Autechre: Classic or Dud?

towards the latter half of "all end" it strongly recalls one of the later-period Tim Hecker albums.. Ravedeath, I think. Otherwise, the bulk (the surface, at least) of it, is from the outro to "bladelores" (Exai)

the timbre / quality of it, even - kinda glassy, maybe it's Virgins

mirrage, column thirteen, shimripl casual are gorgeous ae

column thirteen harks back to Oversteps in a lovely way.. it brings back that sort of buttery, humid quality of pt2ph8 (et al)

There is definitely some sort of melody in "All End." Maybe just a few notes or huge chords hanging there, but it's there, in the background, spooky and menacing and cycling around.

The title makes me worry that "all end" is their swan song... hopefully it's the all end for just NTS and not Autechre as a band.

After attending a show a week ago where William Basinski's Disintegration Loops were played in their entirety over the course of an evening (with the audience encouraged to bring beddings and sleep over while listening), now I kinda want to experience the NTS sessions unedited during an 8 hour sit in at a venue.

Do their catalog numbers all mean something? They're certainly not in order anymore.

Untilted = WARP180 (something to do with 180 degrees = no angles?)
Oversteps = WARP210 (10th album)
Elseq = WARP512 (5 volumes, 12th album?)
NTS = WARP364 (36 tracks, 4 sessions?)

Thanks to insomnia, I just woke up and started Session 4 over again.

Man, I tried with Session 4 and about 30 minutes into I was feeling crazy anxious and like a headache was coming on. I've tried over and over with late Autechre, but I don't think I can do it.

Maybe I need to buy a ton of w33d to spend some time with these jamz.

I slept to v4 on a loop all night and had a full 8 hours sleep for the first time in weeks. off to he gym! lalalalala

if somebody can edit this down to the best 12 minutes i'll listen

I had to turn off Session 3 this morning and put on All End instead. That track is not necessarily indicative of the rest of the set(s), but it's what I keep coming back to. And it's an hour long, so ...

http://www.namesdir.net/s/gonk

i listened to all the NTS sets today. WOW.

'column thirteen' is just astonishing, so psychedelic and transporting, it kind of reminds me of harold budd.

there's so much great stuff here. i already like it more than elseq

maybe i need to hear these in a diff frame of mind, CDs on the stereo, proper rest, etc... Elseq seemed more engaging, interesting (sustained) beyond the initial novelty of its release.

have bought and stuck this on

so far so good

Real talk: I am unable to prevent myself from reading "shimripl" as "shrimpl". Looking in vain for companion track "wytwyyn".

so far, most of the way through Set 2, the best piece imo has been 'xflood'

xp no it is shrimpl your copy is mislabeled

shrimpimpl

i listened to all the NTS sets today. WOW.

'column thirteen' is just astonishing, so psychedelic and transporting, it kind of reminds me of harold budd.

there's so much great stuff here. i already like it more than elseq

dammit

I keep telling myself "you don't actually need this" and then my man map has to do something like this

you do need this

i think these are going to take a lot longer to sink in with me than elseq, may need some special headphone listening time carved out somehow.

yeah so far I think elseq is more relevant to my tastes but will pick up from halfway through 3 later

A rave review of NTS Sessions 1-4 is up here.

This deserves a 20/5 and everyone knows it

I'm 3/4 of the way through "all end" now and it's like a combination of some kind of pink-cloud ambient music, Aine O'Dwyer's church organ improvisations, and the beginning of Godflesh's "Love, Hate (Slugbaiting)." This whole set is amazing, but this one piece - which I'm assuming will get its own CD when the physical version arrives - is the kind of thing you want to turn up to window-rattling volume and just live in for an hour.

is there an easy way to listen to the first 3 sessions online, now? i would enjoy doing a mega-listen today but the only one streaming is the 4th.

They're all there on the bleepstore.

https://autechre.bleepstores.com/

My family keeps telling me to turn this off, which is probably for the best, because if they didn't, I would be listening to it all the time.

oh, i didn't know they were streaming there! should have been obvious, i suppose, but thanks!

I wonder if its really worth taking the 7:59:45 plunge

Could be worse, could be 8-hours long.

I bought it

'cause i depend on ae

xpost Are you a fan? I can't wait to hear your opinion. Sometimes music like this, it's easy to forget that it isn't everyone's cup of tea, even if they are already fans. Similarly, it's sometimes hard for me to tell if I like one Autechre album better than another because it actually is better or just because for whatever reason it resonates more.

all end made me want to listen to coil's time machines again

donk steady one is so good
there is a whole crew, deservedly

the interior minutes of 'eO' are so, so good

autechre: so good

sorry for those posts. here's something that rewarded a second listen: "splesh" (on NTS3) ends by splicing in "all end".

if they release the mixed live sessions as a separate release I'm tearing up my autechre fan club card

as someone who checked out around quaristice i'm totally baffled by all the praise for all this nu autechre

i tried listening to elseq last night and it just sounded like ... more confield

how much max/msp do you need in your life, really

i'll let you know

lol

just bit the bullet on the CD set

I know it's futile but I really want the vinyl box set in my life I land I'll regret it if I don't buy it. but man, £120 worth of abstruse electronic noise is a lot to pay

I feel like splitting that final track over two (three?) sides would be criminal

yeah. and even listening to this kind of music on my shitty turntable is ridiculous anyway but I did buy those first three albums when they were reissued and they sound great as LPs

Splitting 'All End' indeed seems criminal. And I'm with DL, it's a lot of money. Yet I still bit the bullet and ordered the whole damn thing, on the basis NTS4 alone, it is other wordly, even for Autechre. New dawn or final chapter, idc, it is sublime.

Whiney can quote me on this for his next daft poll.