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
― j., Thursday, April 26, 2018 9:45 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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
"all end" is fucking killing me, it's like a sea of emotion
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 27 April 2018 07:57 (five years ago) link
yes!
― toby, Friday, 27 April 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
What is this the tracklist of? Set 4?
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 April 2018 09:48 (five years ago) link
Yes
― toby, Friday, 27 April 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
ty
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 April 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
It's low on dynamics and bottom end with barely any sharp transients so I think 30 minutes a side wouldn't actually be too much of a stretch. You'd get high end loss towards the centre and surface noise but I can see that working with the audio.
― Gonk Steady Crew (Noel Emits), Friday, 27 April 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
I mean if stuff like Calypso Frelimo or half of E2-E4 can go on a side that will really be no problem.
― Gonk Steady Crew (Noel Emits), Friday, 27 April 2018 11:04 (five years ago) link
Maybe so, but they won't put the other four tracks on a side each. For one thing the levels would be way off between a well cut six minute side and a workable 30 minute side.It'll be
NTS 1A1. t1a1B1. bqbqbqB2. debris_funk
C1. l3 ctrlD1. carefree counter dronalD2. north spiral
E1. gonk steady oneF1. four of sevenF2. 32a_reflected
NTS 2G1. elyc9 7hres G2. six of eight (midst)H1. xflood H2. gonk tuf hi
I1. dummy casual pt2 I2. violvoicJ1. sinistrailAB air J2. wetgelis casual interval J3. e0
K1. peal MA K2. 9 chr0L1. turbile epic casual, stpl idle
NTS 3M1. clustro casual M2. spleshN1. tt1pd
O1. acid mwan idle O2. fLhP1. glos ceramic P2. g 1 e 1
Q1. nineFly Q2. shimripl airR1. icari
NTS 4S1. frane casual S2. mirrageT1. column thirteen
U1. shimripl casualV1. all end 1
W1. all end 2X1. all end 3
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 27 April 2018 11:15 (five years ago) link
Whatever it is that's playing right now, it is absolutely mesmerizing.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 April 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
If title matters you can play track samples here: https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/98672-autechre-nts-session-4
It's a killer, killer two hours of Ae overload.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 27 April 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
Thank you! And like you said, it's unexpectedly emotional. I feel like I'm warmly floating in a glacier.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 April 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link
End all. Holy shit does that one live up to its name.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 April 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
This happens sometimes with Autechre, but listening to this this morning sounds like listening to a living creature, crawling around, developing broader consciousness ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 April 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
Apt! It certainly does at the beginning of set 4. At the end of it, it's wholly enlightened.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 April 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
'Mirrage' could be an alternative soundtrack to Dave Bowman shooting through space in 2001.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 April 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link
Man, have they done anything quite like "all end" before? It's pretty incredible. There are all these gorgeous melodies I may or may not be hearing. Reminds me a bit of Gas at times, maybe?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 April 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
yea scanning r/autechre and watmm I'm seeing a lot of comments to the effect of "there was this really cool melody there but I relistened this morning and now it's gone"
I've always thought of Ae as the aural equivalent of a Magic Eye poster. I guess that's never been more true
― frogbs, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
On this epic track, for sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
Hmm, I never thought to go down the reddit Ae-hole, it's always interesting to learn what people who know all the tracks by name think.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
idk why anyone would want to listen to autechre on vinyl
― Simon H., Friday, 27 April 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
These guys use generative programs, right? Which they sort of micro-manage and direct? So, sort of semi-improvised and then, sometimes, refined?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
listening to the fourth set now. :)
a favorable review of NTS Sessions 1-4: https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/22429
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
xpost they used to use max/msp, a long time ago. not sure what they're using now!
think they're still using that and have hinted that they're probably gonna stay with it till the end of time
― frogbs, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
from the of that RA review:
...If you've been skeptical of Autechre, you'd best check the fourth session. Once we course through "frane casual" we're hit by "mirrage," one of the most concise and beautiful ambient pieces Autechre have ever produced. It seeps perfectly into "column thirteen," which is sublimely bizarre, warm and enveloping. There's something strangely suggestive here. Perhaps it's the melodic synth arps that seem to so faintly echo Amber's inquisitive hues. "shimripl casual" deserves paragraph for itself, but "all end" manages to outstrip it. Almost an hour long yet somehow brisk, it's like a cathedral filled with billions of vibrating light particles, ebbing and convulsing in great waves. Despite the overload of material, listening to each of the sessions front to back reveals a narrative arc as compelling as in any of their 2015 live recordings. For music that's so detailed on the micro scale, the most arresting moments are the macro-structural pay-offs. Additionally, premiering the pieces live on NTS provided a semblance of a shared experience. It's been great watching fans' commentary online as each episode has been broadcast. The majority of artists in Autechre's cohort either dropped off in quality or entered the extended victory lap period of their careers. Partly because their music doesn't contain the melody and repetition of, say, an Aphex Twin, critics haven't been especially vocal about how unusual it is that Autechre, an already insanely overdeveloped act, are still developing. NTS Sessions 1-4 will elicit the same critiques as any Autechre album in the last decade, but it's their best record in many years.
Despite the overload of material, listening to each of the sessions front to back reveals a narrative arc as compelling as in any of their 2015 live recordings. For music that's so detailed on the micro scale, the most arresting moments are the macro-structural pay-offs. Additionally, premiering the pieces live on NTS provided a semblance of a shared experience. It's been great watching fans' commentary online as each episode has been broadcast.
The majority of artists in Autechre's cohort either dropped off in quality or entered the extended victory lap period of their careers. Partly because their music doesn't contain the melody and repetition of, say, an Aphex Twin, critics haven't been especially vocal about how unusual it is that Autechre, an already insanely overdeveloped act, are still developing. NTS Sessions 1-4 will elicit the same critiques as any Autechre album in the last decade, but it's their best record in many years.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
OTM. This final volume, for sure, at least.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
"gonk tuf hi" definitely needed the word "gonk" in the title.
― j., Friday, 27 April 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
lol if you play any stretch of this for 99.999% of listeners the first thing they will complain about is how repetitive it is
― j., Friday, 27 April 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
I'm not sure "repetitive" is the first word 99.999% would use.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
IMO Exai marked a shift in how critics covered these guys. A lot of them seemed annoyed at having to review an incredibly dense 2 hour album on a deadline, and that came through in the writing. I remember thinking it was kinda funny when L-Event came out right after, it's like in cartoons when a character gets pelted with an avalanche of objects and sits there dazed for a few seconds, then a teacup falls on their head. In hindsight a lot of those Exai reviews were pretty off the mark (outside of dog latin's, of course) and I think both fans and critics just handled them differently after that. They're entering a sort of inscrutable phase of their career - like how many people in this thread have a good handle on all the elseq stuff yet?
― frogbs, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
I started struggling a bit wth Autechre around "Untilted" and lost track a bit, up to and including "Exai." But I really liked elseq, iirc, and that super epic live stream they did a couple of years back, even if I never listened to them again, tbh. But this new stuff, I'm really digging it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link