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offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2008-03-08 16:39 [#02183156]
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hell has no fury like an ae fan pissed off


 

offline NewSkoolScience from Outer Bongolia on 2008-03-08 16:46 [#02183161]
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ae fans are the best, most loyal fans in the whole of
electronica. They are also the most well informed and
eloquent bunch in the whole of fandom.


 

offline pigster from melbs on 2008-03-08 17:26 [#02183205]
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there's some good scans here if you're still
looking.


 

offline oyvinto on 2008-03-08 17:28 [#02183210]
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that looks hot. /me awaits tha mail woman


 

offline penexpers from Toronto (Canada) on 2008-03-08 19:36 [#02183262]
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SonDEre-ix is good.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2008-03-08 19:44 [#02183263]
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getting my cock sucked whilst listening to this shit would
be the closest to bdsm ive ever got


 

offline Ead1528 from Bucks County, PA (United States) on 2008-03-08 19:57 [#02183268]
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It sound like little is different in the new versions. What
a disappointment.
I got it for free anyway. Since it IS AVAILABLE AS A FLAC
TORRENT.


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2008-03-08 22:22 [#02183301]
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but it's hard to say which ones are the "new" versions,
considering this is not really a "later" release by any
means, simply alternate, perhaps even a rougher draft


 

offline pigster from melbs on 2008-03-08 22:43 [#02183302]
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isn't it clearly obvious that one cd is brown's version and
the other is booth's?? its up to you to figure out which is
which!


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2008-03-08 23:49 [#02183312]
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clear as day is night. id rather listen to elusive give a 5
hour lecture on cisco.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2008-03-08 23:52 [#02183313]
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ive heard more melody coming out of kenny wheelers arsehole.


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-03-09 05:43 [#02183360]
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"The real album" HAHAHAHA! Imagine if it had ben
released the other way round with the 11 track version being
the main release and the 20 track one as a bonus collection
of outtakes and vague reworkings. How many über fans would
be banging on about that being the real album, the
director's cut version only for the hardcore? There are some
nice (vague) reworkings / less-edited versions here that
makes a nice bonus CD but doesn't justify the heavy price
tag. The tracks rather than reworked just sound unedited.
The PLCLCpc and Phlyopn are barely
distingishable from the originals, maybe 12" versions in the
old days. Perlence Range 3 is an improvment on the
"official" version butjust fizzles out at the end rather
disappointingly. Nobody but nobody needs another version of
IO, the worst track on the album by far.
SonDre-ix is just awful, throwaway cod-horror
soundtrack. Tankraken takes the main meaty beat,
which sure, is a good one (or a thousand beats, if you're
Sean) and just runs with it in a slightly different way and
again just fizzles out. fol4 is less intrusive than
the "original", giving it more room to breathe. It sounds
like a good track buried under some "F.U.C.K" filter set to
11. Which is fine. 11 mminutes of it going nowehere is no
fun though. How about an 11 minute version of paralel Suns
or Altibzz?

The original album version of "90101-51-1" is far superior
and one of the highlights of the album. This "bonus" version
just sounds like it was recorded through next doors wall.
"chenc9-x" sounds like a longer version of "chenc9" (oh
great) "noufour.x" is nice, but sounds like Berlin period
David Bowie remaking SAW II.


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-03-09 05:44 [#02183361]
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Somethng for the collector, sure, and there's nothing
particularly wrong with that, but mad people suggesting this
is the "real" album have spent so long listening to Draft
that their faculties in regard to to music and the ability
to recognise being fleeced by marketing have long since been
fused by exposure to the radiation emitted by huge
mechadroids fighting it out on alien civilisations while new
impossible universes are born ever nanosecond yadda yadda. I
don't think this reveals any of their process ord
evelopment, it just sounds like lesser-edited versions of
the album proper. Still, nice metal sleeve case.

"Quaristice" is a brilliant, brilliant album. If this
material had been released as an EP ok, but I suspect the
audience for this music is dwindling and sales figures are
maintained by fans buying the vinyl, the CD AND the limited
edition AND in some cases the Flacs before the physical
release (potentially the same album 4 times in total) Which,
without knowing anythng, I'd say was more Warp than Ae's
fault.

Nice idea but I think it rather tarnishes Quaristice's epic
reputation. No wonder there was only 1000.


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2008-03-09 07:17 [#02183366]
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i picked up my copy yesterday. here are some ultra hi-res
screenshots of the case:

steel 01 steel 02


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2008-03-09 07:34 [#02183367]
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I basically agree about the main point. It certainly
wouldn't work as the "real album", at least not by itself as
it is. It doesn't have much of a flow or a closure. The
20-track Quaristice flows really well from beginning to
end.

But, I disagree about IO which I think is brilliant. And if
you're not expecting things to be too different, this CD
works well.

But the "real" Quaristice this is not.

Most of the tracks on the 20-track disc already contain the
relevant information extracted from the longer tracks, which
makes these longer versions feel just what they are:
extended JAMS. I think their shorter versions work in many
cases just as well - it might just take a few more listens
to take in all the beats and grooves when the running time
is 3-4 minutes. No time to "let it sink in", as there is
here, with more repetition.

And yes, a few of the tracks actually sound better on the
second disc, much better, and for this reason I still think
they should not have deprived the rest of us from being able
to purchase these versions. But they must have seen piracy
coming, so I guess that's their choice.

I'm very happy with both of the discs, though, and I think
they complement each other nicely.


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2008-03-09 07:41 [#02183369]
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is that what you call an album with 'benefits'?


 

offline avart from nomo' on 2008-03-09 07:55 [#02183370]
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It was wrong regarding "Leave in silence", but right in the
context of the ae of now! :D


 

offline jules from United States on 2008-03-09 08:04 [#02183371]
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heres why i think the bonus album is brilliant. ae always
know how fickle and over-critical somee of their fans can
be. they also know that these fans can not accept ae's
newest release until the next one comes out. so this was a
clever way to get those people to flip around and like the
quaristice album again. well played.


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2008-03-09 09:38 [#02183387]
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fol4

nothing more need be said


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2008-03-09 09:39 [#02183388]
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that typecast style really comes out on cd's when its put
circularly, looks good. not so much in straight lines


 

offline jules from United States on 2008-03-09 09:47 [#02183392]
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agree completely with fol4. i also really love the end of
Perlencer range3


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2008-03-09 09:54 [#02183394]
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haha! i mean what i meant to say was..

a tower of glory. this pounds with atmosphere, creating a
dramatic soundtrack for a film which is created in your
minds eye :)

i never did like paul weller very much anyway... :)


 

offline Ead1528 from Bucks County, PA (United States) on 2008-03-09 15:26 [#02183480]
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I O (mons) is a better version of that track in my opinion.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-03-09 15:46 [#02183484]
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Yeah, I really like that one much more than the original.

The others are either new or too close (but longer) to the
originals for me to tell, and my brain is on melt down.

I do prefer listening to the original on principle, because
they edited to be that way for a reason, I suppose. The
other disc is a bonus, a curiosity, but it's no replacement
for the album.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-03-09 18:03 [#02183538]
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it's fantastic.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-03-09 18:05 [#02183540]
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i totally agree with you


 

offline Ead1528 from Bucks County, PA (United States) on 2008-03-09 18:13 [#02183548]
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the later half of I O (mons) kinda reminds me of the later
half of Surripere

Maybe, this bonus disc was there rough draft of the album,
then they decided to redo the album, shorten the songs, and
add a few additional songs to make the official album. It's
my theory on why it took 3 years to make Quaristice. It's
probably not true though.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-03-09 18:13 [#02183549]
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fol4 is lovely, absolutely brilliant. Dense and busy and
unlike anything I've ever heard, except maybe some of
Richard Devine's stuf (but less boring.)


 

offline gl0tch from www.gl0tch.com     on 2008-03-09 18:29 [#02183562]
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Its funny how all these songs just fade out at their ends.

MAJOR disappointment that the limited edition of chenc9
didnt have the melody that comes right after when that
segment is played during their live sets.


 

offline gl0tch from www.gl0tch.com     on 2008-03-09 18:32 [#02183564]
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This makes me want new Urban Tribe really bad.


 

offline rad smiles on 2008-03-09 20:36 [#02183587]
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i like that idea. is there any news of an upcoming release
or are you just saying youd like new urban tribe?


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-03-09 22:59 [#02183598]
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quaristice me edition

1 Atlibzz
2 the Plclpc
3 IO (mons)
4 Plyphon
5 Perlence Range3
6 SonDeremawe
7 Simmm
8 Paralel Suns
9 Steels
10 Tankakern
11 Rale
12 Fol4
13 Fwze
14 90101-5I-I
15 SonDEre-Ix
16 Bnc Castl
17 Theswere
18 Wnsn
19 Chenc9
20 Notwo
21 Outh9x
22 90101-61-01
23 nu-Nr6d



 

offline furoi from Udine (Eriko Sato's undies) (Italy) on 2008-03-10 06:53 [#02183654]
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LALALA

225 pounds



 

offline QRDL from Poland on 2008-03-10 07:16 [#02183663]
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It came. Should I get it signed today to raise it's value to
500?


 

offline furoi from Udine (Eriko Sato's undies) (Italy) on 2008-03-10 08:56 [#02183683]
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i am blind maybe
it's 200, not 225



 

offline avart from nomo' on 2008-03-10 09:24 [#02183687]
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mine arrived today
(no need to open it *lays it in the vault*)


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2008-03-10 09:31 [#02183691]
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fol4


 

offline avart from nomo' on 2008-03-10 09:55 [#02183699]
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zzzzz


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-03-10 10:50 [#02183711]
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Got it from the collection office this morning.

OMFG it's lush. Still haven't got through the whole of the
second disc but yeah, the first is superb.


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-03-10 10:56 [#02183714]
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Future - congrats on getting on the Elektron tribute comp
with AE and Vsnares, thats some crazy shit! i cant wait to
hear that comp and from now on ill be hanging out in the
elektron forums a whole lot more often ;-)


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-03-10 11:19 [#02183724]
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Haha thanks mate. It's really good that so many people have
contributed from the world of signed artists (hmmm nothing
from Air though they were contacted....) for the memory of
someone who, in my opinion, was a genious for being one of
the founding members of Elektron.


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-03-10 11:22 [#02183726]
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Hmm I just groaned when I realised the 11 minute track was a
version of Fol3, imo one of the pointless tracks on the
album unless this version turns it on its head.... which it
seems to be doing at the moment... interesting.


 

offline gl0tch from www.gl0tch.com     on 2008-03-10 11:26 [#02183727]
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nah, i was just saying it would be nice if he released
something new.

If Urban Tribe went straight crunk style ghetto dubstep and
still had all his weird shit going on, I would flip out.

Crunkstep. You hear it hear first folks.


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-03-10 15:08 [#02183797]
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i think Fol4 is one of the most interesting experiments
autechre has done in a while. It appears to be based on one
long field recording of what sounds like a train station
with a lot of reverb. It starts off pretty raw with not
much editing going on but as it progresses the whooshing
reverb sounds start being shortened and turned into snare
drums through enveloping and what sounds like a train track
break squeak sound quickly turns into a tapping ride cymbal
like hi hat rythm. then a strange doppler effect sound
almost sounding like a commuter train gets turned into a
very mutated AE melody.
Also good use of turning raw samples into eery pad like
sounds as well. i find this song very fascinating. Instead
of editing little bits and samples out of a field recording,
it sounds like they have made an entire song out of
rearranging and amplitude trickery a stereo recording


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-03-10 15:13 [#02183799]
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Yeah, exactly. At first I was listening to this and thinking
it was just mildly interesting, but nothing special. Then as
the field recording morphed into what you're describing, it
became one of my favorite tracks of theirs in a while. Some
really interesting stuff going on there...


 

offline jules from United States on 2008-03-10 15:37 [#02183819]
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agreed. the 2nd half of Perlencer range3 might be my
favorite thing on the second disc though. love how that
groove slowly morphs and constucts/deconstructs seemingly at
the same time



 

offline Quaristice on 2008-03-10 15:45 [#02183822]
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I feel like we are a band of brothers, standing outside of
the hoipolloi! We are more sensitive, more aesthetically
aware, more futuristic than people who don't "get" this
music.

I LOVE IT!@!!


 

offline jules from United States on 2008-03-10 16:24 [#02183846]
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or we're obsessive, compulsive, have too much time on our
hands and think too much


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-03-10 16:28 [#02183849]
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Hello Autechre, thank you for your collection of messy
Elektron jams placed in pretty steel boxes, they are good
and nice!


 

offline magicant from Canada on 2008-03-10 16:28 [#02183850]
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got mine today.... man, all u haters can shove it, the 2nd
disc is fucking great


 


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