[elseq 1-5]

Workingman's Autechre, this is

 

spTh is like a well adjusted Osla for n... he's since stopped picking at his acne, maybe even got laid. Feeling more confident, cocksure

 

spaces how V is runrepik on benzodiazepines.. the paranoia is still there, but it's far more manageable. External stimuli is being filtered somewhat, everything is subdued. Less in a hurry, there's room to breathe. still, fucked up

[elseq 1-5]

foldfree casual has got a Drane 2 kind of vibe, shuffling perc. reminiscent of Corc-y

[elseq 1-5]

for those complaining there's not enough AE_LIVE material (redundancy/retread), what's wrong with the original recordings? what the problem is?

[What TV series are you watching at moment?]

i'm surprised there isn't more about Peaky Blinders on here, it's really awesome, season 3 just started. though this is coming from a yankee doodle, perhaps opinions are different overseas.

it's good, but it's got that ultra-stylised, bearded bro, well-kempt 'heavy metal' gentleman sheen, kind of IN YOUR FACE.. with traces of steam punk and repeated blasts of fire exhaust, emanating from gritty industrial factory vibe.. saturated colors, like super filter instagram crap. otherwise it's watchable

 

Black Sails kind of embraces a similar aesthetic, but it's not so well-hewn

just discovered Silicon Valley, shit is hilarious. need more

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

no desire to revisit Garden of Delete... it's all over the place, never settles into any residual zones. fuckin ADD bullshit

[Noise Music]

Dystonia Duos by Joe Panzner/Greg Stuart is high quality shit... ultra-crystalline electronics, combined with a variety of percussion and room sounds.. some 'full blast' stretches, but it progresses nicely, sort of a settling calm in the latter third.

there's a lot of interesting stuff on the Erstwhile label -- not your typical 'extreme'/balls OUT noise-bro shit, it's something else/a variety of approaches.

[draft 7.30]

i didn't like some of the tracks on Draft 7.30, until i liked them.

[AE_LIVE]

there's some neat damage/destruction going in the latter halves of the 2015 sets... but it still feels like the same animal, the skeleton being picked clean. the transitions between parts, in the 2014 sets, seem better fleshed out, where they're kinda hasty/abrupt in the later sets. for example, in Dublin, the transition into the 'Bloc' section/farty bass gallop takes several minutes. it's gradual and organic, whereas at Nagano, it's as if they just cued it up, with no prior development.

 

i'm satisfied with this material, appetite is sated. they'll put something new out when they have something worthwhile.

[AE_LIVE]

It seems like they just obliterated everything during the second half of Grafenhainichen, which is cool. it's substantially different, i suppose that's progression, but Dublin is just so perfect

[AE_LIVE]

Dublin is still my favorite of the lot.. though i've yet to hear all of the new ones. While the 'back nine', or latter halves of Grafenhainchen and Katowice have some new/interesting developments, some of the original elements seemed muted or mixed down -- like the part that starts to develop around the 43-minute mark (Dublin), there are those sort of 'emergency'-like highs that are sustained/illuminated, with a nice beat. It seems more diffuse, lacking impact on the 2015 sets. They really set the bar with Dublin and Utrecht, especially the latter halves of the set. Dublin's finale is fucking ace, though it's a bit condensed at Utrecht. And the recording/mastering, man, it's fuckin excellent. Real dry, the sounds chisel out the airspace (on the stereo), and on headphones it's like Angelsoft, real easy on the ears. Should i check out Nagano, Krems, or Dour next?

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

That Drew Daniel writeup is ballz.

 

 

Thanks for taking the time to read my enlightening comment.

i thought this bit was particulary poignant:

 

"when the blast-beats, guitar-synth crunches and guttural Cookie Monster growls kick in on “Sticky Drama,” you suddenly realize that Lopatin has fashioned a kind of unheimlich homage not to r&b but to crabcore: that perfect storm of Hot Topic, MySpace and Guitar Center in which tight pants, pointy hair and knee injury momentarily made a suburban horde squat low for the break and wobble comically sideways en masse."

 

... what is an unheimlich homage? like, letting it choke? choking homage?

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

r + 7 is like a warm bath, in a digital rain forest.. i'm slowly relenting. like a brain balm, it's well-enveloping, compared to the sickly sweet, sour patch kids w/diet coke, licking a 9 volt battery vibe of garden of delete

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

bah, humbug. got too caught up in the thread/discussion/hype/negative reactions surrounding the album, i suppose. maybe a good time to step away, refresh, listen again. "haters gonna hate" generalisations are sort of aggravating, though. it is possible to like the album and still have issues with it. apologies for the generally negative remarks

 

regarding the drew daniel piece, i think it's fair game for scrutiny/relevant to the thread/whatever.. interesting how ego (showiness) can pervade critical writing/coverage to the point where it puts more focus on the writer than on the subject at hand, also coming from somebody with the perspective of having created marginally successful commercial music in the past.

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

 

posters gonna post inane, useless shit. do yourself a favor and check the Drew Daniel write-up -- http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/drew-daniel-matmos-talks-oneohtrix-point-nevers-garden-of-delete

fuck reviews, seriously, what a bunch of words

 

hence a thread for discussion relating to the album, among other things. that DD review is something of a showpiece, but it's still relevant to the album, and it's got some funny bits. also, it's a little more creative than "i like this. i think _____ is special." it's like... duly noted, bud

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

posters gonna post inane, useless shit. do yourself a favor and check the Drew Daniel write-up -- http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/drew-daniel-matmos-talks-oneohtrix-point-nevers-garden-of-delete

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/drew-daniel-matmos-talks-oneohtrix-point-nevers-garden-of-delete

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

"..at other times it’s easy to feel shut-out, as if you’re looking in at someone’s intellectual ADHD, but he’s steadfastly refusing to meet your gaze."

 

the last line of the dusted review sort of nails it.. like there's a lot of flash, or showiness to it, but it's not very accessible. more just like something to marvel at or whatever.

 

unlike AE_LIVE, which is chock full of juicy sounds, and you can live in it. it's possible to immerse yourself in the architecture of it, examine the contours, kick the tires etc.

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

"love it or hate it", not so much.. there are good parts, but they're so fleeting.. Mutant Standard is the only track you can really sink your teeth into, and it's still too short. i'm kinda lukewarm on it, there are bright instances as well as repulsive bits. i don't think it's very polarising.. maybe it is?

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

 

a pretty solid curveball for all expecting the post-ambient haze of his Rifts compilation.

Not really so much of a curveball as just a ball when there were three albums between Rifts and GoD that slowly headed in this direction

 

good call on that.. pretty lazy/inaccurate. still it's refreshing to read a vaguely negative review when others (e.g. Pitchfork) are deeming it "absolutely gripping" etc.

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/134924320709/oneohtrix-point-never-garden-of-delete-warp

 

sums up what it is about this album that makes it difficult to really enjoy

[AE_LIVE]

love these recordings, but is anybody hearing a sort of gate, or 'strobing' effect during early parts of the Dublin and Utrecht sets? almost like there's a random but very frequent tremolo effect going on with the tonal elements (everything besides the percussion)

[Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete]

not too hyped on this, still feel compelled to search out the CD for its novelty. seems like most everybody agrees that Mutant Standard/Child of Rage are the highlights.. i wish there was more to chew on, it feels too lean/concise aside from the SDFK/MS/CoR part of the album.. going back to R + Seven, finding it more habitable.

[How did you get into Ae?]

Theme of Sudden Roundabout (beat) is as retarded as some of the tracks on Confield, but Theme feels more efficient and successful, the parts fitting into place, and that melody.. lonesome, isolated in space. She's a beaut.

[How did you get into Ae?]

draft 7.30 ...

 

*hedaplode*

 

this is the album that opened it up for me.. suggesting fantastic sound worlds, with juicy percussion and bewildering textures (oily sludge coating the percussion on IV VV IV VV VIII). Xylin Room is all-time.. a weird, wooden printing mechanism. 2nd half of 6IE.CR is a beaut, and reniform puls is like some stealthy night mission.. getting progressively scattered and diffuse.

 

i remember WIRE magazine featured them on the cover around the time of its release. Sean Booth has a sort of bad ass expression, glint in his eye.. it like, augmented the music somehow, at the time. Fuck, reniform puls is dope as fuck.

[How did you get into Ae?]

saw ep7 in a record store, purchased it because of the cover art.. then i heard amber a few months later, sealed the deal.