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my crappy untilted review
 

offline Mingamaga on 2005-04-07 01:08 [#01555176]
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My review.

01 lcc (ae does not develop mx)
02 Ipacial section (ae mira calix puke dropout)
03 Pro Radii (calix dropout developing to ae in the end)
04 Augmatic disport (ae using floops + dfx buffer override
or similar, around 5:43 is the bomb)
05 Iera (ma fave so far. But no development. Draft era. Crap
ending)
06 Fermium (old skool boring track)
07 The trees (old skool not as boring track, too short ae
ambient ending)
08 Sublimit (well, maybe I'll like it some time... A three
tracker like surripere, but you could love surripere from
the first listen...)

All in all:
ae on windows?
ae mira calix restoration (bad, calix=shite)
I give it thousand chances. Just because its ae. If it was
another band I would just listen to iera these days.


 

offline boobah from pants on 2005-04-07 01:15 [#01555177]
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mittens


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-04-07 01:41 [#01555184]
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That was a pretty crappy review.


 

offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-07 01:45 [#01555186]
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this album is not released yet. so piss off.


 

offline acidophilus from the gates of dawn on 2005-04-07 02:10 [#01555194]
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crappy indeed


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-04-07 02:14 [#01555196]
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I wish the curse of cx on all of you who doubt.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-04-07 02:16 [#01555197]
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What the shit do you know? Sounds like procrastination to
me.


 

offline Skink from A cesspool in eden on 2005-04-07 02:20 [#01555198]
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I might actually take this into account if you had maybe
said anything worth paying attention to.


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-04-07 02:31 [#01555199]
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disgusting


 

offline gl0tch from www.gl0tch.com     on 2005-04-07 03:07 [#01555224]
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funny thing is, amidst all of this 'crap' I absolutely agree
with you.
Ugggghhhhh.

Recently, I had mentioned Untilted lacks the ingenuity that
marked everything after LP5 within the trajectory of their
releases to date. If 3 months ago Warp said Autechre were
releasing an outtakes album of material from 1997 - 2003 and
this was the result, it would have been WAY more convincing.
Everyone would have believed it (memes work that way) and no
one would have complained. Even the album title would have
lent itself to this 'concept.' They should have just done
that anyways, damn it. No one would have known the
difference. Then they could have gone back to writing an
album for next year that would have pwnd way more then this
one.



 

offline Mingamaga on 2005-04-07 03:50 [#01555252]
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gl0tch. To me it seems like they have no more good ideas.
Seems like the dying of big stars. The same what rdj
suffered from after his last decent come to daddy and then
windowlicker. Or look at LFO: After some great tracks and
remixes and after frequencies they were, to me, dead.

BTW, disgusting crappy people: have a look at the latest
sutemos.net release.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-07 05:23 [#01555337]
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LFO SUCKS COCK TO THINK UP NEW MUSIC!!



 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-04-07 05:27 [#01555349]
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youre saying untilted is crap because its mira calix-y?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-07 05:29 [#01555352]
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autechre should do a mix-cd and call it "ae does not
develop mx"



 

offline acidophilus from the gates of dawn on 2005-04-07 05:38 [#01555377]
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i like sheath


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-07 05:39 [#01555380]
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me too


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-04-07 05:41 [#01555383]
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me three


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2005-04-07 06:07 [#01555411]
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i've neverr hearrd it but i bet everryone who says something
bad is missing the point.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2005-04-07 06:09 [#01555415]
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i bet


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-04-07 07:50 [#01555611]
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My unwanted Untilted review:

LCC - At about 5 mins in there comes into focus a classic Ae
synth echoing Amber days, I'd like a whole track of this
section as I feel I have to sit through the first four
minutes awaiting this bit, and I'm not sure the first half
compliments the second. But you have to doff your cap in awe
at how they wound such an intricate musical rug over such a
short space of time without it sounding forced and choppy. A
brooding but not overtly dark opener that says "We're
Autechre, we are quite clever, it's going to be tricky 70
odd minutes but bear with us and, you know, you might enjoy
yourselves".

Ipacial Section - The sound of a laptop beating to death a
billion bedroom breakcore tweenagers. It's robotic, but
funkier than anything off of Draft or Confield. I can listen
to this without wishing I wasn't, which is a bonus. Whether
the beat "devlops" to some awesome logorithm is beyond my
capacity to detect. I like the sound of Rob banging his
ktchen pans. This track says "You like those fast bits? So
do we, but possibly not in the same order as you do." The
tightly looped sounds that appear about 5:20 begins one of
my favourite bits of the album. The ending is loose in a an
elastic manner which pleases my ear.

Pro Radii - A refinement of Confield's excesses, it darts
about conjuring all sorts of shifting images, and when it
gets funky on yo' ass, is pretty "shiiiiiiiit!!!" inducing.
In another universe this is the soundtrack to a very good
Sci-Fi film and Jude Law isn't anywhere near it. Though on
reflection, I think Anvil Vapre covered this area a bit more
concisely. That might not be relevant at all.



 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-04-07 07:51 [#01555614]
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Augmatic Disport - How do I love thee Ae? let me count the
ways (in base 8), the opening is brutal but never hamfisted
and annoying. It says "Stop talking at the back and pay
attention whilst we perform our android version of "Sex
Machine"". 3:40 on burys possibly a great lost pop song deep
under relentless laser bolts, being spat from a beheomoth
attack ship moored over the gaseous moon of Globoud-----
whilst at 5 mins we find a cyborg gently weaping at such
wanton genocide. Until the hatch is broken down by warrior
ants that eat into the mainframe and everything goes fucky.
But the genius comes in, for me, about 7:20 when it mutates
from a darkly 80s instrumental into a very subtle bit of dub
reggae. It was all a doobie induced dream, after all.

Lera: A bit of a darker turn, though suspiciously
"skitterish beats over buried atmospheric sounds" formula
being employed perhaps once too often. The geeing-up about
3:40 doesn't do too much for me either, it's a bit "oh is it
going to sex up? .... no, no it can't be bothered". Still,
skillfully done.

Fermium: Classic Ae. Almost pop chart material, if the world
went sane for five minutes. I wish they'd do a trance remix
of this. I might do it and make "mad dough". Just imagine a
hiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
diva going over the top "Reach higher, reach rrrr"

The Trees: Easily my favorite title on the album. By now R &
S know we, the humble listener, are beaten to a pleasant
pulp and lack the will power to skip forward, so they can do
what the hell they like. Here they update some old techno
track that they keep in the background and make it fucky on
top. This does sound a bit more Draft-y to me than the other
tracks. I like it from about 3:20 on when some "space"
appears in the background. This track says "You haven't a
clue, have you, what we're up to?" and the listener can only
mutely gurn in reply.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-04-07 07:52 [#01555617]
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Sublimit: We're at the end of another Ae album, but woooah,
no slipping out early! The best is saved until last. The by
now familiar machine rhythms fire up, a keyboard plays
itself, then woaah! the dancefloor is jammed with ghosts of
electro past. This track says "We may be bods, but we still
like to get freaky". Then we're off on a voyage that seems
to take us back, back through Ae history, even unto
Incunabula. Is that a sample or synth line from Kalpol
Introl in there? The battered and lifeless listener is now
able to summon the strength to get up and put the kettle on.



 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-07 07:55 [#01555620]
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that is the best review I have read on the subject of
"untilted" so far.

I especially like the bits of dialogue.

excellent work, Dan.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-07 07:56 [#01555622]
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"This track says "You like those fast bits? So
do we, but possibly not in the same order as you do."


best bit.


 

offline hobbes from age on 2005-04-07 08:03 [#01555635]
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Nice review Dog_Belch. I like how it felt personal and not
formatted.

"In another universe this is the soundtrack to a very
good
Sci-Fi film and Jude Law isn't anywhere near it
"

Is my fave bit i think.

Anyone notice how there's an extremely similar melody in
the Dr derek F ep?


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-04-07 08:04 [#01555638]
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Bless you sir for reading my ill-spent morning's labour, is
all I can say.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-04-07 08:45 [#01555714]
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"This track says "You like those fast bits? So
do we, but possibly not in the same order as you do."

best bit.

---hahah i was waiting to comment on this quote and you beat
me to it!

yar har !! nice <3


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-04-07 08:50 [#01555726]
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im not even gonna attempt to review it after reading dog's,
but to add one comment, the ending to sublimit is just ...
right on.

it's like the track is winding and becoming more narrow at
the same time

the way they slowly cut the volume on it..

it rides off into the sunset.....................


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-04-07 08:54 [#01555733]
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So is it a good ender like Nuane was for Chiastic Slide?


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2005-04-07 09:13 [#01555761]
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hahahaha
...i wonder what would be xlt without doggy...

those comment should be sticked over the untilted artwork,
im sure those will be the review the fits the best with the
album philosophun...



 

offline staz on 2005-04-07 09:30 [#01555791]
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Mingamaga, no.

Just, no.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-04-07 09:32 [#01555793]
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I like both reviews!

The first is good in a "fuck off" kind of way, and I
actually agree with a lot of it.

And the second was just well written and funny.


 

offline nacmat on 2005-04-07 10:43 [#01555880]
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this review makes me want to listen to it


 

offline nacmat on 2005-04-07 10:44 [#01555881]
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I meant dog belch review of course


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2005-04-07 10:55 [#01555895]
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dog-belch says it all - nice one dog_blech!



 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-07 12:59 [#01556007]
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I hadn't listened to "untilted" in about 10 days and you
made me listen again!

my favourites:

"augmatic disport" - I love those little percussive bursts
towards the end, when the dub-part kicks in. the ending is
perfect. it's such a great moment of semi-rest. :)

"fermium" - I agree completely - it is classic Autechre.
probably why Warp put it on the frontpage.

"the trees" - works really well together with "fermium",
like one flowing thing.


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2005-04-07 13:11 [#01556016]
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if this had turned out to be a fake. would you give a shit
about it?


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-04-07 13:17 [#01556018]
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I know everyone's tired of everyone else's opinion on
Untilted, and the undignified rush to decry it / laud it up
when it first appeared may have tainted it for some, but I
have to say, for my money, I think this is one great
electronic album.

Arguing whether anyone would like it if it was fake or not
is impossible. This is an Autechre album. How can you
argue whether or not you would like it if you thought it was
by Flourescent Gay or Pete Tong? You can't say "What if
someone else did it?" because they haven't. It's irrelevant.



 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-07 13:17 [#01556019]
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I never listened to the leaks, but got my hands on a promo
copy.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-04-07 13:20 [#01556020]
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The fact that people don't give a shit about the billions of
cloned glitchy IDM, Richard Devine 4th-hand copyists is
because most of the time it is shit and derivative,
not because it isn't by a big name like Autechre. Fucking
get over it.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-04-07 13:32 [#01556028]
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I know everyone's tired of everyone else's opinion on
Untilted


HALLELUJAH!

why the FUCK did I enter this thread?!?!


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2005-04-07 15:11 [#01556079]
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I am enjoying this album more and more.

Dog Belch should write professionally.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2005-04-07 15:16 [#01556084]
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I mean, he should write for a living - he already writes
like a professional.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-04-07 15:18 [#01556086]
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it really is quite good!


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-04-07 15:38 [#01556093]
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Imagine getting paid writing for XLT. Come on Phobs, give us
a stipend.


 

offline FlyAgaric from the discovery (Africa) on 2005-04-07 15:55 [#01556096]
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i haven't heard any of this. i'm waiting for that moment
when i return from the shop and stick into my cd player.
however, dog_blech's opinion has made me like it already :)
autechre don't usually disappoint.


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2005-04-07 19:14 [#01556271]
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two tracks i heard: rocks not socks. can't wait for that
"DUB-REGGAE" part.


 


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