Autechre: Elseq

Oversteps spin-offs?

'move of ten'

(oh, the webcast. that's hardly canon though, is it? (or is it?))

No I meant Move of Ten really. I love Autechre's album/EP strategy but by the late 00s they were releasing so much material it was hard to keep up; especially since the music was getting ever-more complex. I like Elseq because, even though it's extremely long, the individual tracks seem easier to digest in their extended format. Exai is great but it's a lot of Autechre to take in in one go.

I think you can point directly to one specific release, the 2 1/2 hour Quadrange "EP" with the 58-minute ambient track, especially given that there was already a totally different version of the album out there already. Not to mention that their track titles were getting increasingly obtuse and hard to remember.

yeah, the move of ten ep was nothing like the chore that the quadrangle ep was. and was half (4/7ths) the length of the original rather than twice as long.

plus it was relatively straightforward and beat driven, with the sort of bangers they hadn't done since like, LP5

Meantime, enjoy a month-long residency on NTS

https://www.nts.live/projects/autechre-nts-residency/

I finally bought my copy of Elseq recently, been enjoying it greatly. Pondering if i need the live ones too.

guys

been listening off and on for the last hour, it's really kicking in right now

you should have taken it at least half an hour before the set

Jamming to acdwn2 right now, it's good, that is all

banger

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

― silverfish, Friday, May 20, 2016 1:16 PM (two years ago)

it'll just be an endless generative stream that plays forever

i do wonder if they can go back to making normal-length albums again

an album of lots of tiny tracks would be interesting

https://img.discogs.com/YJ-eY9jmklNUK_Pyz2Lrt6A9Gs4=/fit-in/600x745/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-43153-1485307171-6839.jpeg.jpg

ah well click on it yerself

The only pre recorded minidisc I own...

me too, and almost certainly for more people than any other pre-recorded monodisc.

monodosc, sorry i have a cold.

Folks, I think NTS 3 may be the best of the batch.

Although I haven't nearly digested either, my gut feeling is that NTS is quite a bit more enjoyable than Elseq. The tracks feel more varied, more melodic, a little less pure abstraction.

Absolutely - I know NTS pretty thoroughly now, and tracks by name even, whereas despite spending similar time with Elseq I still skate off the surface of most tracks (notable exceptions being "c16 deep tread", "eastre", "curvcaten", "mesh cinereaL", "pendulu hv moda" et al.).

I don't think I ever made it all the way to the end of elseq. Having NTS come out once a week really helped - it felt like extremely pleasurable homework to listen to each one before the next one showed up. (The metal band Beastmaker recently released eight four-song EPs in three batches - 3, 3, and 2 - I'm still wading through them, and I kinda wish they'd chosen to put out one a week, too.)

the last few tracks on elseq 5 are some of the best tracks on the whole thing.

i immersed myself in elseq and it feels hugely texturally varied, a landscape with peaks and lakes, forests and blasted heaths. nts feels much more homogeneous to me right now but i'm sure that will change in time.

NTS 2 > NTS 1 > NTS 4 > NTS 3

There should probably be a poll

NTS 4 >>>>>>>>> NTS 3 > NTS 2 > NTS 1

(there should probably be a poll)

can it wait till a while after physical versions arrive

Find it pointless to even consider ranking NTS 1-4, but "all end" is beyond compare when I need that kind of thing. Each has at least 2 uniquely brilliant tracks. I haven't yet listened to the whole thing in a block but I am looking forward to it.

voilvoic is kind of my secret favorite on this whole thing.

i tried listening to a pared down version of this but i ended up missing every track i left off.

even t1a1 which eventually finds its zone.

my favorite ambient-ish track might just be "carefree counter dronal" - bright and beautiful.

still transported to different planets by "13 ctrl" "four of seven" and "column thirteen"

and the madness of "north spiral".

I love the LOL Autechre of calling the first track "t1a1".

Seeing as there are so many tracks how would you all feel about a mini ballot poll for the NTS Sessions? I'm not necessarily volunteering but I think it might be fun.

Say, top 8 tracks ranked or unranked, and a sessions 1-4 ranked side poll. Wouldn't need a big production results thread or anything.

Not before the boxes are out there anyway.

*Not quite sure how the points are supposed to be weighted but haven't given it much thought.

a mini ballot poll

A shimriPOLL casual, if you will.

I like this idea

pendulu hv moda is so magnificent

so much of what they do is so dark that when they decide to go sunny it's like a vitamin d overdose

It's certainly magnificent, maybe my favourite of all their recent releases. And I guess it is quite sunny, yeah, until the grey clouds roll in and the alien mutant thunder rumbles low over the hills.

Returning to this release my first thought these days is how poorly mastered it is. Compared to NTS (excellent return to form mastering wise), Exai and especially Oversteps, this is overly compressed, narrow sounding and in your face. Shame, since this is some their best work.

otm

Definitely one of their harsher sounding collections.

Not sure of the authenticity of this but seems to be 400+(!) 1-2 minute pieces with accompanying slit-screen animations.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5ow3ZyXAhopA4NUdSIuAfTCvWTemihut

^^ ugh my bad. didn't see the other thread.

My God I never even considered the possibility of needing to shell out for Ae remasters some day