Autechre: Elseq

I liked octobeard's post, and agree it's a well argued, err, culling. I may stop short of actually condensing / sequencing the 5 discs this way, but I am very intrigued by his disc 2, which I think, in theory, works especially well

13x0 step/pendulu hv moda/curvcaten is a sweet little run, best autechre since AE_LIVE in Dublin/Utrecht/Denver.. haven't listened through enough yet to determine if the sequence needs a fix, but whatever floats the boat. for comparison, i think the sequence of Drukqs works fine, never thought it problematic and thought it silly to scramble the order. this is an entirely different beast, tho, prob not the best comparison. it's nice everything fits (mp3) on one disc, so i'll just let it run and tune in and out for diff parts. still kinda can't stand that irregular tremolo or whatever it is that causes the sounds to 'short out'/flicker/drop out etc.. same issue with the live material.

I think I'm falling in love.

there's definite harshness/tinniness to mesh cinereaL that makes it a tough listen, though its beautiful in its churning form.. like it's perpetually shedding or mutating. bit harsh, though, yeah

still kinda can't stand that irregular tremolo or whatever it is that causes the sounds to 'short out'/flicker/drop out etc.. same issue with the live material.

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, May 29, 2016 4:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can you give an example of what you mean? I assume you mean the "sampler with the wrong voltage adaptor" type sound all over, for example, "pendulu casual?" If this is what you're referring to, I love how this sounds on headphones but I will concede that on speakers it always sounds like something is shorting out. But maybe that's part of the fun!

Count me among those who finds "Eastre" sorta boring (and I hate using that word as much as you hate reading it). It's not the stasis I mind (it's actually not really static at all), it's the fact that the sounds / textures are just completely uninteresting.

Well I find pendulu casual a bit boring (for now). Consider us enemies (for now).

I don't think there's a single track on this that I find boring (admittedly after only 1.5 listens so far), which is I think the first time I can say this about an autechre album since Confield.

As much as I like autechre, I would never have expected this from a 4 hour album. I am very impressed.

I still need to spend more time with 1 and 2 but I'm moving in that direction myself. 4 just blew me away the other night. I get a very Confield-esque feeling from a lot of these, in that they seem less like pieces of music made by humans and more like elemental forces in action - but then there are the superb beats in latentcall and the teasing way they disappear for a good long portion before slamming back, very human and very appealing.

I'm on a coach ride from London to Bristol. Gonna listen to as much of this as I can and document here.

feed didn't move me too much but I was eating my sandwiches. however I'm getting some seriously chilling 'Kill List' vibes off of those high-pitched tinnitus screeches on c16 deep tread. love how these get offset by the deeper resonances of the tuned drums.

13x0 step is giving me some serious c2009 popstep vibes. I almost expect LaRoux to start singing. Luckily she doesn't. Love how the track nearly overloads itself at the start and keeps sounding like the speakers are going to conk out.

pendulu hv mova - the beginning makes me think of trying to discern a distant danchall tune while desperately trying to cling to flotsam after a shipwreck. there's that feeling of being tugged under and then coming up briefly for air, and that constant 'thunk' all the way through like a lifeboat banging up against the ship's hull. see nice intercommy sounds, like a distorted emergency radio transmission coming through nearer the end.

not really feeling anything special about curvcaten right now.

elyc6 0nset - okay I'm going in again on this one. last time I heard it I was walking around a busy shopping centre in the sunshine and ended up feeling really rather peculiar. The beginning is quite Confieldy but IIRC it switches mode at some point into something really rather different

kind of drifted off a bit for a few tracks. Eastre is okay in its droney, Bachian way but doesn't do anything close to enough to justify the length.
mesh cinereaL just came on though and it's picking up the slack again.

in bed.

I think that elyc6 0nset would be a fine choice for the last thing a human being could hear

lol now you're doing this on purpose

those digital death-squeals, petering out into an infinity of silent bliss...

hahahahaha

so far I think c16 deep tread is my favourite but we got where we were going by the end of elseq 3

shame... esleq 4 is my favorite of the bunch. you're in for a treat with what's left.

lol Whiney at it again: post in 'elseq' thread most like something a serial killer would type

mods really on their game today

one of my favourite things to do is to paste rap and funk tracks over autechre jams. witness 'no type' over 'nodezsh'.

right now I'm thinking missy's 'work it' would sound pretty sweet over c16 deep tread

is murdering people another one of your favorite things? jw

ask the maester column is back on an actual web site:

https://theringer.com/ask-the-maester-game-of-thrones-blood-of-my-blood-bran-samwell-benjen-mad-king-c2f4aeb058ee#.syf5bdi9y

In the article, wildfire is briefly mentioned and it made me wonder whether wildfire could be used against the white walkers

whoops, wrong thread

or was it?

Touring.

love a good murder

this album is killing it

Xxp hooray! Even if they come on at 4am I'm going. Right, off to do some murders.

"oneum" is conjuring up images of some massive metal/stone stylus with several pointed contact points, moving over a stone surface and touching down intermittently, chiseling/scraping the surface, creating those sharp, combed chords and lines of sharp tonal color. lot of heavy friction and sharp, laser-thin vibrations. like nails on a chalkboard, but the abrasiveness is super clean and brilliant. but it's like they spread out all of the good tracks through the five eps, so it's hard to favor one over another (can't pick just one).. though #1 is pretty solid throughout.

ftr the title is pronounced "el seek"

Elseq = LCC

L-Event as well?

Autechre remix of a Giorgio Moroder track : https://bleep.com/release/73267-giorgio-moroder-and-raney-shockne-tron-runr-original-soundtrack

I loved it when they remixed Earth by basically tidying up the sound quality

idk if i ever played the whole of kesto in its entirety but i played the entirety of this the other evening while drinking a nice bottle of burgundy and it was a viable use of a cold shit evening in november (or june as it mendaciously claims to be)

and probably read about some serial killers too, though one scarcely needs herr von weingarten's encouragement in order to do that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Death

I get a very Confield-esque feeling from a lot of these, in that they seem less like pieces of music made by humans and more like elemental forces in action - but then there are the superb beats in latentcall and the teasing way they disappear for a good long portion before slamming back, very human and very appealing.

― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge)

Confield is a good reference point, there's a strong sense of interdependency between the elements within each track, moreso than on Exai where some of the tracks felt somewhat edited, layered, even pieced together in some instances. with elseq there is a stronger feeling of process-based events occurring, as in nature (mold, ecological cause-effect etc.)

just noticed this re tour

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT WILL BE PERFORMED IN COMPLETE DARKNESS

oh nm apparently that's a thing they do

in the weingartenian imagination all autechre titles are in caps lock but surprisingly few irl autechre tracks are

sort of like dj martian posts in that respect

mesh cinereal is reminiscent of tri repetae

Mesh reminds me of a stretched out version of Untilted 's Fermium, too

If anyone notices when they announce the london venue can they bump this thread? I don't visit twitter frequently enough to see it there.

got to let's for the Bristol show in November

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/90819-new-source-for-ab-domino-2010/

scroll through for a link to a well-recorded (audience) set in 2010

marked progression from 'beat'-driven/propulsive material to the more ______ sort of sound art of their recent phase (last couple of years).. set is banging, regardless