Running times of the five volumes:
52:1945:3453:2746:5249:26
That's 247:38 total. You need a minimum of four CDs to hold that.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link
xpost yeah maybe. sort of 'Grande Polyphonie' era Bayle hiding under the beats during the first half. I sure do love Bayle. no one ever posts to the Bayle thread.
really dislike the idea of buying a physical edition of this two to five disc album again later, but I was too impatient to wait.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
the other two tracks of elseq 2 are also excellent, agitated and glitchy
― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
first impression: they do feel like 5 distinct collections, probably should have split them up instead of just queueing all in one go
― StanM, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
lol someone .5 star'd this within 30 minutes of it appearing on RYM
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link
Ha whoa I was totally distracted by the high price point and missed how CRAZY LONG this album is. Really glad this isn't the 'repackaged live stuff' I was fearing
― Brakhage, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
did a quick skim of all of it and it's exactly what I'm in the mood for this year
last year I broke down and bought the rest of the roland kayn CDs I didn't have, so all 29 of them have been in random shuffle -- another pioneer of an algorithmic approach to music, where the point is an unknowable flood of so much of it that you stop thinking of it in terms of 'pieces' or 'albums' or even physical media, you stop consciously thinking of it in terms of putting on a specific album. you just engage with it as sound without that record-geek side of your consciousness stepping in to track or map which one's your favorite or which album it is or which stage of his career it is you're dealing with and instead it is all continuum. which is pretty much where you want to be; I don't want to know which disc I'm listening to.
roland kayn isn't on spotify or apple music of course, and those discs were expensive, so there's still a good deal of record geekery going on in getting myself to that space. but as everyone else I know is basically cozying up to the stream, generative music pieces from the 70s-90s is exactly what is helping me deal with living in a world that's making that transition
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
they were doing something like that with quaristice versions
― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
yeah I still think of Quaristice (Versions) as the quote-unquote "real" album. might have another go with those Quadrange EPs - dunno if I can stomach that 58 minute track again though
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
Current status
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdvu5ubs2J1qznncz.jpg
― Brakhage, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
yeah i forget which of the quaristice versions/ep/etc tracks are which, just the generative idea eastre (22:15) = this feels like it might have been generated from 'altichyre'
― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
Oh well I guess that's where I'll be starting then. When I get a chance.
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
arright then. let us know what happens
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
Sure thing kid, if I make it out alive.
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
Fuck it, I'm gonna splurge on this and then make it the soundtrack for my flight to Detroit
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
:)
― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn1.bigcommerce.com/server2600/szowplm/products/1415/images/5693/Motor_City_Cheer_iPhone_Case__95942.1438129438.500.750.jpg?c=2
― map, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
ashley must hear this
― home organ, Friday, 20 May 2016 02:48 (eight years ago) link
c16 deep tread is tiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 20 May 2016 04:02 (eight years ago) link
5 albums. Okay what am I, a machine??
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 20 May 2016 08:06 (eight years ago) link
Has it really been 4 years since Exai? Needless to say I'm still just scratching the surface of that one.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 20 May 2016 08:09 (eight years ago) link
Only 3 yrs since Exai
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Friday, 20 May 2016 09:20 (eight years ago) link
And I'm still finding new stuff in it!
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Friday, 20 May 2016 09:21 (eight years ago) link
I'm still finding new tracks in it.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 20 May 2016 09:49 (eight years ago) link
Listened to 3 last night. mesh cinereaL sounds like this:
http://www.pocmtobs.com/-%20New%20Folder/Nasa/Dscn0034a.jpg
Also has two quality lol moments, I was grinning when it finished. I yearn for more! I did have a freaky scary dream afterwards but hopefully that wasn't related.
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Friday, 20 May 2016 12:07 (eight years ago) link
To gear myself up to this, I've been revisting Quaristice and Oversteps, one of the most underrated eras of Autechre for some reason.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 20 May 2016 12:54 (eight years ago) link
Where can I hear whole versions of these tracks? They're cutting off at the 1 minute mark.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 20 May 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
Generally involves purchase.
― MatthewK, Friday, 20 May 2016 12:59 (eight years ago) link
I remember when Exai came out I complained that this was too much autechre to take in at once.
If this trend continues, their next album is going to be 8 hours long
― silverfish, Friday, 20 May 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
I should point out though, that 3 tracks in, I'm enjoying this very much
― silverfish, Friday, 20 May 2016 13:17 (eight years ago) link
mesh cinereaL is primo stuff. have only heard parts of 4 and 5, but it sounded good on the surface.. some of the sounds recalling their late 90s ep7/lp5 tones and textures, and some weird, minimal dub-ish shit. lot of shuddering reverb/decay
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 20 May 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
End of c16 deep tread is straight outta the live sets.
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Friday, 20 May 2016 21:35 (eight years ago) link
nobody can shudder a reverb like sean and rob
― home organ, Friday, 20 May 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
you know, like the outro of bladelores. and that of nodezsh
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 20 May 2016 23:42 (eight years ago) link
Well, just getting around to listening to this... probably heard about ~60% now. Lots of tracks feel like they're missing something. Some are mind blowing and classic. Feels like the Quadrange EP in relation to Quaristice. Or like they decided to release the entire batch of tracks they were considering for an album in anticipation of said album.
While I really love a good chunk of what I've heard so far, my first instinct right now is editing this down to a 70-90 min version of epicness, because it's there.
Some track thoughts:spaces how V - feels like a remix of an old Oversteps track. doesn't fit the aesthetic, but I do enjoy the overdriven reverb moments(any of the songs >20 mins) - noodly, too long, and unnecessarypendulu casual, TBM2 - fantastic ideas and soundscapes that work for 2 minutes or as a starting point, but just don't really go anywhere, alaspendulu hv moda, foldfree casual - holy crap this is amazing. like career highlight amazing.disc 4 is my favorite so far
― octobeard, Friday, 20 May 2016 23:47 (eight years ago) link
is no one else just a little bit pissed off with this kind of bullshit?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Saturday, 21 May 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
Eh not really, I don't know. I'm happy they're releasing new tunes and I'm happy supporting them in their endeavors. If you assumed a five disc release wasn't going to contain huge swaths of filter, don't know what to tell you. My Autechre friend who I geek out with this is holding off until the physical release and I don't blame him.
― octobeard, Saturday, 21 May 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
Filler not filter. Plenty of filters in this release too though
― octobeard, Saturday, 21 May 2016 03:22 (eight years ago) link
xpost - according to warp there will be no physical edition
― linee, Saturday, 21 May 2016 04:05 (eight years ago) link
Xxxp - what bullshit? Are you just pissed off you can't stream them?
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 21 May 2016 04:37 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I know I've drunk the ae kool-aid but I'm not pissed off that my favourite band have released more material. Did people get pissed off by aphex's soundcloud dump? Ok that was free. Or the Beatles' 12 albums in 8 years?
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
Anyway, a previously unplanned solo 5 hour drive on tuesday will give me a chance to play the whole thing at decent volume, a rare chance with a baby in the house (10 weeks a bit young to start ae indoctrination).
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
they're digital champions
― home organ, Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
haha i'd had a few beers and i was being facetious upthread. Just y'know, it takes time to digest an Autechre release. 5 Of them in one go is like trying to eat a whole pack of crackers in one sitting with no water.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:45 (eight years ago) link
more isn't always more.
and yeah that soundcloud dump was a bit ridiculous too. most of it was rubbish and i didn't have the patience to filter through all 130 tracks or whatever they were in the hope of recapturing what, the old Aphex magic? I dunno, at least with Syro he had the decency to whittle things down to a single album.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:48 (eight years ago) link
it's ok to get one of these at a time if you want
― home organ, Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
they should probably release another ep so dog latin can liken it to eating approximately one twelfth of a packet of crackers in one sitting
― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
i.e. one cracker. unless it's one of those 'EPs' that's as long as an album plus a 40 minute ambient track tacked on the end.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
you could also maybe add FSOL's endless stream of archival releases & Moby's very long ambient albums, though this along with the Aphex dump all seem like very different things than what Autechre & Underworld are doing. both those groups have always produced a ton of music & I think the 'trend' is just to go, "what if we didn't have to cut this to an hour?". to me there isn't a huge difference in what Ae is doing now and say, the Tri Rep/Garbage/Anvil Vapre period, or say LP5/EP7, just that those releases were edited to fit the CD and these aren't. which in turn affects the sort of things they choose to pursue. in Underworld's case, they've always had endless B-sides and non-album tracks for people to obsess over, most of which just never got released
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
to me this definitely feels like artists not having the constraint of physical media as the main distribution method anymore and adjusting accordingly + having a solid enough fan base so that they can release really long and possibly difficult material and know that enough people are willing to put in the required time to listen to that material
― silverfish, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
Also more releases probably = more streaming revenue, right?
― lukas, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
Well, since streaming revenue is per track listened rather than time listened, then autechre are possibly making bad business decisions.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
of course since Oversteps their releases have roughly gone 1, 2, 4, 8 hours in duration - awaiting the next with interest
Two more and they'll be up there with Terre Thaemlitz's Soulnessless (16GB microSD card, 32 hours). I never bought that, but I did get that Farmers Manual DVD-ROM back in the day. About 93 hours of material on that. Of which I think I've heard about 2%. Still, time off over Xmas, eh?
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
if you just play them all the time then you don't have to remember anything
― j., Tuesday, December 3, 2019 1:26 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is pretty much my philosophy
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
fretting about remembering track titles is for boomers
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
― silverfish, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 10:44 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
tbf this level of loyalty currently applies to about .02% of all living / working artists
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
https://8apr.de/transmediale/
― j., Saturday, 4 January 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
Listening to curvcaten and the percussion feels like it's crawling into my ears(love that wall piece too, j.)
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 6 March 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link
"feed1" is the best thing that's ever happened to me
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:08 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 4 December 2020 04:53 (three years ago) link
7th slip is so weird. It's really weird audio. It starts off weird and then gets weirder.
― silverfish, Thursday, 15 June 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
very weird. some autechre tracks are like a really bizarre cursed image to me. i listen in horrified awe.
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 15 June 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
Nine is the most cursed of them all
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
Not Mine, Bine
Argh fecking phone.
I definitely mean Bine. Not Nine. And certainly not Mine, which is a track on their next album
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
I feel like there's cursed but I dig it, and just plain cursed - lots of NTS 2 & 3 and the entirety of l-event just has me scratching my head.
― ledge, Friday, 16 June 2023 08:16 (one year ago) link
I think this might be their best
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
Actually, it's probably NTS Sessions
MODS
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
was gonna say
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
no it's this one
― ivy., Tuesday, 29 August 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
Let's settle this:Latent Poll: Pick your favorite long form Autechre album (2013-2020)
― octobeard, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
'c16 deep tread' has always been a highlight for me on Elseq. Those high, shrieking, wailing sounds towards the end are so spooky. Might have already said this, but it reminds me of that penultimate scene in Ben Wheatley's 'Kill List' wehre they get chased through those tunnels by the demonic sect members.
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 31 August 2023 09:30 (one year ago) link
I think "foldfree casual" is their single most beautiful track. Soul-piercing synths
― J. Sam, Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
eastre has become something of a fave over the last 6 months or so.
― koogs, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 20:38 (two weeks ago) link
this is tighter than NTS so I think it wins
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 21:41 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.combinatorics.org/files/Surveys/ds7/ds7v5-2009/pic/17x17.gif
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 22:09 (two weeks ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Baker%27s_map_mixing.gif
― Ubiquitor, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 02:38 (two weeks ago) link