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... and it's bloody good. I really didn't know exactly what to expect from it at all. I knew something that was vaguely similar to Cichlisuite... but this is fucking excellent stuff. Ciapter - Fucking great track. Nothing else to day. Rettic Ac and Tewe are pretty good... Cichli is incredibly beautiful. My favourite, I think. Hub and Calibruc are top... Recury is intense and genius and yes. Pule is very, very nice so far. This is how far I've got so far... So yes. |
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yeah, that shit's so fucking good. second only to ep7 imo |
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EP7 is going to be my next AE CD. Except I'm moving to University next week and won't have any money lying around. Anyone fancy buying it for me? |
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Did you cum? |
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Hey... that avatar looks very familiar. |
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Mine or Aron's? |
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Your very own. |
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It's the cover of the album I'm releasing in October. And... um, my avatar at other boards. Thassaboudit. |
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Sorry, I confused you with someone else. |
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Well that's rather foolish, isn't it? Nuane = excellent, great way to end the album. What a fucking great CD. |
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from the rough guide: Chiastic Slide In retrospect, Chiastic Slide stands as one of their best records, and is generally considered the great lost electronic record of the 1990's. Its influence on the electronic scene is noticable even today in the work of groups like Four Tet and the Boards of Canada. Even Thom Yorke cites it as an influence. At the time of its release, however, critics were split between calling it brilliant or screaming that it was unlistenable. Nothing records, in sticking with the general botch-job they've done handling things, declined to carry the record at all for American distribution, and for five years, listeners stateside would be forced to pay upwards of $30 for an import copy. A casual listener would never have heard Envane, which is a crucial link between Anvil Vapre, Tri Repetae and this. As a result, the dark, organic and edgy material here would have seemed like the output of a completely different group. There isn't a single straightforward beat to be found on this record. If Tri Repetae was the sound of machines coming to life and chattering away to each other in the dark, then this is the sound of those machines trying to drag themselves out of a dark tarpit under the glare of acetylene lights on some forgotten evil robot construction site. "Cipater" starts off with a slow, metronomic beat that's just somewhat...off. Over the course of the piece, the melody slowly develops, the first rhythm drifts out and is replaced by a second one, which lopes along in an odd 3/4 vs. 4/4 friction. All this while, broken machinery grinds and sputters away. It then segues into "Rettic AC," which is a two-minute wash of tuned static with a slight melody poking through the mist. It's very similar to "Caliper Remote" on LP5 "Tewe" is a shambling, limping beast that trudges through, leaving only fragments of melody and a slowly developing rhythm track in its wake. Oh, and dread. There's lots of that here. "Cichli" is the centerpiece of the rec |
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"Cichli" is the centerpiece of the record, one of Ae's most disorienting *and* beautiful pieces. It takes a bit to realize that the whole track is in 5/4, but because the drums are programmed so well, it doesn't seem forced a bit. The beat here simply pounds. As it rumbles on, a pizzicato string melody carries the melody, supported an odd flute sample drifting underneath. The piece rises and recedes until the drums and strings drop out, and a chorale of flutes fades the piece out. "Hub" is a track of seemingly disconnected beats that coalesce and dissipate around a slow melody. Not bad, but nothing we haven't heard before. "Calbruc" enters with an absolutely punishing drum track that sounds like pistons in need of oil. At the 1:30 mark, the whole effect changes when the strings and a single bell enter, harkening back to the chorale-like melody of "Cichli," and turning what was an abusive track into a shockingly beautiful one. "Recury" follows with a floating, clanging beat that grooves in its own strange way. This is overlaid with menacing open-fifths from the strings and reversed church bells, which intermingle with what sounds like either a whale sound or a dead siren. "Pule" has a pizzicato string line that just seems to drag on for about eight minutes. Nothing special, but pleasant just the same. Of course, it acts to soften the listener up for "Nuane," which is just a sneering ball of menace. A disjointed beat box pattern characterizes the first part of the track. It's definitely in four, but, like much of the rest of the album, you really have to listen closely to keep your place. The whole thing mutates very subtly over the course of twelve minutes, and though nothing changes much, it's still quite engaging, and it ends the album by leaving the listener just as disoriented as when it started. Smog and darkness seem to permeate the whole record. Much of the material sounds as if it were once analog, and living up to Tri Repetae's promise, there's |
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there's plenty of surface noise here, not to mention quite a bit of grease seeping through the cracks. The polished chromes of their earlier work have been replaced here with rust and oil, but the melodies that struggle up out of the grime are among the most beautiful they've ever come up with. It's brutal and stark at times, and most of the pieces take their time to develop, but at its heart, this is some of Autechre's best work. It just takes time to reveal itself. |
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Time to reveal itself? Excellent. I love it from first listen, so what shall it reveal in the future? |
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