Most ridiculous post about 'NTS Sessions 1-4' album on the Autechre thread

you're welcome

dare I say it's because they've unloaded one of the most jaw dropping artistic achievements of the decade, just now?

You’re supposed to say something like, “Another thread starts in 144,632 seconds!”

Dunno autechre are about as esoteric as it gets, there’s plenty to get we’ve just drank the kool aid. I know people who despise their music

Yeah but it's not like people who dislike it, have failed to put in the work to "get" it. First track of theirs I heard, I thought oh boy I like that, and it's been that way for 20-odd years since. Some of their stuff I don't like - e.g. a lot of Oversteps, Tri Repetae - but I don't expect to do more study to get what I was missing.

Fair

I love Oversteps, Tri Repetae++!! Those are really two of the highlights of their entire catalog for me

^ same

Well the "++" aspect (i.e. the Garbage and Anvil Vapre EPs) I totally love too, but TR itself feels like single sounds / patterns dragged out for long tracks without a lot of interest for me. Maybe too "industrial" since I love Amber and that has many of the same qualities. Oversteps I like individual bits of (krYlon comes to mind) but I found it a bit underwhelming on release and never warmed to it.

My highlight picks are Amber, Chiastic, EP7, Confield, Draft, Untilted, Exai, NTS. I know everyone hates Untilted but it really works for me.

Highlights for me are cichlisuite, Untilted, quaristice, garbage, draft, LP5, oversteps

omg how did I forget cichlisuite and garbage. LP5 is all-time too.

>I dunno, "6IE.CR" that I get from "I Know You Got Soul". No abstract thought required. And I am 99.999% sure that they are motivated the same way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa5VOj6nZiY

ive never listened to this band before

Yeah I love that Microphone Fiend thing - it's an excerpt from their Coachella 1999 set (which is all great).

ugh I hate the idea that there is anything to "get" with Autechre. It's just incredibly great sounding music / sound.

Well, for me there was. a while ago I got the first 3 albums and enjoyed them somewhat but never really understood the fuss about it. like...Aphex, Squarepusher, u-ziq...all this stuff felt so much more lively to me, while Ae just came off like a technical exercise. gave it one last shot with Amber and I noticed on the track "Foil" that the volume of the bass was constantly fluctuating. and suddenly it just all clicked for me. I really don't know why such a minor and somewhat gimmicky thing made me an Autechre fan for life but it did. The rest of Amber sounded amazing. Then I went back to the other two and they were great as well. That's why I wrote the "magic eye" bit, it really was like that for me.

LP5, is that the one that starts with what sounds like spilling ball bearings? The first time I heard that I thought it was so weird and cool that they essentially programmed something so apparently chaotic and random.

frogbs' experience seems incredibly otm to me. i tried to get into autechre in college and i don't think... i had listened to enough music? i was a huge fan of adjacent idm but let's be real in hindsight autechre was doing something v different from adjacent idm. but when i finally understood it (approximately... a week ago, lol) it was bc some detail had gradually worked itself out of the background and become visible and crucial to me. (this is how melody works in their songs imo, it's never a foreground detail but something working in and out of focus.) it's v painterly, their effect, and a painting, though reassembling itself in the exact same way every time you see it, can mean wildly different things to you depending on the context through which you're perceiving it. ten years later you're like "oh i never noticed the way the light works on the water there"

^^^ this is my submission for whiney's next poll

Probably the thread to admit I've only ever heard one Autechre album. Fairly pleasant.

LP5, is that the one that starts with what sounds like spilling ball bearings? The first time I heard that I thought it was so weird and cool that they essentially programmed something so apparently chaotic and random.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9:25 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Are you sure you aren't referring to the first track on Confield, "VI Scose Poise?"

also, sorta wish we could move all this talk to the general Autechre thread

Ha, yeah, it's totally Confield!

Even as they were released I sort of lopped their albums into eras. There were the first few, up to and including Tri Repatae, which were sort of more familiar EDM/industrial/whatever. Then things started to get crazy and abstract with LP5 and Confield, then things turned more accessible ("accessible") with "Oversteps" and (iirc) "Exai" before going into its current epic post-CD phase with Live. At least that's how my brain divides them up. Been a while since I listened to the whole discography, which may have become impossible, given that 8 hour albums alone require a bit of effort to listen to and digest.

I'm going to crosspost this to the Autechre thread in the name of consolidation!

xp i would agree w/ you josh except to me incunabula and amber fit in the first phase and everything post-flutter up to LP5 is second phase

i love watching the progression of the cover art through the early work

not surprisingly i guess i checked out when the art got bad

Really something that this thread has now basically turned into "What was Autechre's New Jersey"

designers republic 4eva

eh not that surprising if you think about it

Really something that this thread has now basically turned into "What was Autechre's New Jersey"

lmao what

Maybe there should be a word for the point in a musical artist's career when a majority of fans give up on them, but a vocal minority of fans insist that all of the artist's best material comes after this point. A Confield? A Tilt?

Confield and everything after >>> everything up to Confield

confield and everything else IS better ... for me to poop on!

it's all good. yay i'm the best fan!

a majority of fans give up on them

objection, speculation! even chiastic was some difficult shit at the time, i wouldn't be surprised if most people who made it that far are still true believers.

Totally depends which Autechre record you hear first. If I was played confield as my first I would have never bothered exploring further. Whereas hearing Tri Repetae-garbage EP was far more accessible as a sixteen year old into beck and tori Amos

Interestingly enough, I got much more into their Confield and later material around the time I started really getting into Abstract Expressionism and other forms of detailed abstraction in the visual arts. I find how my brain processes and appreciates them is similar respectively.

between this and your post about "certain types of jazz" i can only assume you're trolling, octobeard

never been able to get into anything before EP7

http://i.imgur.com/eoMJuTQ.gif

most jazz is only perceived as intellectual because people don't understand what's going on

it's ok to just find things cool and trippy, theres no need to intellectualize weird splats and pings

this is how poptimism dies, not with bang but buried under autechre threads

i'm ok w/ killing poptism btw

if you want a really kooky confession, I don't think NTS' highs are as high as elseq's, based on my first listen

Hmmmm...intrigued. Please explain!

(I've been immersed in NTS for most of the past 48 hours or so, and yes I do believe I am slowly going mad)

every time someone makes a grand proclamation about which half or third of autechre’s discography is superior i scoff

never been able to get into anything before EP7

― imago, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 12:37 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post

wait sometimes i scoff and then realize how in character the post is

I don't know what that means but I agree with imago fwiw, though it isn't so much that I can't get into anything before EP7 as when I listen back now to those older albums they don't reset my brain chemistry like latter day AE (though some of those earlier albums did at one time). The career demarcations may not be clear cut (see above), but there's clearly a narrative / progression at work over the course of the discography and I feel like they're peaking right now

btw not to go all Central Casting Autechre Fan but the concurrent Autechre threads are wreaking havoc on my OCD right about now