Autechre: Classic or Dud?

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.

Maybe so, but they won't put the other four tracks on a side each. For one thing the levels would be way off between a well cut six minute side and a workable 30 minute side.
It'll be

NTS 1
A1. t1a1
B1. bqbqbq
B2. debris_funk

C1. l3 ctrl
D1. carefree counter dronal
D2. north spiral

E1. gonk steady one
F1. four of seven
F2. 32a_reflected

NTS 2
G1. elyc9 7hres
G2. six of eight (midst)
H1. xflood
H2. gonk tuf hi

I1. dummy casual pt2
I2. violvoic
J1. sinistrailAB air
J2. wetgelis casual interval
J3. e0

K1. peal MA
K2. 9 chr0
L1. turbile epic casual, stpl idle

NTS 3
M1. clustro casual
M2. splesh
N1. tt1pd

O1. acid mwan idle
O2. fLh
P1. glos ceramic
P2. g 1 e 1

Q1. nineFly
Q2. shimripl air
R1. icari

NTS 4
S1. frane casual
S2. mirrage
T1. column thirteen

U1. shimripl casual
V1. all end 1

W1. all end 2
X1. all end 3

Whatever it is that's playing right now, it is absolutely mesmerizing.

If title matters you can play track samples here: https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/98672-autechre-nts-session-4

It's a killer, killer two hours of Ae overload.

Thank you! And like you said, it's unexpectedly emotional. I feel like I'm warmly floating in a glacier.

End all. Holy shit does that one live up to its name.