the one on slsk right now is definitely not real
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 October 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
I like some of these fake Autechre tracks, they might be better than the real thing!
― calzino, Thursday, 8 October 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
hmmm
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 8 October 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
So how does this work? I just go to the Warp page and it'll be there? Or is it being hosted someplace else?
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
autechre.warp.net
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
thanks!
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
zomg i'm locked in
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
lol i've got to go out shortly
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
It's starting!
― octobeard, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
Yay, going with silence beforehand was a good idea
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
lol i wondered where the noises in the house were coming from then remembered i'd got the stream running
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
I love it already.
― octobeard, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
― lukas, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
Those pesky sound designers next door
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
i am listening on cheap child's headphones because our daughter is being restless and i didn't want to go upstairs and risk waking her, these were all i could find downstairs.
― neith moon (ledge), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
avoid the chat. are those things always like this? gonna periodically check in here instead
love this already btw
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
damn
― lukas, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
imagining myself on a beach tbh
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
Stuck at a city hall meeting #sadlolEnjoy people.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
That chatroom is so gross and unpleasant and reminds me why I don't look at 99% of things I could look at online
This is lovely music though
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
lol i never dreamed of looking at the chat, same as i turn it off if i'm watching a football stream
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
yeah it's gorj so far. leaving the chat tab hidden for sure
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
The synthetic yet operatic quality of the pads and their lovely, cavernous reverb (which seems to be a different reverb effect they've been using the last 5-6 years) is incredible. Very different vibe immediately
― octobeard, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
ah here we go on some electro shit
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
omg whut with this 2nd track already
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
oversteps feel here. so lush though! almost feels like they're trolling us.
― neith moon (ledge), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
soo...Oversteps 2??? nice
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
def lush
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
If this is trolling, keep trolling me daddy
― octobeard, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
beautiful
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
SFJ interview with the guys
https://sfj.substack.com/p/autechre-sign
― lukas, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
sounds almost progressive / symphonic. they've really developed a lot melodically.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
ugh no thanks to having to sift through sfj words xp
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
i checked in on the stream late and but whatever is happening now is phenomenal
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
this disembodied marimbas thing is great and NEWhow are they always new?
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
haha fair, here are the good bits:
“I hadn’t felt that solid about putting together an album in a while,” Booth said.“We started building up the rig in the summer of 2018, right after the Australian tour,” Booth said.“The MIDI keyboard only handles a very limited set of information,” Booth says. “And it’s based on the piano, a very specific instrument from a very specific time. We’re just using MAX to be more compositional in what we do.”The duo worked on tracks for over a year, finishing in February of 2020, before lockdown.“We’d get in touch and it would turn out we were doing the same kind of thing, without even talking,” Brown said. “I’m not sure we could do it in the same room now. But we’re often thinking the exact same thing.” Like what?“Ah . . . that’s lush—fuck.”
“We started building up the rig in the summer of 2018, right after the Australian tour,” Booth said.
“The MIDI keyboard only handles a very limited set of information,” Booth says. “And it’s based on the piano, a very specific instrument from a very specific time. We’re just using MAX to be more compositional in what we do.”
The duo worked on tracks for over a year, finishing in February of 2020, before lockdown.
“We’d get in touch and it would turn out we were doing the same kind of thing, without even talking,” Brown said. “I’m not sure we could do it in the same room now. But we’re often thinking the exact same thing.”
Like what?
“Ah . . . that’s lush—fuck.”
― lukas, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
gently burbling programmatic music w mean ole bass
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
There's some really interesting, subtle delay FX on those marimbas that have been building over the whole track in the background there
― octobeard, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
and that dry muffled kick I always love
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
there are a couple more quotes in the article ... for those who DARE
― lukas, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, October 8, 2020 1:19 PM (fifty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
the core, the heart music
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
omg jerk my tears why dont u
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Oh HELL yeah. Oversteps 2 is exactly what I wanted
― J. Sam, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
this is incredible so far
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
woot
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
This is easily the first Ae album fans who departed in 2001 might actually enjoy. Much more so than even Oversteps.
― octobeard, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
it's very complex in a melodic way. 2-4 have been basically ambient.
beat back tho
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
the funk
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
snappin
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
8-bit chirpin
― J. Sam, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
super disagree on that, it's a maximalist piece which asks "what if this, but played out to its fullest extent" and I could listen to that all day. So many tracks mutate, or splinter into tangents, and the length basically forces you to work past your first impressions and listen for other things.and re: all end, sure there are other works of similar magnitude and concept, sure it's just a timestretch of a simple noise piece, sure there's any number of ways you could criticise it, but lukas is right that it's a ganzfeld on which I hallucinate my soul. I listened to it cranked, a few times in full, during a phase of my life where my emotions were basically unbearable and unprocessable, and it felt like being suspended as a cloud of atoms and was immensely healing to me. So I don't really care if it's clever or original or whatever, it's just wonderful. This kind of art is equally about selection as creation, and putting that up as an hour-length block was clearly an aesthetic decision. Wouldn't matter if it was a field recording of an electric fan.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
I agree with dog latin - I get that the length and drawn out patterns are part of the appeal but certain tracks on here just don’t do anything for me and they just go on soooo long. I love a good 3/4 of it though. Including “bqbqbq” (which you gotta admit is pretty funny to have as the 2nd track)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
I think we can all agree that … we want more AE in 2022, though, right? 🙂
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
mattt otmfm
― lukas, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
I’d be down for more Autechre sure
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
Every time this thread comes to life I get a PTSD shock that the band might have dropped another 8 hours of music.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
I still want a physical 5CD box of Elseq. I know it’s never coming but I hold out hope.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 03:27 (two years ago) link
fwiw the individual NTS Sessions on vinyl are actually pretty cheap, you can get them for like $25 + shipping even though they are 3xLPs. I guess too many people (correctly) decided this was ridiculous to have on wax. but they're wrong. it's awesome on vinyl even changing a record and flipping a side in "all end"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 03:29 (two years ago) link
because of the activity on this thread I am listening to PLUS and honestly I think it's as good as anything they've released, at least on a per minute scale. and it's probably the most accessible thing they've done since LP5, outside of Oversteps/Move of Ten. pretty much all the things they do well are on it. and it's got "lux 106 mod" which is arguably prettier than anything on SIGN! can't help but wonder how it would've been received had it been released first.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link
also its nice to hear Autechre making music that sounds funny again. "TM1 open" is like Hobbit disco
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 04:02 (two years ago) link
because of the activity on this thread I am listening to PLUS and honestly I think it's as good as anything they've released
been meaning to make this exact post all day
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 04:15 (two years ago) link
anyway now that I'm done I will be listening to Cluster, who in many ways were the original Autechre. no I will not elaborate on that
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 04:20 (two years ago) link
@unperson yes! My NTS Sessions CD set gives me warm wibbles and it's a shame we can't have the same with Elseq.
― raven, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 07:18 (two years ago) link
Listened to Plus yesterday, aside from a track or two it still mostly passes me by, possibly because I was never so much into "beat based techno in the classic era". Love the lush and pillowly Sign; I also think of NTS as a career peak and a monumental achievement that transcends its own few longeurs. What I go to most often for a quick and easy hit of ne plus ultra ae though is elseq 1 tracks 2-5.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link
I bet they press elseq on vinyl for the 10th ann in 2016
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 08:03 (two years ago) link
*2026
Fuck, just realised that's not far off
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 09:08 (two years ago) link
Unperson, that’s something I want too.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 10:47 (two years ago) link
Speaking of which, I got notified today that my Copies of Chiastic and LP5 have been dispatched and OMG I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR LONGER THAN BQBQBQ
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:21 (two years ago) link
Good news! Hopefully that means mine are en route too. I typically prefer Autechre on CD but I'm very excited to get these.
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
yeah i don't know why i even own Autechre on record, but these are very impotant albums for me and it will be a nice way to rediscover them
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
Just another voice on the Internet saying "I'd like an Elseq CD set" (was even considering some Russian boot but now all I see on Ebay is a thumb drive in a box).
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
Is "buy it and burn it" not an option? or unsatisfying without artwork?
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
the lack of a physical copy means that despite Ae being one of my favorite musical acts ever I'm barely familiar with elseq relative to the rest of the catalog
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:57 (two years ago) link
xp -- probably mostly the latter for me, plus CD-Rs being more likely to degrade over time than factory-pressed discs (Russian boots in my limited experience have been factory-pressed)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 18 November 2021 01:02 (two years ago) link
but lukas is right that it's a ganzfeld on which I hallucinate my soul. I listened to it cranked, a few times in full, during a phase of my life where my emotions were basically unbearable and unprocessable, and it felt like being suspended as a cloud of atoms and was immensely healing to me.
I recently programmed some LED lights to create a visual ganzfeld while in a sauna listening to All End for 20 mins, and this description feels like it matched my experience a bit
― octobeard, Thursday, 18 November 2021 06:03 (two years ago) link
my soul sibling
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 18 November 2021 06:59 (two years ago) link
picking this up again after a year and I never realized how symphonic a lot of this album is. you could almost envision an orchestra playing it. guess I missed a lot of that because I'm not used to hearing stuff like that out of Autechre.
― frogbs, Monday, 22 May 2023 03:07 (ten months ago) link