it's definitely their 'pop' album, might even pass the old grey whistle test, acroyear2 in particular.
gelk description lol otm, always loved that melody.
i like this interview which comes from a slightly different angle from the usual gearhead pieces - i don't do enough listening in the dark:https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/autechre-something-happens-when-you-listen-to-music-in-the-dark-1.3558048
it also clued me in to these nts dj mixes which i think passed me by at the time:https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/autechre-22nd-january-2016https://www.nts.live/shows/solid-steel/episodes/solid-steel-radio-show-2212016-hour-1-autechre
― lana del boy (ledge), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
unperson's piece is interesting because it seems to focus on the tracks I think about the least. if I don't have time to listen to the he whole thing I tend to skip the first two cos they're a bit bonkers and frenetic and go straight for Rae which is one of their prettiest songs. interesting that they included Melve which, well it's very short and low-concept and not much like the rest of their stuff. I'd like to know more about how that track came about
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
kickin' off the morning with the Quadrange EP and so far that's been an excellent decision
― frogbs, Friday, 20 July 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
Just got an email that the NTS Sessions physical boxes are being delayed an additional two weeks. Grrr...
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 July 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTg2ruTYvQo
― j., Saturday, 21 July 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
My copy of the NTS 8CD box is on the way...
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 13 August 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
I've lost count of the amount of times with Autechre that I've heard a new piece of music of theirs (to me) that initially sounds confusing and inscrutable, only for something to click and suddenly it makes perfect sense. It's like it initially keeps the listener at arms length before saying "right, I'm going to let you in now" and what once was flat and inscrutable suddenly becomes like being in the middle of some 3D aural landscape.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 13 August 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Their songs are the aural equivalent of a stereogram
― octobeard, Monday, 13 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
Didn't know I'd be getting hit with local duties and tax on top of the shipping cost. That was a fun surprise.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
Their songs are the aural equivalent of a stereogram― octobeard, Monday, August 13, 2018 8:22 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― octobeard, Monday, August 13, 2018 8:22 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This really needs to go in that hall of fame thread
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
Okay so I've been listening to NTS a bit more and I've come to the conclusion that:
- It's cool to have an almost endless stream of new Autechre - I get jam-band Autechre as a concept - it totally makes sense - But also it's a bit of a slog innit? I mean, I don't wanna sound like a lightweight but some of these tracks go on for so long without really developing a whole lot. I do miss when it felt a little more composed, a little less like I'm listening to a generative algorithm, and they'd fit an idea or five into 5-6 minutes
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Friday, 17 August 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
This food is so great! If only the portions weren't so generous!
I jest, sort of. I would suggest going back to the 2015 live sessions for more varied and idea-heavy stuff, albeit with a similar sonic palette.
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 17 August 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
thesis: I get jam-band Autechre as a concept - it totally makes sense antithesis: some of these tracks go on for so long without really developing a whole lotsynthesis: ??
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 17 August 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
IF Ae = JamBand AND NTS_Sessions(AvgSongLength) / NTS_Sessions(TrackDevelopment) < DesiredRatio THEN LikesJamBands = 0
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Friday, 17 August 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
Spurious logic. Never trust a computer.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Friday, 17 August 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
Wow. Sounds like someone hasn't accepted that they need to adapt to the music and not the other way around. Some of us have made SACRIFICES
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 17 August 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
I think that = needs to be a ==
Also, he hasn't closed the block
― koogs, Friday, 17 August 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
Autechre made the front page of Reddit yesterday. Amusing seeing a number of people unfamiliar with them all of the sudden check out their tunes and report back:https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/97hmfs/til_in_1994_in_an_attempt_to_ban_raves_the_uk/
― octobeard, Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
ultimately my appreciation of this doesn't really outweigh my emotional enjoyment and I'm kind of down about it cos I want to love it, instead I just think it's good that it exists
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
(a metaphor for a lot of things in my life rn when I come to think about it)
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 18 August 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
I would never berate someone for not loving or appreciating this music.
You do get some odd objections, though. Not what Dog Latin said above - I read a post on prog forum where someone was complaining about the lack of space and depth (all surface, two dimensional,) lack of longer sounds (all short "samples",) and lack of development over releases.
Which is kind of baffling but perhaps is to do with way it can demand a different mode of listening to a lot of other pop music.
One thing it does have in common with complicated prog is the way it can be more enjoyable as as your brain learns the tracks. With prog it's the compositional twists and turns, with Autechre it's things like textural details and odd spatial relationships.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Saturday, 18 August 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
Box set came in today! It's ... huge. Pretty cool triangle pattern on the spines to help make it easy to keep them in order.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Ha! I had a note in the post today that DHL couldn't deliver a package as I wasn't home. Couldn't for the life of me think of what it was until you mentioned this right now! Ordered it ages ago, it feels. Picking it up tomorrow, stoked.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
I got mine yesterday.
In today’s mail: the 8CD Autechre box I ordered on April 9. My favorite aspect of the design is the black lines on the spine of the individual sleeves, each one a little longer than its predecessor. pic.twitter.com/EanXZ85jyU— burning ambulance (listen to the podcast!) (@burn_amb) August 20, 2018
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
Oh that's beautiful.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
The black mark next to the 1 on those photos, does that have a purpose?
― koogs, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
part of original cover art. iirc is a placed differently on each of the 4 volumes.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
it matches the left-hand edge of the lower right-hand figure.
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 07:51 (five years ago) link
Does it though? It's a bit lower than the top of the one and you'd think a simple 5x5 character set would be more regular. Also, why?
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 08:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/autechre/comments/8bt5v5/something_i_noticed_on_the_nts_artwork/
This agrees with ledge. Still looks like a mistake to me though.
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 08:45 (five years ago) link
Edge of the *right* hand figure (i.e. the 4). It’s not a 5x5 pixel grid either, the zeroes have diagonal slashes on the four session covers.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
(remember these are the guys who made the Exai sleeve look like binary or a QR code - before Sean admitted they just scribbled e, x, a, i in rough pixel grids and messed it up a bit)
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 09:01 (five years ago) link
I'd say the black line is just a graphic reference to the other parts of the design and makes the outer edge look more balanced / identifiable.
(my contribution to the inevitable poll)
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
On the Reddit image they do line up...
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
They don't show the box front though, do they? (As well as being digital images from months ago.)
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link
ok this is funny
If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2018
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
what that has to do with Autechre……….who knows!!!!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Cohen is now Autechre's roadie, go figure
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
for a second i thought trump was weighing in on the "which is the best NTS session" controversy which is sweeping the nation, and reddit
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
By the way if anyone thinks the discussion earlier was trivial and anal I'd remind you that Black Lines Matter.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
irl lol
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
so all of nts is now on spotify (in the order 2, 3, 4, 1) but still only elseq 1.
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Oh, sweet
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 24 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
13 hours of new material, on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5ow3ZyXAhopA4NUdSIuAfTCvWTemihut
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 November 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
can't wait for the 20xLP boxset
― frogbs, Monday, 19 November 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
Blazing a trail towards the DVLP.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 November 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
btw Sean was on WATMM saying this isn't a clue towards a larger release or anything like that, just some stuff they made for fun back in the day
― frogbs, Monday, 19 November 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
clip 444 has a subtitle that contains a link to a further 99 clips:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5ow3ZyXAhopEKzeCE7XaVr50yGTkMIIX
― StanM, Monday, 19 November 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
jesus
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 19 November 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
378 is interesting
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Friday, November 16, 2018 11:41 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://444.frm.space/scans/?id=378
bit of manipulation of part of that gives this:
https://imgur.com/a/iNP3Zcz
which plausibly reads REVOLUTION, although i've no idea where from.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link