Possibly it's to do with the black foil they used on them, in combination with the thick card stock.
That might be one of the reasons they've printed them differently for the repress (and also didn't check the saturation levels, as the new sleeves have come out light grey rather than black).
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This just in - my replacement vinyl discs (all 12) arrived today.
Flat as a pancake this time thank goodness, and the pressing is exceptionally good.
Just a heads up though - while I wasn’t expecting them to necessarily send replacement sleeves, they have done.
They are, however, not the same sleeves as before. They are on lighter stock and don’t have the black embossed foil.
Not a complaint as I’m currently attempting to flatten my existing ones anyway.
Bleep really came through on this. Their customer service was excellent as always.
RaeR version
Did you send back the whole set, or just the records?
Hehe.
Actually I didn’t send anything back. After i sent the videos they told me not to return them.
Again, good customer service there.
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I did. In fact I sent them videos in the end as they replied and asked very nicely if I wouldn’t mind, as it would help them gauge the scope of the problem.
this is great news. i reached out to them and am currently in the process of photographing and documenting all of my warped discs. did you do this as well?This just in - my replacement vinyl discs (all 12) arrived today.
Flat as a pancake this time thank goodness, and the pressing is exceptionally good.
Just a heads up though - while I wasn’t expecting them to necessarily send replacement sleeves, they have done.
They are, however, not the same sleeves as before. They are on lighter stock and don’t have the black embossed foil.
Not a complaint as I’m currently attempting to flatten my existing ones anyway.
Bleep really came through on this. Their customer service was excellent as always.
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This just in - my replacement vinyl discs (all 12) arrived today.
Flat as a pancake this time thank goodness, and the pressing is exceptionally good.
Just a heads up though - while I wasn’t expecting them to necessarily send replacement sleeves, they have done.
They are, however, not the same sleeves as before. They are on lighter stock and don’t have the black embossed foil.
Not a complaint as I’m currently attempting to flatten my existing ones anyway.
Bleep really came through on this. Their customer service was excellent as always.
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This thread just keeps on giving.
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Just got an update from Bleep Support (which, I have to admit, is pretty damn good for the most part). Apparently Warp are aware of the issue and working on a "replacement programme".
So the scale of the problem is clearly such that they're looking to replace units on a large scale.
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listening to the vinyls right now. sounds more solid on the vinyls.
Someone has to digitalize their vinyl and upload it. I'm curious to hear if there really is a difference other than the inferior sound quality that comes with the outdated format
Ooh, snap.
ERP - Exomoon
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Oh you reckon it's been pre-listed but not actually made available yet? It's so hard to tell with that site. I think they make pre-orders available to mailing list subscribers first too right?