On an Aphex Twin or Autechre gig, how do the fans call out the tunes they want to hear?

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Well?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

Orally, by title.

― jcartledge (jcartledge), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

They hack into the equipment

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Of course the joke answer would be

A: they don't, they are too busy playing dungeons and dragons.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

There's a numbered ticket system.

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

They can shout 'play some Aphex acid ya c*nt!'.

― moley, Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

You mean you can't pronounce "∆Mi-1=-a ‡” Di[n][ ‡”F ij[n-1]+Fexti[n-1]]
n=1 j?¸C[i]"?

Lightweight.

― Shockah Shockah Hey!!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

This actually came to mind when I was on a Mouse on Mard gig last night... I've been a fan of them for ten years, I own all their LPs except for the latest one, but when thinkign whether I should call out tunes, I realized I could remember the names of maybe three of them. And I had no idea how to pronounce "Schnick Schnack Meltmade" or "Twift Shoeblade". So I just danced.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

But if you call out a pronunciation hopelessly wrong, chances are that other gig-goers will think you're shouting for some obscure track they don't know about, thus upping your gig cred.

― Shockah Shockah Hey!!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

those names are straightforward dude, just sound them out

― seuss, Sunday, 14 August 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but:

A) Mouse on Mars are German, maybe they're not pronounced like English, and

B) they're nonsense anyway, if I'd started to shout SHNICK SCHNACK MELTMADE!! over the crowd roar they'd probably just thought I'd just had a seizure or something.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 14 August 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

F L A S H C A R D S

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 14 August 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

wouldnt it be too loud to yell anything? also, dont ae and afx improvise live?

― fe7 (FE7), Sunday, 14 August 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

this thread is so 1998

― fe7 (FE7), Sunday, 14 August 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Aphex and Autechre have tunes??????

― danny boy (danny boy), Sunday, 14 August 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

see

― fe7 (FE7), Sunday, 14 August 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

The messages are relayed visually via chin strokes.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

i saw autechre live in asheville, north carolina back in may (roxymuzak was there as well). people danced!

they played in complete darkness, one long continuous set with no breaks between songs. pretty intense.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

F L A S H C A R D S
-- brg30 (brg3...) (webmail), August 14th, 2005 12:19 PM. (brg30)

http://www.bangface.com/raves/bf21/gabberlove2.jpg

― Jon Benet Taxidermy (piratestyle), Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I think we should all do the "Free Bird" thing and shout Autechre titles at other bands. Go to a Decemberists show and stand in the front row yelling "P.:ntil! P.:ntil! Play P.:ntil!"

― nabsicothingy, Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

(How you pronounce that is you say "pee," then you stop, like you're done, and then you make a face like you were actually only pausing to separate clauses, and then you say "ntil," as in "lentil.")

― nabsicothingy, Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

rsdio = "rizz dee o"
cipfiter = "sifter"
calbruc = "cow brick"
melve = "dolores"

― nabsicothingy, Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

sussudio = "sue sue sudio oh oh"

― marc h. (marc h.), Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Peek 824545301

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 14 August 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

10 DELETE THREAD
20 REPEAT 10

― donut ferry (donut), Sunday, 14 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

("GOTO" EVEN)

― donut ferry (donut), Sunday, 14 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

JYNEWEYTHEYK YLOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!

WOOOOOO

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

this conjures images of people holding up lighters during "kapol introl"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

They lift their LED-belts over their heads.

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

led belt = ?

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hiphopcapital.com/catalog/led3.html

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000650028432/

― acidmouth (acidmouth), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard a request at a live idm gig. Mind you it's been awhile since my last. So the answer is: they don't, and this alienation between producer and listener is part of their proud committment to the future.

― Lukas (lukas), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

oops, Googley said it first

― Lukas (lukas), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

I saw aphex live last year and he played very little recogniseable material - it was all a mashup of his "sounds" and stuff, in a relatively continuous stream that just got harder and faster as the gig went on. I suspect some people were expecting SAW or something, as some just kind of looked bored and left.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

thats pretty much exactly how the autechre show i saw went.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 15 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

It's all gone a bit John Oswald, has it not.

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

The "Calling out requests at gigs" thread got me thinking about this question again. Surely some fans have tried this at some point?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:45 (fifteen years ago)

"frzxbrd"

― Mark G, Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:56 (fifteen years ago)

A: they don't, they are too busy playing dungeons and dragons.

― frogbs, Thursday, 10 March 2011 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

Tuomas, the boring answer is that Twin/Autechre gigs tend to be jammy freeform affairs with few gaps in between and zero banter between the act and the audience.

― farieling thosder chout a bagh an i ballme crantuman (dog latin), Thursday, 10 March 2011 14:29 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.goskagit.com/article_images/7_30_mw_decoy_4.jpg

― maxwell's silva hamartia (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 March 2011 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

In my (limited) experience people just shout at each other in the quiet bits "ooh that sounded a bit like X but with a bit of Y in it".

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Thursday, 10 March 2011 14:49 (fifteen years ago)

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