Oversteps is a billowy beaut, especially in the context of Exai, which feels brittle and contained (direct) in comparison.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
Spl9 is a stormer, y'ain't wrong.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 11:55 (ten years ago) link
YJY UX is a top tenner... percussion all fleshy and water-logged, melodies comprised of neon vapor clouds w/pixel-y cascades of matter. reminds me of the luminescent, nutrient-rich water in TRON, and the sort of synaesthetic sensations you get from drinking it. shit's hella tactile.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ84hKQPTAA
SYptixed from the new Bleep10 compilation
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 10:12 (ten years ago) link
emo for ostracized autobots
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
exai still hitting the spot. disk 2, with its hard, dark kicks and the brittle-ass trashcan snare of nodezsh. runrepik is kinda skippable/goofball
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 04:31 (ten years ago) link
appreciating this album heavily rn for some reason
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
very groovy. dope beats. totally epic. off the hook, bros. whats that weird smell oh well.
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
This record is a masterpiece really. I'd say their crowning achievement but by no means an instant classic. more like a tapestry which will hopefully be disinterred in years to come and held up as an example of sheer human achievement.
― why dont u say something or like just die (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:10 (nine years ago) link
it really warmed up Oversteps for me, listening to that more nowadays.. still finding Exai a bit unwieldy, sorta big and knotty with a few weak tracks. I suppose that's how all their albums are. the flow of disk 2 feels pretty inconsistent, though it's got its fantastic parts. still sounds alien as ever, pretty much like nobody else. Draft 7.3 is still shaping up as a favorite.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
can't get with runrepik, or T ess xi.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
t ess xi is one of their prettiest tracks though!!
― clouds, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
the beat kinda fucks it for me, and there's an icy sort of mini-stab that occurs with the rhythm that further fucks the beat for me. the background ambiance sure is nice, though. a similar track might be qplay, on oversteps. again, very pretty vapors/pads, but i find more interesting spaces in it. there's a lot of negative space to the beat. t ess xi feels locked up/rigid in comparison.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
oversteps felt like an instant classic for me. won me back over to them again after having lost my faith somewhat. It's sort of a thing now among ae fans that you get into the one you heard before their latest one. In that respect I'm really starting to appreciate the draft/untilted era a lot more than I did before.
― but then again, who really cares? I don’t. (dog latin), Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:53 (nine years ago) link
oversteps felt like a *big* change to me, after falling for a couple fakes (the Altered: Carbon album, mainly), it finally leaked it, and it sounded very fresh (and massive) compared to their previous work. i kinda tired of the noodly-ness of tracks like see on see, and the repetitiousness of the Treale beat, but returning to it, it's quite enveloping. On the whole, a classic for sure.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:18 (nine years ago) link
irlite (get 0) recalls Oversteps, with its excess of 'musical' notes, and that synthetic reverb. i definitely crave more tracks like that -- the dreamy, neon gaseous notes-suspended-in-air quality of Oversteps, with looser percussion.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
too many notes
― clouds, Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
i think what's happening is that i'm listening to this album like it's progressive rock or something and suddenly it's working for me.
disc 2 is definitely hairier but i feel like it has the most striking stuff, spl9 cloudline and yxy ux or w/e
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Thursday, 2 April 2015 05:04 (nine years ago) link
successful and/or fresh stuff i mean
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Thursday, 2 April 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
shh don't say prog LJ will come and do a track by track comparison with "tales from topographic oceans"
― clouds, Thursday, 2 April 2015 06:13 (nine years ago) link
no love for Quaristice? man does that record sound amazing here in 2015.
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Thursday, 2 April 2015 12:30 (nine years ago) link
Back when we did the autechre poll, quaristice (along with the followup ep) is the autechre era that ended up moving way up in my internal autechre ranking. I
― silverfish, Thursday, 2 April 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
Albums that have aged well for me: Untilted, Draft 7:30
Quaristice is one that has actually become more unenjoyable since its release.
In the poll I talked about late period Ae as a jazz band, and in that context a lot of their music, and the improvisational nature of it made a ton of sense to me. Instead of simply improvising notes or progressions they improvise texture, timbre and song structure itself I feel.
Exai is indeed a masterpiece, and coupled with L-Event, Ae seem to be totally hitting a new level of production right now and are totally flying under the radar. I love that every six months or so this thread keeps getting revived by people who are rediscovering it and realizing its mastery.
― octobeard, Friday, 3 April 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
Instead of simply improvising notes or progressions they improvise texture, timbre and song structure itself I feel.
The Trees, off of Untilted, is where this idea sort of registered w/me.. As the track progresses, the beat sort of diffuses (around the 3' mark), and that decrepit melody emerges through the smoldering debris. It's almost as if a negative image of the beat emerges, if you can picture smoke in the air, as it's displaced by diff. shaped pockets of air (percussion).. like the surrounding smoke becomes the beat. that's sort of how i imagine the track. but it's also like a terribly corrupted xerox of the originally intact track that keeps deteriorating. not sure how much of this is improvised, and i read that creating the album was a painstaking process, with a lot of determined programming.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 3 April 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
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― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 April 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
no improvisation no jazz no smoke
― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 April 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
i wouldn't say jazz personally, i guess in the broadest sense, there is definitely an improvisational element, or the sound of improvisation. maybe fusion? on a structural level what i hear is still pretty groove-based. groove a. groove a -> groove b. etc. structurally it's very simple. kind of jam band-esque tbh. i mean the sound design and digital synthesis elements are very evocative, world-creating, avant-garde, imaginative, capable, etc., but the structural forms that are being used remind me of .. the grateful dead. no. fusion-era miles to be more charitable since the hit rate is high imo. mostly it's very successful and but sometimes it's just kind of dull and plodding, the melodic language derived from electro / techno can sound amazing or rote like they are repeating a line they did 15 years ago and the groove can sound alive and breathing/evolving or kind of listless and half-awake, etc.
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Friday, 3 April 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
that is just how i feel
Confield always felt like their 'jazz' album to me, for some reason ...
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Friday, 3 April 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
One thing I love about Exai is that you can hear elements of all their work post LP5 throughout the record. Almost feels like some sort of anthology.
Anyone ever felt their music is incredibly synaesthetic? There is something beautifully sculptural and visually abstract about their music. Every song reveals some sort of evolving visual structure in my head a la their video for Gantz Graf.
― octobeard, Friday, 3 April 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Confield is probably the last album of theirs that I eagerly return to in full. This is the last Autechre song I can't get enough of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyOGNhdhlAY
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 April 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
When I saw matmos live in 07 or 08, it brought to mind fusion-era miles for some reason.
― brimstead, Friday, 3 April 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
SPL9and CLOUDLINEandRECKS ONpeople. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?
― MatthewK, Saturday, 4 April 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
YJY UX?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 4 April 2015 12:43 (nine years ago) link
but the structural forms that are being used remind me of .. the grateful dead
Never knowingly heard the grateful dead and I'm not gonna start now, dubious comparisons or no.
― ledge, Saturday, 4 April 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
he's only talking about the architectonics -- i.e. instead of ABACABA it's ABCDEFG &c
― clouds, Saturday, 4 April 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
ABX5¥ヮ◕
― ledge, Saturday, 4 April 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
idk ae's style is pretty straightforward and relatable to me! i've never heard all these imagistic things that ppl talk about so much as a considerate sense of play both with and against form and an ear for cool timbres.
― clouds, Sunday, 5 April 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Friday, April 3, 2015 5:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
can I just
― Romantic Canon Autech' (imago), Sunday, 5 April 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
no
― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Sunday, 5 April 2015 00:52 (nine years ago) link
"not even wrong" etc
― clouds, Sunday, 5 April 2015 00:56 (nine years ago) link
On tour
Hmmm that mystery date (not sure why it's a mystery) ...
09/25 – SEATTLE / WA THE SHOWBOX
?
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Live in brixton in nov, allegedly, although nothing on their or the warp website about it. Sold out anyway (allegedly) :(, and 10pm-6am (allegedly), not to speak for all hard-working middle aged ae fans out there but that is way past my bedtime these days :(
― ledge, Monday, 20 July 2015 11:59 (eight years ago) link
(oversteps was £3 in fopp the other day. which is the kind of thing that makes me think of buying a spare copy just to give away)
― koogs, Monday, 20 July 2015 12:05 (eight years ago) link
what https://autechre.bleepstores.com/
live gigs o'plenty
― Brakhage, Thursday, 29 October 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i thought you meant tickets
― ledge, Thursday, 29 October 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
Invite only...
― koogs, Thursday, 29 October 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
check your email? i got one, don't know if i signed up to a mailing list sometime or it's because i'm a bleep customer or what.
― ledge, Thursday, 29 October 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
Nope. But then the last thing I bought from bleep was a warp 20 T shirt...
― koogs, Thursday, 29 October 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
what kind of store is invite only?
are these boots?
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 October 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link