Autechre Exai

Yer name's not down yer not comin' in.

So they'd rather have me download them illegally? okay, Bleep, whatever you want.

Yeah, just queued up the torrent after not being allowed to give Warp my money for this.

lol, I didn't even know they were online somewhere already, that was just theoretical :-)

http://warp.us7.list...6&id=fc8ef17bcd

this was the initial step, then you get a confirm.. but it seems like the window might be closed.

https://autechre.bleepstores.com

you might be able to finagle an acct. by 'reset password' etc.

seems like they dropped the ball on this.

http://warp.us7.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=92da423b0a560b89a4b558a36&id=fc8ef17bcd

that first link is incorrect.. this was the initial step

that link seems to contain your userId, Lowell. registering an email address might stop yours working.

i wonder if other people got the same u= and id= parameters.

I'm in.

Went for the 320k MP3s. Now I just need to find a spare 600MB on my phone for all four live shows.

Yeah, just queued up the torrent after not being allowed to give Warp my money for this.

ditto, though I just got the store link yesterday. so I guess I'll toss some cash over, though still, what kind of store works like this

calculated psychological trick to get more sales from die-hard fans who either don't care so much about live sets or have bootlegs already? 'ooh i am one of the elect! have my money! er... what just happened?'

phased introduction. let everybody in all at once and the servers overload and it's glastonbury tickets all over again.

(i have still heard nothing.)

are AE live recordings really enough to crash anything?

Strange ... Just clicked on my original email to find that my access to the recordings had "expired" ... but it wasn't much effort to access the shop ... I'm sure the recordings were cheaper than when I first looked (£8 for the lot).

that original link https://autechre.bleepstores.com/ seems to be open to all now.

bought. now to find the time to listen...

the Utrecht recording is teeming with little bits of detail, but it's more concise than Dublin. the finale is glorious, a splintered-up mess.

anybody listening to these?

listened to utrecht on the tube this morning.

i did wonder if there is anything at all in common between the 4 recordings, if there's anything like a setlist, a preset even...

Don't they more or less improvise sets?

yeah, but do they start with something, or absolutely nothing?

my impression is that they've been using the same program/series of events, or 'songs', for the last two years.. based on everything i've heard: "AE_LIVE" (2014), and the recent North American tour. there are variations between the four official recordings, but the variations are minor, and based on a defined structure.

the execution/generation/shaping (ADSR etc.) of the sound events is really fluid, though. so while the general tonality, array of sounds, timbre etc. remain somewhat consistent, the delivery is never the same.

The Dublin and Utrecht recordings have a different, additional finale that they continued to use as part of the subsequent sets, through the North American tour. it changes the composition and flow of the latter parts, substantially. it's almost like having four versions of an album, but each one contains a series of 'zones' that shift wildly in their feel and detail while maintaining the basic sequence of events on a coarse scale.

https://soundcloud.com/leheron_idletones/resigned-to-utrecht

this is one of the more relaxed zones that occurred in each set. an earlier version of this, appearing in Krakow, is quite different and really pretty.

listening to Krakow (soundboard) for the first time, right now. it's way more aggressive off the bat.. lotta weird, fragmented glissandi, trailing off of the percussion. thicker distortion going on in the lead track, moreso than the others

yeah, Krakow has a markedly different feel than the other recordings. first half of it is harder/heavier/more aggressive, a good contrast from the elegance and clarity that characterizes the early thirds of both the Dublin and Utrecht sets. Pricing is pretty reasonable on these.. I paid $11 for the Dublin FLAC, subsequent sets are $2.50 apiece once you've already purchased one.

How does one define "improvisation" regarding these guys?

just half played these so far, no doubt will play them to death later; strangely enough i was going to post about a fortnight ago about the availability of autechre soundboard recordings after heavily playing one from 2005 (the last tour for which one has been circulated prior to these, afaik)

every time i go back to autechre now, the rubbish written about their aridity/dryness/academicism etc seems not merely stupid but obtuse, there is /so/ much energy to it in every respect

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-autechre-20151119-story.html

Cheers for that link

God

just half played these so far, no doubt will play them to death later;

ery time i go back to autechre now, the rubbish written about their aridity/dryness/academicism etc seems not merely stupid but obtuse, there is /so/ much energy to it in every respect

forgot i saw them in dc a couple months ago. not a good show to say the least. thought i'd hear something from lp5 or that era, instead just a full set of merzbow crapnoise in the dark, ooh mysterious

they wouldn't even play freebird

xpost That's one of the better Autechre pieces I've read, suitably heady but not entirely unsuited for the layman. I sort of wish I saw them here, but I was probably too tired.

do not recall copying that excerpt or posting in this thread last night, wtf.

i ws fine with the lack of southern rock covers, guess im not on board w/ their late phase of

the sound of computers farting

― ☏ (am0n), Monday, February 4, 2013 6:03 PM

it's been a 15 year phase hon, let it go.

"merzbow crapnoise" is an awfully weak, inaccurate generalisation.. were you in the same room as the band?

thought i'd hear something from lp5 or that era

iirc they've been debuting a full set of new material, maybe with some nods to their last release, for a long time now. I can see how that could be tricky, coming to it cold, I've been letting these live sets percolate over the last couple of weeks.

were you in the same room as the band?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 19:32

too dark, i couldnt tell. they may have just hit the lights, pressed play on the randodigicrapnoise plugin (more accurate ;) and left the room

You'll be downloading the live sets then.

ill go for the sets with good 'dark star > see u rider > second bad vilbel's

https://soundcloud.com/leheron_idletones/ae-dublin

guitar-ish bit, appears in many of the recent sets

the rubbish written about their aridity/dryness/academicism etc seems not merely stupid but obtuse, there is /so/ much energy to it in every respect

what does energy (or lack thereof) have to do with aridity/dryness/academicism

Yeah man, but it's a dry heat!

https://www.facebook.com/AE_Store_-772523289543128

....five more soundboards up.. look AELIVE out there

I haven't finished the first 4 yet. (One to go, but I'm not entirely sure which)

Am also annoyed that us early adopters don't get the same discount as the people only seeing this now (or do we? Will the new ones be £1 each?)

You do. I just added AE Live to my basket and it's smart enough to know that I've got the first four, so it's only charging me £1 each for Nagano, Dour, Katowice, Krems and Grafenhainichen (320k MP3s, that is).

Nevertheless, I can wait a bit. Listened to 20min of Dublin this morning on the way to work and it was fantastic.

cool.

i think i need to work out how to hear these via the stereo as i don't think the earbuds are quite cutting it. that said, autechre on loud walking around Westfields is the only real way to experience Westfields.

(Dour?)

it will also surprise nobody that i love the dazzle covers for these things.

Presumably this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dour_Festival

I may end up dusting off my spindle of CD-Rs and writing them to disc as MP3 (I think they're about 150MB each? So two or three discs for the nine files). I could stick them on DVD-R, but that means having the TV on to navigate through tracks.

AirPlay from phone or iTunes is fine but can break up when there's other stuff going on. Better stick with disc.