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    Who has written the most cringe worthy or pretentious Autechre reviews?

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    Posted · Edited by Joseph

    the barcode review of quaristice is almost as douchey.

    Barcode panned Brown and Boothe’s last expedition in IDM (Untilted), and was roundly email barracked by Autechre’s nerdy followers - so it's time to put our crash helmets back on as Autechre return with the charmingly titled Quaristice. Thankfully, the opening Altibzz immediately proves that there's a semblance of flesh and blood pumping beyond the heart of Autechre’s monotone machine, it’s so lovely – so warm, so fuzzy, so melodic. Could we have 19 more please? My hopes were up, but Autechre said "no".

    The Plc reverts to the grizzled, schizoid Autechre of old, full of chattering mechanics and quacking daftness. In all fairness, Quaristice isn’t nearly as dreary as Autechre’s previous album, Untilted. Because the album is built upon a premise of electronic jamming sessions, every now and then Autechre stumble upon an idea and realise its potential. The shrill, technoid Perlence attacks your sense like a brickbat with a rusty nail protruding from it, Simmmm’s chiming circuitry breathes melody and expression with erratic glee before cluster-fucking itself into an early grave. Tankakern sounds like warm thunder blowing through a steel factory, and Rale kicks arse with its bottom end synths and lifeless, foreboding gaze. There’s some gem stones in them there hills, you just got to find them.

    In truth, I prefer the format of Quaristice to Autechre’s usually more journeying albums – variety is the spice of life as they say, so I’m sure in another year I’ll have picked a bit more meat off this mordant carcass of found sounds. However, dare I say it, but in 2008 Autechre are beginning to sound almost irrelevant. Others have stolen their template, added fire and brimstone, humour and joy. Little of that is resident here.

    IDM is slowly but surely glitching its way into popular culture, whilst Brown and Booth remain outsiders - disturbingly set in their ways and seemingly wallowing in self-importance. Can they do anything different? Do we have the right to demand it, and has technique-based electronic music hit an impasse? Big questions, Autechre are giving us no answers.

    All albums best to worst

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    Untitled is so hyped, Can anyone explain why?

    For me, more than any other autechre release this oozes a sense of crazy innocent fun. With the exception of maybe iera, the whole album is basically just a fun rollercoaster ride. It's also one of, if not the most energetically charged, mad autechre release.

     

    While I agree, I think the exact same could be said about Quaristice. And I think what gives Quaristice the edge is that it moves faster and covers more ground (making it A E Donuts) and also the fact that it has those menacing undertones at times as you said. Which completely rounds out the 'chre experience.

    Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

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    Posted · Edited by Joseph

    yeah....if people are listening to oversteps for "the beats"...that may be a large part of why they aren't getting it. The reason oversteps initially impressed me so much was because all of the meticulous attention and complexity that they usually put into the rhythmic elements, now were being put into the melodic elements.

     

    Over time, the vitality of it wore off a bit in an uncharacteristic way (for autechre). So it's probably in my lower third autechre albums. But the lower third of autechre albums is still so much better than the best of most other musicians

    Now Reading

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    if you were to explain it in 3 sentences, what would those sentences be? I'm intrigued.

     

    Well, it takes place in the far future of our universe, where humans have branched out into many different solar systems/galaxies; Neverness is a city which is sort of an intellectual center for a mystical order of mathematicians (and other professions) who use their knowledge to navigate "the manifold" (read: the universe). The story is the tale of how the main character Mallory, after an encounter with a God-like entity deep in the heart of space, embarks on a quest to discover the secret of life, and ends up transforming himself into something incredible. It has a very psychedelic tinge to it a lot of the time, in a good way.

    Write something random

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    Here's some subaltern-neo-colonialist-gender-studies-postmodern-queer-theory for you. (generated, per the request, randomly.)

     

     

    1. Consensuses of futility

     

    The main theme of Dietrich’s[1] essay on Sartreist absurdity is a mythopoetical totality. Therefore, Foucault uses the term ‘objectivism’ to denote the bridge between truth and society. Hanfkopf[2] suggests that we have to choose between the postmodernist paradigm of reality and textual neocultural theory.

    “Reality is fundamentally elitist,” says Baudrillard. In a sense, Sartre uses the term ‘capitalist dematerialism’ to denote not discourse, but postdiscourse. A number of sublimations concerning objectivism exist.

    Thus, Bataille suggests the use of dialectic libertarianism to challenge sexism. The primary theme of the works of Gaiman is the role of the artist as participant.

    Therefore, an abundance of desemanticisms concerning a precapitalist whole may be found. Debord’s critique of capitalist dematerialism holds that narrative comes from the collective unconscious.

    It could be said that Marx uses the term ‘Sartreist existentialism’ to denote not situationism as such, but subsituationism. The example of objectivism depicted in Gaiman’s Black Orchidemerges again in Stardust.

    2. Gaiman and capitalist dematerialism

     

    If one examines objectivism, one is faced with a choice: either reject capitalist dematerialism or conclude that narrativity serves to marginalize the proletariat. But the subject is interpolated into a dialectic feminism that includes art as a paradox. If objectivism holds, we have to choose between precapitalist theory and textual capitalism.

    In the works of Gaiman, a predominant concept is the distinction between closing and opening. In a sense, any number of appropriations concerning objectivism exist. The subject is contextualised into a precapitalist theory that includes narrativity as a reality.

    If one examines objectivism, one is faced with a choice: either accept subcapitalist discourse or conclude that the law is capable of intent. However, Wilson[3] implies that the works of Gaiman are empowering. A number of narratives concerning the difference between class and art may be revealed.

    In a sense, the subject is interpolated into a objectivism that includes narrativity as a totality. If dialectic Marxism holds, we have to choose between precapitalist theory and the neocapitalist paradigm of context.

    But several discourses concerning capitalist dematerialism exist. Baudrillard uses the term ‘objectivism’ to denote the role of the poet as writer.

    In a sense, the subject is contextualised into a precapitalist theory that includes culture as a paradox. The premise of objectivism states that art is unattainable, but only if consciousness is equal to language.

    It could be said that Reicher[4] suggests that we have to choose between precapitalist theory and cultural capitalism. Marx promotes the use of precapitalist textual theory to attack class.

    However, an abundance of sublimations concerning a mythopoetical totality may be discovered. Foucault’s model of objectivism holds that the raison d’etre of the participant is significant form.

    3. Subconstructive rationalism and Lyotardist narrative

     

    In the works of Gibson, a predominant concept is the concept of deconstructivist consciousness. Thus, the subject is interpolated into a capitalist dematerialism that includes narrativity as a paradox. If objectivism holds, we have to choose between Lyotardist narrative and postconstructive textual theory.

    But any number of desemanticisms concerning precapitalist nationalism exist. Sartre suggests the use of objectivism to deconstruct the status quo.

    Therefore, Bataille uses the term ‘capitalist dematerialism’ to denote the role of the artist as observer. The figure/ground distinction prevalent in Gibson’s Pattern Recognition is also evident in Virtual Light, although in a more self-supporting sense.

    4. Gibson and Lyotardist narrative

     

    The characteristic theme of Reicher’s[5] essay on objectivism is not, in fact, discourse, but postdiscourse. In a sense, McElwaine[6] suggests that we have to choose between precultural capitalism and structuralist postdialectic theory. The premise of capitalist dematerialism implies that academe is part of the stasis of consciousness, given that Lyotardist narrative is invalid.

    But the subject is contextualised into a objectivism that includes sexuality as a reality. The primary theme of the works of Madonna is a mythopoetical whole.

    In a sense, if Lyotardist narrative holds, we have to choose between objectivism and the deconstructive paradigm of consensus. Marx uses the term ‘predialectic capitalist theory’ to denote the absurdity of postcultural sexual identity.

    Thus, a number of narratives concerning the role of the participant as observer may be revealed. Humphrey[7] suggests that the works of Madonna are modernistic.

    1. Dietrich, R. J. D. ed. (1979) Capitalist theory, objectivism and feminism. And/Or Press

    2. Hanfkopf, P. Q. (1988) The Discourse of Dialectic: Objectivism in the works of Gaiman. University of Massachusetts Press

    3. Wilson, P. ed. (1979) Objectivism in the works of Smith. Schlangekraft

    4. Reicher, C. K. I. (1992) Deconstructing Social realism: Objectivism in the works of Gibson. Yale University Press

    5. Reicher, Q. F. ed. (1981) Feminism, objectivism and the constructive paradigm of expression. Schlangekraft

    6. McElwaine, G. Q. P. (1997) Deconstructing Derrida: Objectivism in the works of Madonna. University of Illinois Press

    7. Humphrey, Q. ed. (1974) Objectivism in the works of Lynch. University of North Carolina Press

    Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

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    Posted · Edited by Joseph

    did not like that coil song

     

    i'm not talking that backing guitar shit in known1, i'm talking that lead syyyynth (4 y's necessary). how does it work amirite???

     

     

    wtf ostia is one of coil's best songs.

     

    but known1 reminds me much more of dark river

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVEimUEMjvg

     

    actually certain parts in Amber also give me a Dark River vibe, I wonder if B/B had discovered Coil at that point?

    Mushrooms and AE

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    Posted

    Wtf?

     

    and btw they don't only grow on cow shit..?? dunno were you heard that.

    you won't need to find a farm. look for wet, grassy, muddy, dank areas. like in a forest, or Mesh Gear Fox's Y-fronts.

    Psylocibes cubensis, the magic mushroom that lives in my area, only grows on cow manure, horse manure, and manure enriched soil. I heard that from reading field guides.

    Mushrooms and AE

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    Posted

    It's not really feasible during school, but my goal is to do a lot of hunting over the summer. I like to kick around outdoors a lot anyway, but again, I don't know where to go to find psylocibes.

    Mushrooms and AE

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    Posted · Edited by Joseph

    apparently cubes only grow on cow shit? and i dont know of any good places to do this anyway, has anyone from had much success in this dept. and would like to share?

     

    i respect your opinion i was just asking for advice because i would like to hunt them myself

    Mushrooms and AE

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    Posted · Edited by Joseph

    apparently cubes only grow on cow shit? and i dont know of any good places to do this anyway, has anyone from had much success in this dept. and would like to share?

     

    i can't abide by sirchs hard line attitude against buying. i mean i wouldnt have had the opportunity to try this magnificent fungus if it werent for a friend of a friend who hooked me up. that said i want to find some on my own now

    Death Grips

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    I can't make up my mind about Death Grips, on one hand I like the raw lo-fi aggression of the beats and "Guillotine" gets stuck in my head from time to time, on the other lyrically it doesn't seem to be saying much or going anywhere... which ends up making it a lot of just noise to be noisy which gets a bit tiresome. Maybe I'll have to sit and give the album a full listen through and I'll realize something I'm not hearing upon just watching the vids

     

    this is how i feel

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