Autechre: Classic or Dud?

i love it when ae sound like a puzzle that you think you might *just* be able to figure out if you spend enough time in it

yes puzzles but the bangers in NTS 1 are good too??

I find the post-Exai Autechre fascinating - there is a real luxury in tracks which take 20 minutes to evolve or orbit around a single idea. When Quadrange gave us "Perlence subrange 6-36" and it was an hour of massively slowed, distorting kick, a light went on in my mind and I thought, this is what I need. And the last two major releases have delivered that and more.
I don't find this music at all intellectual or challenging, it's just intensely aesthetically pleasing in a way nothing else is. Of course the process of learning what to listen for, which happened imperceptibly across 20+ years for me (and for them!) make stepping onto the carousel pretty daunting. But I guess I have to accept that they are my all time favourite musicians and that I will never be the same.

the flight to australia to catch the flight to tasmania takes a bit longer iirc

holy fuck whatever part of NTS 3 I am streaming now, 25 minutes in, waves of modulated static and that dry block beat from Draft 7.30 going nuts, trying to work but all my hair is standing on end

Through 3 of these sessions and I feel I could reduce the 6 hours to about 1.5 for a personal "mini album". I would disagree that this so far has a high quality to quantity ratio. That said - it'll be really easy for me to splice together 2-3 hours of tracks that are all highlights, but this is a lower ratio than elseq for sure.

third track on the release (tt1pd) is probably what you heard, Matthew. it's 22 minutes (!)

still going, fucking mental, love love love it

Assuming session 4 has as many highlights as the other 3, for a band to release 2-3 hours of incredible music 4 releases in a row (Oversteps/Move of Ten, Exai, Elseq, NTS) in a decade? That's pretty incredible

FWIW - icari is the crown jewel of Session 3 for me.

does nobody rate AE_LIVE_DUBLIN, or Utrecht? for real, these sets are f'ing beautiful.

now this is some proper radio

yes puzzles but the bangers in NTS 1 are good too??

yeah i dig a gnarly banger. but i listened to the 2005 glasgow art school set for the first time recently and that's like a puzzle that bangs *swoons*

does nobody rate AE_LIVE_DUBLIN, or Utrecht? for real, these sets are f'ing beautiful.

yep, in terms of variety and detail they are incredible.

Firing up Session 3 now.

Some deep bass on Session 3. "tt1pd" could almost be something off an Electric Ladyland compilation.

i listened to the 2005 glasgow art school set for the first time recently and that's like a puzzle that bangs *swoons*

the ending bit that slowly increases tempo provokes a strange bout of anxiety in me

that speedy drum loop with the quick bass drum rolls and the popping distorted snares eventually showed up on one of the quaristice releases, right? love that part & vaguely remember being a little disappointed with the 'studio' ver at the time.

forgot to note the time but it starts ~23:27

It's more like something off Untilted, definitely similar to LCC, maybe elements of Sublimit as well.

duh, LCC! yeah, that is quite close. it's also literally the first thing you hear on that record, so um yeah, I haven't put untilted on in a few years.

there's definitely parts of Quaristice in there too though. most notably "IO" though I'm sure there's more than that

forgot how much I love "iera". intro just sounds so slippery and that soft white noise acting as a hi hat... mmm...

no FLAC-related issues with NTS 3 btw. listened to that bad boy all weekend. autechre's support team is ON IT!

just checked in to see if George Starostin took the time to review all the elseqs, and what do you know he did

its pretty amusing to me b/c Starostin is kind of the prototypical Ae semi-fan who'd been thrown by the wayside long ago - he likes the early stuff, thinks they completely lost it with Confield, maybe has some time for Oversteps....but his OCD-fueled review style kinda forces him to review everything in earnest, even if he doesn't like any of it. hey, credit to him for trying.

also, lol @ this line: "I just hope they won't take five more years and come out with a 20-volume album"...well it was 2 years and 12 LPs...enjoy !!!

having never heard of NTS Radio before this thing, i see they are doing the music at the Tate Late on friday, at the Tate Modern.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/late/uniqlo-tate-lates

(anyone been? video seems to suggest a rave in the turbine hall)

(archive here: https://www.nts.live/shows/uniqlo-tate-lates )

NTS has all sorts of wonderful things. I just learned about them a few months ago. Search for Haruomi Hosono day

pete swanson from yellow swans has a really good monthly show.

so this has been like AE doing SAWII...very nice

Yeah this is gorgeous

lee gamble's NTS sets are superb

sorta curious what Autechre fans think of his last album

i didn't know he had one after 'koch', which i liked

so this has been like AE doing SAWII...very nice

Which "this" do you mean?

i didn't know he had one after 'koch', which i liked

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it's a lot more frenetic than 'koch', takes a bit to warm up to but it's fun as hell. it's on HyperDub and it does kind sound like a "HyperDub album" if you know what i mean.

the live set they're playing on https://nts.live RIGHT NOW

(which will be available for replay when it finishes in sixty seconds so don't sweat)

xp

listening to set 4 now. This is pretty amazing and unlike anything I've heard from them before.

1.frane casual - 13:42
2.mirrage - 6:21
3.column thirteen - 17:02
4.shimripl casual - 24:32
5.all end - 58:21

Jesus Christ

really hope that last track title isn't a sign or anything

they're still touring + all end = ae ?

not their longest track either, Perlence subrange 3-36 is fifteen seconds longer :-)

so that was just the end of bladelords x30

pretty cool

so that was just the end of bladelords x30

Yup... exactly what I was thinking as I heard it.

Sooo this is going to be released on vinyl? They just going to fade out/fade in all end for the last disc?

and at 58 minutes you're looking at A Wizard, A True Star levels of audio degradation trying to fit 30 minutes of music on a side...

Three sides, for sure. It's 3 x LP per session.

column thirteen is gorgeous.

"all end" is fucking killing me, it's like a sea of emotion

yes!

1.frane casual - 13:42
2.mirrage - 6:21
3.column thirteen - 17:02
4.shimripl casual - 24:32
5.all end - 58:21

What is this the tracklist of? Set 4?

Yes

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It's low on dynamics and bottom end with barely any sharp transients so I think 30 minutes a side wouldn't actually be too much of a stretch. You'd get high end loss towards the centre and surface noise but I can see that working with the audio.

I mean if stuff like Calypso Frelimo or half of E2-E4 can go on a side that will really be no problem.