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This has no depth, has poor fuzzy production, and simple architecture Sean and Rob would multi-slap you in the face for this one, kind of like when you speed up a delay effect and turn 'feedback' almost all the way up, that's indeed what it would sound like |
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I don't get the complaints about the lack of 'atmospherics'. Yes there is a lack of brooding 'dark' synths and so on, but tracks like Ipacial Section manage to conjour up images of arctic wastes and robot factories with just beats alone. Im also pretty happy about the hip-hop elements to the tracks, its always something I have enjoyed when they have flirted with it in the past, but Untilted is sort of like pure distilled hip-hop from the year 2875. Just received it today, the CD sounds a tad crisper than the mp3s. |
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bought it on lunch break and even on these apple speakers at work i can hear some elements i hadn't noticed in the mp3s. can't wait for the headphones and studio monitors. |
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Well today was the first proper day the disc was released in the States. So I went and picked up the album along with the latest issue of . In the magazine there was an new Autechre article & half-assed interview. Ummm, well how do I put this? Uhh... yeah. Ok. Guess what? Booth says there was little to no software used on this album. No maxy/mspeepee, no fruity roll-ups, straight hardware sequencers and cock wankery. Sorta puts Anuslord in a new light. If this is in case all hardware, it kinda puts the doubting fanboys in their place. (myself included at times) |
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'at times' hahah their live show was only hardware and it sounded like untilted. |
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What? |
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I just think it sheds a new light on the new record and provides a new context for appreciation/discussion. It being more "live" and all hardware, really stirs things up a bit considering everything post EP7 has been associated with some type of startling ninjitsu max patch and/or alien AI software wankery. This seems more like an attempt to keep it real and while still remaining insane in a way. Its funny how some of the biggest names in electronic music have gotten bored lately and set out to reinvigorate or challenge themselves, with the tools that first got them where they are. re: the conceptual hype behind anuslord. I'm just suggesting if Untilted follows the same suit, I sort of appreciate this record in a different way |
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There is no conceptual analogue hype behind Analord other than the name and that apparently he's used hardware to make his tracks, like he used to before, and like Ae used to before. No one is making any great claims about hardware vs. software apart from some people on internet message boards. |
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LOL, apparently you spend too much time on one internet messageboard, holmes. |
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look ma no hands! look ma no teef! |
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What? |
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should I start a new thread in order to clarify for the otherwise obtuse and grammatically challenged? =P |
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It's never stopped you before. |
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lol |
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the original ed of this sounds 100 times better than those mp3s that were leaked btw -not that i didnt expect this but if there was any doubt over purchasing the original vs downloading the mp3s - id say its most definetly worth it - this is such a great album mmmmmm i am enjoying it right now best tracks are the trees and augmatic disport. |
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the artwork is so BLAND - and i think that's the point. the album is just so god damned good, it doesn't need anything but silver and a few scribbles. |
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and don't forget the sticker in those more special pre-ordered places in the world! |
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gl0tch, is there a way I can read this interview? The album is good in parts, and not so good in others. The beat work is fantastic... Are you sure they said they didn't use software on this? It sounds so rythmically complex in places (Ipacial Section) |
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Quote Sean Booth from Grooves, Issue 017: "We used so many different sequencers to do [ Untilted ]; mostly hardware, but still a little software. Not much timeline at all - we got a bit bored with the screen this year." |
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seeing them live at the zoo on the promotional tour for this album (the first time ive seen ae live) has really made me hear or see them in a different light (not dakness). ive got draft and confield but dont listen to as much as earlier works. and now, after the gig, ive realised that my copy of untilited would be more profound if i sorted out some decent musical gear to listen to it on. i do own it on vinyl but it has to be listened to with the care and quality thats gone into its production for maximum impact i think. imo, untilted is much more enjoyable than confield and draft - its like they are really comfortable with the gear and techniques. for me it paints a livier image than its predecessors; like a futuristic battle in space, with each song being a battle within the war that is untilted. |
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man, that's not even coherent. |
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Nah, I enjoyed reading it. This album is growing on me, although I think I'll always find some of the melodies revolting. It's not like they can't write good ones-even Confield's melodies in the backround were enjoyable. |
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I kind of don't again. I awoke as perr usual at about 3.15am with my telly on, my glasses on and my CD on loop and guess what... I had an 'autechre headache'. I had to put Untilted off. |
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cool. what was on tv at the time? |
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I haven't a clue. It's the firrst thing I pushed off when I leaped out of bed. Prrobably something being signed. |
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the autograph channel? |
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The deaf people getting record deals channel. |
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Iera is dark |
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The start of LCC is much more complex when listened to with headphones off the CD. Lots of subtle synths whirring away. |
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Does anyone have the NME review? I trawled around but can't find it. Not that the NME's been relevant or even well written for the past 10 years but apparently they slated it, and I just want to read what mad-gibbon type views they give. |
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They don't post it on the site until the next edition is out, I havent bought the NME for a while now either. I think I heard it got 2/10. |
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2/10 is overrated :-) |
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NME give Untilted 2/10 and then give completely derivative, musically boring and samey indie shite high praise. I haven't got much against indie, apart from when it is obviously shit and hardly different to any other stuff of a similar vein. Then mags like NME review those albums and praise them. |
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untilted review is now up on bitchfork. |
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i really learned a lot from that review such as the following: pitchfork considers autechre to be so seven years ago which shows they dont event care if the music is good or not. they are sick of talking about them, so much so that they parody two college kids (i guess its supposed to be autechre's market or audience) talking about untilted. just so they wouldnt piss off a lot of people they gave it a 7.6 which is a pretty good review total. |
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err 7.4 not 7.6 |
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hear hear! That review on Pitchfork is bollox, I cant be arsed reading them when theyre like that; its not seriouz. And anyway, the average age at the ae gig I went to was about 30-odd.. |
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it sounds great in the car LOUD with the bass turned up a bit. Frankly, mp3's through PC speakers never do this type of music justice IMO (although some of you will have decent systems I understand). Point in question, the first track 'LCC' is a builder of a track, something I could never appreciate properly before but I now see the intricacies built in to it, and how the revolving beat evolves over it's course.. yep, it's a grower. But I still prefer Draft 7.30 |
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it sounds like milkshake I guess. |
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pro radii is the track |
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this is the first album they've put out where it doesn't sound like they advanced at all since the last one. the whole thing was predictable on the first -- i always knew what was coming next ('oh, here the end of the track is deathly quiet so the following one will try to startle me back into the album. yup.'). for all of that, however, i enjoyed the dorky clicks and blips. just not as much as when i was younger. even my cat seems like she's pitying me when i put on autechre. |
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*first listen |
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i feel more diference between this and the previous two albums than between draft and confield |
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i think it sounds like if you got all the other albums and put them all together, then got a big hammer and smashed them into pieces, then put it in a liquidizer, added some milk that was a week old, then some corn flakes, then some sugar, then instead of switching it on, you got the electric cord and wrapped it around a cats neck and pulled as tightly as you could, and then recorded the sound of the cat desperate to eat the corn flakes and milk but at the same time suffocating. |
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there was a huge and obvious difference between draft and confield in both production and structure. not so much between draft and untilted, other than overall length of tracks and more melodies (which might as well not be in the album). |
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are you kidding me? draft sounds like it was made on another planet compared to untilted, (no not literally). fuck, untilted is the worst album they have put out, and i mean that. ive spent so much time with untilted, but the beats are boring, the melodies are crap. lcc is some of their best work though. |
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i gave it a second listen on headphones and realised it sounds an awful lot like ep7, production-wise. yeah, it's completely different from draft. so far i enjoy untilted the most when played at low volume. |
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for me it has to be high volume I still think its more diferent from draft than draft was from confield I dont know production wise, but I talk for what I hear, musically, melodies, beats... |
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I reckon the beats are the most interesting yet, but the melodies are appalling on the whole (apart from LCC and the nice ambient shit at the end of Sublimit) |
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