@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