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    http://thequietus.com/articles/13899-autechre-interview-exai-l-event
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    any recommendations for durable, dope-ass kicks that you return to, again and again for their reliability and/or classic style? like, shoes
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    do you recall Iera being used on an adult swim commercial for the Tim and Eric show, or a Steve Brule spinoff? It felt like an odd match because the tune is pretty wicked, and the commercial is for some *sick* comedy.. they use a lot of Flying Lotus on the channel. Does Warp consult with you guys to use a track, as in that case?
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    do you guys ever get out in the desert, like in southern Utah? Experience the park areas? Camp? Do you prefer to remain in the mostly temperate, overcast, humid zones?
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    do you rate any british "free" improvisors, like keith rowe (prepared guitar) and john tilbury (piano) ? these two make a lot of unusual, atonal sounds (AMM, as a group) in realtime. their recordings, such as "newfoundland" are similarly odd and alien-sounding as autechre. the approach being different of course. curious if there's any interest there.. thanks for doing these questions, this is insane. and thanks for all the quality output
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    regarding reverb, can't always discern what is synthetic and what's natural... do you ever record a signal acoustically, like through an amp in a room, then mix that with the more direct elements? are most elements reacting/intertwined w/one another (i'm not even sure how MIDI works), and/or are there independent elements of a track that are mixed in to give the illusion of 'play' with the other elements?
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    their early stuff flows so much easier than something like L-event... the 'experience' of listening to current autechre is more like observing some knotted-ass sculpture from different angles, where this track just feels GOOD. it's nice to disengage and breathe easy inside their music once in a while.
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    there's enough ear candy in tac Lacora to last for months. not a big fan of those concrete-y, 'heavy chains grinding over rocks' sounds, though. the ones you can hear in the background of spl9, kinda corny reverb on em.
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    Untilted

    spptrl alt del replied to Redruth's topic in Autechre

    after wrestling with L-event for a week, i put this on.. sounds so effortless and smooth in comparison, easy on the ears. never thought i could say that about Untilted
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    It (Osla) has a tonality that sorta recalls Iera and the Trees, for me. The ambiance makes it worthwhile
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    too many detail packed into too tight space.. hyper-change envelope/pan action too much savoring. brain overwhelmed, how do i enter? snare in second half is water-logged, track needs more air in general. imagine it as compact fire, imagine it spread out and take bigger form. or maybe it is perfect little package, teeming w/info
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    it really opens up at moderate volume on the stereo, not as much on headphones. whereas exai was more revealing with headphones. this is just my setup though, and still just listening to mp3s (l-event). like, it sounds massive on the stereo.. dry and crisp, too.
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    album is rattling my speakers thoroughly. twisted bass chisel + middle register, particulate-heavy gas clouds, combined with the upper freq. metal-glass glint, laser scythes.. form massive nooks and crannies in the air.
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    bells on track 2 take me back to ep7
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    duly noted
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    something about the refined-ness of this album has been nagging at me... it feels like on this release, more than past albums, the sounds are arranged more precisely, so as to be more 'agreeable' with each other... can't really speak on it, because their process has always been alien to me. however, exai feels more defined and deliberate, less 'excessive' than their earlier music, where the excess remained, giving a bigger picture of the process/mess. for example, spl9, there's the foreground activity (drums, massive, gaseous bass-progression), and then there are those background sorts of "train" sounds, giving an illusion of more weight, but it just feels layered up, in a way. conversely, Flep has a shifting quality that makes it more difficult to get a bearing of the track.. maybe it's more straightforward for others. this is also what i like about cloudline and YJY UX, where the beats are not definite and sometimes the rhythm stumbles, compacts, or fragments a bit.
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    well, half of the album is comprised of interludes that sound like incidental film music. you don't need the interview to confirm your suspicions as it's plain as day. and the fact that the brothers stated that certain tracks end abrubptly for some reason or another does not lessen the notion that those tracks still sound half-baked. simply, the album creates a nice atmosphere, and the tracks feel like vignettes that could have benefited with more development. what is frustrating/amazing is the extent of exposition people on the forum are going through to detail their relationship with boards, their misgivings/disappointment, their defense of the album, basically the opinions and speculations that are being asserted as the album's barely been released.. these are sort fluid things, and are bound to change as time goes on. it feels a bit futile, in that very little is being said in the way of defense/criticism. honestly, the long-winded responses feel more like an exposition of the ego, or an exercise to get impressions OUT THERE ASAP. let the shit marinate. keep having to remind myself that people have had profound experiences with their boards of canada, but it's hard to be sympathetic when there's a world of old and new music that is affecting on a myriad of levels, beyond the standard that BoC set for themselves in the late 90s. sorry for the rant.
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    I read that they collaborated with Damon Lindelof on this, thematically and for sample resources. Lindelof supposedly has a store of religious seminar recordings (chants and stuff), and hours of interview footage with certain individuals from the 90s.
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    Exai puts these three releases to shame... imo
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    ooh, yay. can't wait to sit in front of the desktop for that one.
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    they've only got 7 days before the Japanese release on 5th June, and as soon as it's released there it will leak. Agreed. They'd better do something on 4 June or sooner if they want to avoid pirated leaks. Who knows, though - perhaps they're not worried about it, since most likely anyone who hasn't preordered by now isn't planning on buying the album anyways, and actually releasing the digital versions to those who did preorder would actually hurt day one sales by people pirating the early release. It's a chess game, this is. i don't see the sense in pre-ordering an album that will be available at a local record store on the day of release. i'm keen enough on boards to download an early leak, and purchase the album regardless.. there have to be others like myself
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    kind of an arbitrary thing, but 'recks on' fits nicely with a lot of video from the original Tron
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    i'm seeing 'prac-f' as a sort of terminator march song.. like a military, call-and-response, work song, as performed by a marching troop of terminati. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_cadence
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    prac-f reminds me of altered carbon, right off the bat
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