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That's fucking bad news, Sakura in particular is an absolute classic. Will have to pull out my Susumu Yokota LPs and have a listening session later tonight. RIP.
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Yeah I've been listening to this one loads since it came out. Serein has released a lot of good stuff - it's a very solid label.This is one of the best ambient/electro-acoustic/electronic/whatever albums I've heard in ages.
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I think after giving it a long time to settle in, this could actually be my favourite overall BOC album... maybe there's no standout track that's grabbed me as much as some of their earlier releases, but as an album it's absolutely solid and I haven't got even slightly bored with it despite loads of listens.
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They all laughed at me for still having a minidisc player, but WHO'S LAUGHING NOW.
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As possibly the one person in the world still using their minidisc player, I approve of this latest format.
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ordered mine a few days ago, i guess this means its approved and on the way?
http://i.imgur.com/e6gmfCT.png
anyone else get some weird thing like this?
Yeah I've now got a second strange email from the sales@aprmusic address, links to some site that wants my Facebook password. That's not gonna happen. Anyone else getting these?
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Exai is climbing steadily up the list, it's a fucking monster of an album. I can't see anything knocking chiastic slide off the top though - I got totally lost in that album when it came out.
Funny thing is though even I can identify albums at the bottom of the list, I still think they're really, really good albums. That's pretty incredible for an 11 album discography.
1. Chiastic Slide
2. Oversteps
3. Exai
4. Tri Repetae
5. Amber
6. LP5
7. Draft 7.30
8. Confield
9. Incunabula
10. Quaristice
11. Untilted
List will no doubt look totally different a month from now.
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Ok I've got one.
Been listening to l-event loads recently. 'Osla for n' for example went through a familiar autechre-style evolution for me - the first couple of listens were really jarring, but after a while it opened up and the sounds and rhythms started to connect. By now listening to it seems to actually put shapes and textures in my brain (best way i can describe it). I don't know any other music that has quite this effect on me. Anyway, it's a massive track.
Thing is, almost everyone I know finds this sort of listening experience is not for them. Some people seem to have an almost visceral distaste for it, and i've had people get almost angry, or genuinely worry about my mental health, when i play them an autechre track. A lot of the stuff that makes it awesome also makes it very difficult for a lot of people.
As the guys who actually make this music, do you get this reaction a lot? Having a discography like yours must be enough to give you a fair bit of self-belief, but does it ever get to you when people react like this?
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Autechre tracks are a bit unique for me in that for the most part I have literally no idea how they're made. I'm really curious what the process is, especially on the later stuff like oversteps and exai. Whenever you drop little snippets in interviews (like the beat in pen expers coming out of a sample-loaded md player on random) it's always pretty much the opposite of what I expect. Would you be willing to talk us through the creation of one of your more recent tracks, or is that giving away a bit too much?
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I'd be surprised if number two ever appears. Ridley Scott must have spent the last year fielding questions about how badly he fucked the last one up. Every time he goes out, I'm sure there's someone pestering him about why all the characters behaved like moronic ten-year olds, or why that guy was petting the penis snake, or one of the 500 wtf questions that come up after watching that movie. Seriously, he must be sick of it. No way would he sign up for another year of that.
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I see Miley twerking to V-Proc
No, seriously, V-Proc is one of Autechre's rawest and best songs, for me. In fact, I have the start of the song as a phone calling tone.
Heh, me too. Edited so the beat kicks in about 5 secs before it goes to the ansafone.
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Well pretty much every track has 'clicked' for me after a week of listening. It's a great album.
Jacquard Causeway was the latest... something about the 3/4 beat combined with 4/4 synths was doing my head in, but once I stopped 'listening' in 3/4, and started following the synths for the rhythm, with the beat as a kind of counterpoint, the whole thing opened up... by the time the eutow-style synths start up the whole track becomes kind of overwhelming and beautiful. Very clever stuff, I don't think I've heard a track like that before.
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Nice little BOC-accompanying mix from Peter Seranifowicz on this week's solid steel...
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Yeah I'm really enjoying this LP too. Maybe it helps to only be a casual daft punk fan and not come in with too many preconceptions? I dunno. I think it might be my favourite release of theirs funnily enough, and after listening to it a few times I just went out and bought the vinyl. I regret nothing.
I can understand people REALLY not liking it, but some of the criticism here seems a bit much. Whether it's your sort of thing or not, it does succeed at achieving what it sets out to do, and puts enough of a twist on things to put it beyond simple pastiche.
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nodezsh is neck and neck with second bad vilbel as probably the most sinister sounding thing they've done
Nodezsh is a track I keep coming back to. That run of 11 is...nodezsh...runrepik...spl9 is just incredible. It's the sound of two guys that have totally mastered their equipment, right at the top of their game imo.
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I never went crazy for this release, but reading this made me dig out my old vinyl copy of pop and damn if it hasn't finally 'clicked'. I think there was something about the repetitiveness that I used to have trouble with, it's not a problem for me any more it seems. I'll have to check out his other stuff.
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Did this for a friend a while back, trying to get them into ae so I thought I'd maximise the chances by including every era.
444
Montreal
Clipper
Cichli
Rae
Pir
Cfern
Xylin room
Ipacial section
Paralel suns
Yuop
Could add YJY UX to the end now I guess.
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I think of their post-confield tracks the single one that had the biggest WTF for me was definitely krylon. I just could not get a handle on that track when I first heard it, seemed totally noodly and random. Of course it eventually became on of my favourites.
I'd point to that track for anyone who thinks they're 'not innovating' over the last ten years. Melodically and structurally, it's unlike anything I've ever heard before or since.
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Good. Now I have someone to channel my anger towards. (bitleyTM)
That guy is pretty hilarious though, especially when you listen to the track he's posted. He then complains that he should be far more popular. I can't get angry with someone who has such a low level of self awareness.
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Well, after a couple of drinks I'm really enjoying 'flep', turns out there is a melody (of sorts) in there, and the bit where the beat reconfigures during the last minute or so sounds great.
First half of the album is edging it for me at the moment, but that's probably just because I held off on listening to the second half til last night.
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Finished the first 'cd', this amount of new autechre is almost a bit too overwhelming for me. I'm going to try and hold out on the 2nd cd until tomorrow I think, give the first 9 tracks a bit of a chance to digest.
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Very simple - they pushed the boundary of sonic and structural experimentation and led many of us to seek more extreme music. The "shoegaze" bands merely aped their effects chain with mostly boring results, but the really subversive thing MBV did was to release shattered, warped bits of pop songs which were very broken but worked beautifully anyway. If you haven't heard them, listen to the tracks Glider, Touched, To Here Knows When, sueisfine, Several Girls Galore, Cupid Come, etc., and try to imagine how weird they were in the C86/Smiths/REM indie pop world of the late 80s. Nowadays I get my thrills from drone, electronica, black metal and minimalism, but these stream in a direct line from Isn't Anything and Loveless blowing the doors open. So they will always get a pass from me. Just like Kraftwerk or Eric B and Rakim.
Totally agree with this - my two all time favourite albums are loveless and chiastic slide. They're both similar in that I got completely 'lost' in them. Both sounded nothing like anything else out there, abrasive and alien in places while at the same time being strangely 'catchy'. Both took quite a few listens to understand properly, and have almost infinite replay value.
Plus having a new, unexpected MBV album (that actually sounds far better than I expected given it's massive gestational period), means I'm jonesing slightly less for the new ae. 2013's got off to a good start, music-wise.
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Did anyone here grab a copy of the bonus cd? Curious to know what it sounds like... the album itself is pretty amazing.
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