Autechre: Elseq

Where can I hear whole versions of these tracks? They're cutting off at the 1 minute mark.

Generally involves purchase.

I remember when Exai came out I complained that this was too much autechre to take in at once.

If this trend continues, their next album is going to be 8 hours long

I should point out though, that 3 tracks in, I'm enjoying this very much

mesh cinereaL is primo stuff. have only heard parts of 4 and 5, but it sounded good on the surface.. some of the sounds recalling their late 90s ep7/lp5 tones and textures, and some weird, minimal dub-ish shit. lot of shuddering reverb/decay

End of c16 deep tread is straight outta the live sets.

nobody can shudder a reverb like sean and rob

you know, like the outro of bladelores. and that of nodezsh

Well, just getting around to listening to this... probably heard about ~60% now. Lots of tracks feel like they're missing something. Some are mind blowing and classic. Feels like the Quadrange EP in relation to Quaristice. Or like they decided to release the entire batch of tracks they were considering for an album in anticipation of said album.

While I really love a good chunk of what I've heard so far, my first instinct right now is editing this down to a 70-90 min version of epicness, because it's there.

Some track thoughts:
spaces how V - feels like a remix of an old Oversteps track. doesn't fit the aesthetic, but I do enjoy the overdriven reverb moments
(any of the songs >20 mins) - noodly, too long, and unnecessary
pendulu casual, TBM2 - fantastic ideas and soundscapes that work for 2 minutes or as a starting point, but just don't really go anywhere, alas
pendulu hv moda, foldfree casual - holy crap this is amazing. like career highlight amazing.
disc 4 is my favorite so far

is no one else just a little bit pissed off with this kind of bullshit?

Eh not really, I don't know. I'm happy they're releasing new tunes and I'm happy supporting them in their endeavors. If you assumed a five disc release wasn't going to contain huge swaths of filter, don't know what to tell you. My Autechre friend who I geek out with this is holding off until the physical release and I don't blame him.

Filler not filter. Plenty of filters in this release too though

xpost - according to warp there will be no physical edition

Xxxp - what bullshit? Are you just pissed off you can't stream them?

Yeah I know I've drunk the ae kool-aid but I'm not pissed off that my favourite band have released more material. Did people get pissed off by aphex's soundcloud dump? Ok that was free. Or the Beatles' 12 albums in 8 years?

Anyway, a previously unplanned solo 5 hour drive on tuesday will give me a chance to play the whole thing at decent volume, a rare chance with a baby in the house (10 weeks a bit young to start ae indoctrination).

:)

they're digital champions

haha i'd had a few beers and i was being facetious upthread. Just y'know, it takes time to digest an Autechre release. 5 Of them in one go is like trying to eat a whole pack of crackers in one sitting with no water.

more isn't always more.

and yeah that soundcloud dump was a bit ridiculous too. most of it was rubbish and i didn't have the patience to filter through all 130 tracks or whatever they were in the hope of recapturing what, the old Aphex magic? I dunno, at least with Syro he had the decency to whittle things down to a single album.

it's ok to get one of these at a time if you want

they should probably release another ep so dog latin can liken it to eating approximately one twelfth of a packet of crackers in one sitting

i.e. one cracker. unless it's one of those 'EPs' that's as long as an album plus a 40 minute ambient track tacked on the end.

my point is, is it all quality stuff? really? if so then go ahead and release 10 albums, I don't care, but I find it hard to believe there's a reason for doing this beyond having no filter.

your analogy is weakened because nobody yet knows how much you like crackers

in this case i like crackers a whole lot. especially if they're quality crackers. they can be quite dry though and i wouldn't want to eat a whole lot of them in one go, especially if they're not guaranteed to be great crackers.

i've eaten a whole packet of carr's water biscuits in a single sitting on a few occasions

just on their own like

Surely part of the reason is "why not", right? From a couple hours' listening it's not a random selection of files, this stuff feels of a piece. So why not try banging out four hours of stuff and giving it a go? Maybe going OCD on seventy-two minutes of music every few years isn't the best way to release quality shit.

though not since the factory that made them flooded, an experience likened by one traumatised carlisle councillor to the confiscation of a third of the autechre back catalogue

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/01/carrs-water-biscuits-carlisle-factory-flooding-united-biscuits

feel like the extreme length is part of the aesthetic project

re: Elseq, it's all interesting, at least. i wasn't really into the extended Quadrange stuff (Quaristice is the best of it, imo), but everything here is at least (sonically) marvelous in some way. some tracks sound perfect/fleshed out, while other tracks could be likened to waves crashing/lapping up against land... maintaining the same, repetitive structure, with small variations in color, timbre etc. i'm glad it's not a complete retread of the AE_LIVE material

dl you should read the milton parker post from two days ago where he suggests what they might be trying to do with this
a good post

feel like the extreme length is part of the aesthetic project

― Mordy, Saturday, 21 May 2016 17:02 (1 minute ago)

also with pan sonic / kesto (translates as both 'force' and 'duration' iirc)

THAT'S why I've not been able to find Carr's Table Water in months ffs

matzos are probably the next best thing though they are slightly drier

i'd've liked them to spread it out a bit more purely because £25 in one chunk is a bunch of money (especially for digital files, especially this far from payday, especially in the same month the last DSotMoog box is released). yes, i can buy them individually but it costs a tenner more that way (£7 each vs £25 for all).

(unless the website applies the saving for subsequent purchases like it did with the live stuff. anybody know?)

that too. but alright alright I shouldn't dismiss it before I've heard it and if the idea is that it's an epic as opposed to 'let's just jam around for hours and release it all regardless of quality control' the it probably I'd justified.

i would totally buy something like Kesto for 20 bucks.

the afx soundcloud wasn't "mostly rubbish"... it's not hard to find the good stuff

> i would totally buy something like Kesto for 20 bucks.

was £10 for the mp3s last time i looked. yep - https://boomkat.com/products/kesto-234-48-4

actually, £8 on google play music - https://play.google.com/music/preview/B6ngrii4nbthqvgp3ppsg2gl3be

no i mean i would buy a new autechre set of 3 or 4 CDs. i would never buy a download. but that's just me.

i still have my kesto cd box.

i guess i should say: maybe most of the AFX soundcloud dump IS rubbish.. but there are at least 20 songs of prime AFX magic and that's more than enough for me. it helps if you sort the tracks by "date uploaded"

ty for the matzos heads-up

wait i already knew about matzos

teaching at my jewish regulars' house on pesach got me a free matzo on leaving. i nibbled on it pensively as i walked to the tube. good snack

'such good music...and such large portions'

great. now when I listen to half the songs on this, I'm going to hear distorted, cut-up sounds of crackers breaking apart

that's not a bad thing. i like the theory that this is the excess that didn't make the cut for an upcoming, single-disc album (42 minutes, or 74 min) of ultra psychedelic, super concise tracks that completely fuck with the air/stereo field/whatever. they've been playing with these synesthetic, Klangfarbenmelodic (2/2) sound phenomena for a while now.. the opening part of their Denver set was unspeakably awesome. i hope they documented it somehow

home and finally downloading, nobody making music in 2016 deserves my attention and money more than Autechre tbh

'c16 deep tread' has always been a highlight for me on Elseq. Those high, shrieking, wailing sounds towards the end are so spooky.
Might have already said this, but it reminds me of that penultimate scene in Ben Wheatley's 'Kill List' wehre they get chased through those tunnels by the demonic sect members.

I think "foldfree casual" is their single most beautiful track. Soul-piercing synths