Those ultra submerged beat variations in that one ('icari') - probably starts getting really good around the 16 minute mark, but wouldn't be so cool without the rest of it.
― Gonk Steady Crew (Noel Emits), Thursday, 19 April 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Looks great but... I'd need to get a flight to Tasmania.
flights to Tasmania take about an hour and a quarter btw
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 19 April 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
Hobart Raving
― Gonk Steady Crew (Noel Emits), Thursday, 19 April 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
the ferry takes 11 hours but is only about half the price
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 19 April 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
the flight to australia to catch the flight to tasmania takes a bit longer iirc
― mh, Thursday, 19 April 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
I found elseq really trebly and annoying
oh you really gotta hear it on something that can play it
and i don't mean like flacnerd quality, earbuds are fine, just, there's bass there to feel and to fill the room
― j., Thursday, 19 April 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
it's definitely got some harsh his though, and some volume issues. it's slightly messy but i don't think that's out of sync with the emotional quality of the music.
i've been revisiting it and finding an absurd number of high watermarks for them. it's really.. there's a lot of emotion there. besides the obvious standouts i've been loving "spaces how V" and "acdwn2". but then "latentcall" and "mesh cinereaL" come on and i'm destroyed. "latentcall" in particular is so great, it's more straightforward beatwise but it never settles, it feels like it's constantly breaking down for 14 minutes, and i'm really moved by that lol.
― map, Thursday, 19 April 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
i love it when ae sound like a puzzle that you think you might *just* be able to figure out if you spend enough time in it
yes puzzles but the bangers in NTS 1 are good too??
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 20 April 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
I find the post-Exai Autechre fascinating - there is a real luxury in tracks which take 20 minutes to evolve or orbit around a single idea. When Quadrange gave us "Perlence subrange 6-36" and it was an hour of massively slowed, distorting kick, a light went on in my mind and I thought, this is what I need. And the last two major releases have delivered that and more.I don't find this music at all intellectual or challenging, it's just intensely aesthetically pleasing in a way nothing else is. Of course the process of learning what to listen for, which happened imperceptibly across 20+ years for me (and for them!) make stepping onto the carousel pretty daunting. But I guess I have to accept that they are my all time favourite musicians and that I will never be the same.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 20 April 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
holy fuck whatever part of NTS 3 I am streaming now, 25 minutes in, waves of modulated static and that dry block beat from Draft 7.30 going nuts, trying to work but all my hair is standing on end
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 20 April 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
Through 3 of these sessions and I feel I could reduce the 6 hours to about 1.5 for a personal "mini album". I would disagree that this so far has a high quality to quantity ratio. That said - it'll be really easy for me to splice together 2-3 hours of tracks that are all highlights, but this is a lower ratio than elseq for sure.
― octobeard, Friday, 20 April 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
third track on the release (tt1pd) is probably what you heard, Matthew. it's 22 minutes (!)
― mh, Friday, 20 April 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
still going, fucking mental, love love love it
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 20 April 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
Assuming session 4 has as many highlights as the other 3, for a band to release 2-3 hours of incredible music 4 releases in a row (Oversteps/Move of Ten, Exai, Elseq, NTS) in a decade? That's pretty incredible
― octobeard, Friday, 20 April 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
FWIW - icari is the crown jewel of Session 3 for me.
― octobeard, Friday, 20 April 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
does nobody rate AE_LIVE_DUBLIN, or Utrecht? for real, these sets are f'ing beautiful.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
now this is some proper radio
― j., Friday, 20 April 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
yeah i dig a gnarly banger. but i listened to the 2005 glasgow art school set for the first time recently and that's like a puzzle that bangs *swoons*
yep, in terms of variety and detail they are incredible.
― lana del boy (ledge), Friday, 20 April 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
Firing up Session 3 now.
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 20 April 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link
Some deep bass on Session 3. "tt1pd" could almost be something off an Electric Ladyland compilation.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
i listened to the 2005 glasgow art school set for the first time recently and that's like a puzzle that bangs *swoons*
the ending bit that slowly increases tempo provokes a strange bout of anxiety in me
― frogbs, Monday, 23 April 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
that speedy drum loop with the quick bass drum rolls and the popping distorted snares eventually showed up on one of the quaristice releases, right? love that part & vaguely remember being a little disappointed with the 'studio' ver at the time.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
forgot to note the time but it starts ~23:27
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
It's more like something off Untilted, definitely similar to LCC, maybe elements of Sublimit as well.
― lana del boy (ledge), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 10:23 (five years ago) link
duh, LCC! yeah, that is quite close. it's also literally the first thing you hear on that record, so um yeah, I haven't put untilted on in a few years.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
there's definitely parts of Quaristice in there too though. most notably "IO" though I'm sure there's more than that
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 13:18 (five years ago) link
forgot how much I love "iera". intro just sounds so slippery and that soft white noise acting as a hi hat... mmm...
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
no FLAC-related issues with NTS 3 btw. listened to that bad boy all weekend. autechre's support team is ON IT!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
just checked in to see if George Starostin took the time to review all the elseqs, and what do you know he did
its pretty amusing to me b/c Starostin is kind of the prototypical Ae semi-fan who'd been thrown by the wayside long ago - he likes the early stuff, thinks they completely lost it with Confield, maybe has some time for Oversteps....but his OCD-fueled review style kinda forces him to review everything in earnest, even if he doesn't like any of it. hey, credit to him for trying.
also, lol @ this line: "I just hope they won't take five more years and come out with a 20-volume album"...well it was 2 years and 12 LPs...enjoy !!!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
having never heard of NTS Radio before this thing, i see they are doing the music at the Tate Late on friday, at the Tate Modern.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/late/uniqlo-tate-lates
(anyone been? video seems to suggest a rave in the turbine hall)
― koogs, Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:09 (five years ago) link
(archive here: https://www.nts.live/shows/uniqlo-tate-lates )
― koogs, Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
NTS has all sorts of wonderful things. I just learned about them a few months ago. Search for Haruomi Hosono day
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 April 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
pete swanson from yellow swans has a really good monthly show.
― adam, Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
so this has been like AE doing SAWII...very nice
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
Yeah this is gorgeous
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
lee gamble's NTS sets are superb
― brimstead, Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
sorta curious what Autechre fans think of his last album
― brimstead, Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
i didn't know he had one after 'koch', which i liked
― j., Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
Which "this" do you mean?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
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it's a lot more frenetic than 'koch', takes a bit to warm up to but it's fun as hell. it's on HyperDub and it does kind sound like a "HyperDub album" if you know what i mean.
― brimstead, Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
the live set they're playing on https://nts.live RIGHT NOW(which will be available for replay when it finishes in sixty seconds so don't sweat)xp
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, 26 April 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
listening to set 4 now. This is pretty amazing and unlike anything I've heard from them before.
― silverfish, Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
1.frane casual - 13:422.mirrage - 6:213.column thirteen - 17:024.shimripl casual - 24:325.all end - 58:21
Jesus Christ
really hope that last track title isn't a sign or anything
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
they're still touring + all end = ae ?
― StanM, Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
not their longest track either, Perlence subrange 3-36 is fifteen seconds longer :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 26 April 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
so that was just the end of bladelords x30
pretty cool
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 April 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
Yup... exactly what I was thinking as I heard it.
Sooo this is going to be released on vinyl? They just going to fade out/fade in all end for the last disc?
― octobeard, Friday, 27 April 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
and at 58 minutes you're looking at A Wizard, A True Star levels of audio degradation trying to fit 30 minutes of music on a side...
― octobeard, Friday, 27 April 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
Three sides, for sure. It's 3 x LP per session.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 27 April 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
column thirteen is gorgeous.
― toby, Friday, 27 April 2018 07:50 (five years ago) link