Fellows and fellas! Quar is a Welsh town! And you can see the 9 in this aerial photograph!
[img src=http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/Images3_I-P/MerthyrTydfil_TheQuar_AerialView_1945_small.JPG]
Also, a sw#st#k#.
― Leee, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
what does a squarstica have to do with a quaristic?
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Leee, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 09:37 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
I can't see either, wtf.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
MORE LIKE QURAP AM I RIGHT
― am0n, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
OK maybe someone was pulling my leg about the nine thing :(
― Trayce, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/03/08/kompakt460.jpg
― Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
haha sorry wrong thread!
― Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Trayce, did your bf pull the trick yet? Im listening to the first track supposedly - Anterior - it's 11:25. It might be real I dunno. I don't have time to listen atm, I gotta study for finals.
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 14 December 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
but it does sound like they are going back to their roots a bit.
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 14 December 2007 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't have time to listen atm, I gotta study for finals.
Next time someone asks me to define Autechre I will say this.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 14 December 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Anterior - I hope this isn't real. That is the chintziest melody EVER. I guess it improves at around 6:33 w/the more detailed interplay of pulses, but I dunno. I hope this is fake
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Friday, 14 December 2007 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Well the tracklist put forth on this site doesn't mention any "Anterior." Note the number of 9s that appear in the song names.
― Leee, Friday, 14 December 2007 06:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm afraid its nowt to do with me! Unless R's been up to shit I dont know about.
― Trayce, Friday, 14 December 2007 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link
This Anterior track (which is quite long, and I wouldnt ezpect it to be so long with the amount of tracks supposed to be on the album) seems "chinzy" in the sense that it is lacking all the modulation expected from the sounds I'm hearing. But compared to Vi Scose Poise of confield, maybe it isn't lacking as much as I think. Overall, it sounds like IDM my friend makes so I don't think it's real. And it doesn't have any epic quality to it.
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 14 December 2007 08:33 (sixteen years ago) link
The first half of "quaristice" sounds related to either "square" or "four", and 9 is a square number. Or, it's a double album, 9 is twice 4.5, and 4.5 is (the midpoint of) the interstice between four (and five). Or or, I'm making complete rubbish up. Yeah, that last one.
(Why have none of my IDM nerd internet pals who've been so excited about the last few while I've been going "eh" said anything about this? Are ae finally over even among the DSP-spotting community?)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 14 December 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
touch more news via warp mailing list: http://www.warprecords.com/?news=1372
includes artwork and tracklisting (which matches the one from autechre.info leee posed above)
Quaristice Tracklisting released 3rd March
1. Altibzz 2. The Plc 3. IO 4. Plyphon 5. Perlence 6. SonDEremawe 7. Simmm 8. Paralel Suns 9. Steels 10. Tankakern 11. Rale 12. Fol3 13. fwzE 14. 90101-51-1 15. bnc Castl 16. Theswere 17. WNSN 18. chenc9 19. Notwo 20. Outh9X
― koogs, Friday, 21 December 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice cover:
http://www.warprecords.com/media/img/WARPCD333_Packshot_350web.jpg
― Telephone thing, Friday, 21 December 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
DR?
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 22 December 2007 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link
tourdates: http://warprecords.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=1369
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
plz leak soon
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/ (about 50 minutes in)
Autechre – 'Simmm' (Warp) Autechre – 'Paralel Suns' (Warp)
(simmm seemed to be two tracks in one, clanking at first then more melodic. paralel suns could be from SAW2)
― koogs, Thursday, 24 January 2008 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
oooooooh to listen or not to listen
― ledge, Thursday, 24 January 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Not. Her orgasmic presenting style is way too annoying.
― StanM, Thursday, 24 January 2008 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Remember that show from The Wire in which three tracks were played?
It's gone now but the internets don't forget.
The promo copies are watermarked hence traceable to the source, so i wouldn't expect leaks anytime soon.
― Brakhage, Sunday, 27 January 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
^ Thanks for the link.
I'm a little disappointed, though, at least upon first listen. Only the final track really grabbed me. All three seemed drenched in reverb, which normally I don't mind, and certainly isn't foreign to Autechre's music, but seemed out of place here. I guess those who were put off by their algorithm-centric compositions from the past decade or so might like this, as it's more stripped down and less wacked out. The problem is that they didn't really replace that space with anything compelling.
― Z S, Sunday, 27 January 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
slightly off topic, but does anyone have that internet dj mix autechre did a few years ago? heard a bit of it at the time and remember it being incredible.
― Crackle Box, Monday, 28 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm, google reveals they did lots of mixes a couple of years ago, the one i heard had miuzi weighs a ton on it.
google gave me this tracklist of some more of their mixes... want!
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/4/848681/aemarathon20061228.txt
― Crackle Box, Monday, 28 January 2008 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that the 7.5 hour thing? I've got it. Could ysi(although not right now) - if any of those sites allow >300meg files. Maybe someone else has a link.
Hmm I'm sure I remember writing a post just like this a year or so ago.
xpost - mines dated 2005-04-10.
― ledge, Monday, 28 January 2008 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
and apparently it has the PE track - http://xltronic.com/mb/92626/autechrews-transmission-1011-4-2005-tracklist
― ledge, Monday, 28 January 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
megaupload goes up to 500meg, i'm sure i'll find it if i keep looking, slsk and google not being very helpful. would be very much appreciated if you get the chance to upload it though!
― Crackle Box, Monday, 28 January 2008 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Only the final track really grabbed me. All three seemed drenched in reverb, which normally I don't mind, and certainly isn't foreign to Autechre's music, but seemed out of place here. I guess those who were put off by their algorithm-centric compositions from the past decade or so might like this, as it's more stripped down and less wacked out. The problem is that they didn't really replace that space with anything compelling.
That was my first reaction as well … though to give them a break, I usually have to hear what they do with a very high bitrate to really get all the sonic details, and it also takes me a year to 'get' what they're doing – I didn't appreciate Untilted until recently.
This kind of judgment on first listening to lowbitrate samples is what the group itself is anxious to avoid I'd imagine.
― Brakhage, Monday, 28 January 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/myslb
― am0n, Monday, 28 January 2008 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I stand corrected
― Brakhage, Monday, 28 January 2008 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
True. When I was listening to it I kept daydreaming about the DJ saying "Whoops, somehow I was sitting on the reverb button! This is what the songs really sound like, sorry!", and then playing them again. I'll still give it a fair shot when it comes out. I probably need to revisit Untilted. I only gave it about a month before I gave up.
― Z S, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Download is available now @ bleep, double CD edition preorder & more:
http://www.autechre.ws/quaristice/mail/
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
That's limited edition double CD edition, by the way. 1000 ex.
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm really liking those tracks in the Wire stream, the reverb stuff sounds great on them, kind of dubby. the stream made me more excited about the album.
― Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Limited edition double CD eh? Sold! (For £30! And to think I laughed at those Radiohead fans shelling out £40 for the box set.)
― ledge, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, me too. and the download. (and that radiohead disc box) *sigh*
:-)
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought about paying for the download - I want to hear it before the tour - but I don't feel like paying twice! Daresay it'll find its way onto the net somewhere.
― ledge, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
... but the mp3 version contains track-by-track artwork by the Designers Republic!
er, like this one for track 10. Use your imagination for the other 19 tracks: vary the size and location of the small square and the colors (blue, white or black).
http://i26.tinypic.com/24v8kky.jpg
yay
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
(that's a white square with a black one inside - damn white background, forgot this would happen)
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
judging from bleep samples, "perlence" is their response to dubstep
― jermainetwo, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
and "chenc9" could be the tuss.
― jermainetwo, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
It's weird - it's like they're taking a step back (reintroduction of apparent simplicity and melody) and one forward (order in the chaos they'd built up until now) at the same time - if that makes any sense. Think I'm going to like this, but then I like pretty much everything they've done.
― StanM, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Here I was ready to write them off. Based on the Beeb and Wire exclusives, I'm excited that they've finally ditched the super-compressed Draft sound.
― Leee, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I dont have £30 just now :(
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Good news for you, it's only £24.99.
― Leee, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
US tour dates too.
― Leee, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
... and in Canada.
― Leee, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, one thing to remember P&J is a collection of top 10s. I can see how none of these 500 people thought it was one of the 10 best albums of the year, even those who liked it.
― Mark, Saturday, 24 January 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened to a few tracks off it tonight on iTunes, still sounds just fine...?
― ilxor, Saturday, 24 January 2009 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
but doesn't Pazz&Jop and other "best of year X" lists for that matter tend to favor albums that come out closer to the end of the year?
personally, I have listened to this album (and for that matter the new Squarepusher album) a lot this year (Itunes sez 11 times for Quaristice), and dug both records. But a certain number of folks that would have had more loyalty/interest say 5 years ago are just not noticing how truly strong these albums are.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Saturday, 24 January 2009 07:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened to this album more times than it deserved. 901010 |-| etc. is a worthwhile track. and the opening wafts. otherwise it's garbage.
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Saturday, 24 January 2009 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I gave the album a good few listens and it didn't blow me away (tho' I certainly wouldn't say it's 'garbage') but then I basically overwhelmed myself by getting the album and the bonus disc and all the digital EPs and the Japanese bonus track - 45 tracks in total. Too much to take in. 'Altichyre' off the bonus disc is boooooootiful though.
― ledge, Saturday, 24 January 2009 09:32 (fifteen years ago) link
this comes around every once in a while and it's like o hey what's goin on here
― j., Wednesday, 10 April 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link