Are you telling me this is AE: SIGN? (Autechre LP 14)

I love it already.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

Those pesky sound designers next door

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.

avoid the chat. are those things always like this? gonna periodically check in here instead

love this already btw

damn

imagining myself on a beach tbh

Stuck at a city hall meeting #sadlol

Enjoy people.

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

lol i never dreamed of looking at the chat, same as i turn it off if i'm watching a football stream

yeah it's gorj so far. leaving the chat tab hidden for sure

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

ah here we go on some electro shit

omg whut with this 2nd track already

oversteps feel here. so lush though! almost feels like they're trolling us.

soo...Oversteps 2??? nice

def lush

If this is trolling, keep trolling me daddy

beautiful

SFJ interview with the guys

https://sfj.substack.com/p/autechre-sign

sounds almost progressive / symphonic. they've really developed a lot melodically.

ugh no thanks to having to sift through sfj words xp

i checked in on the stream late and but whatever is happening now is phenomenal

this disembodied marimbas thing is great
and NEW
how are they always new?

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.”

gently burbling programmatic music w mean ole bass

There's some really interesting, subtle delay FX on those marimbas that have been building over the whole track in the background there

and that dry muffled kick I always love

there are a couple more quotes in the article ... for those who DARE

gently burbling programmatic music w mean ole bass

― 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

omg jerk my tears why dont u

Oh HELL yeah. Oversteps 2 is exactly what I wanted

this is incredible so far

woot

This is easily the first Ae album fans who departed in 2001 might actually enjoy. Much more so than even Oversteps.

it's very complex in a melodic way. 2-4 have been basically ambient.

beat back tho

the funk

snappin

8-bit chirpin

into it

Sakamoto vibes

the expanding universe

this reminds me of fennesz a little bit!

oh man it's so pretty

most flat out beautiful track they've done in a decade

feeling like i'm trapped in a slow-motion horror film and klaus schulze did the soundtrack

yeah I already like the beatless tracks here better than all the beatless tracks on NTS (and I'm a freak for NTS)

very emotional

ok we're gonkin

The comment above about "How are they always new?" is ringing hard with this.

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

@unperson yes! My NTS Sessions CD set gives me warm wibbles and it's a shame we can't have the same with Elseq.

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.

I bet they press elseq on vinyl for the 10th ann in 2016

*2026

Fuck, just realised that's not far off

Unperson, that’s something I want too.

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

Good news! Hopefully that means mine are en route too. I typically prefer Autechre on CD but I'm very excited to get these.

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

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).

Is "buy it and burn it" not an option? or unsatisfying without artwork?

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

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)

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

my soul sibling

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.