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

"elyc6 0nset" always makes me think of the nightmarish scene towards the end of Kill List and the main character's being chased through those tunnels by screaming demi-creatures

there's also the whole field of computer music, electro-acoustic music...

Some very nice movement in "glos ceramic".

I'm quickly coming around to the opinion that NTS is quite a bit stronger than elseq. The tracks mostly feel more intentional and groove-friendly, which are good things for me.

Maybe the same amount of information and ideas as elseq, but given space and allowed to unfold more accessibly. I’m finding it really difficult to listen to other artists for more than half a day at a time, it just keeps reeling me back in.

I've had the same experience. Of course, it doesn't hurt that 2018 has been an unbelievably shit year for music afaic

totally distracting how often one has to change discs with this as an 8 CD set. at the same time, the slow-evolving pace of the music seems not to fit with the old paradigms of putting a disc in and pressing play. I usually only dig into an album once I have the physical disc, and I love everything about this album & the statement, the way it debuted as streams & files, going through it first hearing bits of it off laptop speakers as it looped through the two hour cycle, then later playing it off a USB keydrive with four folders on it plugged into my car stereo, just having the music pick up wherever it left off whenever I got back behind the wheel. but this physical version of it feels like... like it's not the real version. happened to me with that Kayn 16 CD box as well, that was music that made the most sense on its first release as two seven-hour long files. all pretty modern & has me appreciating this new album even more.

Hmm. I've got the 18 sides of vinyl and I don't really feel the same. I feel it makes it more manageable to methodically (and excitedly) work my way through it. I didn't hear it before I got the records though, so that maybe different.

How's 'All End' divided up on vinyl? Do the sides end with a harsh cut-to-quiet in the middle of it? (i've the cd set)

actually it's 24 sides of vinyl! Pretty sure "All End" gets 3 sides. In a recent Japan interview Sean says it's a piece taken from the end of "bladelores" but the entire track is "end", hence the title.
I used to play CDs a lot because I had a player with a really nice DAC and output preamp, but then I bought a nice standalone DAC with similar components and I run lossless USB 44/16 to it - equally great sound, no need to change discs.

nineFLY bangs too hard, I get a little jolt of anxiety knowing what's coming when it comes on

when are we polling this sumbitch

I'm so ready for the poll

will it be a single track pick? because, no.

We could poll the 4 sessions, I guess

Ballot poll of all the tracks. Could just do it all on this thread.

i am so not ready to poll this and probably never will be

I know this has turned into an Autechre fan thread which is great and all but I'd never seen this Whiney poll before and it's the same needlessly cruel vein as the Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith poll a couple years back. I respect the guy tremendously as a writer, so my question is this: was he always this much of a sociopath (on ILX)?

yep.

yea he's been policing people for liking things the wrong way ever since I've been here at least

today i would like to celebrate "gonk steady one"

that track had me jumping up and down in my kitchen like an idiot, fist in the air during the livestream

e0 is my favourite at the moment. Still can't make my mind up about this record, so it's probably brilliant

for how long some/all of these tracks are, they breathe a lot and don't ever really get exhausting

Funny - that's the exact track I'm listening to at the moment when I hopped into this thread today!

No. 3 finally clicked for me last week. The tracks definitely don't develop as much as on the other sessions but I started to see them as sublime machines, maybe repetitive but with a complex and beautiful motion.

In other news, I didn't get around to buying a t-shirt and now they're sold out I'm unaccountably forlorn.

acid mwan idle is still a hard sell though.

tt1pd though... I could hear this in the rave tent at some sort of mad summer festival

acid mwan idle is still a hard sell though.

― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Friday, September 28, 2018 7:04 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not on headphones!

"four of seven" is a banger that disintegrates into hard ambient cubes. i think it's my favorite now?

tt1pd sounds like a creaky rocking chair (in a good way)

it has been nice to slowly realize over the course of months how much of this is downright catchy

i've had a couple of moments where a track that hasn't at all been in my go-to list has suddenly popped in to my head and comfortably sat in there for a day or two.

i wasn't big on 'four of seven' at first but now it's one of my favorites. it's a magnificent slow burn. the hooks in that thing are just hard in a really subtle way.

tt1pd is the one that gets my head banging a little bit. sounds great on the road.

tt1pd though... I could hear this in the rave tent at some sort of mad summer festival

― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Friday, September 28, 2018 5:39 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

"shimripl air" is just the empty howl of space

RE-POLL

or should that be “shimrepoll air”?

excuse my rude joke

lol

I vote for four separate polls (one for each session)

That would be more manageable if we did one at a time and each one were open for a couple weeks.

I thought yr description was cool Brad

if we did a poll (ballot poll) of the whole thing then that would give you a result for each individual session.

shimripl air" is just the empty howl of space

True but i was just listening to it while watching this and they went together pretty nicely:

カピバラ置物疑惑 pic.twitter.com/XPeGF9wIqt

— ちまちゃん (@nn930310) September 29, 2018

This seems as good a place as any to mention that after many years Chiastic Slide has finally clicked with me.

finding it difficult to say which session is my favorite. my favorite track seems easier, "shimripl casual" or "four of seven" or "violvoic" or "fLh" ok that isn't easy either

Yeah I ranked 11 of these tracks 5 stars on my itunes, so yeah, would be a tough poll

'tt1pd' sounds like what you might hear when your head is pushed down in a bucket of ice water for a bit too long. In a good way, if that's at all possible to imagine.

Idk what my fave session is, it's between 3 and 4 probably, but this whole mammoth of an 'album' gnaws away at me deliciously. Not surprisingly the ambient stretches are my fave, so I'd have to say 4 right? But then suddenly a piece like 'shimripl air' comes along, on 3, and it suddenly just... stops the world from turning.

i decided over the weekend my favorite is 3. 2 and 4 close behind

3 just kinda has the widest variety of moods and some of the most punishing moments and i keep getting drawn back to both of these things