Not that I want to project what tlg is getting at
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
garbage is supremely sad
― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
It is.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link
latentcall from elseq gives me a similar feeling and has jerked a tear or two from me.
― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
it's so crazy to think it's been 24 years since amber. that's equivalent to 1974-1998!
― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
None of which is to detract from how great an album Tri Repetae is - as with Amber, part of its greatness stems from how Autechre were exploring so many possible directions in tandem with a lot of different producers and carving out their own distinct sound within what was a dense field of innovation and cross-pollination.
― Tim F, Friday, May 4, 2018 4:54 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tim otm
it’s not necessarily that i think autechre were “advanced” at this point in their career as much as amber as a whole accesses a v specific mood for me. it’s definitely connected to other contemporaneous dance music but it’s special via the particular approach
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
This was my favorite AE album and in some ways probably still is. These days the old FM patches grate a little and I wonder why nobody else points out that a lot of the tracks don’t “go” anywhere but that’s probably more about how I’ve changed and not about this record.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
going places is overrated
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:39 (six years ago) link
Also how come someone on this thread is asking for other IDM albums from this time frame that sound like this and nobody said B12
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
“Nine” is basically straight off Time Tourist ffs
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
true but i didn’t bring it up because time tourist was two years after amber
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:11 (six years ago) link
i’m listening to rihanna needed me at the taco shop and it sounds like she’s singing over autechre
if you want a straightfaced recommendation for “sounds just like amber” it’s not going to be 100% easy because they nicely carved out a niche for themselves - there’s a lot of darker ambient electro from the era that dhares the atmospheres and synths but not the beats, there’s plenty of stuff with the intricate beats but the atmospherics are different (b12 would fit here). the closest i can think of is higher intelligence agency but that doesn’t have the steel grey aesthetic ... so yeah, reiterating my sense that the most special thing about autechre is their manipulation of mood and atmosphere
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:22 (six years ago) link
dhares = has
torta fingers
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link
if you want a straightfaced recommendation for “sounds just like amber” it’s not going to be 100% easy because they nicely carved out a niche for themselves
hm sounds pretty advanced
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
Whether or not they went on to go more "advanced" is a bit of a misnomer anyway - "abrasive" yes, with new plugins yes.
― Siegbran, Friday, May 4, 2018 10:16 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i agree with this but i don't know how to broach without incurring the wrath of all the autechre fanboyz here
it wasn't so much new plugins as it was gradually moving to max/msp and an object-oriented programming approach to composition though, right? at least that's how i always think of their transition from more conventionally arranged music of the amber era to their amoebic morphing (but always readily identifiable as autechre) recent music.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard torta fingers fwiw but I trust you.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:31 (six years ago) link
ah yes i forgot that these two guys making syncopated industrial with delay units are such an important totem that bringing up other artists not named Richard is just silly I mean why bother
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
dhares = has Was a banger tho.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:33 (six years ago) link
The niche was carved in Tri Repetae / Garbage / Anvil Vapre - Amber is not as special for its time as some people are making it out to be
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
i don’t really think we’re making it out to be special
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
unless oh damn, these dudes aren’t special!!!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
tlg just paused mid-sandwich to explain how nothing else sounds like this record
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
jeez dude take a chill pill
you’re a special and valuable person, whether or not the music you like is
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
that is not tlg’s point at all
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
tombot u mean richard h kirk right?
i’m just confused about why we have to spend so much time determining why autechre is not special especially during this record
i’d be totally fine with talking about contemporaneous work if it wasn’t framed with this bullshit
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
because rockism must be crushed
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link
serious answer because determining why they’re not special helps us determine how they are unique
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
:O
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
also “we” don’t have to spend time doing anything, you can either FP or killfile or even talk about something more interesting to you if you don’t like my line of inquiry
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
lol i mean honestly i’m relatively new to *loving* autechre so it’s not like i have any actual input so sorry
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
listening to amber now it feels a little stiff and incoherent to me (not unlike some recent posts by old guys in this thread, woah!). they aren't more advanced now but they're definitely more relaxed.
― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
xxxxxxxxxxp
karl otm except thery’re not really ahead of the curve w the techniques so much as they’ve just devoted a lot of time (like a lot a lot) to refining the techniques
and ended up w something people find relatively ... accessible?
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
they’ve just devoted a lot of time (like a lot a lot) to refining the techniques
like how i feel about death metal, this is honestly better to me than.. idk, “new” techniques, whatever those are
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
for taerjerking Ae I turn to "rae"
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
i’m not really into cutting edge production myself
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
people have been making music like nu autechre for a while now though (50 years?)
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link
I feel like this was of a piece with a lot of IDM in the early & mid-nineties and the main things that really separate it are the absence of any 4/4 bass drum and the way things kinda meander instead of following the buildups & breakdowns arrangement rules of the time. I voted Nine because it sounds like Eutow’s parent.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
i think that’s why people always compare it to machines that are running by themselves
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
― the late great, Friday, May 4, 2018 9:07 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok gimme a digest
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
it's pretty cool to see these different takes in one place - new fan discovering the old magic, old fan going hard on the old magic, drunk guy. i really responded to the 90s stuff for many years (still after the fact tho) and lost the thread after "gantz graf." but elseq came out and now more than 15 years later i'm a johnny come lately to everything they've been doing, probably to the annoyance of lowell, ledge and others.
one thing i really don't agree with or like is the evolutionary, technique-driven timeline that has been beaten into the ground with talk of upgrades and the vanguard and so forth. i think it obscures what has really happened with two people who have been making visionary music for this long -- they eventually found techniques that matched what they wanted to do all along and what they were actually doing earlier within certain constraints of equipment. and now there's a richness and self-assuredness to the music that they've been developing for much longer with a particular toolset than any toolset they used in the first ten years that feels more mature, broad, wicked, funny, dynamic, relaxed, exciting, basically everything good about musicians whose well doesn't run dry.
― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
that is a great post map
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:33 (six years ago) link
xp digest away
http://www.discogs.com/label/58423-Prospective-21e-Siècle
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:33 (six years ago) link
xxp that sounds right map except
what they were actually doing earlier within certain constraints of equipment
don't hear this
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
oh damn never heard of xenakis before
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:38 (six years ago) link
hm why'd you ask then?
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link
― the late great, Saturday, May 5, 2018 5:36 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
by this i'm referring to all of the really wild syncopation that it felt like they were taking great pains to make sound as accidental and organic as possible. like they got as far as they could with sequencing machines and once they found a platform where they could be much more indeterminate with rhythm suddenly it sounded like all hell broke loose, but they were always trying to make that kind of music with the more grid-bound tools they were first using. that tension used to be the coolest thing about early autechre to me, but now i think i'm a lot more appreciative of what they do melodically.
― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:56 (six years ago) link
ok i get what you're saying, i get that the aleatory elements were always there (at least since flutter) but i feel autechre were much much better when the tension between avant garde and functional was still there
― the late great, Saturday, 5 May 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I’m all for odd time signatures and I absolutely get escaping the gravity of loops. But.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 May 2018 05:06 (six years ago) link