elseq 1-5

[ScaldedBorneo]

I like autechre tracks that are longer and more jammy than the cut down 3-5 minute tracks. I prefer the quaristice companion releases to the actual album.

I way prefer Quaristice over Quadrange.

[Schlitze]

elseq is a tour de force. I like every track I've heard so far 10/10

[crono3]

 

I like autechre tracks that are longer and more jammy than the cut down 3-5 minute tracks. I prefer the quaristice companion releases to the actual album.

I way prefer Quaristice over Quadrange.

Same here. I love Quaristice and I never really understood all the love for Quadrange...

[IOS]

Also, chimer 1-5-1 is weird time-sig wise. It's in 5/4, but then the measures change up it seems.

 

it's 4/4 at 151.0 bpm

[Rpeg]

elseq plays like a stretched out beats tape, and I'm loving every minute I've heard. Stellar release and the consistent percussion makes it easy to get into. future hiphop etc.

Edited June 1, 2016 by Rpeg

[sweepstakes]

artov chain, take me back to your home planet

[jules]

 

 

I like autechre tracks that are longer and more jammy than the cut down 3-5 minute tracks. I prefer the quaristice companion releases to the actual album.

I way prefer Quaristice over Quadrange.

Same here. I love Quaristice and I never really understood all the love for Quadrange...

I enjoy both differently

[auxien]

 

Also, chimer 1-5-1 is weird time-sig wise. It's in 5/4, but then the measures change up it seems.

 

it's 4/4 at 151.0 bpm

 

 

You are very correct.

 

It's the same 4/4 masquerading as 5/4 trick that they use on runrepik (I remember having a discussion about this at some point last year on here). I'm guessing the beats are probably built essentially the same, or maybe using a modification of the same loop. Either way, listening to loops of both tracks for the past 5 minutes has made me not just not-enjoy both tracks, but actually hate them, so I'm going to investigate no further.

[IOS]

I know precisely what you mean. During the broadcast of feed1 I couldn't tell where the beat was for the entire track. It took three auditions to realise the bass drums really mostly stay in the same positions throughout the track.

 

runrepik is now much easier to follow rhythmically. The one that's still tricky is spl9.

Edited June 2, 2016 by IOS

[mushroom]

spl9 seems straightforward to me...brutal af but straightforward

[donotseemecricket]

just bought a new hi res digital audio player to play these 24 bit wav ae files i've been getting.
anyways. i've finally been able to give the entire elseq 1-5 a proper listen. several times each. more familiar with the first 3, but 4 and 5 are coming along.
here are some of my initial thoughts…

i had some cannabyss last night and went out walking listening to elseq 1… visions of surrealistic, futuristic, alien, apocolyptic landscapes. ominous, dark and foreboding, but also extremeley visual and viceral and exotic. some of it serene. one track (c16 deep tread) ended like an atomic bomb and the feeling was that of despair. the emptyness swallowed me. it was fitting cos i came to a clearing in the road and it was dark and i had a view of the lake michigan ocean and things were vast and desolate. the sonic palatte created and presented is emmaculate. i am in complete au. i later laid in bed and listened to more (elseq 2,3) with my eyes closed. extremely visual. layers of multi dimensinal planes appeared to form and shape shift in my minds eye. listened to 4 and 5 walking to and from work during the day. made for a very super-natural walk. it really is a night time album though. overall the scope of this album, in terms of length and range of different sounds is enormous. quite spiritual. god-like almost. while this can be applied to the whole thing, with elseq 5 in particular… i am reminded of the scene in Tarkovsky's Solaris at the end where Kris is on his knees in the pouring rain on the surface of the planet solaris, before his father, he is on his knees kissing his hands in a prostrating state. i would compare the sounds to that of the surface of the planet Solaris. a largely unexplored world, where all basic laws of human knowledge are all but non-existant. we can only speculate as to what is going on beneath the surface. it is the AU that has come to TECH the ER.

[sweepstakes]

Either way, listening to loops of both tracks for the past 5 minutes has made me not just not-enjoy both tracks, but actually hate them, so I'm going to investigate no further.

Oh man you just Jev'd yourself.

[sweepstakes]

overall the scope of this album, in terms of length and range of different sounds is enormous. quite spiritual. god-like almost.

I wouldn't have put it exactly this way but I think I know what you mean. There's a distinct shift in mood with AE_LIVE and elseq. They're mostly dark, apocalyptic and relentless, and there's really chilling moments where I feel like I'm gazing into the abyss. Even when it's playful, it's heavy.

 

It makes me wonder what's been going through their minds that led to this change. We focus a lot on the tools and process when we talk about what they do, and surely that's a major factor, but it seems like there's more to the changes in taste and decisions.

[nappanapples]

Guys, I just figured it out. This is their Earth (the band, not the planet you fucking hippies) period.

 

Earth albums often revolve around one new instrument or idea, and this set of EPs (yeah I'm calling them that until Sean pops in to say I'm wrong) is seemingly all made on one basic set of software (the AE_LIVE Max/whatever setup), so that counts....and then the songs are mostly long and slightly changing jam-style stuff that is often pretty but often dark/melancholy.

 

Okay I'm mostly joking but the comparison struck me as slightly relevant.

I got that sense too especially from the sound of eastre. its the same 3 droning chords for the entire song, but with an engrossing AE take on the style that earth has executed so well. ive loved playing eastre loud as fuck in the same way id listen to earth. Also it just sounds the "earthiest", while the rest of the album has mostly evoked for me scenes of space

Edited June 2, 2016 by nappanapples

[mushroom]

spth reminds me of parhelic triangle

[usagi]

I just want to add that ever since I laid eyes on the elseq1 'cover' it has always looked like butt + dingleberry to me. gj TDR.

 

edit: I will paypal beer money to the person who can animate it like a butt shaking off a dingleberry

Edited June 2, 2016 by usagi

[Ivan Ooze]

I just want to add that ever since I laid eyes on the elseq1 'cover' it has always looked like butt + dingleberry to me. gj TDR.

 

edit: I will paypal beer money to the person who can animate it like a butt shaking off a dingleberry

that cover just like the track is some lush fartporn

[futureimage]

Just started playing this on a 5.1 system and the 'coder is doing something to generate rear surround channels for me and it's incredible. Full elseq immersion.

[hello spiral]

Working late tonight. Got all of it on 5 CDrs here. Currently blasting feed1 out of one of these

 

 

Bass pulsing through my balls, good taemes.

[xox]

wow! ghettoblaster from aliens! // the ''get away from her you bitch'' edition

[xox]

ok...i no you're gonna kill me but...

easter sounds like a track actress would do, on a bad day...and TBM2 on a good day

 

[may be rude]

i love actress but waaaat

 

are you listening on cellphone speakers

[xox]

heh

 

[zkom]

To me 13x0 step sounds a lot like FSOL. I mean the Dead Cities/ISDN era.

[Kavinsky]

just bought a new hi res digital audio player to play these 24 bit wav ae files i've been getting.

anyways. i've finally been able to give the entire elseq 1-5 a proper listen. several times each. more familiar with the first 3, but 4 and 5 are coming along.

here are some of my initial thoughts…

 

i had some cannabyss last night and went out walking listening to elseq 1… visions of surrealistic, futuristic, alien, apocolyptic landscapes. ominous, dark and foreboding, but also extremeley visual and viceral and exotic. some of it serene. one track (c16 deep tread) ended like an atomic bomb and the feeling was that of despair. the emptyness swallowed me. it was fitting cos i came to a clearing in the road and it was dark and i had a view of the lake michigan ocean and things were vast and desolate. the sonic palatte created and presented is emmaculate. i am in complete au. i later laid in bed and listened to more (elseq 2,3) with my eyes closed. extremely visual. layers of multi dimensinal planes appeared to form and shape shift in my minds eye. listened to 4 and 5 walking to and from work during the day. made for a very super-natural walk. it really is a night time album though. overall the scope of this album, in terms of length and range of different sounds is enormous. quite spiritual. god-like almost. while this can be applied to the whole thing, with elseq 5 in particular… i am reminded of the scene in Tarkovsky's Solaris at the end where Kris is on his knees in the pouring rain on the surface of the planet solaris, before his father, he is on his knees kissing his hands in a prostrating state. i would compare the sounds to that of the surface of the planet Solaris. a largely unexplored world, where all basic laws of human knowledge are all but non-existant. we can only speculate as to what is going on beneath the surface. it is the AU that has come to TECH the ER.

 

 

 

Donot thats my favourite post so far, but i think the entity of Solaris enjoyes more ambient music then the harsh enviroment of elseq. I imagine Solaris to be more of an Oversteps, Amber listener. For me Elseq sounds more like an glitched A.I. mind some sort of huge building that folds and unfolds itself all the time with sharp metallic geometry . In general it sounds very architectural to me.