Autechre: Elseq

more like Lolsuq

ill prob get this, like what i've heard so far

just had a microsleep to oneum and imagined watching an enormous flat starship coming in to dock

Might rustle some jimmies here - but after listening to this album probably wayyyyy too much the last week, I've resequenced it and cut it down to my tastes. Split it into three hourish long "albums" loaded with tracks I like and ordered how I would think they'd be ordered if they were their own respective releases. Honestly, I love that Ae put out this much material so that I could do this. Last day or two I've been choosing one of the three below and listening to it as if they were released as such, and frankly I'm finding elseq so much more satisfying for it. Blasphemy or no.

ALBUM1 ~60 minutes:
feed1
chimer 1-5-1
pendulu hv moda
acdwn2
13x0 step
foldfree casual

This one feels like it could be a self contained progression from Exai, slightly less experimental and more epic in scope song to song. Pendulu and Foldfree are just simply epic high points that peak and close this album perfectly for me. Really satisfying listen start to finish. Feels like the most "traditional" Autechre album of the three, whatever that means.

ALBUM2 ~74 minutes:
mesh cinereaL
eastre
elyc6 0nset

These 20+ minute epics feel like they should live together as one album. I did NOT like them sequenced separately, disrupting the flow of the 1-5 discs for me. The first time I listened to them in this context, I appreciated them that much more. Mesh is the highlight, and opens up and sustains like it should in the context of this arrangement. I really felt the outtro of elyc6 0nset deserved to close out this album, with the beautifully tonal and ambient eastre sandwiched between, a respite from the crazed experimental rush of the other tracks.

ALBUM3 ~58 minutes:
latentcall
artov chain
7th slip
spaces how V
freulaeux
oneum

Pure melodic/rhythmic Autechre ear candy. latentcall might be one of the catchiest and dance floor friendly Ae tracks I've heard in decades. A fantastic energy and flow is established with its breakbeat pace and the epic grandeur of the melodic progression that builds in the latter half is pure bliss. artov and 7th slip build up some tension that gets immediately released with the disc 5 tracks that follow. Didn't change their sequencing here; these three tracks are perfect as is. Freulaeux is a masterpiece and centerpiece of this sequence with oneum being a perfect outtro. I originally had spTh in the latter half either before or after spaces. Felt it disrupted the flow.

That's really well judged imo

The only omission ppl will really carp at is c7b2, if there's an outcry consider it for disc 1

c7b2 just doesn't grab me relative to the rest of the songs above. It's kind of borderline, like spTh. Both feel like B-sides/outtakes.

with you on that rly

The arbitrary grouping/ordering of tracks really rubs me the wrong way. I don't think they're meant to be categorized by 'tastes' or whatever. The tracks have already been sequenced in a definitive order, I wouldn't listen to an alternate sequence unless given a green light by Ae, themselves. Sorry, not seeing the logic there. Also, I find the hard limiting (what is the term for that?) on the tail end of "spaces how V" harsh/irritating, the way the sounds cut out abruptly.. otherwise it's a nicely meditative take on the themes introduced in runrepik.

i think peeps can listen how they want to but obv i trust Ae's aesthetic judgement way more than their critics'

Was just listening on headphones with a Paul McCartney interview on Radio 4 filtering through the gaps in c16 deep tread, took the track to a whole new level \m/

"pendulu casual" giving me major ASMR vibes today

This thread is really inspiring.

i got eastre stuck in my head and it was driving me crazy

Well, pitchfork have failed to recognise this as the landmark release it so obviously is.

well that's certainly taken a shine off it

What are they supposed to do? It isn't some form of indie Americana type shit for starters.

nah pfork's all about the pop narrative

in a really boring way

and that's enough mention of that weak irrelevant shite on this thread

c7b2 is a schaffel tune! The evolving granularity of the downbeat is endlessly enjoyable - the way it scratches and bubbles and scrapes.

and that's enough mention of that weak irrelevant shite on this thread

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, May 29, 2016 12:24 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously, let's focus on what's important here. How's it doing on RYM?

hey at least with RYM you can Have Your Say

anyway yeah

wonder if any consensus trax will emerge from this album

look here I don't want to hear the words "eoy" out of you

surprisingly autechre haven't called a track "eoy" yet

I liked octobeard's post, and agree it's a well argued, err, culling. I may stop short of actually condensing / sequencing the 5 discs this way, but I am very intrigued by his disc 2, which I think, in theory, works especially well

13x0 step/pendulu hv moda/curvcaten is a sweet little run, best autechre since AE_LIVE in Dublin/Utrecht/Denver.. haven't listened through enough yet to determine if the sequence needs a fix, but whatever floats the boat. for comparison, i think the sequence of Drukqs works fine, never thought it problematic and thought it silly to scramble the order. this is an entirely different beast, tho, prob not the best comparison. it's nice everything fits (mp3) on one disc, so i'll just let it run and tune in and out for diff parts. still kinda can't stand that irregular tremolo or whatever it is that causes the sounds to 'short out'/flicker/drop out etc.. same issue with the live material.

I think I'm falling in love.

there's definite harshness/tinniness to mesh cinereaL that makes it a tough listen, though its beautiful in its churning form.. like it's perpetually shedding or mutating. bit harsh, though, yeah

still kinda can't stand that irregular tremolo or whatever it is that causes the sounds to 'short out'/flicker/drop out etc.. same issue with the live material.

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, May 29, 2016 4:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can you give an example of what you mean? I assume you mean the "sampler with the wrong voltage adaptor" type sound all over, for example, "pendulu casual?" If this is what you're referring to, I love how this sounds on headphones but I will concede that on speakers it always sounds like something is shorting out. But maybe that's part of the fun!

Count me among those who finds "Eastre" sorta boring (and I hate using that word as much as you hate reading it). It's not the stasis I mind (it's actually not really static at all), it's the fact that the sounds / textures are just completely uninteresting.

Well I find pendulu casual a bit boring (for now). Consider us enemies (for now).

I don't think there's a single track on this that I find boring (admittedly after only 1.5 listens so far), which is I think the first time I can say this about an autechre album since Confield.

As much as I like autechre, I would never have expected this from a 4 hour album. I am very impressed.

I still need to spend more time with 1 and 2 but I'm moving in that direction myself. 4 just blew me away the other night. I get a very Confield-esque feeling from a lot of these, in that they seem less like pieces of music made by humans and more like elemental forces in action - but then there are the superb beats in latentcall and the teasing way they disappear for a good long portion before slamming back, very human and very appealing.

I'm on a coach ride from London to Bristol. Gonna listen to as much of this as I can and document here.

feed didn't move me too much but I was eating my sandwiches. however I'm getting some seriously chilling 'Kill List' vibes off of those high-pitched tinnitus screeches on c16 deep tread. love how these get offset by the deeper resonances of the tuned drums.

13x0 step is giving me some serious c2009 popstep vibes. I almost expect LaRoux to start singing. Luckily she doesn't. Love how the track nearly overloads itself at the start and keeps sounding like the speakers are going to conk out.

pendulu hv mova - the beginning makes me think of trying to discern a distant danchall tune while desperately trying to cling to flotsam after a shipwreck. there's that feeling of being tugged under and then coming up briefly for air, and that constant 'thunk' all the way through like a lifeboat banging up against the ship's hull. see nice intercommy sounds, like a distorted emergency radio transmission coming through nearer the end.

not really feeling anything special about curvcaten right now.

elyc6 0nset - okay I'm going in again on this one. last time I heard it I was walking around a busy shopping centre in the sunshine and ended up feeling really rather peculiar. The beginning is quite Confieldy but IIRC it switches mode at some point into something really rather different

kind of drifted off a bit for a few tracks. Eastre is okay in its droney, Bachian way but doesn't do anything close to enough to justify the length.
mesh cinereaL just came on though and it's picking up the slack again.

in bed.

I think that elyc6 0nset would be a fine choice for the last thing a human being could hear

lol now you're doing this on purpose

those digital death-squeals, petering out into an infinity of silent bliss...

hahahahaha

so far I think c16 deep tread is my favourite but we got where we were going by the end of elseq 3

shame... esleq 4 is my favorite of the bunch. you're in for a treat with what's left.

lol Whiney at it again: post in 'elseq' thread most like something a serial killer would type

mods really on their game today

one of my favourite things to do is to paste rap and funk tracks over autechre jams. witness 'no type' over 'nodezsh'.

right now I'm thinking missy's 'work it' would sound pretty sweet over c16 deep tread