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Good news is if you actually like it, you can pick up the vinyl for about 3 quid. Bad news is the sea level is due to rise when Warp dump all the unsold copies into the ocean.

1 day only? Ah well off to Soulseek I guess.

Yeah everyone seems to love the 'B' set, especially the last half hour The first 40 mins of the 'A' set are a bit more...divisive. There's some good stuff in there but it's a tough listen and not particularly well suited for playing through a live rig IMO.

One other thing to note: Don't buy anything from Horizons music. Owner Neil Monteiro is a widely known UK scammer - banned from discogs, endless forum pages on DOA, Reddit etc. from people waiting for records. Just check the trustpilot reviews. Buy it direct instead: Cold Blow: 5Y and Still Blowing by Cold Blow

Listen to Hessle Audio feat. Ben UFO - 02 October 2023 by Rinse FM on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/3xtSL That was the original link. Was there ever a decent digital release of this track? All versions I've heard are (understandably) crackly.

Yeah it was Melt festival. They were playing on a stage by a lake about 2am. Good fun, though many festival goers looked extremely nonplussed and the 'lights off' thing doesn't work on open air stages

Someone's put up the set here https://on.soundcloud.com/QNUpV A bit surprised they've gone back to basically the same set from a year ago with what sounds like a few minor tweaks.

10+ if he's having a slack year. Over 20 albums last year by my reckoning. But yeah I'm out on these too. Every now and again a track will pop up on Spotify, some even sound half-decent, but I just don't have time to sift through this amount of material.

Definitely worth a listen this one, best iNFO release so far I reckon.

I don't think saying 'give it some time and it might grow on you' (or words to that effect) is condescending at all. We've all been there. Some stuff I was initially bitterly disappointed by ended up amongst my absolute favourite music ever.

I definitely get this with Autechre, but also the other big 'IDM' names. When you've got artists who've made some of your all time favourite music you're going to give their newer stuff a lot more of a chance, even if you're not feeling it at the time. I've been listening to Splesh or TBM2 or something, grimacing my way through and not actually enjoying it at all. With Autechre though I'll often come back to it another time and find something interesting there. it's different with, for example, Unreal Square by Squarepusher. That went from 'I think this song's pretty bad' to 'This song absolutely sucks lol'.

Yeah it was... actually not that great. From what I remember they were on pretty late, 3am or so. Energy was flagging a little and instead of the slamming set required there was an extended version of '19 headaches'. Crowd dispersed, by the end of the set there was definitely plenty of room to dance. Not one of their best sets.

Heh he beat me to it, fair play:

I never quite get a lot of these 'composer reacts' videos when they go into electronic music. Occasionally there's something interesting in there, like this video of someone listening to Drukqs in front of a piano, and then transcribing some of the melodies and working out they're in Phrygian or whatever. If the guy above took this approach to Cfern I'd be a bit more interested (not sure what he could do with 11 is to be honest). As it is there's not a lot he's adding here as he's got no experience listening to this sort of stuff and he doesn't really apply the specialist knowledge he does have. Maybe if he listened to the alarm will sound version he could talk a bit more about what the rhythms and melodies are doing. Instead it's some fairly obvious stuff - no shit the beat skips about and it's a little hard to connect to on first listen.

I've got a flaw: Misprint on the vinyl states it's to be played at 45, so that was the speed I got used to. These days I tend to play it at 33 +8, 33 just sounds too slow

Was on the fence on attending and decided against it in the end - mainly because it's fucking Field Day. Been to a couple previously and despite the good line-ups they're always really disappointing - much too quiet due to the Vicky Park noise restrictions and no energy in the crowd whatsoever. Was thinking of dropping by the Forwards festival in Bristol instead, anyone check that last year? Rest of the line-up for Saturday isn't much cop, but it's still got to be better than Field Day.

Same for me, there's large sections of this stuff I still find pretty unapproachable even after numerous listens. That section from 27m to 46m in Helsinki for example is just 'difficult' on so many levels - atonal, aggressive, with very little to cling on to as it just keeps battering away. But after that until the end of the set there's some of the absolute best stuff they've done since Exai. It's crazy, psychedelic stuff, but strangely pleasant to listen to and it sounds entirely unlike anything else I can think of. Ditto the second half of the London B set - sounded pretty cool first time I heard it, but listening to it at 2am while baked was a revelation: Crushing autechre hip-hop, constantly switching up, with a huge amount of melody buried in there. I'm hoping the scarier parts eventually coalesce into something I find easier to listen to, but even if they never do there's some absolutely amazing ground-breaking stuff here. I didn't enjoy the live show in person *at all* but listening at home with time to take it all in it works so much better.

I'm also getting Osla for N from the last 15mins. The 'clanky' section from the other sets even reminds me a bit of Basscadet?

Some 2022 live stuff most likely. I've been jonesing for that second Barbican set, hoping that's included.

Yeah some are definitely better than others. The elseq art individually looked pretty rubbish but I quite liked that print that put them all together. Quadrange wasn't great but the Quaristice steel box looks amazing. Overall his stuff is better suited to actual objects rather than just jpegs on a digital release I reckon.

I wouldn't call him a hack, some of the tDR Autechre artwork is pretty great. Chiastic Slide in particular. Got a soft spot for the Oversteps and Exai vinyl boxes as well. I'm hoping it's now all pretty much ready to go, and they're just waiting on a suitable release date. The Helsinki set has really grown on me but it did take a LOT of listens, still find it crazy their current live stuff is so dense and weird - there's no way you can properly get your head round most of it on first listen.

Rpeg ringtone crew checking in, definitely the top autechre track to play when you're getting a call IMO.

This is definitely his best in a while, and I actually quite like a lot of Death Peak and S/T (hard pass on 'playground in a lake' though). After a few listens decided to pick up the vinyl - prices are all over the place. Bleep is £34 (standard edition) whereas his bleepstore is £11 cheaper at £23. Bandcamp is £25 but with huge postage, and Norman have it for £35. Very strange.

Never thought I'd turn down a rare autechre box set but these tracks never did much for me and really aren't well suited to vinyl. Still according to the Bleep email they come with an instant download of 'five four child voice'. Pretty sure that track is by Fridge. Nice one Blerp.

https://cravenfaults.bandcamp.com/album/standers New LP from Craven Faults, out today. Excellent long-form motorik stuff, in keeping with his previous 'Tangerine Dream go hiking oop North' aesthetic. Really enjoyed the first full play through. There's lots of synthy stuff similar to this out there, but I find his work has a certain extra something that really does it for me. Plus the bandcamp purchase comes with an extra 75-minute (!) bonus track. Great if you thought 'All End' was good, but a bit too short.