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Just read it in a shop yesterday (too tight to buy it) and it was thumbs up all the way. Mentioned how its back to less chaotic stuff and more in line with classic autechre. Sweet. It gave a bizaree quote form one of them referring to their reversion to more dancey beats "at the end of the day we're still dj's" or soemthing like that. Bit of an odd statement that. |
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do they have this online? |
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This is good news. |
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Why is it good news that The Wire just said exactly what I said a couple of weeks ago? |
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mm, just cause the sounds are more oldskool doesnt mean it's really abstract imo |
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Because your opinion is worthless. At least that's what I heard a while ago... |
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yea, i said that |
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That was my word, not my opinion :D |
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*backtracks*Well your opinions were written as words.... *runs away* |
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By the time of their last album, 2003's Draft 7.30, Autechre's Sean Booth & Rob Brown had voyaged a long, long way from their origins, into regions and arhythmical combinations unexplored by previous Techno or electronic adventurists. They sought the realms of the absolutely unprecedented. All of which made them problematic, for some. That their permutations hadn't been previously devised was not in itself any particular reason why they should be. There they hung, the works of Autechre, suspended like abstract sound sculptures, non-representative, barely imagistic, deliberately devoid of context or function. But what was the value or necessity in these pieces of apparently randomly generated pitter-patter, corrugated scrapings and synth burr, arbitrary and neutral? It's tempting to concur with these sentiments at a cursory listen to Untilted, and a glance at titles like 'Ipacial Section'. But attend closely and tracks like opener 'LCC' reveal through their insistence and integrity their shape and warmth. 'Augmatic Disport' is especially fine, a formidable piece of sonic machinery, spitting out deceptively irregular clusters of ball bearings into the void, going nowhere but far from outstaying its welcome. If anything, however, Autechre have pulled back the throttle on their excursions into the unknown. Some tonal passages and conventional Techno riffs here a throwback to their mid-90s work, especially on the last two tracks, 'The Trees', whose title is a pointed departure from their usual words-as-soundshape tendencies, is regular as clockwork/Kraftwerk in its underpinning, while the 15-minute-plus closer 'Sublimit' reverts to the old orthodoxy of repetition, albeit Autechre-style ('tri repetae', as their own language has it, is an especially apt phrase). For all this, there's a sense that, following Draft 7.30, Autechre peered further into the unknown and felt they couldn't abandon their selves completely. As they say in accompanying press notes to this album, 'We can't get away from th |
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s." by David Stubbs |
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Sorry last bit should read: 'We can't get away from the fact that we're DJs." by David Stubbs |
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bingo...thats taken directly from The Wire® |
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Is it just me, or does anyone think this sounds nothing like old-school ae, and more like Draft than anything else? |
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agreed, it's just old midi like drumsounds, that's all |
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well, anyhow - it´s their best CD in ages! (...for example - "Ipacial Section" is an unbelievable good track...AE is back!) |
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I think it may seem like they are revisiting old material if you only listen to the first minute or so of each song. They start out each track as a very simple rythm foundation but then procede to flesh it out rather nicely. |
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That's not a review it is a bunch of pretentious prittle prattle. |
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It would be nice to read the press kit. |
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thats what i thought about the music |
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You only feel that way because you aren't gifted enough to understand the alien textures woven with emotion that booth/brown manage to intertwine into each one of the masterpeices. Not only does their music hold up as individual tracks but when combined they form a album they manage to envelope the soul to such an extent you can't manage to escape the warm yet cold mechanical paradox that is there music. |
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That's not bad for an Autechre review. They are usually much worse. not to say it's really a good review though. |
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HA HA I forgot all about that! |
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i love reading autechre reviews it's like ... i dunno , great |
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electronic adventurists |
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i get the impression that you'd just like reading the word autechre over and over into your little brain elusive=] |
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you've just copy & pasted that from the barry manilow greatest hits review in AMG, haven't you? very clever |
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"That their permutations hadn't been previously devised was not in itself any particular reason why they should be." Hogwash! Simple human curiousity. That's reason enough. "But what was the value or necessity in these pieces of apparently randomly generated pitter-patter, corrugated scrapings and synth burr, arbitrary and neutral?" Conform! Conform damn you!!! |
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at least i've now know there's a whsmiths in dublin |
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they review things online now ? since when |
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I dont know if that is a review as much as it is a projection. That could have been written about any AE album, and half the people "in the know" who heard all the leaks, would think its dead on. The other half would think its bullshit. I really hope a motivating factor throughout the creation of this album WAS NOT a reaction to the negative criticisms of the past two albums. And I agree it sounds more like a Draft 8.25 then say mid-nineties AE. But in any case, ideologically speaking, I hope they didnt take a set back (as this review alludes) b/c of some reaction to everyone else's assessment of where it was they were going. Maybe in two years they will just do a "fuck you" album of more confieldesque beat fuckery, or develop an entire new alias for the type of shit that pleases them, but is worth sharing |
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I just hate the idea that AE have 'gotten back on track' simply because the new material is more familiar sounding. Just because a sound is novel with no pre-defined meaning within some established context doesn't mean it has no purpose. Just recognize the new context. Confield was not some impenetrable mess of noise. It's just a different pattern. That's it. Strange, alien, whatever you want to call it. It still makes it's own sense. |
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"Confield was not some impenetrable mess of noise." I´m shure you haven´t heard it! :P |
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