Most ridiculous post about 'NTS Sessions 1-4' album on the Autechre thread

good poll

hey Whiney - shut up

Can't wait until your etiquette book comes out, Whiney. I keep forgetting the six things it's okay to like and the four ways it's okay to express that enjoyment.

how long until the 'most ridiculous whiney poll' poll

one of these is a quote from whiney!

laugh a little

the overthinking on autechre is really something special

Lol @ people using words to express their sense of wonder when listening to music, amirite?

all this stuff is otm though

(I roll my eyes but my 'Whiney being Whiney' jabs are in good humor.)

Sometimes it resembles the motion of weather / atmospheric phenomena, fluid shapes, complex machinery, or a malfunction

p fair non embarrassing capsule description of autechre i think

Maybe I should check back in with Autechre (as I am currently listening to Conet Project tracks in a momentary fit of boredom toward most of the actual music on my person).

haha ✔

nah the Magic Eye one is the best. truest shit ever wrote

btw where are ppl hearing this is OT streaming or do I shell out score and five like for elseq

shell out

OK. link to relevant store?

https://autechre.bleepstores.com/

ty

Okay, lol @ 'bleepstores'

judderingticksandhisses.org

It's supposedly streaming on their store but not working for me.

xp

Next question. Is this OK in mp3 quality n.b. I like The Fall

Everything's ok in mp3 quality

cool ty I agree

Right now I am listening to The Fall on a mangled cassette but I would go for the 24bit. Realistically 320mp3 is good tho.

Everything but splash cymbals are a-ok on mp3, imo.

ban splash cymbals imo

2nded

hi-hat and ride only

maybe I should check back in with Autechre

you should! these NTS sets are what everyone's raving about right now. the 4th (and final) set is streaming now, at least for the next 512,580 seconds.

I wrote three of those yessssssss. I'll go to the mat all day, every day for my favourite artist and I'm proud to sound ridiculous when words fail.

You know you're too jaded when enthusiasm sounds ridiculous. I say, fly that enthusiasm flag high! When a really awesome group known for putting out these alien, enigmatic soundscapes puts out a great collection that 99.999% of the world, and perhaps some certain percentage of fans as well, will never know even exists, shout it to the rooftops.

Okay, lol @ 'bleepstores'

Bleep opened three years before Spotify and less than a year after iTunes

50 for 8 discs is pretty good, i might buy this

i like a lot of descriptions on that thread and will absolutely cop to being a bit rate snob AND i wholeheartedly support this poll. i'm voting for software upgrades just because they're really unpleasant and this is pleasant music.

isn't a lot of autechre's music really physical? seems like you'd want lossless for the headroom etc... FEEL THE BASS

if you don't hear this ________________
or this __^__^__^__^
you will not feel it

The pipes one was a funny anecdote so it got my vote
But yeah I’m finding it increasingly difficult to understand what lens Whiney sees the world through. Maybe the ilm regulars have a better handle on it than me, idk

whiney otm

first one is obviously best

software upgrades just because they're really unpleasant

Things getting better = unpleasant? OK.

Can "this is pleasant music" be added to the poll? Autechre is always my first port of call when I want some pleasant music.

show me someone who believes software upgrades are "things getting better" in 2018 and i'll show you a fool. p.s. don't be a bitch

Upgrade by definition means things getting better. If it isn't better it's not an upgrade.

If you want to wilfully misconstrue that I think it's only fair to return the favour and mention that "this is pleasant music" is more nauseating than anything in the poll.

There's no band I wish I liked more than Autechre. On paper, they seem like exactly what I want in a band, but everything I've listened to has been impenetrable. Might try again with this new release

autechre counts as a band? now i’ve seen it all!

though i agree strongly w the reading that confield was a post rock album

lentic catachresis is a post-rock jam for sure

Band, group, team, faction, whatever. Is it too late to add my comment to the poll options?

xp as others have noted it even ends in a digital feedback squeal

guessing you mean vletrmx

yeah Ross I just mean they deliberately started this album with its most off-putting tracks, nothing to do with anyone's level of acclimation to Ae

So weird, I like the opening run of #1 too much and have to remind myself to spread my listening and avoid burnout.

They're great but you have to admit most albums start with one of their hookier numbers yeah

Should we poll one Session at a time or have all four going at once?

one at a time, go in order

otm

My favorite "album mix" of NTS tracks:

1. l3 ctrl
2. e0
3. icari
4. four of seven
5. 32a_reflected

I have a number of other album length mini playlists but this feels the most accessible and album like for someone wanting to get into the Sessions. Includes tracks from 1, 2, and 3.

Wow, listening to these as actual 'albums' is like hearing the finished version of Smile for the first time. It all starts making a lot more sense. I'm on NTS 3 today after enjoying NTS 2 yesterday.

Quite enjoying Acid Mwan Idle's dubbed out diving bell vibes; makes me think of a more abstract Two Lone Swordsmen

yeah i love "acid mwan idle"

it just kinda sounds like some evil ritual

I've only gotten through NTS 1 & 2 so far, but I'm finally starting on 3. Really gotta wait for the right afternoon to get into these.

tt1pd is a headbanger

If you moved "frane casual" and "column thirteen" to Session 3, then Session 3 would contain the highest number of tracks I cannot live without.

But Session 2 has "xflood," "gonk tuf hi," "dummy casual pt2," "violvoic," and "e0," which are all 5/5 imo.

If we ever poll the entire box, not sure I could pick between 2 and 3.

1 has "gonk steady one" and "four of seven" back to back, both of which are brilliant, but 1 has the highest number of tracks I might be tempted to skip.

I don't really get frane casual, just spins on the spot in a place that doesn't interest me. Though the fat yet hollow thrummm that develops in the background is something I could get into.

Trying to go back through the first 3 sessions to make a playlist of my favorites, but now it all seems strangely unfamiliar. So Autechre.

I like how everyone is afraid to actually make the poll

Or maybe no one wants to type out all of those ridiculous titles

Autechre - NTS Session 1 POLL

nts sessions is still so good you guys

i don't really notice that much anymore but tonight it just sort of hit me that this is very out-there, challenging and rewarding music.

I don't really get frane casual, just spins on the spot in a place that doesn't interest me. Though the fat yet hollow thrummm that develops in the background is something I could get into.

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i used to feel the same about frane casual but that track has a loooot going on, confined to an extremely weird and minute diorama with all the low tones bleached out.

i wish i heard this stuff when i listened to autechre, mostly sounds like bleeps n bloops to me :-/

don't let these nutters give you alien robocity synaesthete fomo!! it's bleeps n bloops

my soul is bleeps and bloops

New track?

autechre.lnk.to/as-singles

http://autechre.lnk.to/as-singles

family obligations prevent me from listening to it at this time.

Fuck, this is good!

it needs more digital reverb..

it's really good. reference to Netlon Sentinel from EP7? It exudes a similar cosmic darkness.. while being sort of dubstep??

... and sinitrailA/Bair from the NTS sessions, which it's a sort of remix of

i dig it

I just signed in to the AE store to redownload a prior purchase and this new single was available for free download from the dashboard.

i, also, dig it

I just signed in to the AE store to redownload a prior purchase and this new single was available for free download from the dashboard.

― I am using your worlds

I just signed in to the AE store to redownload a prior purchase and this new single was available for free download from the dashboard.

― I am using your worlds

This track really pays off.. after becoming fixated on the original Perlence track, on regular old Quaristice.

Thanks for the tip - downloading now.

yep, dl worked for me too. Thanks for the head's up!

now download option for me :(

For me it didn’t show up for purchase, I had to sign in and it was then already in my available downloads

Dang this is a fantastic track, too. Very much an NTS leftover, but really, it should have been on the sessions. wow.

It'd be a delightful twist of events if Autechre started using mechanical spring reverb (recording their sounds through amplifiers, etc.), instead of relying on the digital reverb-freeze effects that have been so prominent since the Quaristice days. I suppose it's ridiculous to consider such a thing. If anything, Ae seem to be moving further / farther away from hardware (old school synthesizers, Elektron boxes, etc.), towards this hyper-digital frontier

has there been a poll for Session 4 yet? that one is my favorite by far

Christmas number one material, this Sinistrail Sentinel :-)

Chart rules don't allow free downloads otherwise it would be a shoo-in.

who's going to start the session 4 poll then?

pendulu hv moda is sinistrail sentinel's moda if sinistrailAB air is its fada.

https://fivedials.com/reportage/an-album-can-last-a-day-sam-byers/

it’s not always the music that changes; sometimes it’s you, and the world around you, with the music becoming a fixed point against which you can measure your own inexorable journey through time.

otm