There's a track that's total Stereolab dots/loops: " T ess xi"
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
How bout a review of "bladelores" ?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
Like the funky drummer break slowed down about 10 times until it's just this humungous unrelenting thwack echoing into a bottomless chasm. Dirty, gritty little acid squiggles weave around the beat and after a while these great plumes of almost trancey/housey chords start breaking through like the sun coming up on a sodden morning. It's actually a really beautiful piece of music in the same way that Cichli or Garbagemx36 start out quite ugly and malformed but slowly form into a cohesive something or other. Of course as soon as you think everything's going to go full on chorale bliss, Ae pull it all back under and it's back into the boggy marsh, before repeating the whole trick again except this time we're treated to an extended outro of washy church-like organ chords.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Sunday, 27 January 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
Why do I suspect that reading dog latin's description might be more enjoyable than listening to the actual track!
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 27 January 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't that how it always is?
― afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 27 January 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
thanks dog latin! the wait is too long.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
still nothing on slsk — a few ppl have some tracks but they're never online long enough to download them
― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
they're fakes
nobody bump this til it leaks, the hope is killing every time u click ;_;
― Why they hide the bodice under décolletage? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
:C
― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
the fakes are just mp3s of silence.. the Oversteps anticipation/debacle was complicated by (convincing) fake "leaks," like the mis-labeled Altered Carbon album and the (well done) WATMM faeks. a lot of people were fooled. and then the actual album came out, and people thought it was fake.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
how is it possible that so many people with promos could be so fucking stuck up and uptight on such a massive scale?
― dojo, Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I was actually fooled by one of the Oversteps fakes.
― dojo, Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
if you had a promo, would you really put it up on soulseek??
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
no. to be honest I was just making that post in the hopes that someone would see it and feel guilty. haha.
― dojo, Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
This is the first review I've come across.
http://www.failme.net/2013/02/polyrhythm-nation.html
― crowhurst, Sunday, 3 February 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
annoyed this release is still a month off... they gotta give us a little somethin, or SOMETHING. tide us over
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 3 February 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
sheet music here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/4011063078_ebb3af554d_o.jpg
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 3 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
Memories of their full frontal assault that was their 'Oversteps' tour
damnit the first time i missed them live since 97.
― ledge, Monday, 4 February 2013 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
Spectre of hip hop through blasted circuits... Track 2 they give us a wee melody... That review was straight out of the "new Autechre album review" generator!
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Monday, 4 February 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
How are their two most recent albums holding up? (Quaristice and Oversteps). Naturally there's a hell of a lot of buzz in the weeks (months!) leading up to a new Autechre release. Just wondered whether all that hype was justified now that the dust has settled on those two albums.
― millmeister, Monday, 4 February 2013 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
I still maintain Oversteps is among the best of their work. This one is very good, but perhaps the first time I've felt like I'm not running to keep up with them. More a continuation and refinement of their sound - which is arguably a first for Autechre.
― dog latin, Monday, 4 February 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
Both flawed but worthy - Quaristice too patchy (but part of a sprawling set of album, deluxe disc and digital EPs totalling 4+ hours); Oversteps quite subdued in the complexity department; neither very melodic. Apparently Exai is much more complex, coherent and melodic so COME ON WARP RELEASE THE DAMN THING ALREADY.
― MatthewK, Monday, 4 February 2013 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
Oversteps quite subdued in the complexity department; neither very melodic.
You think? I saw it as a return to form really. I did enjoy Quaristice but it felt like a bit of an undertaking whereas Oversteps felt much more accessible, but still very interesting and just the right amount of melodicism to keep my attention.
― dog latin, Monday, 4 February 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
Neither of those hit me like Untilted.
― abcfsk, Monday, 4 February 2013 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
I've gone back to Quaristice lately. It's better than I remembered. A bit patchy for sure, but the good stuff is really good.
― silverfish, Monday, 4 February 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
quaristice is great; eg. this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WJr3baPOtU
― groundhog-enorme-toute-grosse-253x300.jpg (clouds), Monday, 4 February 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
the sound of computers farting
― ☏ (am0n), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
that is great indeed, i have an album by them, i think it is the one before quaristice and it was kind of challenging so i didn't follow them after that.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
ah, the confield/draft7.30/untilted holy trinity
― imago, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
i am still listening to the quaristice remixes. the last pile of them. (haven't yet been too into the album itself.) and move of ten.
― j., Tuesday, 5 February 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
confield is fantastic
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
yes, it was called confield.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 06:46 (eleven years ago) link
I'd call LP5/EP7/Confield their holy trinity. But I find something incredible on everything they have released, with the exception of Incunabula. I agree Oversteps is accessible, which isn't really what I want from them, I like a challenge.C'mon Warp. Let it out!
― MatthewK, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
The only LPs I would group together in terms of some kind of thematic progression as opposed to random orthogonal shifts are Amber/Tri Repetae/Chiastic Slide. But in terms of quality the quintessence is Amber/Tri Repetae/Chiastic Slide/LP5/Confield.
― ledge, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
Chiastic/LP5/EP7 is their best run for me, even though Chiastic is kind of patchy. Still haven't managed to quite embrace the Confield/Draft7.30/Untilted era.
― dog latin, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
What I felt was the joy of Untilted is they really fkn went for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtC-iN_PFlM
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
That and the funky party jams http://youtu.be/xb6Drqycw1Uand the melodies http://youtu.be/h5SSliqSfg8
Ok I'm pretty sure Untilted is my favorite Autechre album
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
tbh never really liked quaristice but the quaristice.quadrange.ep.ae is awesome, esp perlence subrange 6-36
come on put the album somewhere for the rest of us we will buy it anyway
― very impressive thing in css (wolves lacan), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 12:25 (eleven years ago) link
The live shows from the Untilted tour, like this one, are awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoD68ak3mw8
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
fuck yeah
― j., Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, those sets kill.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
I think I saw them (well, heard them; they played in the dark) back in 2008. What tour was that?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
quaristice
― silverfish, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
omg
― ledge, Thursday, 7 February 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
nice surprise in the email this morning, yes
― Brakhage, Thursday, 7 February 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
17 tracks - 2HR 32SEC
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 7 February 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
huge download just for the mp3, got a meeting in half an hour ;_; it's a tragedy i tells ya
― ledge, Thursday, 7 February 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
"irlite (get 0)"
Yes. Mighty.
― Doran, Thursday, 7 February 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Going for the 24bit so ... this will take a while
― Brakhage, Thursday, 7 February 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link