in all, I think Confield is the last album they did where it can tell you or recall what each individual track sounds like. after that, I'm a bit lost despite having listened to all the albums a lot of times.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Monday, 20 June 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
I dunno, the tracks on Quaristice and Oversteps are pretty distinct to me
― frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
yeah that is a big speak for yourself moment, dl
― imago, Monday, 20 June 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
wolf greek
― nakhchivan, Monday, 20 June 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
sure there are tracks like d sho qub and simmm and irlite get (0) off the later albums which I particularly enjoy, but I couldn't tell you what each track sounds like- especially if you factor in the accompanying EPs which act a bit like expansion sets. Like, I can describe pretty much any track from Confield and before, but after that it gets a but murky. Especially since I found Draft and Untilted very challenging when they first came out.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Monday, 20 June 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
suddenly archcarrier starts and here was this very accessible track that somehow sounded unlike anything I'd ever heard before. It felt like pop music from some alien civilization.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 20 June 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
you know what's a really great release, Move of Ten.
― frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
pce freeze 2.8i will sometimes just randomly pop up in my head. One of very few latter era autechre tracks catchy enough for this to happen.
― silverfish, Monday, 20 June 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
It's one of the few Ae releases that doesn't wear me out by the end. I always want to play it twice. M62 is such a corker.
― frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
like, it could easily have been one of the better tracks on Analord
― frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
Etchogon-S is a dope little track.. took a minute to adjust to its 'attitude', thought it was kind of shit at first. freuleax, though. it's like m62's older cousin, smoldering, broke down on an F-Zero motorway.. bass line sounds like a petrified esophagus
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
ely6 0nset 'clicking' lately... not sure if that's a good thing or what
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 7 August 2016 06:14 (seven years ago) link
came up with my scores on the doors a while ago and they haven't really shifted since - not listening a tenth as obsessively as i was though:
feed1 3c16 deep tread 413xo step 3pendulu hv moda 5curvcaten 4
ely6 0nset 5chimer 1-5-1 3c7b2 3
eastre 4tbm2 3mesh cinereal 5
acdwn2 3foldfree casual 4latentcall 11artov chain 47th slip 3
pendulu casual 3spth 3.5spaces how v 3freulaeux 4oneum 4
― chad valley of the shadow of death (ledge), Monday, 8 August 2016 08:26 (seven years ago) link
lol
― imago, Monday, 8 August 2016 08:35 (seven years ago) link
ikr
― chad valley of the shadow of death (ledge), Monday, 8 August 2016 09:24 (seven years ago) link
latentcall is properly amazing true
― imago, Monday, 8 August 2016 10:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah ely6 0nset was really peeling back the old cerebral membrane for me the other day, top track
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 8 August 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
i'm not sure i like what it turns into, too quiet for one!, but those first ten minutes my god.
yeah i'm finally digging into this. it's pretty fucking wild. mesh cinereaL is one of the best things they've ever done.
― bagging area (map), Friday, 12 August 2016 01:26 (seven years ago) link
Mesh cinereaL sounds better every time - when it comes crashing back after the fakeout ending is a lol for sure.
autechre is kind of still dance music and this is a breakdown imo
― bagging area (map), Friday, 12 August 2016 01:38 (seven years ago) link
or what matt in dc said
Mesh Cinereal is amazing and that bit 15mins in is about as close to a hands in the air moment as I expected from this record.
― bagging area (map), Friday, 12 August 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
i think they've really made like an encyclopedia of digital music generation with this. there are big final frontiers, like ely6 0nset, which superficially reminds me of a perverted xenakis, and then these moments of repose / calling back. i like how minimal and low-key tbm2 and pendulu casual are. they just float along like good-natured dub. freulaeux has a chiastic slide feel to it but with all the digital spatial stuff they've gotten so good at lately included.
the thing that gets me about mesh cinereal is how the harmonics evolve out of feedback in this gnarled and endless progression that never really resolves, just keeps suggesting and dodging. it's really emotional to me in the same way that garbagemx is. the baroque never-ending question.
― bagging area (map), Friday, 12 August 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
feed1 is still one of my favorites too. it's so thick and black and totally blunted.
― bagging area (map), Friday, 12 August 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
I find I like this album more on headphones than on speakers. Not unusual for an Autechre album, at least not for me, but this one even more so
I still need to make a whittled-down version
― Wimmels, Friday, 12 August 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
elyc6 & mesh would make a good tape / LP.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 12 August 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link
eastre, latentcall and idk something off elseq 5 as the other LP
― imago, Friday, 12 August 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
I still don't quite "get" "Eastre" and I wish I did
― Wimmels, Friday, 12 August 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
there's something very 'fizzy' about this album. reminds me of getting my ears washed out at the doctors.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 12 August 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I'm not sure about Eastre. Oneum is the ambient track of choice on this album.
Still very much scratching the surface of this album, although I listen to it at least twice a week. Think C16 Deep Tread needs another mention - those gliding, whinnying high frequencies are really eerie.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 12 August 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
The intro to 13x0 Step is pure apocalyptic '92 raveaggedon
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 12 August 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
Think the most perplexing ones are Curvcaten, Eastre and TBM2 - just not sure what I'm supposed to be getting from these.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 12 August 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Shame it really falters after this.
Curvcaten starts off all kids birthday party at laser quest, then (after a bit of meandering) actual terminators with phased plasma rifles in the 40 megawatt range show up.
― chad valley of the shadow of death (ledge), Friday, 12 August 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
Wonder if they got this mastered. Do they normally?
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 12 August 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
7th slip is a motherfucker, it took a minute to realize that.. dig the kinda dub groove that it settles into. Pendulu casual is a nice relief, played in succession. Eastre is good for meditation/shutting your brain down for a half hour
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 13 August 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
good DESTROY ALL HUMANS vibe from this tonite
― j., Wednesday, 17 August 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Yes, and they've mentioned it in past as in this interview: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/autechre
I am curious about this too. elseq IS quite loud, and it does seem to have been EQ'd and limited, but maybe Ae took care of that this time in order to get it out sooner? This release sounds a bit rougher than their last few in terms of the mastering. Bass is a bit muddier and the mids/highs feel flatter, more digital. Compare this one to Oversteps (my favorite recent album of theirs in terms of mastering) and you'll see what I mean. It sounds like that record was at least fed through some analog processing. I'm no audio engineer professional though
― octobeard, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
Oversteps has a real balmy, soft-edged quality (imo, thru headphones) - slight, enveloping reverb (humidity) to tracks like "r ess", "pt2ph8", the background pads (or tonal ambience) of "qplay", "os veix3", and a couple others. especially compared to Exai, which generally feels harder, more brittle.
I'm curious what people think of the AE_LIVE material (mastering/sound quality), as it's really easy on my ears, definitely less fatiguing than Exai. I've read some remarks on WATMM saying that it's heavily compressed, but I guess I don't understand compression all that much because it sounds great (at loud volume) on the stereo setup. maybe it's not so dynamic, as the 'smaller', more wispy sounds have a comparable weight to the larger/heavier sounds.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
The track to listen to on Oversteps for mastering is d-sho qub, I think. It's as percussively engaging as much of their recent stuff, contains interesting dynamics, and has deep bass extension to go along with a wide variety of timbers.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 08:16 (seven years ago) link
I just think there's this really nice warm sheen to Oversteps, a gooey analog texture to the record I don't get with elseq at all.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 08:20 (seven years ago) link
Need to revisit the live stuff, there's so much good stuff to listen to by these guys right now wtf
― octobeard, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 08:22 (seven years ago) link
My impression is that what comes out of their system is quite unruly in terms of mix and dynamics, so it's probably reined in with fairly heavy compression & limiting as a matter of course. A trade-off perhaps that allows for more spontaneity. With Elseq this arguably becomes part of the aesthetic, although it is kind of harsh at times. The tendency to expect certain production values likely applies more to the tracks that bear more formal relationship to techno or hip hop.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 08:48 (seven years ago) link
Acdwn2 is one of my favourites at the moment. A bit of a sleeper? c7b2 as well. Both nice workouts with particularly unmemorable titles. And largely free of that tedious 'melody' stuff.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 08:53 (seven years ago) link
Acdwn2 has become a late favorite, where it feels overly rigid/stringent at first, i like how it starts coming apart in the latter third (after the 2nd part/bridge).. I had to check my speakers cuz there's a short in my receiver and one of the channels usually cuts out, though it was the track that seemed to be breaking apart/diffusing -- a welcome progression from the exacting first part.
re: octobeard/Oversteps - d-sho qub is a definite highlight.. i'll have to listen again for the bass, don't always detect subtler lower freq's right away
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
chenc9 (Quaristice) and Acdwn2 share a similar, sort of flush/tight melodic vibe.. not entirely devoid of tonality, it's just sort of built into the dry/percussive body of the track.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
i've got a nice little hour-long condensed playlist of these for runs and such that i'm really attached to:
chimer 1-5-1pendulu hv modalatentcallfreulaeuxmesh cinereaL
― map, Monday, 29 August 2016 01:48 (seven years ago) link
d sho qub is indeed one of their very finest tracks.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Monday, 29 August 2016 08:54 (seven years ago) link
just noticed that elseq 1 is on spotify now
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 25 September 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
https://archive.org/details/AutechreOneSixTour-BudapestHU-07-11-16
"All new 2016 Autechre live set debuted at their "OneSix" European tour -- Oct/Nov 2016. The live set was performed in complete darkness, on 7th of November, inside the amazingly resonant venue of the Akvarium Klub. Budapest was the 10th out of 28 cities in total for the entire OneSix tour. The event was hosted by Selected Sounds, HU."
shit is sounding fairly crisp. these guys
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 05:03 (seven years ago) link
No spoilers! Seeing them on Fri, can't wait.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 08:27 (seven years ago) link
Maybe I should listen to it, after all you normally know in advance what a band is going to play, and their stuff always takes time to sink in.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 09:03 (seven years ago) link
The venue will be low lit for the support acts. Once Autechre go on stage, the auditorium will be in complete darkness. Hosts with night vision goggles will be on hand to help anyone who may need to leave. You can identify yourself to one of our hosts by holding your ticket in the air. Pieces of white paper will be handed to those with print at home tickets.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 09:06 (seven years ago) link