Autechre: Classic or Dud?

i listened to all the NTS sets today. WOW.

'column thirteen' is just astonishing, so psychedelic and transporting, it kind of reminds me of harold budd.

there's so much great stuff here. i already like it more than elseq

maybe i need to hear these in a diff frame of mind, CDs on the stereo, proper rest, etc... Elseq seemed more engaging, interesting (sustained) beyond the initial novelty of its release.

have bought and stuck this on

so far so good

Real talk: I am unable to prevent myself from reading "shimripl" as "shrimpl". Looking in vain for companion track "wytwyyn".

so far, most of the way through Set 2, the best piece imo has been 'xflood'

xp no it is shrimpl your copy is mislabeled

shrimpimpl

i listened to all the NTS sets today. WOW.

'column thirteen' is just astonishing, so psychedelic and transporting, it kind of reminds me of harold budd.

there's so much great stuff here. i already like it more than elseq

dammit

I keep telling myself "you don't actually need this" and then my man map has to do something like this

you do need this

i think these are going to take a lot longer to sink in with me than elseq, may need some special headphone listening time carved out somehow.

yeah so far I think elseq is more relevant to my tastes but will pick up from halfway through 3 later

A rave review of NTS Sessions 1-4 is up here.

This deserves a 20/5 and everyone knows it

I'm 3/4 of the way through "all end" now and it's like a combination of some kind of pink-cloud ambient music, Aine O'Dwyer's church organ improvisations, and the beginning of Godflesh's "Love, Hate (Slugbaiting)." This whole set is amazing, but this one piece - which I'm assuming will get its own CD when the physical version arrives - is the kind of thing you want to turn up to window-rattling volume and just live in for an hour.

is there an easy way to listen to the first 3 sessions online, now? i would enjoy doing a mega-listen today but the only one streaming is the 4th.

They're all there on the bleepstore.

https://autechre.bleepstores.com/

My family keeps telling me to turn this off, which is probably for the best, because if they didn't, I would be listening to it all the time.

oh, i didn't know they were streaming there! should have been obvious, i suppose, but thanks!

I wonder if its really worth taking the 7:59:45 plunge

Could be worse, could be 8-hours long.

I bought it

'cause i depend on ae

xpost Are you a fan? I can't wait to hear your opinion. Sometimes music like this, it's easy to forget that it isn't everyone's cup of tea, even if they are already fans. Similarly, it's sometimes hard for me to tell if I like one Autechre album better than another because it actually is better or just because for whatever reason it resonates more.

all end made me want to listen to coil's time machines again

donk steady one is so good
there is a whole crew, deservedly

the interior minutes of 'eO' are so, so good

autechre: so good

sorry for those posts. here's something that rewarded a second listen: "splesh" (on NTS3) ends by splicing in "all end".

if they release the mixed live sessions as a separate release I'm tearing up my autechre fan club card

as someone who checked out around quaristice i'm totally baffled by all the praise for all this nu autechre

i tried listening to elseq last night and it just sounded like ... more confield

how much max/msp do you need in your life, really

i'll let you know

lol

just bit the bullet on the CD set

I know it's futile but I really want the vinyl box set in my life I land I'll regret it if I don't buy it. but man, £120 worth of abstruse electronic noise is a lot to pay

I feel like splitting that final track over two (three?) sides would be criminal

yeah. and even listening to this kind of music on my shitty turntable is ridiculous anyway but I did buy those first three albums when they were reissued and they sound great as LPs

Splitting 'All End' indeed seems criminal. And I'm with DL, it's a lot of money. Yet I still bit the bullet and ordered the whole damn thing, on the basis NTS4 alone, it is other wordly, even for Autechre. New dawn or final chapter, idc, it is sublime.

Whiney can quote me on this for his next daft poll.

*worldly

the interior minutes of 'eO' are so, so good

― Karl Malone

there are elements of their "One Six" tour that comprise parts of NTS 4 - some of the more 'alien' -sounding material. those ONESIX sets (European tour) were well documented (audience recordings), easy to find on YouTube, and other sites in higher quality / d/l'able formats.

Just went to check out and noticed the release date, which is after I move, and I don't yet have a new address. How limited is this box set supposed to be, anyway? If I'm risking not getting one I may just have it shipped to a friend.

Also, it's cool that you can order the sessions separately. Can't imagine someone who wants this not wanting all of it, but the budget-minded of us might listen between now and July and decide we don't need all 4 sets.

No such option on the CD version though

Thinking I'll get the CD box and my favorite of the sessions on vinyl.

I kind of want that vinyl set, while I also know I absolutely don't need it.

I don't know that "max/msp" is a type of sound, really.. you could use Max to affect / control acoustic sounds and recordings, it doesn't define/determine the sound of an artist/band's music, necessarily. There's a fluidity / plasticity to these post-Exai recordings that makes them seem more synthetic / intangible, and it can become 'samey', but there are instances throughout these sessions that sound remarkably solid, 'real', and acoustic (physical modeling?), even. I lapse into states of mind where this music sounds 'unreal', similar to the sense you get watching the Star Wars prequels (CGI excess), but the perception of it is constantly shifting.

they really go for it on column thirteen, damn

How limited is this box set supposed to be, anyway?

I probably didn’t really need to order it, so you could always guilt me later

I expect they'll make a few more than there are pre-orders for. For the CDs at any rate.

Too soon for sure, but I've been wondering what this would have done to their results. How many #1 songs?

Unfortunately, we have to do that entire poll over again now that they've essentially doubled their total output in the last few years

ordered, had it sent to my dad's house. Couldn't risk missing out on this one, especially after listening to "all end" all morning

can't wait for the inevitable NTS Sessions poll, but give me a few months, ILX, ok?