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Never thought I'd turn down a rare autechre LP boxset, but the Hafler /ae stuff seems like a really poor fit for vinyl. All those passages of near silence or barely there drones surely aren't suited for it. (Plus the original material really isn't that strong IMO)

10 tracks is absolutely fine with me - like most folks I've got Perala fatigue but I'll give these a try. Cheers!

Word of warning, buying the vinyl on bandcamp gives you the full digital EP, but bleep only gives you the 4 vinyl tracks. *sighs and loads up soulseek* Lackluster and S_D remixes are both pretty good too.

I preordered the vinyl from the planet mu bleepstore but no download? Not sure what that's about. Maybe buy from bleep directly.

I'll always stand up for Oversteps, had an amazing experience playing the whole thing while lying on my back watching the stars come out in the south of France. Untilted comes out hard but the second half doesn't live up to the first, especially Fermium. Exai is probably better than both IMO.

I still reckon that run from Amber to EP7 was something else - changing up their sound every album, with a huge amount of supplementary EPs, remixes and gescom stuff thrown in. There's been great stuff since then (Confield is crazily ahead of it's time, Exai could be my overall favourite, NTS is nuts and I still really rate Oversteps) but as a run that 5 years was incredible.

Well after a couple of attempts I managed a SIGN PLUS album, coming in at 78mins. Its always interesting to mess about with later autechre, trying to edit down something like lux 106 mod you realise the melodic progression is nuts, constantly shifting throughout the track. One advantage is that the emotional tracks like F7 or Metaz Form8 seem a little more 'earned' when spaced throughout the more percussive PLUS tracks, though there is a bit of unavoidable tonal whiplash. Not saying this is a better way of listening, but it works for me, and definitely upped my appreciation of the original 2 albums. A1 M4 Lema 8:12 A2 DekDre Scap B 2:52 A3 7FM ic* 3:49 A4 si00 5:50 B1 esc desc* 3:00 B2 ecol4* 10:43 B3 Metaz form8 6:01 C1 sch.mefd2 5:25 C2 gr4 3:21 C3 lux 106 mod* 2:44 C4 F7 5:56 D1 X4* 9:31 D2 psin AM* 4:03 D3 r cazt 7:12 * edited tracks

Really enjoying working my way through this comp, there's some top tier Plaid tracks in there.

And Drome, one solution you're not seeing here maybe? You state the mortality / morbidity from Covid is massively overstated - if you're unwilling to take a vaccine or even wear a mask how would you feel purposely contracting Covid then isolating for a fortnight? That's surely consistent with your own logic and at least this way the only person you're putting at risk is yourself. The reason people are ticked off at your no mask / no vaxx stance is that you're gambling OTHER people's lives over what you must admit is a viewpoint not shared by 99% of the scientific community.

Well this last fortnight pretty much my whole department got their first vaccine dose (patient-facing work in Oxford, UK). Some folks in the vulnerable groups have now also got their second. On a purely anecdotal level can report that: Most people got a bit of a reaction over the next 24 hours. Common reactions were headache, nausea, neuralgia. Cleared up pretty quickly. No severe reactions. Personally felt like I'd aged about 20 years for a day or so after jab 1. Felt remarkably good the day after that funnily enough. I had Covid back in March and compared to the long term fatigue and blood pressure issues I'd go for the vaccine any day

I was thinking of doing the same, maybe with a few edits on certain tracks. See if it could work as a single LP. Ever since Elseq I can't seem to resist tinkering with AE releases. Blasphemy I know...

Poor old Mike Pence. Just wanted to get his head down, pass a bit of anti-LGBT legislation, and maybe then finally stop the recurring sex dreams about his old university rowing team. Instead he ended up the centre of an attempted insurrection, part of an administration destined to be remembered as monstrous by history, and to cap it all apparently Trump told him he wasn't a patriot but a 'pussy' on the 6th.

Hmmm yeah the drum machine programming and production ain't bad but a lot of the synths on top are embarrassingly naff and pretty tuneless. Plus no new ideas, just Syro. I give it 2 AFX impersonators out of 5.

I think I'll have to file this as an interesting experiment rather than anything I'll actually come back to. If they'd built it up a bit more and there was more variety I could see it - some iss:sa style pads on top would really help for a start. 1hr of just mangled breaks and software scratching gets a bit tedious.

Bupkis you say you feel even one death is unacceptable from the vaccine - this is a bit of an odd position to take and if you are consistent in how you apply it you should be refusing any and all health interventions from paracetamol on up. No medication or vaccine exists in a vacuum, for anything that has a measurable physiological effect there may be side effects, measured against the effect of the condition it is treating. In the case of Covid you can look this up easily enough - how many people are dying daily where you are? Here in the UK it's 1000 daily, do you think you'll be seeing similar numbers of vaccine related deaths?

It's funny because in my hospital in Oxford, UK everyone seems super keen. Huge backlog of staff trying to get it, I think my turn is up next week. As with any widespread health intervention in the millions, there will be people with adverse effects. Aside from a significant number of people getting flu-jab type fevers there will be a smaller but not zero number of people with more serious side effects and statistically some people will die. It's entirely possible the guy in the FB article died as a result of the jab, immune thrombocytopenia is an identified (extremely rare) side effect of this type of vaccine...or it could have been something unrelated. In the end its all playing the numbers, here in the UK 1,000+ people are dying of Covid every day and all the local hospitals here are approaching around 50% of ALL beds now taken up by Covid patients (with a huge knock on for people getting treatment for anything else). Options at this point are either endless lockdown, widespread vaccination, or mortality / morbidity from Covid a huge order of magnitude worse than even the most extreme antivaxx scenarios.

Did anyone get the VLR set? Missed that one and his mixes are usually spot on.

Yeah I think everyone has a bit of fatigue from all these relentless releases. How many are we at since colundi 1? Got to be 40 at least.

Well the only way to get it is to...pay nothing. Kind of unfortunate.

This album's really good. Between this and 'An Ascent' Scanner has bought out 2 top quality albums recently, wasn't expecting that as I've never been into his stuff up until now. The LP is a bit crackly but to be expected if you're getting 50mins of music on a picture disc I guess.

Brothomstates' bandcamp page has clearly been exposed as a front to channel millions to Russian drug lords. It's the only logical explanation

Usually Boomkat's best-of-the-year records leave me cold, I've sometimes bought them on impulse only to put them up on Discogs a month later. This one's actually really good though, will have to check out some of his other stuff.

That Klute album is one of my favourites from way back, will have to check out the remaster. There's only a handful of D&B albums that are solid all the way through and that's one of them. That Klute album is one of my favourites from way back, will have to check out the remaster. There's only a handful of D&B albums that are solid all the way through and that's one of them.

Yeah I miss being young but Bricolage is a much better album IMHO. Maybe doesn't have as much cutting edge sound design or whatever but I reckon Amon is much better at sample collage than making his own stuff. Similar to DJ Shadow in that respect.

There's been some really good late additions recently... Luke Abbott - Translate The Black Dog - Fragments Pole - Fading Also: Autechre - SIGN and the first 3/4 of PLUS K-Lone - Cape Cira Dallas Acid - the spiral ambience Echasketch - Andromeda Magic Oneohtrix Rrine - Eaciv+ (reissue but I missed it 1st time) Scanner - An Ascent Craven Faults - Erratics and unconformities