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 (eleven months ago) link